Media Reports
Television Broadcasts of CNN and BBC were interrupted for several
seconds
almost every hour each time they featured the Party Congress in Beijing
and
referred to either the sporadic attempts at protests by dissidents or by
members of the Falun Gong spiritual group.
A GROUP of Fairfield Falun Gong practitioners formed part of 5000 peaceful
protesters in the US recently.
(AAP) A Chinese asylum seeker today said her husband had been “taken hostage” by
Beijing police after she filed a lawsuit against China for human rights
abuses.
(AFP) – Chinese police have arrested a man after his wife, a member of the banned Falungong spiritual group, filed a legal complaint in the United States against President Jiang Zemin, the wife said Thursday.
There was the controversial prosecution of 16 Falun Gong protesters earlier this year for offences arising out of a peaceful demonstration outside the Beijing Liaison Office.
MEMBERS of meditation group Falun Gong claim they have suffered religious discrimination after being denied a stall at this year’s Chinese New Year festival in Melbourne.
Jane Zhizhen Dai, a practitioner of the Chinese meditation art Falun Gong, addresses students and the press Friday on the West Mall with her daughter Fadu.
The block on Google was an international scandal because it demonstrated so clearly the threat to international internet commerce of the Chinese government’s attempts to censor the internet for political purposes. At the same time, this method of blocking Google violated international protocols for the use of the internet.
Try typing “Falun Gong” into your Internet search engine in China and you will not get far. What is now known as the “Great Firewall of China” comes into action and you get a notice saying: “This page cannot be displayed.”
The River Walk Stage, Sunshine Plaza, was brimming with balloons and colourful handmade lotus flowers last Friday, as local Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) practitioners supported the ‘International Day of Peace’.
