Publications, Press Releases
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The Ottawa Citizen [Canadian newspaper]: Falun Gong banners spark bylaw debate: Chinese Embassy trying to stifle speech with strict reading of rules, councilor claims
2002-01-16
"The Chinese Embassy or supporters of the Chinese government don't want the signs up because it makes them uncomfortable," he said. "That's too bad. That's the point of the signs. "We are an embassy town," he added. "We are host to a number of unsavoury or oppressive regimes. It would be a dangerous precedent to allow them to use our bylaws to suppress freedom." -
Gothenburg Post [Swedish newspaper]: Candlelight Vigil in Slottsskogen
2002-01-13 -
FDI: Reports of Four Falun Gong Practitioners Dead from Police Abuse Surface in a Single Day
2002-01-11When a reporter called the police to check on the details, the police replied, "I don' have time to answer your questions," and "Wrong number!" and then hung up upon hearing that the reporter was asking about Zhan' case. Zhan is survived by her two-year-old child. -
FDI: Thousands Rally in Over 30 Cities Around the World As Falun Gong Holds Worldwide 3-Day Vigil
2002-01-11Twenty Reports of Killings in the Past Twenty-Two Days Falun Gong Practitioners Expose Criminals' Names and Phone Numbers to the Public; Call for Support -
FDI: Police Assault and Kill Falun Gong Man on Roadside As He Posts Flyers Exposing Human Rights Abuses
2002-01-11 -
Swabian Danube [German] Newspaper: Rescue March to City Hall
2002-01-10 -
Chinese Officials Become Entangled in their Own Web of Deceit
2002-01-05The first reports, released on December 12, claimed Qiu had gone to the Laocheng Police Substation the night before the murder, of his own initiative, to turn in his Falun Gong books and materials to police and "confess" that he had practised Falun Gong since 1994. Yet multiple reports claimed the "evidence" of Qiu practising Falun Gong was his Falun Gong books, found in his home after the murder. -
AP: Foreign Falun Gong Followers Protest
2001-12-25 -
Judgment Against High-Ranking Chinese Official Handed Down by U.S. Court
2001-12-25" Terri Marsh, a Falun Gong practitioner, and co-counsel for the plaintiff, stated "The defendant's attempts to circumvent the legal complaint not only by a campaign of propaganda in the Chinese state-controlled media, but by arresting and torturing the plaintiff, is a cowardly and brutally inhuman response to these serious charges. Today, the Chinese Government's persecution of Falun Dafa in violation of international law has been acknowledged in the United States District Court. The defendant cannot deny this judgement." -
The People’s Review (London Newspaper) – “Nothing new then” by Tom Parker
2001-12-23Report on Falun Gong and the treatment of Westerners after their peaceful appeal in Tiananmen Square -
"Golden Age of Human Rights" in China Leaves Four More Tortured to Death by Chinese Authorities
2001-12-22 Death Count Exceeds 1,600; Over 100,000 Detained; Over 20,000 Sent to Labour Camps without Trial Fearful of Jiang's Persecution Campaign, Chinese Officials Tell Reporters, "Please Don't Ask" About Falun Gong -
CHINA'S STATE MEDIA USES MURDER CASE TO INCITE HATRED AGAINST FALUN GONG
2001-12-20FDI issued a release early Sunday, December 16th (see website), to alert the media and the public of the upcoming propaganda blitz. This latest media blitz comes just days after the conclusion of a national conference on religion in China, in which, according to the South China Morning Post, President Jiang "tacitly acknowledged international criticism on the issue [of Falun Gong], telling the meeting that China should 'strengthen propaganda'" surrounding Falun Gong. -
The Death of Practitioner Zhang Min From Torture
2001-12-19Han tried to force Zhang Min to tell him the source of the Falun Gong materials she had been distributing. Zhang refused to tell him. Han Yunjie hung Zhang Min on a heating pipe after handcuffing both of her hands. Then he savagely punched her chest, eyes and temples. He grabbed her hair and bashed her head against the wall. Both her hands were swollen and burned from the heat pipes. She vomited blood and passed out after the beatings, but Han Yunjie did not think it was enough. He poured water on Zhang Min to make her regain consciousness and then beat her again until she lost control of her bladder. The torture continued over some sixty hours. -
VOA News: Chinese Police Beat Falun Gong Member to Death
2001-12-19The rights group says police beat her repeatedly in an attempt to find out who had printed the materials and where she had obtained them. The group says authorities cremated the woman's body two days after her death. -
DPA: Beaten Falun Gong Woman Dies in Northeast China, Rights Group Says
2001-12-17
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