AP (Frankfurt, Germany): Human Rights Organisation condemns China for persecution

The International Society for Human Rights (IFGM) is concerned that the persecution of Falun Gong may extend to Hong Kong.

On International Human Rights Day, December 10, the International Society of Human Rights (IGFM) called on people to pay attention to the current [human rights] situation in China. In Frankfurt, their spokesperson stressed that in addition to members of outlawed Christianity groups, Falun Gong practitioners are also being suppressed by the [Jiang regime]

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Falun Gong has been outlawed since 1999, because the Chinese government feared that Falun Gong could jeopardize [..] communism. Since then there have been several thousand practitioners arrested. According to the Falun Gong Information Centre, there have also been several hundred people persecuted to death

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Ms. Wang a 37 years old Falun Gong practitioner from Hong Kong, who was imprisoned in China for several months said that the Chinese government is planning to extend the persecution to Hong Kong [under the guise of a law against secession and subversion]
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Translated from Chinese at: http://www.yuanming.net/articles/200212/15608.html;