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Financial Times: LEADER - Securing Hong Kong - Proposed new legislation could threaten the city's genius
2002-10-01"When the British government handed Hong Kong back to China a little over five years ago it promised to do everything possible to help preserve the city's civil liberties. Now is the time for London to step in to fulfil this promise." -
BBC: China: Man arrested in Shandong over Falun Gong broadcasts
2002-10-01"Public Security officials in Yantai city arrested Song Tao, of Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, on 19 July, according to the Jinan-based Qilu Evening News. Song was accused of [tapping into] a cable television channel in Jiamusi and beaming footage of the banned group on 20 April." -
Taipei Times (Taiwan): MAC says Beijing kept it in the dark (Excerpt)
2002-10-01"Chang Ching-his, the Falun Gong's branch leader in Taiwan and a professor of economics at National Taiwan University, has denied Beijing's accusations that Taiwan-based members of the movement were responsible for interfering with the satellite signals." -
The Associated Press: China Holds Falun Gong Follower Suspected of Planning [Interception of] Cable TV Broadcas
2002-10-01"Over the last six months, Falun Gong sympathizers have repeatedly [tapped] into local television systems to show videos protesting Beijing's 3-year-old crackdown on the spiritual movement." -
Iceland: Photo and Chinese Painting Exhibitions Receive Warm Response from Icelandic Citizens and Support from Government Officials
2002-09-30On the opening day, an Icelandic national TV station reported on the exhibitions during their evening news program. The Chinese Embassy repeatedly pressured the Icelandic authorities to remove the exhibitions. A city official resolutely stated, No single photo should be taken down. It is Iceland, not China! -
France: Practitioners Reveal the Facts about Dafa in the Streets of Paris
2002-09-30Practitioners in Paris came to the centre of the city to demonstrate exercises and clarify the truth about Dafa. They set up exhibition boards and used a projector to show videos which attracted the passing pedestrians. -
Central News Agency (Taiwan): The Courts and Media in China Are Accomplices in the Persecution of Falun Gong
2002-09-30"Ever since July 20, 1999, when Jiang's regime began the persecution of this practice, which has attracted tens of millions of people, the media in China have been used to demonize Falun Gong. Courts also do not uphold justice when trying and sentencing Falun Gong cases. The media and the courts in China have become accomplices of Jiang's government in the persecution of Falun Gong." -
Irish Practitioner's Letter to The Prime Minister of Japan, The Honourable Junichiro Koizumi
2002-09-30"We all seek truth throughout our lives, but quite often there is no one there to help us find it. The appeals in China offer a kind of truth that breaks through the propaganda used against Falun Gong. Our hope [is] to bring the facts of the persecution to millions of Chinese people..." -
Ukraine: Falun Dafa Practitioners Are Invited to Attend a Local Newspapers Celebration Parade
2002-09-29The celebration began with a parade across the entire city ending at the central park. Although the Chinese Embassy put pressure on all of the Ukrainian media, after one year of of learning about Dafa and meeting the practitioners, the reporters were very supportive. -
In These Times (Online publication): Shanghai Surprise
2002-09-29"China has taken the battle against the Falun Gong outside its borders. Beijing convinced Cambodia to deport two Falun Gong practitioners who had fled to Phnom Penh and has used its consulates in America to harass Falun Gong adherents. One Falun Gong follower in Washington claims that Chinese agents have recorded his private conversations and then left the recordings on his answering machine to intimidate him. Beijing also may have influenced the stance of Hong Kongs government and media toward Falun Gong." -
AFP: Hong Kong's proposed anti-subversion law stokes concern
2002-09-29Kan Hung-cheung, a spokesman for the Falungong spiritual group which is banned in China but legal in Hong Kong, slammed the proposed legislation as being part of a "plot" by Chinese president Jiang Zemin "to expand the persecution of the group." "No matter how the government explains it, it is targetting us," said Kan. -
South China Morning Post: Article 23 to test Hong Kong's autonomy
2002-09-29[The Secretary for Security] admitted the government would have no way to challenge a decision to ban a group over national security...it is inconceivable the Falun Gong will still be able to operate freely in the SAR if it is categorised a threat to national security on the mainland. -
EU Foreign Minister: We will follow the developments in Hong Kong very closely
2002-09-28MEP Olivier Dupuis put forward a written question to the European Commission in August, regarding the political trial and false conviction of 16 Falun Gong practitioners in Hong Kong. Here is the reply that he received from the EU's Foreign Affairs Commissioner Mr Chris Patten. -
Introducing Falun Dafa in a Ukraine School
2002-09-28Recently, practitioners held a Falun Dafa introductory class at a school in Ukraine, which attracted great interest from both students and teachers. All of the attending students wanted to learn the Falun Gong exercises. -
European Falun Dafa Association urges Japanese Prime Minister to Secure Release of Mrs. Yoko Kaneko from Chinese Labour Camp
2002-09-28"We call on you to raise the case of Mrs. Yoko Kaneko with the Beijing authority during your visit to China. Your help would be invaluable to the campaign for her personal freedom and adds to the international standing of Japan as a liberal and democratic society."