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Detained Practitioner Recounts Police Brutality on Tiananmen Square: Excerpts from Two Swedish Newspapers
2001-11-24 -
UK practitioner back from Beijing - reported by British media
2001-11-24 -
China's treatment of Swedish citizens encounters severe criticism from the Swedish Government and Ministry of Foreign affairs
2001-11-24On Thursday the 22nd of November, the Chargé d’affairs of China in Stockholm, Cui Jianchao, was called to the Ministry of Foreign affairs to receive the Swedish Governments severe criticism regarding the treatment of the nine Swedish Falun Gong practitioners in Beijing. -
IGFM: China intensifies Persecution of Falun Gong
2001-11-23Eight German citizens were arrested today at around 6:20 A.M. (4:20 P.M. Beijing time) on Tinanamen Square and taken away in a bus. They had participated in a peaceful demonstration for freedom of religious practices in the peoples republic of China, relates the IGFM (Internationale Gesellschaft fuer Menschenrechte: International Association for Human Rights; translator). in Frankfurt. -
Franconia Post: A CITY HALL WELCOME FOR FALUN GONG MARCHERS
2001-11-23Since September 22, groups of Falun Gong practitioners from China are on the road, to raise awareness among the European populace to their precarious situation in their native country. -
Taunus Newspaper [German Newspaper]: SOS Foot-march from city hall to city hall
2001-11-23Practitioners of the Falun Gong system who live outside of China began a walk on September 22, which will lead through countries as diverse as the USA, Australia, Ireland and many European countries. They are on foot carrying heavy back packs to seek out the mayors in the many small towns and cities to raise awareness about the oppression of innocent Falun Gong practitioners at the hands of a few Chinese individuals in high levels of the governments power structure. -
Viernheim Daily News, November 20, 2001: March against Dictatorship and Duress
2001-11-23VIERNHEIM This past weekend five Chinese female Falun Gong practitioners raised awareness about their concerns as they participated in the worldwide march to rescue the Falun Gong practitioners in China. -
Statement from German Human Rights Organisation IGFM
2001-11-23 -
RTÉ News: "Falun Gong supporters ordered out of China"
2001-11-22"Police detained the protesters after they unfurled a banner in English and Chinese in the middle of the square. Those involved are from ten different countries including Ireland." -
Frankfurter Allgemeine [German newspaper]: "German Members of Falun Gong Arrested"
2001-11-22"Group members gathered in the center of the Chinese capital with banners bearing the Falun Gong motto -- "Truth,Benevolence and Forbearance" -- to protest China's persecution of their movement." -
ABC News Online: "China deports Falun Gong supporters"
2001-11-22"Authorities in China have begun deporting dozens of foreign nationals caught protesting against an official ban on the Falun Gong spiritual movement." -
The Irish Times: "Irishman held over Beijing protest"
2001-11-22Mr Brian Trought (23), from Cork city, a physics student at UCC, was among a group of Falun Gong practitioners from 10 countries, who staged the peaceful protest against the Chinese government's persecution of the spiritual group. Mr Trought has been a Falun Gong practitioner for two years. -
South China Morning Post: "China tells 35 to go."
2001-11-22A group of 35 overseas Falun Gong followers were told to leave the mainland after staging a protest in Tiananmen Square yesterday. -
www.online.ie: Irishman arrested in pro-Falun Gong protest & Irish to be expelled after Beijing protest
2001-11-22"Police in China have arrested an Irishman who was part of an anti-government [Note from the Editor: Falun Gong Practitioners are not anti-government, they only wish for a peaceful end to the tragic persecution] demonstration in Tiananmen Square in Beijing today. The group of around 30 Westerners was arrested after allegedly unfurling a banner and chanting slogans in support of the outlawed Falun Gong spiritual movement." -
Belgian Practitioners Peacefully Appeal in Front of The Chinese Embassy
2001-11-22On Monday 19th of November 2001, practitioners in Belgium practiced the five Falun Gong exercices in front of the Chinese Embassy in Brussels, in order to protest over the escalating persecution against Falun Gong in the Changchun region of China.