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Poland: Peaceful Appeal in Front of Chinese Embassy in Warsaw
2002-12-13The appealers wanted to tell people about the brutal persecution of Dafa practitioners in China and how over 70 million innocent people face torture, incarceration and even death because they want to live by the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance. -
UK: Clarifying the Truth to Amnesty Internationals Branch in Glasgow University
2002-12-13I especially paid attention to the student from Mainland China. I gave him some Chinese-version VCDs and newspapers. He told me that he was from Beijing and both of his parents are government officials. When asking him to mail the VCDs to his parents, he said that they have understood the real situation of Falun Gong. He also said that his mother once told him about the situation Chinas past President Liu Shaoqi encountered in the time of the Great Cultural Revolution. -
Rapid Dispatch: World Human Rights Lawyers Hold Press Conference in Paris Regarding Filing Lawsuit against Li Lanqing, the Chief of the 610 Office
2002-12-13The lawyers said that they are full of confidence that the court will [affirm] Li Lanqing's crime. He said that China has been warned. Those who perform or give orders to perform torture will be tried, no matter where they come from and where they are found. -
Ireland: Resident Calls for the Rescue of Her Sister and Two Friends.
2002-12-13Ms. Dai Dongxue, a Dublin resident today called for help to free her sister Dai Xialing from Jinan Labour Camp in China; "My sister Xialing has been imprisoned simply because of her belief...I do not want to see my sister die in a labour camp." -
Geneva Home Information (GHI): Human Rights in China - Falun Gong: the persecution continues
2002-12-13'Over 100,000 practitioners of Falun Gong have been sent to labour camps...The persecution has reached unbelievable proportions. According to the Swiss Falun Gong Association, millions of Chinese practitioners, albeit in good physical and mental health, have been committed to psychiatric hospitals.' -
AFP (Agence France-Press): Hong Kong security law jeopardises freedoms
2002-12-13'At risk are the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; the right to freedom of expression; and the right to peaceful assembly and to freedom of association, the London-based human rights organisation Amnesty International said in a statement. The Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF - Reporters Without Borders) and the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) also both warned that the proposed legislation would restrict the freedom of journalists.' -
Far East Economic Review: HONG KONG: Business: The Biggest Victim
2002-12-13'Moves to outlaw sedition and subversion have generated a storm of protest. Even bankers and businessmen are criticizing proposals that may end Hong Kong's freedoms and change the way that business is done.' -
Radio Free Asia: Hong Kong Bar Association Claims Proposal to Implement Article 23 Is Against International Human Rights Regulations
2002-12-13'The International Human Rights Organization and the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor joined together to contact the United Nations Human Rights Affairs Office in writing, requesting a show of concern about the issue of implementing Article 23 of the Basic Law in Hong Kong.' -
UK: Practitioners attend an Open Day at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
2002-12-12On 10th December 2002, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office held an Open Day to mark International Human Rights Day. A small group of Falun Gong practitioners visited the Open Day in order to raise the awareness of the persecution of Falun Gong in China and to thank MPs in the Foreign Office for all their ongoing support and hard work in raising the issue of human rights abuses against Falun Gong practitioners in China. -
Poland: Practitioners Participate in Human Rights Film Festival
2002-12-12From 6th to 8th of December in Warsaw, Poland, practitioners from the Ukraine, Sweden, USA and Poland took part in various activities. We held several peaceful appeals at the Chinese embassy, distributed materials in downtown Warsaw and manned an information booth during the International Human Rights Film Festival hosted by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. -
Introducing Falun Dafa in Monaco - Part 2 (photo)
2002-12-12On November 30, Falun Gong practitioners from Switzerland, Italy, Germany and France introduced Dafa to the passersby at Albert I Pier. A major newspaper sent a reporter to cover the event and published a positive article about Falun Gong the next day. Many people got to learn the truth about Jiang Zemin's ruthless persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. -
Israeli and German Practitioners Work Together to Help Rescue Xiong Wei
2002-12-12From December 6 to 8, Israeli and German practitioners protested the Jiang regime's persecution of Falun Gong for 58 straight hours outside of the Chinese Embassy and called for the release of practitioner Xiong Wei. -
Apple Daily: Lawyers Take to the Streets to Distribute Flyers Against Article 23 (Excerpt)
2002-12-12Many well-known lawyers of Hong Kong come to Mong Kok to distribute flyers against Article 23 in the cold and rain -
Reuters Reports that United States and Britain Express Concerns Over Hong Kong's Proposed Subversion Law [Excerpt]
2002-12-12'Hong Kong's government is aiming to enact by July a tough anti-subversion law...But the issue has inflamed rights activists and legal circles, which worry the law may roll back civil liberties and be exploited by authorities to target anyone they did not like.' -
Apple Daily Reports that Medium and Small Enterprises Are Expressing Concern that Article 23 Will Have a Negative Effect on Business (Photo)
2002-12-12Apple Daily reported on December 6 that after foreign merchants and foreign capital banks openly expressed their concerns about the enactment of Article 23 of the Basic Law, even the chamber of commerce for medium and small enterprises, which previously supported the government with respect to this legislation, also expressed concern that the legislation would negatively affect the business environment.