Worldwide News
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Taiwan: Large "Zhen Shan Ren" Characters Decorate the Classroom
2004-06-08Taibei City's Jianguo High School, which has nurtured and educated many outstanding members of society, including Nobel Prize winners, has long been a top high school in Taiwan. Many teachers in the school have become Falun Dafa practitioners, giving the students the opportunity to come into contact with Dafa and then begin to practise themselves. -
United States: A Falun Gong Practitioner from North Carolina Clarifies the Truth in a Local High School
2004-06-08Ms. Xia Qiongfen, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Charlotte in North Carolina went to a local high school on June the 1st and addressed all of the students and teachers for over an hour and a half about Falun Dafa and the persecution of Dafa in China. -
United States: New York Officials Issue Proclamations Supporting Falun Dafa
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Canada: Vancouver Falun Gong Practitioners Participate in Exhibition of Health and Safety for the Elderly
2004-06-07Among nearly 60 booths, elderly people frequently visited the Falun Gong practitioners' booth to enquire about the practice and get more information. Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the five sets of exercises at the centre of the exhibition hall, which won enthusiastic applause. -
United States: Falun Gong Practitioner Addresses Congressional Human Rights Caucus Briefing on Human Rights in China
2004-06-06The briefing on June the 3rd was co-chaired by Representatives Mark Steven Kirk and Lynn Woolsey. Congressman Lantos also attended the briefing. A representative of the Department of State, Falun Gong practitioner Erping Zhang, and representatives from several groups which have been persecuted by the Chinese regime testified. -
Torture Survivor Recounts Her Nightmarish Suffering in a Chinese Forced Labour Camp
2004-06-06The teary Falun Gong practitioner who was demonstrating torture by force-feeding in the following report is Wang Yuzhi. In July 2001 she was abducted while printing Dafa leaflets and was later sent to the Wanjia Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province where she suffered all kinds of torture and as a result almost lost sight in both eyes. -
Restore Justice in the World - A Report From Taiwan on the Lawsuit against Jiang
2004-06-05The lawsuit against Jiang helps stop the persecution. The lawsuit is against Jiang's regime, not the Chinese government. Falun Gong practitioners hope that the Chinese government stops being the Jiang regime's tool and actively help end the brutal persecution. We hope that everyone, including the government and law communities, will lend their support and voice on behalf of justice and condemn the Jiang regime, bring the perpetrator of murder and torture to court and end the large-scale persecution. -
Peru: Practitioners Send Righteous Thoughts to Support the Lawsuit against Jiang
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Russia: Falun Gong Practitioners Rally in front of the Chinese Embassy in Moscow to Support the Chicago Lawsuit against Jiang
2004-06-04On May the 27th 2004, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit opened a court hearing on the case of Falun Gong practitioners' lawsuit against Jiang. On May the 29th, practitioners from Moscow, St. Petersburg, and other cities rallied in front of the Chinese Embassy in Moscow to support the lawsuit. -
China Receives Attention After Increased Persecution of Charles Lee in Nanjing Prison
2004-06-04Falun Gong practitioner and U.S. citizen Charles Lee has been imprisoned for 16 months in China by Jiang's followers. During this period, he has been subjected to various tortures, including physical torment, brainwashing and force-feeding. U.S. government officials have expressed great concern over Mr. Lee's situation and they have protested many times to the Nanjing Prison where he is being detained. -
Mother of Toronto Resident on Brink of Death from Forced Injection of Nerve-damaging Drugs
2004-06-04Ms. Huang Xin is a retired military examiner. She was sent to the Liaoning Province Female Prison Hospital for refusing to give up her belief in Falun Gong. At the hospital she was injected with nerve-damaging drugs against her will and has lost most of her memory as well as displays slow reactions to her surroundings. -
US Commission on International Religious Freedom Urges China to Stop Persecuting Religious and Spiritual Groups
2004-06-03The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its annual report on the status of religious freedom worldwide, stated that the Chinese government continues to engage in particularly severe violations of religious freedom. -
Four Mayors from British Columbia Issue Proclamations Honouring Falun Dafa
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In-Court Arguments for the Jiang Lawsuit End; Plaintiffs Say Diplomatic Considerations Should Not Override Legal Justice
2004-06-02On the morning of Thursday May the 27th 2004, the first oral argument for Falun Gong practitioners' class-action lawsuit against former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin was held at the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Dr. Terri Marsh, the plaintiffs' attorney, stated that there were mistakes with the original court's dismissal of the lawsuit based on head-of-state immunity. She requested that the court overturn the local federal court's decision. -
Indonesia: Eastern Indonesia Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference
2004-06-02On May the 29th 2004, Eastern Indonesia Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference was solemnly held in downtown Surabaya. Practitioners from Malang, Jakarta, Bali, Tulung Agung, Pasuruan and other places attended the conference.