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US Report Reveals the Horrific Prison Conditions for Falun Gong members
2001-11-12One Falun Gong practitioner, Chen Gang, worked for the Beijing office of Carlsberg Brewery. He was arrested, tortured, and remains in prison for being a Falun Gong practitioner. In response to the State Department report, Mr. Chen's sister, Ying Chen — a native-born Chinese woman who now lives in New Jersey-stated: "The appalling crimes that have been committed toward Falun Gong practitioners, and that have gone unpunished and actually rewarded have been far more horrendous than the notorious acts of the Japanese soldiers when they invaded China!" -
AP Media Report: Mary Robinson said she repeated concerns about reports of torture against Falun Gong followers
2001-11-12Robinson said she also asked about two jailed Chinese journalists and Zhao Ming, a detained Falun Gong follower who studied at her alma mater, Dublin University. -
IRISH TIMES:Robinson censures Beijing
2001-11-12China's crackdown on the Falun Gong spiritual [group] has "retarded" its record on human rights, the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights commissioner , Mrs Mary Robinson, said yesterday. -
AP: Rts Grp: China Blocking Visit Of UN Inspector On Torture
2001-11-12The banned Falun Gong spiritual movement says its followers have been singled out for torture in China's 2 1-2-year crackdown on the group. Falun Gong says more than 300 of its members have died from abuse in custody. -
Belgium: “We have run out of leaflets, but we have mouths! Let’s speak of the truth of the persecution to people around!”
2001-11-12Therefore we started talking to people who gathered around to watch the exercises. In the end, more and more people stopped at us, and we had to use the loud speakers to reveal the truth of the persecution to everyone on site. We told people of the dirty tricks that the Chinese government had been playing and the brutal persecution behind. Many showed sympathy and support. The “Free Zhao Ming Petition” pages were filled in one after another. Falun Dafa music was played right throughout the busy city centre and was heard from a long, long distance. -
How the Centre of Cambridge, England Became a Peaceful, Harmonious and Sacred Place
2001-11-12Gradually a big crowd formed around us and the street became so quiet. People opened their eyes wide and were attracted to the sight of so many practitioners of different races and ages practising peaceful movements together. All of a sudden, a busy city centre turned into a peaceful, harmonious and sacred place. -
REUTERS: Falun Gong follower dies in custody in China
2001-11-12Treatment of Falun Gong detainees is a prominent concern of rights groups and the United Nations, whose human right chief, Mary Robinson, was in Beijing on Friday and expected to raise the issue of torture in talks with senior leaders. -
Spreading Falun Dafa in Finland
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Luxembourg Media: Falun Gong followers appear on street
2001-11-11After the 4 days' activities in London and Paris, 121 practitioners from Taiwan and 9 from France went to Luxembourg to reveal the truth of Falun Gong to the local people. "Le Republicain Lorrain" is a highly read local paper, and covers the whole Eastern France. This is the report by a journalist. -
Falun Gong Activities in Bettystown Ireland.
2001-11-11It was a very small town and there were not many people walking on the streets so we went in to shops and restaurants to ask could we leave some leaflets there for people to read. We got a very warm reception with people telling us that they would personally hand them out to their guests and put them on all the tables...When we were finished we decided to go to a restaurant we visited earlier to have something to eat, to our surprise we discovered that there was only one leaflet left. -
Falun Dafa activities in Carinthia, Austria
2001-11-10In order to tell people about Falun Dafa in each individual province and to reveal the truth of Falun Gong to more Austrian people, since this summer Austrian practitioners have been organizing activities in Austria. The province at the southern boundary, Carinthia, is right next to Italy. It has beautiful scenery and attracts many tourists every year. This year Carinthia also attracted Falun Dafa practitioners to reveal the truth to its citizens for the first time. -
Falun Dafa Reaches the Arctic Circle - Danish Practitioners Spread Falun Dafa in Greenland
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Letter from the President of European Parliament to a Falun Gong Practitioner
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FDI Media Alert: Fifty Year Old Woman Tortured to Death in Chinese Concentration Camp
2001-11-09Sources say the concentration camp had been set up specifically to engage in physical and psychological torture to force Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their faith. -
Must European Businessmen give up their Beliefs in order to do Business in China?
2001-11-09