Open Discussion
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Under Pressure from the Chinese Embassy, Police in United Arab Emirates Bar Practitioners from Revealing the True Facts about Falun Gong
2005-01-26This was the second time practitioners were harassed by the Chinese Embassy in the United Arab Emirates. In 2002, when Ms. Wang Yuzhi was distributing flyers to people in the United Arab Emirates exposing the persecution she suffered in Wanjia Labour Camp in China, the Chinese Embassy put pressure on United Arab Emirates authorities to have Wang repatriated to China. Later, the Canadian government intervened and rescued her, letting her depart to Canada. -
A Look at the Chinese Communist Parties Efforts to Promote the Staged "Self Immolation" All Over Again
2005-01-25The aftermath was staged equally carefully. There was an "Aunt Liu" who failed in her attempts to set herself on fire. She told the whole story on TV. In concert with the hospital interviews and finger pointing by the so-called friends and family members of the "participants," the fraud that instilled the hatred in China's populace toward Falun Gong was thus produced. -
Another Batch of "Secret Documents"
2005-01-24Around the end of December in 2004, an internal document was circulated within various branch offices and institutions of the Beijing Government. Sources said that the documents circulated in some offices did not even carry the official stamp, as though they were afraid to leave behind any incriminating evidence. The title of the document was "Organisational Plan and Resolution on Preventing 'Falun Gong' related (activities)," -
Epoch Times: WPA "Compromises" Its Principles
2005-01-24The psychiatric abuse plays an integral role in this campaign of terror. On the one hand, it stigmatises the victims, by suggesting to the Chinese public that there may be something wrong with them. On the other hand, there is hardly any torture more terrifying than the abuse of psychiatry. Massive doses of psychotropic drugs rob the victims of their will and reason. -
The Epoch Times: Charles Lee and Martin Luther King: Criminals or Heroes?
2005-01-23Although one was murdered and one is currently jailed in China, what the two have in common is the courage and integrity to use non-violent action to uphold justice and stand up for people's freedom at great risk to themselves. Oh, and they also share one more thing: both have been considered criminals for their actions. -
Feedback from the Activities Held in New York
2005-01-23A Falun Gong practitioner told me, “A Caucasian woman cried when she saw the torture exhibit. She sat with the practitioner acting as a victim suffering from the ‘Tiger Bench’ torture, and asked her husband to take a photograph for her.” -
Short Stories of People In China Supporting Falun Gong
2005-01-22A policeman in a town of Hengsui City of Hebei Province in China has returned the copies of Zhuan Falun that the police took away since the persecution began. He returned the books to practitioners after he realised the truth about Falun Gong. His action made it possible for many new practitioners to have a book to read and solved the problem of having a shortage of books. -
The Officials Who Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners Cannot Escape the Punishment of International Law
2005-01-21Since the persecution against Falun Gong and those who practise Falun Gong started, a significant number of lawsuits have been filed against members of Jiang's regime who participated in the persecution, and many of the perpetrators have been found guilty. These criminals cannot escape the punishment of international law. We believe that in the near future, the laws of China will also punish them. -
Chinese Media Reveal That Almost Half of Foreign Investment Withdrawn
2005-01-20On the 27th of December in 2004, the Voice of Germany issued a report entitled, "China Fervor Has Reached the Stage of Ignoring Profit." It says German Banking analysts have found that many companies are starting to doubt that the risk/return ratios justify sustaining investments in China. When asked, most German companies refused to disclose the amounts of the profits generated by their business ventures in China. Companies based in other countries also avoid this question. -
Residents of Shuangcheng City in Heilongjiang Province Support Falun Gong and Oppose the Persecution
2005-01-20In one township, a police chief and his assistant attended the city's meeting on how to deal with Falun Gong. On their way home, they saw Falun Gong practitioners hanging banners. The assistant said: "Look! How dare they, hanging banners in broad daylight, let's arrest them." The police chief replied: "Let it go! When Falun Gong is redressed, those who suffer will be us." -
Examples of Fabricated News in China
2005-01-20Hunan Province planned to select the 100 most advanced towns based on strong industrial and agricultural indices. When investigators came to Jiepai Town, the town's leadership bought tons of rice weed from nearby villages and ordered workers to burn them in each chimney. Seeing the heavy smoke, journalists from the investigation team thought that the industry index of Jiepai Town was among the highest in the province, and they selected Jiepai Town as one of the 100 most advanced towns. Leaders in Jiepai Town were pleased. -
Attorney Gao Zhicheng's Open Letter to the National People's Congress
2005-01-19On the 31st of December, Beijing attorney Gao Zhicheng of Beijing's Chengzhi Law Office published a copy of the letter he sent to the National People's Congress. Mr. Gao addressed such questions as: Are Falun Gong practitioners treated as Chinese citizens? Should they be granted protection under the Chinese Constitution? Are they granted the rights of a Chinese citizen? -
The Price of Shopping at the Dollar Store
2005-01-19I stood in front of an iron cage prop watching a female Falun Gong practitioner acting as an enslaved victim forced to make toys. She carried wounds and scars revealing the prison guards’ violence, and looked weary and sad. Another Falun Gong practitioner acting as a prison guard stood outside the cage prop, staring fiercely at the enslaved Falun Gong practitioner. -
The 6-10 Office Becomes the Biggest Distributor of the "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party" in China
2005-01-18As people overseas are discussing how to break through the news blockades in China to more rapidly disseminate the "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party" (Nine Commentaries), the Nine Commentaries series was already rapidly and silently circulating among the high level officials in China. Some insiders said that the information source was still the Internet, but the disseminators of the "Commentaries" were not people outside China or dissidents inside China, but certain people in the Chinese Communist Party itself. -
Thoughts on International Human Rights Day: Do People in China Have the Same Rights as Other People?
2005-01-18Human rights are the basic rights of human beings. Naturally, everyone has them. Westerners have them. People in China should have them too. However, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has declared that human rights in China must take the "special state situation" into consideration and that it absolutely does not allow anyone to "impose western human rights standards on China."