TV and Radio
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RFI (Radio France Internationale): Demonstration Against Article 23 in Front of the Chinese Embassy in France
2003-07-15The spokesman for the Chinese Democratic Party in France, Wu Jiang, told the reporters that the Chinese government is trying to bring dictatorship and autocracy to Hong Kong by the enactment of Article 23. The spokesman for French Falun Dafa Association, Zhang Jian-Ping indicated that the enactment of Article 23 was, to a great extent, targeting Falun Gong. Both of them said they request that the legislation of Article 23 is completely abandoned, not just postponed. -
Film Exposing the Persecutory Nature of Article 23 shown on Swedish National TV
2003-07-09Employing comments from Members of the European Parliament, Professors, VIPs, representatives of human rights organisations, and social groups, the 25-minute film reported on the danger of the proposed subversion law, the Hong Kong peoples opposition to it along with their desire to preserve freedom and human rights, and the evil nature of the persecution of peaceful Falun Gong practitioners in China. -
Radio France Internationale (RFI): Several French Organisations will hold Demonstrations to Protest Against Hong Kongs Article 23 Legislation
2003-07-09'This demonstration is to protest against the Article 23 legislation and the pressure from the Chinese government on their Hong Kong counterparts to enact this legislation quickly.' -
Russia: Radio St. Petersburg Broadcasts Positive Coverage of Falun Gong
2003-06-17The practitioners introduced the reasons behind this illegal persecution, the current situation in China, and the condemnation of Jaings crimes from the international community. They also told the audience that Jiang Zemin, who is directly responsible for the cruel persecution, is the subject of a lawsuit in North America and Europe for his genocide. The trial that is awaiting him will expose his crimes against humanity and allow justice to be done. -
Radio France Internationale (RFI): US Congress Urges Courts To Proceed With Lawsuit Against Jiang
2003-06-16According to news from the Central News Agency, 38 members of the US Congress signed a brief, submitted to courts in Illinois, requesting them to continue with the lawsuit by Falun Gong practitioners against Jiang Zemin and the 610 office, which was set up solely for the persecution of Falun Gong. -
Radio France Internationale (RFI): Falun Gong Practitioner Charles Li Suffers Force Feeding Through Tubes Whilst Imprisoned in China
2003-06-09'On the phone, Charles Li said that he had been ill-treated and force-fed. According to the UN human rights annual report, force feeding is often used as a torture technique on detainees who are on hunger strike. The hunger striker severely suffers during the force-feeding procedure or even chokes to death.' -
Radio France Internationale (RFI): Granddaughter of Qi BaiShi, the Famous Master of Traditional Chinese Painting, Suffers Persecution for Practising Falun Gong
2003-06-06The following news was broadcast in Mandarin by RFIs news program on the 2nd of June to Mainland China and the Chinese region of Paris. -
Radio France Internationale: 2003 Amnesty International Human Rights Report Claims that Human Rights in China have Become Worse
2003-06-01'Tens of thousands of people in China continue to be arbitrarily detained or imprisoned for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression, association or belief. Based on the Amnesty International Report, torture and ill-treatment remained widespread and appear to have increased as a result of the strike-hard campaign.' -
Radio France Internationale Interviews Falun Gong Practitioner Regarding World Falun Dafa Day and the Trial of Jiang Zemin
2003-05-25"When Jiang visited the US, Falun Gong practitioners filed a lawsuit in the US District Court of the Northern District of Illinois. Jiang was charged with committing three crimes. The first one was crimes against humanity by brutally persecuting Falun Gong. The other two are torture and genocide. We practitioners sued Jiang because he intends to eradicate millions of Falun Gong practitioners by any possible means, including lies and violence." -
Radio Free Asia: Interviewing European Practitioners about Celebrating World Falun Dafa Day in Europe
2003-05-24What are the purposes of holding these activities? One is that we can tell everyone about the goodness and the beauty of Falun Gong. Another is that we all know that the Jiang Zemin regimes persecution of Falun Gong is completely based on lies. One important way to stop this persecution is to tell people, in a peaceful way, what Falun Gong really is and about the lies that the Jiang regime have been using, so that all the Chinese people and western people can understand what is actually happening. -
RFI (Radio France Internationale): Hong Kong Branch of WOIPFG Established
2003-05-22'According to the Falun Dafa Information Centre, the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong founded a branch in Hong Kong on the 16th of May. Today, Falun Gong practitioners held a press conference in front of a Chinese Embassy in the United States to protest about the unreasonable detention of Falun Gong practitioner Charles Li, a US citizen who has been arrested in China. They also appealed for his rescue.' -
RFI (Radio France Internationale): The Self-immolation on Tiananmen Square was Plotted by a Chinese Official
2003-05-18On the morning of the May 15 2003, RFI broadcast the following report about the staged self-immolation incident on Tiananmen Square in 2001. The report outlines the irrefutable evidence that this event was actually planned by members of the Jiang regime in order to turn Chinese people against Falun Gong. This has already been veriied by the United Nations. -
Radio Free Asia: Interview with Falun Gong Practitioners from on the 4th Anniversary of the 4-25 Event
2003-05-05'Jiang Zemin and his group have directed this persecution and one of its most important aspects is telling lies. This can be clearly illustrated by the recent evolution of SARS in China. In the past, people may have argued that what Jiangs group did was to maintain social stability and the image of the nation. However, the issue of SARS makes it undoubtedly clear to us that if they really cared about public interest and social stability, they would have taken proper measures at an early stage. In fact, they do not really care about social stability or public interest; all that they care for is preserving their vested interests, and maintaining their power and influence.' -
Radio Free Asia: Jiang Brings Troubles Wherever He Goes. A Report on the Lawsuit Against Violations of Human Rights by German Police during Jiangs Visit to Germany
2003-04-24In the past few years, Jiang Zemin, the ex-President of China, and several senior Chinese officials have become the subject of a large number of direct and indirect international lawsuits. On April 14 2003, the US District Court of Illinois began the legal procedures for a genocide lawsuit against Jiang Zemin. This lawsuit was filed by Falun Gong practitioners. -
Radio Free Asia Reports on Appeals in Support of Lawsuit Against Dictator Jiang Zemin
2003-04-20Radio Free Asia broadcast a report about Falun Gong practitioners in Germany and Europe holding peaceful appeals in front of the Chinese embassies to support the lawsuit against Jiang Zemin. Practitioners are successively filing lawsuits in the courts of European countries, charging Jiang with genocide and anti-humanitarian acts through his persecution of Falun Gong.