The practitioners hoped to tell people about the Jiang regime’s attempts to spread its terror tactics to Hong Kong by enforcing the Article 23 legislation. They also told the public about their friends and family members who are imprisoned in labour camps and detention centres in China, and asked for help to have them freed.

Many people were attracted by the peaceful and compassionate Dafa music. A TV played the exercise instruction video, while practitioners demonstrated the exercises and handed out information on Falun Gong.

The vicious police used this as an excuse to vent their own anger and brutally torture Shi in order to force him to reveal the origin of the materials. However, despite tremendous pain and unendurable suffering, Shi Hongjie firmly resisted the thugs demands throughout

At the time her child was ill and needed medical attention. Devoid of any compassion and feeling for the 10 year-old child, who was witnessing this horrifying event, the police twisted his mother's arm, slapped her in the face and even tied her up. This so shocked the child that he would not stop crying.

When I was at a train station, a policeman stopped me and checked my ID. Once he saw my address, he claimed that I must practise Falun Gong and that I must be going to Tiananmen Square to appeal, and he arrested me. The police interrogated me daily, beat me and locked me up. They did not allow me to drink or eat.

“My Lords, do we not have a continuing obligation under the Sino-British Joint Declaration to ensure that legislation passed in the Hong Kong SAR is compatible with the international covenants and thus with the Basic Law? Will the Government therefore suggest to the Hong Kong SAR that the draft legislation be submitted for an opinion to the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva before it is laid before the legislature?”

A website has been created to cover the issue of the Article 23 Legislation proposed by the Hong Kong authorities at www.againstarticle23.org/en/

Anson Chan, Hong Kong's previous second in command wrote that a free society and an independent and respected justice system are “at the heart of Hong Kong’s prior and future success...I can think of no other laws that would have such incisive consequences, not only for our freedom, rights and our lifestyle, but also for our survival as a huge financial and service sector centrum.”

'We call upon the Hong Kong people and the international community to speak out, and we urge the Hong Kong and the Mainland authorities to withdraw the proposal and allow freedom, peace, and prosperity to reign in this beautiful international city.'

'Rally organizer Civil Human Rights Front estimated about 60,000 people from a broad spectrum of society - clerics, lawyers, civil servants, educators, journalists, artists, students and Falun Gong practitioners - joined in what was believed to be the biggest protest since the Hanover.'

December 4, 2002 was Sports Day at Taiwan National Chiao Tung University. The Falun Dafa Club registered a booth to promote Falun Gong and clarify the truth of the persecution in China to the professors and students.

'U.S. rights envoy Lorne Craner began two days of high-level talks with Chinese officials on Monday in which he was expected to press Beijing to free political prisoners and increase religious freedoms.'

A poem by a homeless child to his mother detained in a forced labor camp.

A Falun Gong practitioner from Germany shares his experiences of going to the 2002 Irish Falun Dafa experience sharing conference.

A Swiss practitioner shares her expeiences on the events leading up to her departure for Texas during the CCP leaders visit.