Publications, Press Releases
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Hamburg Evening News [German newspaper]: Hamburg Citizen disappeared in China
2002-02-18 -
Report from German newspaper: Voice of Heilbronn
2002-02-18 -
Barometern Oskarshamns-tidningen (Swedish newspaper): Kalmar-citizen might be arrested in China
2002-02-18 -
DPA (Deutsche Presse Agentur): China deports over fifty foreign Falun Gong followers
2002-02-18 -
PRESS FREEDOM - RSF calls on President Bush to intervene after arrest of seven foreign journalists in China
2002-02-17Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on US President George W. Bush to intervene with Chinese President Jiang Zemin during his forthcoming visit to China to try to end the harassment of foreign journalists covering demonstrations by the banned spiritual movement Falun Gong. Seven foreign reporters were arrested in Beijings Tienanmen Square on 14 February while covering the arrest of members of the movement protesting there. -
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. -
Western Falun Gong practitioners brutally treated in China
2002-02-17A German practitioner, Bernhard Aurnhammer 38, was subject to so much violence that when he arrived at the Frankfurt airport yesterday he still suffered pain in various parts of his body. He came out from the plane with a pair of torn trousers which were torn when he was knocked down by the police at Tiananmen Square. -
Friends of Falun Gong Europe: The failure of Jiang Zemins persecution of Falun Gong
2002-02-17They went with a pure and kind heart, hoping to awaken the deceived Chinese people, to tell the truth; hoping the Jiang Zemin regime could see the point that Falun Gong is not a China issue, but an international issue! This appeal will not stop until the killing stops! -
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. -
18-YEAR-OLD ENGLISH SCHOOLBOY DEPORTED FROM CHINA
2002-02-17 -
AP: Falun Gong Members Return to U.S.
2002-02-17 -
South China Morning Post: Falun Gong mass arrest worries Bush
2002-02-17