Tuesday July 22, 2003, No.29, Volume II
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Falun Gong Practitioners Commemorate Fourth Anniversary of Persecution |
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Dr. Charles Li on Hunger Strike for Second Time as Abuse Escalates
A U.S. citizen detained in China is being forced to undergo brainwashing programs against his spiritual beliefs, and has been cut off from the US consulate by jail officials. [Read full story]
33 Year-old Falun Gong Woman Tortured to Death
Leaves behind 9 year-old son and elderly parents while husband remains in detention
On March 3rd, 2003, Ms. Tang was sentenced to two years of forced labor and sent to Nanmusi Female Labor Camp in Zizhong County, where she was tortured until on the verge of death. [Read full story]
Rat Poison at China's Xinhua "News" Agency
Investigation Reveals Beggar Murder Case as Fabrication
The Xinhua report was carried by a number of western news wires, about which Dr. Zhou expressed concern. "Xinhua reports should be understood as statements from the Chinese Communists, not news as we know it in the free press. Repeating Xinhua statements as if they were news is exactly carrying out the Communist agenda." [Read full story]
CW: Brutality in Sanshui Labor Camp, Guangdong Province
(ClearWisdom Report) Under such conditions, if one did not give up in seven days, they would add seven more days of this treatment. If the practitioners still did not give in, they would send them back to the unit to start a new round of torture. If one conceded, the evil would say it was one's free choice and that they had not forced anyone to give up the practice. [Read full story]
CW: Torture Methods Used Against Falun Dafa Practitioners in the Shanghai Women's Labor Camp
This form of torture is applied without even a single bathroom break and constitutes one of the ways used to interrogate, threaten, or force practitioners to sign a pledge and write a statement renouncing Falun Gong. [Read full story]
Falun Dafa Information Center Editorial
Such broadcasts harm neither people nor equipment, and brings transparency to a ruthless persecution campaign. Thus, the only "sabotage" it could do is to sabotage the Chinese regime's campaign to kill or condemn to forced labor camps all those who would practice or support Falun Gong. [Read full story]
AFP: US protests China's treatment of jailed American Falun Gong member Friday
(Agence France Presse) Lee is among a number of Falun Gong members who have allegedly been trying to take their banned message directly to Chinese TV viewers over the past few years. [Read full story]
State Dept. Daily Press Briefing for July 18
Press Release: US State Department [Excerpt]
We have protested his treatment to appropriate prison authorities. At Mr. Lee's request, the United States Embassy and the Consul General in Shanghai have also raised Mr. Lee's case with senior officials at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and with Jiangsu provincial authorities on several occasions, both formally and informally. [Read full story]
The Tennessean: Couple Touring U.S. to Raise Awareness of Persecution
(By Alison Miller)
Xueyuan Wu and her husband, Bei Gou, stopped in Nashville during their cross-country tour to raise awareness about the plight of Falun Gong followers in China. Wu's mother is imprisoned in a Chinese labor camp for her beliefs. [Read full story]
The Shorthorn: Rallying Point
Alumna's trek to bring attention to her imprisoned mother ends at Dallas
(By Rajal Vashisht)
Dr. Wu, 35, has completed a 2,000-mile trek across the country to bring attention to the imprisonment of practitioners of Falun Dafa, a yoga-like exercise also known as Falun Gong, in China. Among the many imprisoned is Wu's mother, Lingwen Zeng. [Read full story]
CP: Falun Dafa Adherents Protest Persecution by Chinese Government
(By Colin Perkel)
TORONTO - Several dozen adherents of the Falun Dafa spiritual movement rallied Wednesday to mark the fourth anniversary of the punishing crackdown in China on the group. [Read full story]
HONG KONG, (UPI) -- More than 1,200 Falun Gong supporters rallied in Taiwan and Hong Kong Sunday, calling for an end to China's persecution of the [group]. [Read full story]
Taipei Times: Falun Gong Members Target Jiang
(By Debby Wu)
The Taiwan Falun Dafa Institute held a memorial service yesterday to highlight its appeal for people to file lawsuits against Chinese President Jiang Zemin for genocide. [Read full story]
CW: Japanese Media Reports on Activities of the National Tour to Rescue Kaneko Yoko
Japanese Yomiuri Shimbun recently reported on a rescue appeal conducted by members of the Kaneko Yoko Rescue Committee. They appealed for 38-year-old Ms. Kaneko Yoko, who lived in Niigata County, Japan, and is imprisoned in a Chinese labor camp. [Read full story]