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• Economist: Case closed

  2002-08-30
  An unidentified woman has paid the fines of 16 [practitioners] of the Falun Gong spiritual [practice], who were brought up on public obstruction charges in the group's first criminal trial in Hong Kong, local human rights activists have labelled Hong Kong's crackdown a political move to appease Beijing.
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• BBC Monitoring: Noted Chinese Dissident Bao Tong Slams Party For Exploiting Peasants

  2002-08-30
  "Books that you are not allowed to read of course include Falun Gong books.[..] The contents of the books promote physical and spiritual training with true, kind, and forgiving feelings."
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• Japan Times: Psychiatry confab ends with plea

  2002-08-30
  The World Psychiatric Association, which organized the congress, also confirmed that it will send a team of experts to China in spring to investigate claims that the government is confining political dissidents, including Falun Gong [practitioners] in mental hospitals.
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• AFP: China winning Internet war against dissidents for now

  2002-08-30
  
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• EFIC: Beijing Compels Ukraine to Persecute Local Falun Gong

  2002-08-29
  As the Falun Gong practitioners were taken into custody, witnesses say police cited pressure from Beijing as the cause, stating China is “huge and powerful” compared with a developing country like Ukraine and that Ukraine “can’t afford trouble with China relations.” According to the detained practitioners, police also mentioned that Chinese officials had struck a deal with the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to stop Falun Gong activities in Ukraine.
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• Letter to the Prime Minister of Ukraine from the European Falun Dafa Association

  2002-08-29
  "It is appalling that Jiang Zemin can dictate the actions of an independent state like Ukraine and that Ukrainian authorities would be subject to decrees from as far away as Beijing. Through a series of recent events, we are witnessing a systematic expansion of Jiang’s persecution of Falun Gong in Europe..If Ukraine wishes to aspire to the best European standards, then upholding the freedom of belief and association will be one of the basic building blocks."
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• UK: Letter to the Ukraine Ambassador from the Falun Gong Association (UK)

  2002-08-29
  "This detention, that reminds us of the practices of the “red terror” to which citizens of your own country were subjected not that long ago that are still in our memory, should never have occurred, and could not and would not have occurred in any democracy around the world. The facts of this case are clear: the Ukrainian police were acting under pressure from Jiang's regime."
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• AP: Cambodian police admit deporting Falun Gong members, but say they were unaware of U.N. protection

  2002-08-29
  
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• Ukraine: Practitioners Incarcerated After Meeting in Park for a Group Photograph

  2002-08-29
  A police officer indicated that the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is being pressurised by the Chinese Embassy in Ukraine to be much tougher on innocent Falun Gong practitioners. The Embassy is using the economic relationship between Ukraine and China as a pressure point.
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• EFIC: World Psychiatric Association To Investigate Abuses in China's Mental Hospitals

  2002-08-29
  The use of mental hospitals and medical personnel in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners..violates the UN Human Rights Declaration, and the Madrid Declaration established by the WPA in 1996. This abuse of psychiatry revolts our conscience, and horrifies our understanding.
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• Iceland Media Reports: Spokesmen of Falun Gong Visiting Iceland

  2002-08-28
  
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• Deutsche Presse-Agentur(DPA): Hong Kong officials accused of trying to ban Falun Gong brochure

  2002-08-28
  
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• AP: Rand: China Uses Web Vs. Activists

  2002-08-28
  
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• South China Morning Post: Editorial: The wrong picture

  2002-08-28
  
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• AP: Rights activist criticizes Hong Kong official for interfering with Falun Gong painter's exhibition

  2002-08-28
  
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