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Practitioners of Falun Gong were forbidden to communicate openly. Yet as the guards motioned for them to begin walking, Wang felt the group fall into step like a gentle migrating herd. He looked down at the red earth, streaked with straw and human waste, to the barren mountains on the horizon. Whatever lay ahead, Wang knew they were not afraid.
I am not a Falun Gong practitioner. However, any difference in opinion over spiritual matters is, I feel, of little import when it comes to human rights.
Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) learned in mid-July that three lawyers in different locations in north-eastern China were detained over several weeks by local authorities.
The three, Liu Ruiping, Wang Yonghang, and Wang Ping, who have previously been harassed because of their work defending Falun Gong practitioners, were seized between July 2 and July 8 in Shandong and Liaoning Provinces.
As some see it, Nostradamus’s most famous quatrain, predicting that the King of Terror would descend in July 1999, failed to come true, costing the prognosticator his credibility. To millions of Falun Gong practitioners in China, however, that prophecy has fulfilled itself with terrifying precision.
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Jailed for joining Falun Gong, forced to pack 8,000 |
A human body is composed of cells, including the cells of the immune system. Cells are also tiny beings living in a community. After one practices Falun Gong and follows the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance to become selfless, the cells inside the person’s body may change accordingly.
Talking about cancer makes people scared, as if a tiger is approaching. From ancient times until the present day, medicine has failed to find any method that can cure cancer completely.
As an everyday person without cultivation, one will live within the cycle of birth, aging, illness and death. When I was a student, I used to ask others: “What is the purpose of life? What is the truth of the universe?” Upon hearing this, many people laughed at me: “This question is meaningless since nobody can answer it.”
“I am 98 years old. I have been practicing Falun Gong for almost 10 years. The more I practice, the younger I get,” said Mr. Ma Jiyu. “Ten years ago, I was not like this at all.”
The daughter of two held followers and a former detainee tell of continuing abuse 10 years after China launched its crackdown.
