Publications

Apple Daily: US Congress Is Concerned About Article 23 Legislation

2003-04-25

Apple Daily reported on April 17 that the legislation of Article 23 of the Basic Law continues to receive worldwide attention. The report points out that even though Hong Kong still respects the freedom to enter and leave Hong Kong, last June, 90 Falun Gong practitioners were denied entrance to Hong Kong.

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The Baltimore Sun: Deal with devil proves deadly

2003-04-23

'China sat by idly for four months as SARS cases accumulated in its southern province, hoping nobody would notice so as to avoid embarrassment. The lack of a free press to alert the public to the developing pattern not only cost untold Chinese lives but put at risk tourists, business managers and other expatriates. Among them are citizens of nations that didn't believe that Beijing's oppression affected them...Suddenly, the world's investors recall why China is still a risky place to open a franchise or build a factory. If Beijing will lie about something as serious as its own public health crisis, how trustworthy are the delirious economic statistics it publishes? And if there's no democratic way to remove corrupt leaders, isn't corruption also a real threat to that cherished "stability," too?'

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BusinessWeek: China's Deadliest Plague: Authoritarianism

2003-04-23

'Now, everyone can see that democracy isn't just a luxury. They can see that authoritarianism doesn't even guarantee stability. A government that represses information not only kills its people -- and those of other countries -- but it spreads panic and disbelief as its credibility erodes.'

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Several Medical Personnel in Beijing Reveal That the Authorities Deceived World Health Organization Inspectors (photos)

2003-04-22

Time, a prominent magazine based in the United States, revealed that the Chinese government hid SARS cases in Beijing from the World Health Organization (WHO). On Friday, Time quoted several doctors and nurses at Beijing hospitals who revealed that on Thursday, hours prior to the WHO inspectors' arrival at the No. 309 People's Liberation Army Hospital, the hospital moved 46 of the confirmed SARS patients to a hotel, and there are about ten SARS patients in the ward.

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Time Asia: Unmasking A Crisis

2003-04-21

As a Time reporter continued through the ward, a nurse who wouldn't give her name stopped him and explained, "[...] All of these wards are full of SARS patients, there are over 100 at least. Don't believe the government--they never tell you the truth. They say it's a deadly disease with 4% mortality? Are you kidding me? The death rate is at least 25%. In this hospital alone, there are over 10 patients dead already."

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AP: Hundreds Demonstrate For Falun Gong Movement

2003-04-21

'Several hundred demonstrators peacefully protested in Times Square and elsewhere in the city Saturday to attract attention to China's ban on the Falun Gong meditation movement. The protesters listened to music and speeches and passed out literature to people passing by in Chinatown and midtown Manhattan.'

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Central News Agency (Taiwan): SARS Strikes Beijing, Citizens Are In a Panic

2003-04-20

"The Beijing Travel Bureau recently conducted an investigation of local hotels, and discovered that since March, hotel occupancy rates have seriously declined. A large number of tour groups have canceled their trips to Beijing. SARS has caused the country to "to stop all foreign contact" and people are in a panic. Both international conferences and general mass activities had to be canceled, causing a severe blow to the general development of the Chinese economy."

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Pohjolan Sanomat (Finland): Cultivation of Mind and Body

2003-04-19

'Falun Dafa is an ancient Chinese qigong practice, which has been founded by Mr. Li Hongzhi. He brought his practice to the public in 1992 and ever since it has attracted millions of practitioners worldwide.'

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Looking at the Credibility of China's Official Propaganda in Light of the SARS Outbreak

2003-04-19

If the media had been allowed to cover the issue openly at the beginning of the outbreak, reveal the reality of the situation and the risk to the public and to people's lives, it would have resulted in the necessary precautions being instituted earlier. How many lives could have been saved in China and elsewhere?

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Ming Bao (Hong Kong Chinese Newspaper): Falun Gong Sues Immigration for Discrimination

2003-04-19

'In total more than eighty Taiwan Falun Gong practitioners were refused entry to Hong Kong including the four plaintiffs. They had planned to attend the "World Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference" on February 22 2003. When they arrived at Hong Kong on February 21, the Immigration Office rejected their entry without reasonable explanation and expelled them...Two of the plaintiffs were violently expelled, though they offered no resistance.'

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The German Wuerzburg Post: Compassion and Brutal Persecution

2003-04-17

'The Falun Gong photo exhibition held in the Wuerzburg Adult University portrays a vivid contrast between peaceful exercises and barbarous persecution...The Chairman of the Adult University in Wuerzburg emphasized that “Looking for a path to peace is particularly important in the modern world. Falun Gong reveals to us a righteous path to internal and external peace.”'

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Finnish Newspaper Reports on Falun Dafa Exercise Demonstration (picture)

2003-04-16

On April 7 2003, Finnish newspaper Pohjolan Sanomat published an article entitled “Cultivation of Mind and Body”, which was about a Falun Dafa exercise demonstration. The article included a brief description of the practice and also talked about the persecution in China.

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Villabverne (Danish Newspaper): Daily Protest Against Chinese Oppression

2003-04-14

'What Falun Gong lacks in numbers it makes up in sheer determination. Since 28 April 2002, Poul Andersen and his kindred spirits have been in front of the embassy virtually every day. Regardless of the rain, sleet, snow or wind, the banner has been unfolded, and between 10 and 11.15am, they have all tenaciously done what they can to create awareness of the monstrosities and persecution they believe is happening to Falun Gong practitioners in China.'

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Manchester Evening News (UK): A Chinese student is appealing for help from the government to persuade authorities in his homeland to free his imprisoned fiancée

2003-04-10

'A Chinese student is appealing for help from the government to persuade authorities in his homeland to free his imprisoned fiancée. Wei Guo, a student at UMIST, fears he will never see girlfriend Yong Jie again after she was arrested in Beijing as part of a crackdown on the banned spiritual movement Falun Gong.'

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DJ (Dow Jones International News): EU Parliament Concerned About HK Anti-Subversion Bill

2003-04-09

'The E.U. assembly said it had "serious concern with regard to several aspects of the proposed...legislation," particularly the banning of organizations like the Falun Gong spiritual movement which is already outlawed in mainland China. It added that the bill "must not undermine existing human rights and civil and religious liberties."'

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