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U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Press Release [excerpt]
2002-08-20 -
BBC: Falun Gong to appeal HK convictions
2002-08-20 -
South China Morning Post: If [group] followers obey the law, leave them alone
2002-08-20 -
AP: Falun Gong members refuse to pay fines for obstruction conviction, even if that means jail
2002-08-20 -
Edinburgh News: China delivers protest over Cavalcade group
2002-08-20 -
Scotsman: Meditating on peaceful resolution
2002-08-20 -
Germany: Bonn's Leading Newspaper Reports on a Journey of Appeal on Bicycle from the Neckar to the Rhine
2002-08-20It was reported that four Falun Gong practitioners cycled from Heidelberg to Bonn. Along the way, they collected signatures protesting the Jiang regime's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. -
Russian InfoNews: Falun Gong Practitioners Demonstrated Outside the Chinese Embassy
2002-08-20 -
UK: Practitioners Make Appeals Regarding the Hong Kong Trial
2002-08-20In addition to a round-the-clock peaceful petition outside the Chinese Embassy (that started over seventy days ago), practitioners from London and Manchester launched peaceful petitions in front of the UK's Foreign Ministry and the Chinese Consulate in Manchester. -
A Public Letter to the Hong Kong Government from All European Falun Gong Practitioners Regarding the Verdict by the Local Court in Hong Kong
2002-08-20"We hope these people can consider about the image and the future of Hong Kong, make up for the wrong verdict, and restore the freedom, democracy, and justice on this territory again." -
Letter From Nordic Falun Dafa Association To The Hong Kong Media
2002-08-20As a citizen of the world, we appeal to you to express your concerns about the unprecedented so-called trial of peaceful Falun Gong practitioners, presently proceeding in Hong Kong. Falun Gong practitioners are all good people. They insist on appealing with dignity for a stop to the persecution in a peaceful manner. The trial now proceeding has in fact been a sham from the beginning. -
German Falun Information Centre Press Release: History Will Render the Final Judgment
2002-08-19Massive pressure from Jiang Zemin' s regime turned justice into injustice when a verdict was returned against 16 Falun Gong practitioners. These protesters unwaveringly stepped out against the persecution in China. They were accused and convicted of attacks on the police, while in fact it was the police officers themselves who forcibly arrested and attacked the practitioners using violent tactics. -
International Association for Human Rights Press Release: China extends Falun Gong Persecution to Hong Kong
2002-08-19This guilty verdict does not merely recognize and affirm the persecution in Mainland China, but has extended it to Hong Kong, thereby effectively and dramatically worsening the human rights situation in China itself. -
Southern German Press: Kowtow Before Beijing
2002-08-19 -
Frankfurt Common News: Report on Hong Kong
2002-08-19