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Swedish falungong practitioners still kept in China
2002-02-17Three Swedish falungong practitioners are still in China this Friday, the Falungong movement in Sweden announced. One of the three is detained by the police in Beijing. The Swedish Foreign Department (UD) did not succeed in getting any official notice about the Swedes.[ ]Our embassy in Beijing haven´t received any information at all. And now the Chinese authorities are closing for the weekend, so we might not get any answers until Monday, said Kristina Östergren on UDs press statement to TT. -
AFP (Agence France-Presse): China deports foreign Falun Gong protestors
2002-02-17BEIJING, Feb 15 (AFP) - China on Friday deported at least 24 followers of the banned Falun Gong group detained for protesting in Tiananmen Square the previous day, Falun Gong's New York headquarters said. -
Report in the German Mannheim Morning News newspaper
2002-02-17Compassionate helpers are turned into victims Three Heidelberg Falun Gong members demonstrate in China for the release of a friend and are themselves incarcerated. The seventeen-year-old Heidelberg native, together with her 22-year-old sister Caroline and her father, Mr. Hubert Koerper and four other Falun Gong members from Germany had flown to the Chinese capital to demonstrate for religious freedom at Tiananmen Square. -
Ananova: Falun Gong schoolboy 'roughed up' in Tiananmen square protest
2002-02-17 -
Falun Gong Adherent from Breda Sent Out of China
2002-02-17Egon Knapen from Breda experienced a few exciting days in China. Knapen, adherent of the Falun Gong movement which is forbidden in China, wanted to hold a demonstration on Thursday in Beijing together with other western adherents. On his way to Tiananmen Square he was arrested. -
AP: Falun Gong Members Return to U.S.
2002-02-17 -
South China Morning Post: Falun Gong mass arrest worries Bush
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DPA: German Falung Gong members deported from China arrive in Frankfurt
2002-02-17 -
CP: Falun Gong followers expelled from China recount police brutality
2002-02-17"They smashed my glasses and I was brought down forcibly and they walked all over me," Sturdza said after arriving back in Canada on Friday. "I think I have some broken ribs. I have trouble breathing." -
AFP: British Falungong Member 'brutally' Arrested in China
2002-02-15 -
AFP: Bush "concerned" over Falungong Arrests
2002-02-15 -
AP: China expels Germans, Britons after Falun Gong protest
2002-02-15Chinese police said more than 40 foreigners were detained during Thursday's protest in central Beijing, making it the square's biggest foreign protest yet against a 2½-year-old Chinese crackdown on Falun Gong. -
The Press and Journal, Aberdeen: Scot Interrogated by Chinese Police Over Planned Human Rights Protest
2002-02-15 -
AFP: China deports foreign Falungong protestors
2002-02-15 -
Reuters: China Detains 20 Western Falun Gong Protesters
2002-02-14