Publications
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The Experiences of a 76-Year-Old Who Was Viciously Beaten by Beijing Police
2003-03-04
Because I did not report my name, they beat me severely. I was repeatedly struck and had black eyes and a swollen forehead. It was hard to catch my breath due to the police agents' roughly kicking me in my side with their heavy boots. I was 73 at that time. I was detained for more than 10 days in such a vicious environment. -
Guelph Mercury (Canada): Religious freedom still not complete here
2003-03-04'Chinese Falun Gong practitioners now face the worst kind of persecution. Practicing in China is treated as a crime of the highest degree resulting in arrest and torture, (often resulting in death.) But this is not a problem that simply ends at the Chinese border. Globalization has ensured that the long arm of the Chinese government affects the freedom of Canadian citizens as well.' -
Epoch Times: First and Second Readings of Article 23 Pass Council - Members from Democratic Groups Walk Out of Meeting in Protest
2003-03-02
'More than 20 council members from the Democratic Party, the Civil Human Rights Front, and the Employee Union left the meeting before the first reading [and] burned a mockup of the Blue Bill in the parking lot outside the Legislative Council building.' -
Ming Bao (Hong Kong): Falun Gong Practitioners in Parade Against Article 23 Legislation (Photo)
2003-02-27'They pointed out that the proposed legislation would infringe upon the already weakened human rights and freedom in Hong Kong. They also complained that the immigration office denied entry to more than ten Taiwan practitioners at the airport. One Swedish practitioner expressed to the reporter that the Hong Kong government should take care not to sell out its integrity.' -
Dow Jones: HK Opposition Lawmakers Protest Anti-Subversion Bill
2003-02-27'A controversial anti-subversion bill came before Hong Kong's legislature Wednesday, prompting a walkout by opposition lawmakers who burned it in effigy while pro-democracy activists ripped up a copy and threw pieces from a public gallery. Critics say the bill threatens Hong Kong's freedoms, which are left over from British colonial days.' -
AFP (Agence France Presse): Falungong [protest] treatment of Taiwanese practitioners
2003-02-26'Victim Lu Li-ching said she suffered bruises to her hands and mouth when she was escorted by force to the plane. "Eight riot policemen wrapped me up with a blanket," Lu told AFP. "A flight attendant witnessing the scene told me she had never seen police resort to such brutalities on civilians."' -
AFP (Agence France Presse): US concerned about human rights in China: Powell [Excerpt]
2003-02-26'US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday the United States was concerned about "setbacks" in China's human rights record.' -
North Holland Daily: Falun Gong Practitioners Show Exercises in Victory Park
2003-02-25This article was written on the day when a practicing site was established in Victory Park. This is the first time that Falun Gong practitioners have practised in the park. The author happened to pass by without being notified beforehand. He decided to write this article soon after he saw the scene. A photographer was sent there last Saturday to take photos to complete this article. -
Ming Bao (Hong Kong): 80% of Middle Class Citizens Surveyed Concerned About Article 23 Legislation
2003-02-25'Results of the survey showed that over 80% think that if the Article 23 legislation passes, their confidence in freedom and rule of law in Hong Kong will be reduced. Seventy percent of the participants said that they have considered leaving Hong Kong and emigrating because of Article 23.' -
Apple Daily Commentary (Hong Kong): Article 23 Draft Alarming
2003-02-25'Article 23 of the Basic Law is a law that will affect the important rights and freedom of seven million Hong Kong citizens...the recently proposed draft is filled with different types of traps and the government even squeezed in things like secret trials. How can such a law not worry the people, and how will Hong Kong's people be able to sleep at night?' -
Chronicle Washington Bureau: Democrats demand China free Li
2003-02-24'Eighty-two members of Congress, led by Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Atherton, have asked the Chinese government for the immediate release of Charles Li, a Menlo Park man China suspects of sabotage but who the American officials say is being persecuted because he is a Falun Gong follower.' -
Taiwan News: MAC protests Hong Kong's mistreatment of Falun Gong members
2003-02-24'All of the Taiwan Falun Gong followers were forcefully repatriated back to the island last evening, even though they had valid Hong Kong visas. According to the MAC, Hong Kong immigration officials even rudely treated some Taiwan followers, tying them up in anti-riot blankets and forcing then on Taiwan-bound aircraft. "We protest this kind of mistreatment of our citizens," the MAC said in the statement.' -
China Post: MAC protests 'brutal' treatment of Falun Gong members in HK
2003-02-23'The Mainland Affairs Council yesterday protested what it called the "brutal" treatment dozens of Falun Gong members from Taiwan received in Hong Kong as they were denied entry into the former British colony and sent back with six of them being tied up. "Some of the (ROC) nationals were even tied up and carried onto the plane. We strongly protest the brutal treatment by the Hong Kong government," the council said about the Friday incident at the Hong Kong airport.' -
Apple Daily: Honesty and Credibility Go Bankrupt
2003-02-23'The government of Hong Kong's Special Administrative Region ignores the objection of most of its citizens and insists on implementing Article 23 into the National Security Bill...this will cost the government the loss of its honesty, the bankruptcy of its credibility, and the loss of the public's trust in them.' -
AFP (Agence France Presse): Free Press at Risk From Proposed Hong Kong Law, Journalists Warn
2003-02-22'The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday warned that a proposed anti-subversion law poses a grave threat to freedom of expression in Hong Kong...Human rights and pro-democracy groups fear that China could use the new law to suppress freedoms including those of media, speech and religion, as well as to ban groups it considers a threat.'
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