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Switzerland: Using Information Booths to inform Burghers about the Persecution of Falun Gong in China
2002-10-29Those people who hear about the persecution for the first time compare it to the Holocaust during the reign of Hitler. They ask themselves, and us, how civilized governments the world over can allow something like this to happen and why there is no public outcry for sanctions against China. -
Poland: Experiences During Activities in Poland
2002-10-29A reporter for Xinhua [Chinese State-run media] came out of the embassy to talk to us...He said that he supported freedom to practice Falun Gong, but had been misled by some of the propaganda in China. We explained the facts to him...When he left, he promised a few times that he would not write anything bad about Falun Gong. -
Switzerland: Clarifying the Truth at the Global Peace Initiative of Women Spiritual and Religious Leaders Summit
2002-10-29...a lady opposite to me started to talk to me...She was interested in Falun Gong, and asked me many questions. She was shocked to hear about Falun Gong practitioners situation in China. She told me that she has engaged in a research on religion, and that she felt Falun Gong is good and that a Master who teaches a practice for free must be an extraordinary figure. -
Radio Free Asia Report: Scholars and Professors Write to Jiang and Protest Hong Kong Basic Law No. 23
2002-10-29Radio Free Asia reported that 44 internationally renowned scholars and professors signed a joint letter to Jiang in which they protested the establishment of Hong Kong Basic Law No. 23. In the letter, the scholars stated that this decree would harm the freedom of the people of Hong Kong. -
UK: Practitioners Appeal Outside Chinese Embassy and Consulates
2002-10-29During the past week, practitioners in the United Kingdom continued to send forth righteous thoughts (using the power of pure thoughts to purify the mind and harmonize the surrounding environment) outside the Chinese Embassy in London, and the consulates in Manchester and Edinburgh. -
Sweden: Appeal Outside Chinese Embassy in Stockholm
2002-10-29Many Swedish practitioners went to America to participate in the peaceful protests during the Chinese dictators visit. Starting on October 22 2002, the practitioners in Stockholm gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy to practise together, send forth righteous thoughts and hold candlelight vigils. -
Austria: Practitioners Appeal Outside Chinese Embassy
2002-10-29This is one of a series of activities this week and it is also part of the global campaign during Chinese dictator Jiang Zemins visit to America and Mexico. -
Financial Times (London) : No room OBSERVER COLUMN
2002-10-29"But the Falun Gong delegation had its 50-room hotel booking mysteriously cancelled a few days ago and were offered rooms elsewhere, far away from where Jiang is staying. The hotel insists it was suddenly overbooked. Perhaps the US has taken some tips from the UK which, three years ago, shamefully quashed all peaceful protest against Jiang while he was on a state visit to London." -
UPI Feature: Falun Gong 'greets' Jiang at APEC (Excerpt)
2002-10-29"But it would seem the only protesters in this unlikely spot for an international conference, the sun-baked peninsula of sea-surrounded desert that is Baja California, are the Falun Gong, practitioners of meditative exercises who have become victims of repression in China." -
The Associated Press: Falun Gong shows lighter side in first-ever Hong Kong variety show (Excerpt)
2002-10-29""The performance carries special significance in Hong Kong. It's not like in the West where people commonly sympathize with and accept Falun Gong," said Kan Hung-cheung, a spokesman for the group. "We need to show the public that Falun Dafa is beautiful and good for mankind," Kan said." -
Denmark: Showing the Power of Dafa in front of the Chinese Embassy
2002-10-28Danish practitioners who did not go to the US or Brussels, have in this special period gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy for four days to peacefully appeal and do Fa Zheng Nian [rough translation - send forth righteous thoughts. This can be understood as a type of meditation.]. -
Austria: Falun Dafa Practitioners Send Forth Righteous Thoughts Outside Chinese Embassy
2002-10-28Every night from October 22 to 27, Austrian practitioners gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy in Vienna to peacefully appeal and to Fa Zheng Nian [rough translation - send forth righteous thoughts. This can be understood as a type of meditation.]. -
RFA (Radio Free Asia): Jiang Zemin (Receives) Severe Warning During His Visit to United States
2002-10-28[The Chinese Embassy] pressured the hotels nearby to cancel all the bookings by Chinese people, and they also asked the sponsors to send emails to the participants of the "welcoming group," requesting them to sign an agreement: "...I also agree if any disturbances are caused by me (e.g. protest against the United States and/or President of China) to pay $5,000 as minimal damages for any harm that may result from such disturbances to the group's reputation." -
Battalion: Protests Go on Despite Weather
2002-10-28"Other than the weather, the day was completely idyllic," said Bob Wiatt, Director of the University Police Department. "The Falun Gong protesters were very well-behaved." -
Central News Agency (Taiwan): Reports That President Bush Clearly Indicated to Jiang Not to Use Counter terrorism to Justify Suppressing Freedom of Speech
2002-10-28