'We urge the HK government to preserve Hong Kong's autonomy in determining the legal status of Falun Gong and other groups in Hong Kong, to ensure that the rights and freedoms of the Hong Kong people are upheld, and to comply with widespread calls for a white bill for public consultation.'

Swedish practitioners held a peaceful appeal in Stockholm to inform people about Jiang Zemin's attempts to export his persecution of innocent people to Hong Kong through the implementation of Article 23. Many Swedish people signed a petition against this violation of human rights.

This is the story of a Chinese couple who were denied a passport for their new daughter. The Embassy staff refused to give this baby girl her basic human rights to a nationality because her parents practise Falun Gong. However, after their actions were exposed on a Falun Gong website, the Chinese authorities were frightened that the world could see their irrational and wicked actions and they quickly awarded the girl a passport.

'On 17th December 2002, New Tang Dynasty TV interviewed Professor Michael Yahuda, a renowned China expert in the London School of Economics and Political Science, on the proposed legislation on Article 23 in Hong Kong. Professor Yahuda is one of the 44 scholars who wrote to the Chinese government in opposition to this legislation.'

The Hong Kong government’s proposal to implement Article 23 of the Basic Law has aroused an outpouring of concern from Hong Kong citizens and people all over the world. If we wait until the Hong Kong government enacts the Article 23 legislation, it will be too late. Please voice your opposition to Article 23 of the Basic Law as soon as possible.

Force-feeding is done with no concern for the long-lasting harm it does to practitioners. It is truly a vile torture! Many Falun Dafa practitioners had strong reactions from the force-feedings. Their symptoms included purple marks on their finger and toe nails, their faces turning purple-blue, pains in their internal organs, not being able to turn over on the bed, and needing help to get up or walk.

Sometimes the practitioners were stripped and forced to sit on the cold floor all night long to freeze in the cold, and they were not allowed to go to bed to sleep or use the toilet. Sometimes, several evil persons took turns slapping practitioners in the face with a book...

The "intensified classes" use many vicious forms of torture to persecute practitioners, including tying them to beds at night for weeks or months on end, and confining them in cramped metal cages... so that one cannot stand up straight. Practitioners are also cuffed and hung up, tortured with electric batons, and forced to stand for long periods of time. They are tortured to the limits of their endurance.

A Deputy Party Secretary said, We have specific orders from the highest source. No laws will be applied in handling Falun Gong practitioners: you have neither freedom nor rights. We will ruin your reputation, bankrupt you financially and destroy your physical body. We can torture you in whatever way we want!"

'We are concerned that this enactment of article 23 will bring Hong Kong closer and closer to “one country, one system”, a totalitarian system. This will ruin the confidence of the world towards Hong Kong and will not promote and safeguard a positive development of Hong Kong.'

"I write this letter to you because I am...very concerned about the freedom and future of the H.K people. I know that the Hong Kong government plans to implement an ”anti subversion law” called ”article 23”...[and] I am very worried that [this] will restrict the freedom and rights of the Hong Kong people."

The senate of the Twenty-First Legislature of the State of Hawaii hereby recognizes and commends the Hawaii practitioners of Falun Dafa for their commitment of sharing their knowledge and Practise with our community.

"I became interested in Chinese medicine after my experience with qigong, another ancient Chinese healing practise. Through my practise of a kind of qigong called Falun Gong, I recovered from serious problems in both body and mind. In body, I was healed from what doctors believed to be degenerative arthritis in my neck. In mind, I recovered from what doctors told me would be a permanent condition of manic-depression."

"The current government proposals are vague and ill-defined, contrary to international law and standards which require that the definitions of criminal acts should be clear and specific to clarify what types of conduct are criminalized," Amnesty International stated.

"Read the Falun Gong materials! What Falun Gong practitioners say is true and real, unlike on TV, where everything said about Falun Gong is false, and deceives the public."

"Seeing that so many nice people like you have been taken away, I am worried for your safety. I will not let them take you away. How could I find another employee as responsible and qualified as you?"

A Falun Dafa practitioner shares his/her views on why it is important to act as one body in order to overcome tribulations.

A Falun Dafa practitioner from China shares his/her experiences of overcoming the persecution in a forced labour camp.