Publications, Press Releases
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Houston Chronicle: Falun Gong plans Texas protest
2002-10-17
About 50 Falun Gong [practitioners] demonstrating outside the Chinese Embassy on Monday plan to carry their protest to Texas next week for President Bush's meeting with Chinese President Jiang Zemin. -
AFP (Agence France-Presse): China's Jiang to visit Chicago, Houston, San Francisco on US trip
2002-10-17Chinese President Jiang Zemin will visit the US cities of Chicago, Houston and San Francisco as well as President George W. Bush's Texas ranch on a trip from next week, the foreign ministry said Wednesday. -
South China Morning Post: Draconian measures threaten HK freedoms
2002-10-16Margaret Ng, a legislator representing the legal profession in Hong Kong, wrote in the SCMP, "A careful reading of the consultation paper reveals numerous draconian measures and serious pitfalls. These proposals surrender to the central authorities a fundamentally important part of the autonomy provided under the Basic Law." She supports the call for a white bill for further consultation. -
SCMP: Article 23: let us debate the language of the law (Excerpt)
2002-10-15The proposed legislation states; "we should defer to the decision of the central authorities based on the comprehensive information it possesses". [...]That means if the Chinese government proscribes Falun Gong on national security grounds, Hong Kong will follow suit, since Beijing knows best what is a threat to its national security. -
Catholic News Service: President Bush urged to press China on religious, human rights
2002-10-15A coalition of human and religious rights advocates called on President Bush to make human rights a top agenda item in meetings with Chinese President Jiang Zemin in late October. -
Orange County Register: Chinese leadership feels pressure from many directions (Excerpt)
2002-10-15President George W. Bush is expected to express his concerns about [..] repression when he hosts Chinese leader Jiang Zemin at his Texas ranch this month... -
Chicago Tribune: Grass-roots war heats up against government Web blocks (Excerpt)
2002-10-15Google's main site is no longer blocked by China, although search requests are being filtered. The words "Falun Gong," for example, [...] do not return search results. -
Taipei Times (Taiwan): Coming full circle
2002-10-14
"While the Chinese government outlaws Falun Gong and condemns its practitioners, the group is finding increasing acceptance on college campuses in Taiwan." -
Associated Press: China Imposes New Web Cafe Rules
2002-10-13"But the new rules also reflect the fear of China's communist leaders that the Internet could nurture subversion...Already, China operates a special force to police the Internet for content deemed subversive. Scores of Web sites are blocked due to their content and the search engines Google and AltaVista have been blocked because they permit access to information on the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement and other sensitive topics." -
63-Year-old Woman Left to Die on the Street by Chinese Police
2002-10-12Witnesses say that a local egg seller found Ms. Guo Xiumei kneeling on the pavement on the Southwest Road of Huaiyang County Xiguan Health Bureau in the early morning hours of September 23rd. Doubled over from pain, her face black and blue with one eye punctured, she clutched her stomach. The egg seller called for the police. -
Reuters: CHINA: Subversion law to give HK powerful arsenal
2002-10-12An anti-subversion bill proposed by the Hong Kong government is like a powerful arsenal which could be used against anyone leaders in Beijing or the territory find objectionable, a legal expert said on Friday. -
International Herald Tribune: Liberties in doubt
2002-10-12Autonomy under the "one country, two systems" formula must be strongly defended. The United States, the EU, Canada, Japan, Australia and others should speak up, privately and publicly, to support full protection of Hong Kong's civil and political rights. -
AP: China Plans Strict Rules On Internet Cafes From Nov 15
2002-10-12China has passed harsh new restrictions on Internet cafes, banning minors and demanding operators register users and keep records of what information they access on line... -
Japan Economic Newswire: Protesters rally for human rights in China before Jiang trip
2002-10-12The rally is intended to press Bush to address human rights problems in China when he meets Jiang at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, on Oct. 25. -
MASA ACHER Magazine: Reports on the Rapid Development of Falun Gong in Taiwan (Photo)
2002-10-12
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