Voices of Support
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UK: Former Deputy Under Secretary of State, Lord Thurlow, Condemns the Unjust Verdict in Hong Kong
2002-08-17"The verdict showed that Hong Kong no longer has the freedom and rights that were ensured by the Hong Kong Basic Laws signed by both China and United Kingdom in 1997. It showed that the Hong Kong government received pressure from Jiangs regime and sacrificed its people's human rights to submit to this pressure." -
BBC Interview: China Abuses Mental Hospitals
2002-08-17 -
UK: Strong Public Support As Practitioners Call for Concern about Hong Kongs Politicized Prosecution
2002-08-17In London, the passers-by at Chinese Embassy in UK asked for materials in droves. They also signed their names to support Falun Gong practitioners. Some of them even practiced sitting meditation along practitioners. -
UK: Speech of European Friends of Falun Gong at London Press Conference
2002-08-16"Hong Kong must not be allowed to go down the same path of persecution which has so blighted life in China over the last three years. Hong Kong must stand up to Jiang Zemin and his murderous treachery. Hong Kong, you must release these 16 innocent practitioners in the name of Truth, Compassion and Forbearance" -
European Parliamentarians Express That They Will Do Their Utmost To Stop The Persecution
2002-08-15 -
Letter from a Representative of the U.N. Freedom of Religion Association to Falun Gong Practitioners in Switzerland
2002-08-15 -
BBC: Hong Kong Falun Gong Practitioners on Hunger Strike to Protest the Trial (Photo)
2002-08-15The banner reads, "Strongly Condemn Jiang Zemin for Coercing Hong Kong Government to Persecute and Wrongfully Accuse Falun Gong Practitioners" -
UK: Greater London Assembly Member Signs Petition Against Politically-Motivated Sham Trial in Hong Kong
2002-08-14 -
Times online: China holds rebels in Soviet-style asylums
2002-08-14The WPA (World Psychiatric Association) delegates should adopt a strong resolution in Yokohama calling on China to cease these abuses and to fully co-operate with a WPA investigation, Robert van Voren, General-Secretary of the Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry, said. A WPA-led delegation should visit the asylums, carry out independent medical examinations and monitor conditions and treatment, especially in the police-run asylums. -
The Guardian: China 'sending dissidents to mental hospitals'
2002-08-14 -
What the People of Iceland Are Saying
2002-08-14...I am not afraid of telling that I do not want Jiang Zemin as my guest and I would like the government of this country, a government that I even chose myself, to tell him that he is not welcome here. -
Letters of Support for the Falun Gong Practitioners on Trial in Hong Kong (Part I)
2002-08-13 -
UK: Letter from Lord Moyne of the United Kingdom to the Hong Kong Authority [March 27, 2002]
2002-08-12 -
Statement from Lord Moyne Regarding the False trial in Hong Kong
2002-08-10The Hong Kong magistrates have a choice, and nobody can pretend it is an easy one..A guilty verdict, however, would show that there is really only one system, not two, and that system is a barefaced tyranny. -
Comment by Lord Thurlow, formerly Deputy Under-Secretary of State (UK), on the Unjust Trial in Hong Kong
2002-08-09