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Australia: A Touching Anti-Torture Exhibition Held in Queensland
2004-12-11
Starting on November 22nd, practitioners in Queensland staged a 2-week anti-torture exhibition in Brisbane, the capital of Queensland. At the busy Post Plaza in the city centre, practitioners set up an exhibition site with photos, posters and banners. Many people showed sorrow and sympathy and asked practitioners for more details. -
P2Pnet.net: Crash of the Matrix
2004-12-11
The Chinese government has no less control over the Internet than it does over more traditional content providers such as television and publishers, and has launched powerful Internet censorship technology in response to alternative information from outside China that seeks to dodge administrative control through Web sites, email and physical travel. As a result, very few organizations are capable of mass mailing to China, and mainland Chinese are only able to access censored Web sites if they have the knowledge, ability and access to employ software such as Freegate or Ultrasurf. -
Canada: A Motion Protecting Freedom of Belief Passed by the Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Development
2004-12-10
"On December 2nd, 2004, practitioners from the Canadian Falun Dafa Association attended a hearing for people persecuted for their beliefs held in the Canadian Parliament. Members of the Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Development passed a motion to protect and promote the right to freedom of religion and belief." -
Canterbury Express (Australia): A fight for faith, Arrested, imprisoned and mentally and physically tortured for Falun Gong; Local sues ex-leader of China
2004-12-10A YAGOONA artist will continue her fight against former Chinese president Jiang Zemin this Friday when her accusations of torture are expected to be heard in the NSW Supreme Court. Zhang Cuiying, who said she migrated to Australia in 1991, will allege that upon her 1999 return to China she was arrested, imprisoned and subjected to mental and physical torture for practising Falun Gong. The Falun Gong belief system is described as a form of exercise which focuses on improving the mind and body. -
United States: Falun Gong Practitioners Take Part in the San Jose Christmas Parade
2004-12-10
On December 5th, 2004, the San Jose Christmas Parade was held on Santa Clara Street in Downtown San Jose California. Among the more than one hundred groups participating in the parade, Falun Gong was the only Chinese-American group invited. The NBC television network broadcast the parade live to million of viewers. -
United States: Daily Targum (Rutgers University Newspaper) Editorial: Secret Persecution
2004-12-09"This peaceful practice couldn't be more harmless, but in July of 1999, the Chinese government launched a campaign against it, labeling it as a [slandering word omitted] and forbidding its practice in China. The government uses violence, high-pressure propaganda campaigns and "study sessions," where people are taken to what are essentially labor camps and brainwashed until they publicly renounce their belief in Falun Gong, or they are imprisoned in the labor camps where they are tortured and forced to work." -
New Zealand: Practitioners Participate in Multicultural Festival
2004-12-09
On December 4th, 2004, Falun Gong practitioners in New Zealand participated in the 2004 Multicultural Festival sponsored by the Rotorua Ethnic Council. They performed a dance called "Heaven and Earth," a waist-drum performance, and demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises. Their efforts were warmly received by the audience. -
Canada: "Uncompromising Spirit" Art Exhibition Successfully Held at Humber College in Toronto
2004-12-08
From December 1st to 3rd, 2004, the "Uncompromising Spirit" Art Exhibition was successfully held at Humber College in Toronto. This was the fourth stop of the Canadian painting exhibition tour.Through the art exhibition, students learned the facts and expressed their sympathy toward the persecuted practitioners in China. -
Epoch Times: Beijing's Accusation of Taiwan's Involvement in Falun Gong TV Interception Denounced as Nonsense
2004-12-08According to a report from Epoch Times (a global Chinese newspaper) on December 2nd, 2004, Beijing TV Channel One was tapped into and broadcast programs that explained the true facts about Falun Gong. Viewers in different areas reported seeing varying lengths of the video, from 10 minutes to 30 minutes. The International Herald Leader under the flag of Xinhua News Net claimed that Taiwan's Intelligence Agency secretly trained Falun Gong practitioners with the technology to tap into the TV signal. Officials from Taiwan's Department of Defence denounced the accusation as nonsense. -
Korea: A New Practitioner Gains Health Improvement through the Practise of Falun Gong and is Actively Involved in Exposing the Persecution
2004-12-07
Falun Gong practitioners have been holding an anti-torture exhibition every Sunday to expose the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. Ms. Xu Jiashu, who started practising Falun Gong in October this year, has voluntarily participated in the exhibition since November 14th and has attracted the media's attention. -
Taiwan: Introducing Falun Gong at a School Celebration
2004-12-07
On November 14th, 2004, a school-wide Games was held in celebration of the forty-eighth anniversary of Dapu Elementary School of Miaoli County, Taiwan. Second on the program was a demonstration of the five sets of Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) exercises. It had the most participants among all the programs and made a fine spectacle. -
Canada: Introducing Falun Dafa in Penticton and Kelowna, British Columbia
2004-12-06
Penticton is a small city famous for its abundant fruits and wines in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Falun Gong practitioners were invited to participate in Penticton's annual Christmas parade. On November 27th 2004, about 50 Falun Gong practitioners from Vancouver drove to Penticton for the parade. -
National Review: Annoy the Chinese Government
2004-12-06"Falun Gong is a form of an ancient Chinese practice [based on principles of truthfulness, compassion, tolerance]. It shouldn't be the least bit threatening to a rational government, but Beijing has a Communist dictatorship's traditional distrust of any organization outside the control of the government...A five-year-long crackdown on what the government invariably labels [a slanderous term] has seen practitioners killed, tortured, and sent to labor camps." -
2004 Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference in Saipan Held Successfully
2004-12-05The Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference began smoothly at 4:00 pm on November 28th in 2004 on Saipan Island. Everyone took this meeting seriously. During the experience sharing, practitioners talked about each other's understanding in cultivation from different daily life and working environments. This conference went well, having been conducted in a peaceful atmosphere. After three and a half hours of sharing, the conference concluded with success. -
Korea: Introducing Falun Dafa and Exposing the Persecution to Chinese People in Ansan City
2004-12-05
Starting in November 2004, every Sunday at the Yuangu-Dong Office building in Ansan City, Falun Gong practitioners set up display boards and showed videos about the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners in China. Many Chinese people came to learn the truth.
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