'What approaches will be adopted by the European Commission to prevent the Hong Kong government from legislating on the Article 23 of the Basic Law?'

Police broke into their hotel room, searched them and their personal belongings and then arrested the couple without a warrant...police kicked Ms. Mo and her husband's legs and also hit her husband's head. No food was given to them from 11am to 11pm.

According to an October 24 report from AP, however, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry denied the existence of the lawsuit...When confronted by reporters as to the exact nature of his denial, however, the spokesman backpedaled, saying the reporter's "understanding is right" when the reporter gave a detailed account of the lawsuit being filed and served in Chicago.

In the station, the police shocked Fan with multiple electric batons at the same time. They also used an electric chair to torture him, injected him with a psychotropic drug, and subjected him to other psychological torture. When Fan was beaten unconscious, they splashed cold water over him and then continued the torture.

He was kidnapped from his home. The police took him to a dark corner and beat him up savagely. He was beaten so badly that he received 8 stitches on his head. His whereabouts remain unknown.

The head of the detention centre, Doctor Ou forcibly fed porridge or salt water to the practitioners. If the practitioner being force-fed resisted, Doctor Ou would increase the pressure of the injector to cause pain and injury to the practitioner's throat, esophagus, and stomach.

"As Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell said yesterday, the UK has a responsibility to ensure that rights and freedoms enshrined in the Joint Declaration are maintained - and that any new legislation must be compatible with these rights and freedoms and with maintaining Hong Kong's autonomy."

"The ICFTU is deeply concerned that the legislative proposal contained in the recent Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government consultation document entitled “Proposal to implement Article 23 of the Basic Law”, will lead to the erosion of human rights and rule of law in Hong Kong."

"We are closely following the debate on the SAR Government’s proposals for legislation to fulfil their obligations under Article 23 of the Basic Law. As a co-signatory to the Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong we have a responsibility to ensure that the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Joint Declaration are maintained."

On 28 November 2002, the government of Queensland, Australia officially recognized the Falun Dafa Association of Queensland Inc. as a registered non-profit charitable association.

"I am disturbed however, upon learning that the unprovoked beating of Chicagoan Bill Lin Fang and the terrorising of practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual movement have been treated as mere misdemeanours and not as genuine hate crimes."

"Kaneko, who is not a Falun Gong follower, said he visited her in August and was shocked to find bruises on her inner forearms. "Her bruises were black and they were obviously caused by internal bleeding, " he said, adding: "She was extremely skinny and appeared to have no energy, although she used to be a very perky person.""

"The recently-appointed Catholic Bishop for Hong Kong, Joseph Zen, has said the regulations currently being drawn up threaten Falun Gong's freedom to practise in the territory."

'China has the most extensive Internet censorship in the world, regularly denying local users access to 19,000 Web sites that the government deems threatening, a study by Harvard Law School researchers finds.'

"In its statement, the Asian Human Rights Commission noted that the proposals had provoked the highest level of anxiety in the local community regarding the territory's future since the 1997 handover. "The fear stems from the perception that these proposed legislative changes may usher a new era of repression into Hong Kong akin to other parts of Asia," it said."