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• Letter From Nordic Falun Dafa Association To The Hong Kong Media

  2002-08-20
  As 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.
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• German Falun Information Centre Press Release: History Will Render the Final Judgment

  2002-08-19
  Massive 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.
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• International Association for Human Rights Press Release: China extends Falun Gong Persecution to Hong Kong

  2002-08-19
  This 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.
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• Southern German Press: Kowtow Before Beijing

  2002-08-19
  
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• Frankfurt Common News: Report on Hong Kong

  2002-08-19
  
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• Statement from Lord Moyne Following the Unjust Conviction of 16 Practitioners in Hong Kong

  2002-08-19
  "This case showed that the distinction between Hong Kong and Mainland China agreed in 1997 is a sham...It is to be feared that this will be the start of many tragedies as, step by step, Hong Kong is absorbed into the evil system of tyranny under which thousands of religious people are imprisoned, tortured, and sometimes murdered."
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• UK: Promoting Falun Dafa at the City of Leicester Funday

  2002-08-19
  Following the exercise performance onstage, a film crew approached the practitioners and said that they were creating a television program of the event and would like to allow their viewers to learn more about Falun Dafa. They interviewed a local practitioner and also filmed the Dafa information posters.
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• Ireland: Official Doctor’s Report on the Effects of Frequent Torture and Mistreatment on Recently Released Practitioner Zhao Ming

  2002-08-19
  "He was frequently subjected to physical torture and brutality and described how the prison authorities would encourage other detainees to physically assault him...In terms of the effects of this experience on him, Zhao Ming tells me that he hasn’t lost hope or hasn’t changed his beliefs in Falun Gong in any way...My overall impression is thus that Zhao Ming is a remarkably strong individual."
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• UK Falun Dafa Association Sends Congratulations to Newly Established Association Falun Gong of Czech Republic

  2002-08-19
  
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• Sweden: “Random coincidences” – Professor from Harvard University visits practitioners in Gothenburg

  2002-08-19
  It was very interesting to hear a scientist talk about certain things in the book Zhuan Falun [main book of Falun Dafa] from a strictly scientific perspective, and everyone present appreciated it very much. As I understood it there will soon be some research of certain things, both in Harvard and M.I.T, that are mentioned in Zhuan Falun, and some of it has already confirmed by science.
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• The Swedish Falun Dafa Association congratulates the establishment of Association Falun Gong of Czech Republic

  2002-08-19
  
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• Human Rights Watch: The Falun Gong: New Targets of Psychiatric Abuse [Excerpt]

  2002-08-18
  
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• AP: Falun Gong Followers Appeal Charges

  2002-08-18
  Swiss Falun Gong member Eric Bachmann, right, speaks as he and other [practitioners] hold placards outside a court in Hong Kong Thursday, August 15, 2002 after sixteen Falun Gong followers were convicted of causing an obstruction during a protest outside the Chinese government's liaison office earlier this year.(AP Photo/Anat Givon)
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• UK: Former Deputy Under Secretary of State, Lord Thurlow, Condemns the Unjust Verdict in Hong Kong

  2002-08-17
  "The verdict showed that Hong Kong no longer has the freedom and rights that were ensured by the Hong Kong Basic Laws signed by both China and United Kingdom in 1997. It showed that the Hong Kong government received pressure from Jiang’s regime and sacrificed its people's human rights to submit to this pressure."
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• Sweden: Exhibition and Exercises Receive Strong Public Support

  2002-08-17
  Many onlookers were interested in the exhibition and showed sympathy for the practitioners suffering at the hands of Jiang Zemin’s regime. One female spectator cheerfully said, “Great. Keep on doing what you are doing!” Another person said, “That meditation - it’s so cool! It is good to be able to be so calm.”
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