Publications
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Media Report from Belgium: “Falun Gong Practitioners Demonstrate Exercises in Antwerp”
2003-05-31
"When I was detained in Beijing, we received letters of support from the Belgian Premier, and from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In addition, we had constructive talks with the Belgian representative who attended the Human Rights Meeting in Geneva. City Mayors have also approved our applications to demonstrate the exercises in their city." -
South China Morning Post (SCMP): Law and Disorder
2003-05-28'Cases of police brutality and corruption occur so frequently on the mainland that many rights activists are convinced such behaviour is favoured by government and party authorities. In any given week, startling cases abound...There is widespread acceptance that sectors of the police force are violent and venal, and form alliances with elements of the Communist Party, the judiciary and criminal gangs.' -
Baltimore Sun: China recovers from SARS via media's patriotic song
2003-05-26"For years, daring newspapers have tested the limits to see how much they can get away with, but state news media operate under the constant threat of censorship, discipline, suspension or being shut down if their coverage goes too far. A Guangdong-based weekly, 21st Century World Herald, was ordered to suspend publication in March after printing a signed commentary that advocated political reform and criticized former paramount leader Deng Xiaoping. It has yet to resume publishing. Top editors at two other publications, Beijing's China News Weekly and Guangdong-based Southern Weekend, were reassigned this year after offending top officials with their political coverage." -
Online Journalism Review: Chinese Learn True Scope of SARS From the Internet
2003-05-24"The turning point came for me in early April," he said. "I felt the media were lying, and that they were intentionally suppressing news about SARS. I saw the April 7 press conference by Health Minister Zhang Wenkang, and I thought his lies were really outrageous. Because we work with the Internet, we have long felt that news in mainstream media is routinely manipulated. They just tell you want they want you to think." -
Reuters: Chinese doctor gagged for revealing SARS cover-up
2003-05-23"He began working at the military hospital in 1957, but was branded a "counter-revolutionary" in 1968 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. He was banished to feed horses at a military-run ranch in the northwestern province of Qinghai. In 1999, the 10th anniversary of the army crackdown on student-led democracy demonstrations, Jiang accused authorities of lying when they claimed not a single protester was killed on Tiananmen Square. Jiang said then several protesters he treated died of gunshot wounds." -
SCMP (South China Morning Post): Ambushes on the information highway
2003-05-23By sending messages to various internet forums, researchers were able to determine that certain pornographic or politically sensitive terms, such as "June 4" (the date of the Tiananmen Square crackdown), "human rights", "Taiwan independence" and " Falun Gong" are banned. Messages containing these words are automatically screened out. Messages that do not contain banned words normally appear but, if their content is considered sensitive, they are soon removed. -
BBC: Chinese censor online chat
2003-05-22"Messages critical of the Chinese Government either never appear or are purged from popular chat rooms, a study by the free speech pressure group has revealed. The study also found that Chinese law enforcement agencies regularly track down and even jail the authors of the critical messages. Reporters Without Borders estimates that China employs 30,000 people to watch what its people are doing online." -
Taipei Journal: The True Nature of China's Leadership
2003-05-17'The Tiananmen massacre 14 years ago unveiled the true, ugly face of communist totalitarianism under Deng Xiaoping. In a similar vein, the outbreak and rapid spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in China has exposed the wicked, corrupt nature of the post-Deng communist leadership. It is more than just a coincidence that in both episodes, communist authorities attempted to cover up the tragedies by imposing a media blackout and lying until the truth surfaced. In fact, the manner of handling human and natural disasters is their preferred method of dealing with crises.' -
The Epoch Times: Interview with WHO (World Health Organisation) Delegate about SARS in China
2003-05-17"In no way were we told the truth. The facts were in part concealed, in part minimised, in part belittled, in part merely implication and speculation. We had discovered that the actual circumstances did not look nearly as rosy as the people in charge want us to believe; that the disease is now under control. We can see this from the daily, drastically rising numbers of new cases of this infection, particularly in Beijing." -
NewsMax.com: World Health Organization Says China's SARS Cover-up Continues
2003-05-17'China continues to withhold information on SARS despite Beijing's new order to officials to make full disclosure about the disease, as NewsMax.com reported earlier China Enforces Disease Reporting . "We don't have detailed information from China on about half of the cases - We need this information to stop the spread of SARS," WHO spokeswoman Maria Cheng told Reuters.' -
CNN: China Censors CNN SARS Report
2003-05-16In recent months, many CNN reports on controversial government issues -- human rights, Tibet, and the Falun Gong spiritual movement -- have been blacked out. "We regret the Chinese action and we are checking the circumstances and details of the interruption," a CNN spokesman said. "In the meantime, we will continue reporting forthrightly and responsibly on SARS and other important matters." -
Post and Courier (NC): China Shuns Doctor Who Told SARS Truth, WHO says
2003-05-16"Most people in China don't read Caijing, a business biweekly with a small circulation and a reputation for daring reportage. And they don't have access to newspapers like the Singapore Straits Times, which said in a recent column, "In other countries, Dr. Jiang would probably have been lauded as a national hero." Instead, Jiang remains an unknown figure in China, neither praised nor punished, but who has been asked by the government not to talk to the press without prior permission, though he spoke briefly with a reporter on Tuesday." -
Oxford University Journal Carries a 15-Page Article on Falun Gong
2003-05-15'History has witnessed many persecutions of righteous beliefs yet none of these suppressions succeeded. The current persecution in China is doomed to meet the same fate. If there is any difference, it may be that the efforts of the practitioners and the world community will make the suppression much shorter-lived.' -
The Asian Wall Street Journal: China's Turning Point
2003-05-12'Commentators have praised China's new president and premier for finally taking decisive steps late last month to combat Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or SARS. What is not said is that they acted only after Chinese doctors and nurses openly contradicted their government and made the continuation of the cover-up, which had lasted almost half a year, untenable. Leaders in the Chinese capital were, for the first time in a decade, left with no real choice but to tell the truth, since health care professionals were already telling all they knew to the foreign media and the World Health Organization.' -
AP: WHO: Beijing's SARS Data Seriously Flawed
2003-05-12'China's SARS data has serious flaws because the information does not show how half of the country's patients caught the highly contagious respiratory illness, a World Health Organization spokeswoman said Saturday."Right now the situation is that we have a whole load of people, and we don't know where they got the disease," WHO spokeswoman Mangai Balasegaram told The Associated Press. "The problem with the data is that there are holes in it."'
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