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Photo report: Italian Reporter Holds Art Salon and Dinner Banquet for Falun Gong Artist Zhang Cuiying

2002-03-08

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Washington Post: Falun Gong Seized City's State-Run TV to Broadcast Message

2002-03-08

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Witness (Reuters): China Holds Western Falun Gong Protesters

2002-03-08

"We are voicing the hearts of thousands of practitioners who are illegally detained and tortured in labour camps and mental institutions throughout China to have their freedom restored...," - Australian Falun Gong practitioners

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Reuters: Falun Gong [broadcasts in] China City's TV Airwaves

2002-03-08

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PRESS RELEASE: Jiang Zemin Orders "Kill Them without Pardon" After Surprise TV Broadcast in China Supports Falun Gong

2002-03-07

Following a March 5 evening broadcast of programmes supportive of Falun Gong in North Eastern China, a furious President Jiang Zemin has ordered a series of executions targeting all persons involved and other practitioners of Falun Gong throughout China. Jiang is said to have ordered, "Kill them without pardon" immediately following the event. Other cities and provinces across China have now reportedly compiled, following the President's command, lists of specific Falun Gong practitioners to execute.

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BBC: Falun Gong breaks onto China's airwaves

2002-03-07

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BBC: China detains Falun Gong protesters

2002-03-07

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Washington Post: One Corrupt City Reflects Scourge Plaguing China

2002-03-07

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The Truth About Falun Gong is Broadcast on Chinese Cable Television

2002-03-07

At around 8 p.m. on March 5, 2002, eight channels on Changchun's cable television network began broadcasting Falun Gong truth-clarifying programs such as "Falun Dafa Spreads Throughout the World" and "Self-Immolation or Deception?" The broadcast went on uninterrupted for forty to fifty minutes. This incident sent shockwaves throughout Mainland China.

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Chinese Air Force Officer Killed for Practicing Falun Gong

2002-03-07

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Chinese Embassy in Denmark Rejects a Falun Gong Practitioner' s Visa to China despite Her Father Being Critically ill

2002-03-06

Kind Chinese people, the persecution going on in China is not irrelevant to you. It may happen to you tomorrow. If we do not resist this persecution from the bottom of our hearts, we are actually encouraging the evil. In order to prevent such things from happening to more people and more families, I can' keep silent. Who is damaging families? Who is violating human rights? The people will decide for themselves.

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UK Media report: Hell in Far East

2002-03-06

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Guardian [UK newspaper] picture report on Falun Gong practitioners

2002-03-06

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AFP: China' human rights record remained poor in 2001: US

2002-03-06

The report cited "reliable" reports saying local officials from a city in the eastern province of Shandong "were responsible for beating to death Falungong adherents at the rate of about one per month".

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Reuters: U.S. cites China' crackdown on religion in rights report

2002-03-06

The report highlighted China' "harsh and comprehensive" campaign against the Falun Gong spiritual group, which was banned in 1999, and said thousands of Falun Gong followers were serving sentences in labour camps.There have been numerous credible reports of abuse and even killings of Falun Gong practitioners and torture using electric shock, the report said.Various sources reported that since 1997, about 200 or more Falun Gong supporters had died while in police custody and that many of their bodies bore signs of severe beatings or torture or were cremated before relatives could examine them.

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