Media Reports
WHO experts searching for the origins of the outbreak in China urged officials there to come clean on the scale of the disease after a Time magazine report in which a doctor claimed the capital’s main hospital for SARS cases had admitted 60 patients with the virus, of whom seven died.
BEIJING – As can be easily gleaned from history, wars are certainly terrible, but epidemics can be worse. This has not been the case in China, where large pandemics have been limited because of dissemination of knowledge to the public and good health care.
The immigration director breached international laws designed to prevent a repeat of the religious persecution perpetrated by Nazis against Jews when he barred four Falun Gong practitioners from entering Hong Kong, according to a High Court writ.
A lawsuit is in the offing barely one year after the maligned police intervention during Jiang Zemin’s visit on April 11, 2002 in Dresden [against Falun Dafa practitioners]. A fact-finding suit is being planned in Meissen and Dresden.
According to The Epoch Times, during this year’s session of the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva Chinese NGO www.fawanghuihui.org submitted two 4,000-page reports about China’s persecution of Falun Gong, to a U. N. human right organisation on March 20.
The US State Department has voiced concern over what it perceives as
pressure on Hong Kong from the mainland to restrict Falun Gong criticism
of
Beijing’s policies on the banned spiritual group.
CNN satellite feed to an apartment compound
housing
foreigners in Beijing went black during a report on the illness –
something
that has happened in the past when the news network reports about the
banned
Falun Gong spiritual movement or other stories that make the communist
government uneasy.
“Police often used excessive force when detaining peaceful
(Falungong) protesters, including some who were elderly or who were
accompanied by small children,” the report said.
GREENACE resident Rona Rui was denied a basic human right this week – the right to attend her mother’s funeral.
An international coalition of lawyers is ready to track down those responsible for the “systematic eradication” of Falun Gong.
