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• The Irish Times: "Irishman held over Beijing protest"

  2001-11-22
  Mr 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.
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• South China Morning Post: "China tells 35 to go."

  2001-11-22
  A group of 35 overseas Falun Gong followers were told to leave the mainland after staging a protest in Tiananmen Square yesterday.
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• 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."
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• Belgian Practitioners Peacefully Appeal in Front of The Chinese Embassy

  2001-11-22
  On 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.
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• Journey of Truth: Notes from Greece

  2001-11-22
  A practitioner recounts the activities in Greece
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• South China Morning Post Reports on Hong Kong Police’s Harrassment of Falun Gong Practitioners

  2001-11-22
  Democrat legislator James To Kun-sun said: "This is an abuse of police power by inciting complaints and hatred against a minority. It's shameful."
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• Asian Wall Street Journal Reports on the Political Pressure Being Put on Hong Kong Police to Curtail the Freedoms of Falun Gong Practitioners

  2001-11-22
  "In other words, the right to dissent is now secondary to the sensitivities of mainland officials like the ones who work in the Liaison Office. It's hard to have much sympathy for the police if they bend easily to the desires of their political masters to limit the civil liberties of the Hong Kong people."
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• Chinese Government Violates Human Rights in Germany

  2001-11-22
  
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• The Times Reports On Arrest of London Falun Gong Practitioner

  2001-11-22
  
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• Swedish Foreign Minister Criticizes Arrests on Swedish Radio

  2001-11-21
  
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• The Jerusalem Post:Israeli arrested in Tiananmen Square Falun Gong protest

  2001-11-21
  In a statement formulated before his arrest, Lemish described the persecution of the Falun Gong as a direct assault on human morality. "The persecution of Falun Gong directly concerns each and every one of us," he said. Leeshai described the issue as a confrontation between those who promote violent oppression and those who seek to become more peaceful and kind, between a government which lies to its people and those who refuse to lie, even if it means being tortured. "Neutrality does not exist. If you are being silent, you are siding with the perpetrators," he said.
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• Friends of Falun Gong Europe Make a Heartfelt Plea to Chinese Premier to End the Persecution

  2001-11-21
  We, the Friends of Falun Gong Europe, make a heartfelt appeal to you to make a humanitarian judgment on this issue. We are going to stand shoulder to shoulder with Falun Gong practitioners in and outside China to the very end, and we believe it is our obligation to continue this humanitarian effort to help to bring about an end to the persecution. Any human being with a human heart should and must stop this persecution now.
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• Letter from Swedish MEP to the Swedish Foreign Minister Regarding the Tiananmen Square demonstration

  2001-11-21
  Today’s event is extraordinarily serious and demands a forceful statement from the Swedish government saying that Sweden does not in anyway accept the way in which the Chinese regime handles peaceful demonstrators. The fact that it is also innocent Swedish citizens who have lost their freedom and have been beaten makes the question even more serious.
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• MEP's Statement of Support for the Actions in Tiananmen Square

  2001-11-21
  Our thanks, as well as our concrete solidarity and support, to the friends and sympathisers of the Falun Gong who demonstrated today in Beijing in favour of their companions who have been arrested and tortured by the Communist regime of Jang Zemin.
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• UK MEP of EU Foreign Affairs Committee writes to Chinese Ambassador Expressing Concern at the Arrest of Westerners

  2001-11-21
  "It would also appear that the arrest of these peaceful demonstrators constitutes a violation of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of which China is a signatory."
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