Worldwide News
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USA: "Falun Dafa Week" Celebration Activity Held in the City of Carlsbad, California
2004-03-13On February 15, 2004, Falun Gong practitioners celebrated the first "North San Diego County Falun Dafa Week" at the meeting hall of the library in the City of Carlsbad with local government officials and citizens. North San Diego County Newspaper reported on the celebration activity on February 24th. Mayor of Encinitas Ms. Maggie Houlihan, Mayor of Carlsbad Bud Lewis, Congressman Randy Cunningham, California Senator Bill Morrow and Assemblyman Mark Wyland jointly signed and issued a proclamation, resolution and certificate of award. -
Canada: Montreal Falun Gong Practitioners Call for an End to the Persecution in China at Women's Day Gathering
2004-03-12On March 7, 2004, from 12:30pm to 2pm, more than three thousand people, from all walks of life gathered at the National Park in downtown Montreal and marched to McGill University to mark the International Women's Day and call for government attention to women's rights. -
United States: Introducing Falun Dafa and Genuine Traditional Chinese Culture at North Texas University's Multicultural Festival
2004-03-12Every year the North Texas University Medical Centre hosts a "Multi-cultural Festival" aiming at improving understanding and tolerance through cultural exchange. Falun Gong pracititioners participated in the event demonstrating the exercises and performing a Tang Dynasty dance. They received much support and many people came to learn the truth about Falun Gong. -
FDI: Over 100 Chinese Officials Could Face Denial of Entry into U.S., Deportation for Severe Rights Abuses against Falun Gong
2004-03-11Over 100 Chinese officials could be denied entry into the United States, or face deportation if they are already here, for their “particularly severe violations of religious freedom” according to two NGOs who submitted a report on the Chinese officials to U.S. authorities. -
Hong Kong: Falun Gong Practitioners Stage Rescue Walk, Requesting Mainland China to Immediately Release Illegally Imprisoned Fellow Practitioners
2004-03-10On March 6, Hong Kong Falun Gong practitioners and a rescue group staged a 2-day rescue walk, demanding the Chinese authorities immediately release four Hong Kong Falun Gong practitioners Chu Ol Ming, Sun Zung Man, Cheung Yu Cheong and Fu Xueying who are illegally imprisoned by the Jiang Zemin group in Mainland China. -
Japan: Falun Gong Practitioners Hold Peaceful Appeal in front of the Chinese Consulate at Fukuoka, Demanding Jiang, Luo, Liu, and Zhou be Brought to Justice
2004-03-10On the morning of March 1, 2004, Falun Gong practitioners in Japan held a peaceful appeal in front of the Chinese Consulate at Fukuoka. They displayed banners that read, "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance," "Falun Dafa is Great," "Bring Jiang Zemin to Justice," "Demanding the Chinese government to bring the chief perpetrators of the persecution, Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Liu Jing and Zhou Yongkang to justice." -
An Overview of Legal Cases Filed by Falun Gong Practitioners Around the World
2004-03-09Jiang Zemin and his followers have persecuted Falun Gong for four years, and have taken the precious lives of at least 901 good, innocent Falun Gong practitioners. Over one hundred million Falun Gong practitioners who practice "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance" along with their family members have been brutally persecuted. In addition, Jiang's group has also extended the persecution to overseas countries, creating different degrees of damage to Falun Gong practitioners in many Western countries. This bloody persecution is the biggest human rights disaster at the turn of the century. -
FDI: Despite Cosmetic Reforms, U.S. Department of State Says Human Rights in China Backsliding
2004-03-08"Although legal reforms continued, there was backsliding on key human rights issues during the year," says the report. One of these key issues is Falun Gong. As in previous years, the severe persecution of the practice is a central concern throughout much of the report, with extensive citing of torture, arbitrary detention, and unlawful killing, as well as denial of freedom of religion, speech, assembly, and association. -
Central News Agency: U.S. House of Representatives Passes Resolution Urging the Administration to Condemn China for Human Rights Abuses
2004-03-08The resolution of House of Representatives pointed out that the Chinese government signed a pact with the U.S. government, promising to improve human rights conditions. The U.S. government had reasons to believe Beijing was sincere in wanting to improve human rights, therefore the U.S. government didn't propose a resolution for the first time to condemn China at the earlier UN meeting. However, in the past year human rights conditions in China did not improve, they regressed. It is therefore necessary to condemn China with a resolution and to ask China to make solid changes. -
Taiwan: Minghui Falun Gong School's "Light Heart Choir" Clarifies the Truth in Song at the Imperial Palace
2004-03-07On the afternoon of February 21, among the Falun Gong practitioners who regularly go to the Palace Museum to clarify the truth of Falun Gong to visitors, was a gentle Western practitioner and a number of children who came from an Arts Group at Taipei's Minghui School. Their clear and sweet voices and pure and lovely faces soon attracted many visitors' attention. -
United States: More Than One Thousand Falun Gong Practitioners Appeal for Bringing the Prime Criminal of the Persecution to Justice
2004-03-07On February 29, 2004, following Los Angeles Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference, more than one thousand Falun Gong practitioners from the United States, Canada, Russia, Korea, Taiwan and Sweden and other countries held a symbolic trial of Jiang Zemin and a press conference in Monterey Park. -
United States: Yesterday Appealing Together at Tiananmen Square, Today Singing Together On the Stage of the Kennedy Centre
2004-03-06From late 2001 to early 2002, many western Falun Gong practitioners from more than ten countries went to the Tiananmen Square to tell Chinese people the truth about the brutal persecution of Falun Gong. However, they practitioners were beaten by policemen, arrested and repatriated. The song "Coming for You" was later written based on their experience. Some of them were singers in this Chorus. -
Korea: Practitioners Continue Their Appeal in the Lawsuit against Jiang
2004-03-06Korean Falun Gong practitioners expressed that while they visited Macao, Mainland China and Hong Kong to clarify the truth about Falun Gong, they were unlawfully arrested, detained, and expatriated after forcible investigation. Therefore, they have sufficient reasons to prove that Jiang's group has committed crimes against Korean laws: that is, violent arrest and imprisonment, special arrest and incarceration, coercion, impeding operations and robbery. -
Taiwan: Promoting Falun Dafa at Banqiao Railway Station Square in Taipei
2004-03-06On the afternoon of February 21, 2004 about one hundred Falun Gong practitioners came to the square in front of the Banqiao Railway Station to clarify the truth to the Taiwanese people. Banqiao is the location of the Taipei County government. A lot of introductory fliers were distributed, allowing more people to know that Falun Dafa is good. -
United States: U.S. House of Representatives Passes Resolution H. Res. 53 Urging International Censure of China for Human Rights Abuses
2004-03-05The House of Representatives today passed by a wide margin a resolution H. Res. 530 urging the Bush Administration to sponsor and aggressively pursue a resolution condemning China for its human rights abuses at the annual meeting of the United Nation's Commission on Human Rights, which will meet later this month. The final vote was 402-2.