Press Releases
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FDI: Reports From China Confirm Another Ten Deaths From Police Atrocities In Persecution of Falun Gong
2003-06-14
' Zemin’s regime’s persecution of Falun Gong has claimed the lives of ten more Falun Dafa practitioners. Throughout this persecution, which has now spanned nearly four years, Jiang Zemin has spared no effort in devoting China’s resources to abuse and violate both human rights and freedom of belief. The number of officially verified deaths has now passed 700.' -
EFGIC: Reports Confirm Five More Falun Gong Deaths in China
2003-06-12'Five more innocent Falun Gong practitioners have been confirmed to have died as a result of the ongoing persecution in China. The confirmed death toll currently stands at 720, though the strict media blockade in China has undoubtedly prevented more cases from being exposed.' -
EFGIC: Chinese Police Rape Female Graduate Student
2003-06-11'According to witnesses, on the evening of May 13th, several policemen took Wei to a cell in Baihelin Detention Centre of Shapingba District. There, witnesses say the police officers forced two female inmates to strip her, and one of the uniformed policemen pushed her to the ground and raped her as the other inmates watched. When Ms. Wei engaged in a hunger strike to protest her treatment, police botched a violent forced-feeding attempt, seriously injuring both her trachea and esophagus, leaving her unable to speak.' -
EFGIC: Swedish Government Helps Falun Gong Practitioner in Thailand
2003-06-10"No matter how I have been suffering during my detention here, I know that it is nothing compared to how terribly my friends in China are suffering in detention in labour camps. I wish that more people will know the true facts about Falun Gong and the persecution in China. I am even more determined now to help my fellow practitioners in China to the best of my abilities. I hope we all together can stop this senseless persecution soon." -- Pirjo Svennson. -
Irish Press Release: SARS is Just the Tip of the Iceberg in Terms of What Jiang Zemin is Hiding - Irish Student Among Thousands still Detained without Cause
2003-06-06“Nobody should be maltreated as a result of their belief – this is stated in the United Nations Declarations of Human Rights” states Mr Brian Trought, a spokesperson for the Irish Falun Gong Information Centre. “But this is exactly what has happened to Feng Liu. He must be released – immediately and unconditionally.” -
EFGIC: American Beaten and Force-Fed in Chinese Prison
2003-06-05“Dr. Li is now being subjected to some of the very same human rights violations that Chinese officials allege he was “preparing” to expose, as they use a ‘show trial’ to imprison him, isolation to try to break his will and pressure tactics to force him to give up his beliefs,” says UK Falun Gong Information Centre spokesman, Mr. Peter Jauhal. -
UK Press Release: First Anniversary of 24 Hour Vigil by Falun Gong practitioners outside the Chinese Embassy
2003-06-04'For one year, UK Falun Gong practitioners have maintained a twenty-four hour peaceful protest opposite the Chinese Embassy to protest at the evil and inhumane treatment of Falun Gong practitioners in China by the Chinese regime. Since the start of the 24 hour vigil there have been over 215 death cases that we have been able to verify – the true death total is much higher.' -
FDI: American Beaten and Force-Fed in Chinese Prison
2003-06-04
According to sources in the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai, an American being held in a Chinese prison, now on his seventh day of hunger strike, was beaten and force-fed while in custody. -
FDI: Jiang Retaliates Against Lawsuit
2003-06-03'According to sources in China, shortly after the class-action lawsuit was filed and served on Jiang Zemin during his visit to the U.S. last October, Jiang ordered the Chinese Security Bureau to establish a nationwide "Special Task Force Working on the Jiang Zemin Lawsuit Filed by the Falun Gong Practitioners Living Abroad...' -
FDI: American on Hunger Strike in Chinese Prison
2003-06-02A U.S. consulate official told Ms. Foo, Charles Li's fiancée, that the Chinese government is "completely responsible" for Dr. Li's well-being. "The U.S. government and the American people are watching this case closely and seriously," the consulate official told Ms. Foo. -
FDI: American Held in Chinese Prison for “Preparing” to Unmask China’s Four-Year Lie
2003-05-30'In April, when Dr. Jiang Yanyong blew the whistle on the SARS cover-up in China, the international community hailed him as a hero – one who put the lives and well-being of the people before concerns for his own personal safety. Approximately a month before, however, Chinese authorities had imprisoned a U.S. Citizen, Dr. Charles Li, charging him with “preparing” to do some very similar whistle-blowing of his own...' -
EFGIC: Seven Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured to Death for Exposing Persecution in China
2003-05-29'The circumstances of their deaths were recently uncovered and reported to the European Falun Gong Information Centre despite the Chinese government’s control of information about Falun Gong-related cases. This same control of media and information was exactly what these seven men and woman risked their lives to break through in order to raise awareness about the plight of Falun Gong practitioners in China.' -
Press Release from International Association for Human Rights: Thailand holds Swedish Falun Gong Practitioner Prisoner
2003-05-27“We are quite worried that so far, Mrs. Svensson is being held without having been formally charged. No charge has been brought against this Swedish citizen. She did, however, receive a covert signal that an unobtrusive leave from Thailand could be arranged. Mrs. Svensson has visited Thailand regularly for the past 3 years and had spent much time there, but never in those 3 years, during her previous Thai visits nor during her visit in April of this year has she ever been in conflict with the law. Now, she wants public acknowledgement of her innocence.” -
FDI: Help Can Go a Long Way…Even as Far as Beijing
2003-05-27
“I would to take this opportunity to appeal to all the kind hearted Pittsburgh people to help me further, to get her here to reunite us,” says Mr. Xu. “It is powerful if everyone speaks up for justice.” -
Press Statement from the Swedish Falun Gong Information Centre
2003-05-26"After three and a half weeks, Pirjo Svensson it still being unlawfully detained, without any official explanation. This is even the case after the Swedish Ambassador in Bangkok, Jan Norlander, has repeatedly contacted the Thai government, and has also filed an official Swedish protest to the Thai government, with the request that Pirjo should be released immediately. In spite of this, the Thai government has still not given any explanation for Pirjo’s detention or the cancellation of her Visa."
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