Chinese Immigrant Pleads Guilty to Attacking Falun Gong Practitioners in Chicago
Associates of Attacker Offer $15,000 Bribe to Drop the Case,
Attacker’s Accomplice Has Ties to Chinese Consulate in Chicago
Month: November 2002
BBC: US warns HK over anti-subversion law
The law is designed to protect China’s national security. Human rights and pro-democracy groups have said China could use the new laws
to suppress freedoms inherited from British rule, as well as to ban groups –
such as the religious group Falun Gong – it considers a threat.
AP: Falun Gong fears Chinese authorities will make example of Hong Kong practitioner caught with VCDs
A Hong Kong man arrested for carrying Falun Gong materials into mainland
China faces trial there Friday, according to fellow members of the spiritual
group who worry authorities will make an example of him.
Hong Kong maintains blacklist of practitioners
LONDON, November 19, 2002 (European Falun Gong Information Centre) –Hong Yan, a Swedish Falun Gong practitioner, was travelling in the Far East for her own business (a travel agency). Yesterday she was prevented from entering into Hong Kong.
Taiwan: ‘Evergreen’ Monthly Magazine Exposes Secret of Keeping Healthy – Famous Doctor Speaks of His Own Experiences
“Evergreen” is a professional health care monthly magazine in Taiwan. In the October 2002 issue, the magazine interviewed famous traditional Chinese medical doctor Hu Naiwen of Shanghai Tongdetang in “Chinese Medical Doctor Health Care Exposure” forum.
Survivor of China’s Wanjia Labour Camp Lands in Canada After Emergency Rescue Effort
First Successful Rescue from a Third Country
Since this July, four Falun Gong practitioners have been released due to pressure from the global “rescue our family members” campaign. Three of them have been rescued by the Canadian government, but Ms. Wang is the first Falun Gong practitioner to be rescued from a third country.
SCMP: New Zealand voices Article 23 fears As awareness grows overseas SAR chiefs are questioned by a visiting justice minister
Mr Goff asked concerning whether
the
Falun Gong would be banned under the new laws, and if calling for an
independent Taiwan would be a crime. He said he had been assured neither would occur.
My View on Falun Gong
I used to be a pious Buddhist when I was in China. Then I came into contact with Christianity and other western religions when I went to Western countries. It is safe to say that I’m not an atheist.
Hong Kong: Article 23 of Basic Law may diminish rule of law and increase corrupt practices
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has grave concerns about the Hong
Kong government’s consultation document “Proposals to Implement Article 23
of the Basic Law” that was released for a three-month consultation period
on Sept. 24, 2002.
News Review: Times: Subverting Hong Kong’s Autonomy
Shorn of its linguistic niceties, it lays down that any organization of which Beijing disapproves on security grounds will be proscribed in Hong Kong. That could, for instance, mean that the Falun Gong movement, which the central government has been persecuting remorselessly, could be outlawed in the SAR.