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Irish Parliamentarians Raise Questions regarding Zhao Ming

2001-10-23

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“MAIN POST” Newspaper: “China is World Champion in the Practice of Torture”

2001-10-23

Around 70-100 million Chinese citizens practise Falun Gong in the PRC. The ruling Chinese party saw a threat in those numbers and outlawed the movement in July 1999.

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Media report on China’s New Excuse to Persecute Falun Gong in the Wake of September 11th

2001-10-23

..this past week, the Chinese Foreign Ministry claimed that a letter containing "suspicious substances" wrapped in Falun Gong "propaganda" was mailed to the Chinese office of an American company. Even if the substance doesn't turn out to be dangerous, the incident looks like a clumsy effort by somebody to defame the outlawed spiritual group.”

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Press Release: SOS Urgent Rescue Zhao Ming Campaign Team

2001-10-22

After a visit to China over the holidays in the winter of 1999-2000, Ming was prevented from returning to Ireland, and was subsequently detained without trial and tortured repeatedly because his involvement in the banned Falun Gong practice. Immediately after his detention, several local groups, including Amnesty International, the Graduate Students' Union at Trinity College and Falun Gong got involved in advocating for his release.

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Message of support from Green MEP, Patricia McKenna

2001-10-22

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Speech by Ms Mary Lawlor [Head of Irish NGO}

2001-10-22

Director of FrontlineThe International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders

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Speech by Frank Jennings from Amnesty International [Ireland]

2001-10-22

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Russia: Young and Old Take Part in SOS Urgent Rescue Bike Journey

2001-10-22

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Radio Gothenburg [Sweden] interviews Practitioners Outside Chinese consulate

2001-10-22

I can only say from my heart how it feels... it really hurts, in my heart. Previously, I have always been proud of the fact that I am Chinese, and that we Chinese have such a wonderful culture and everything, but now when I think about what they are doing to people... to practitioners there in China… many innocent people are dying as a result of their faith. They believe in Truth, Compassion, Forbearance. I just feel pain in my heart. I am ashamed of the regime.

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Statement from the Falun Gong Association (UK)

2001-10-22

The millions strong in China who practise Falun Gong have met evil. And despite two years of violent, brutal suppression, these people have not bowed before the oppressor. They have answered brutality with compassion, irrational fanaticism with calm reason, lies and deceit with honesty and plain dealing. In their heroic endurance and fidelity to Falun Gong’s principles of truth, compassion, and tolerance, they have demonstrated to the world how Falun Gong has made them persons of profound moral strength. They have resisted the largest totalitarian government in the world, and done so on their own, no less. Now these brave persons need our help.

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Falun Gong: Chinese Government Frames Falun Gong With Anthrax-Contaminated Mail

2001-10-22

Some experts have warned that Jiang's regime is likely to create terrorist incidents to frame Falun Gong.FDI considers the "anthrax contaminated mail" one such an incident intended to smear Falun Gong and breed public hatred and fear.

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Statements of Support for Falun Gong from two members of the European Parliament

2001-10-21

Two MEP's, Chris Heaton-Harris and Mr. Roger Helmer, show their support for Falun Gong and the ending of the persecution in China.

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Telling the Truth of the persecution to People in Greece

2001-10-21

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Radio France Internationale (RFI) Report: Calling on the European People to Rescue Practitioners Persecuted in China

2001-10-21

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Expulsion of an Italian Entrepreneur from the People's Republic of China: Question to the European Commission

2001-10-21

On Monday 8 October 2001, Alfredo Fava Minor, General Manager of Shanghai Famas & Hocks Technical Textiles Co. Ltd., a manufacturing company based in Jinshan (60 km from Shanghai), which employs around 35 people, was stopped at Pudong Airport by the Chinese authorities and immediately re-embarked and expelled without explanation. Was it because he was a practitioner of Falun Gong?

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