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Western Falun Gong practitioners brutally treated in China
2002-02-17A German practitioner, Bernhard Aurnhammer 38, was subject to so much violence that when he arrived at the Frankfurt airport yesterday he still suffered pain in various parts of his body. He came out from the plane with a pair of torn trousers which were torn when he was knocked down by the police at Tiananmen Square.
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Friends of Falun Gong Europe: The failure of Jiang Zemins persecution of Falun Gong
2002-02-17They went with a pure and kind heart, hoping to awaken the deceived Chinese people, to tell the truth; hoping the Jiang Zemin regime could see the point that Falun Gong is not a China issue, but an international issue! This appeal will not stop until the killing stops!
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AFP (Agence France-Presse): China deports foreign Falun Gong protestors
2002-02-17BEIJING, Feb 15 (AFP) - China on Friday deported at least 24 followers of the banned Falun Gong group detained for protesting in Tiananmen Square the previous day, Falun Gong's New York headquarters said.
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Report in the German Mannheim Morning News newspaper
2002-02-17Compassionate helpers are turned into victims Three Heidelberg Falun Gong members demonstrate in China for the release of a friend and are themselves incarcerated. The seventeen-year-old Heidelberg native, together with her 22-year-old sister Caroline and her father, Mr. Hubert Koerper and four other Falun Gong members from Germany had flown to the Chinese capital to demonstrate for religious freedom at Tiananmen Square.
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Ananova: Falun Gong schoolboy 'roughed up' in Tiananmen square protest
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BBC: Schoolboy 'roughed up' by China police
2002-02-17An 18-year-old schoolboy from Leeds has described how he was pinned by the throat as Chinese police tried to break up a protest supporting the Falun Gong spiritualmovement. Alexander Rostron was arrested in Beijing at a demonstration in Tiananmen Square in support of the movement on Thursday.
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Falun Gong Adherent from Breda Sent Out of China
2002-02-17Egon Knapen from Breda experienced a few exciting days in China. Knapen, adherent of the Falun Gong movement which is forbidden in China, wanted to hold a demonstration on Thursday in Beijing together with other western adherents. On his way to Tiananmen Square he was arrested.
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18-YEAR-OLD ENGLISH SCHOOLBOY DEPORTED FROM CHINA
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A Peaceful Appeal to the Chinese Government and the Greater World at Tiananmen Square in Beijing
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French Minister Jack Lang’s Message of Support for Zhao Ming
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AP: Falun Gong Members Return to U.S.
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Germany: Clarifying the Truth to the Chinese People
2002-02-17Once when a practitioner took away the materials in the embassy that defamed Falun Gong, a staff member said, "Take all of them away, we don't want these things placed here either."
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South China Morning Post: Falun Gong mass arrest worries Bush
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Independent (UK): Britons seized in China for Falun Gong protest
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DPA: German Falung Gong members deported from China arrive in Frankfurt
2002-02-17