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• Austria: Demonstrating the Goodness of Dafa by Our Words and Conduct - Experiences During a Trip to Vienna

  2002-09-02
  We met many visitors from China. A lady from Tianjin thanked us for giving her handouts that clarified the facts and said, "During this overseas trip, I met Falun Gong everywhere. Your actions are very touching. I think the Chinese government should objectively face the Falun Gong issue, listen to the voice of the people and not spread shameless propaganda every day on TV."
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• AP: China Dissidents Thwarted on Net

  2002-09-01
  Some Chinese non-governmental organizations have hacked Falun Gong websites in order to take them offline, the report said.
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• CNN.com: China cracks down on Internet

  2002-09-01
  
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• Sweden: Friends of Falun Gong appeals for an end to persecution in the NGO Free Forum Summit

  2002-09-01
  On 30th of August, the NGO Free Forum Summit was opened in Gothenburg. More than 20 non-governmental organisations, such as Friends of Falun Gong, Amnesty International, Red Cross, the International Women’s Union, and EU Stafetten have been invited to attend the summit.
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• Hindustan Times: The Inscrutable Chinese

  2002-08-31
  I have read some books on [.] Falun Gong. It seems a pretty innocuous [practice] open to people of any faith who believe in truth, compassion and tolerance. Why should anyone in his senses want to stamp it out is beyond my comprehension.
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• Wiesbaden Courier: Hong Kong Government Undermines Human Rights With the Verdict Against Falun Gong Practitioners

  2002-08-31
  
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• German Radio Station's Report On Hong Kong Trial: Local Government Seems to be Bending More and More to Pressure from Beijing

  2002-08-31
  
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• BBC Monitoring: Eight Chinese teenage illegal immigrants surrender to police in France

  2002-08-31
  
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• Congratulations to the Founding of Falun Dafa Associations in Czech Republic and Venezuela

  2002-08-31
  
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• Japan Times: Falun Gong seeks peace and freedom to practice (Photo)

  2002-08-30
  "Most were bruised and beaten. One woman told me she had been without food or drink or allowed to go to the toilet for five days. Police called her a panda because of her two eyes were bruised black. There was consideration for practitioners from overseas, but still I was stripped naked and slapped around."
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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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