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September 26, 2002 (Falun Dafa Information Centre) – After last week’s highly publicized show trial in Changchun sentenced 15 people to terms of up to 20 years in prison for overriding cable TV broadcasts.
Falun Dafa is an ancient cultivation practice of refining the body and mind through exercises, meditation and embodying the principles of the universe namely truthfulness, compassion and forbearance.
FALUN DAFA Melbourne Sharing Conference in October 2002
It surprises me that some people think the Chinese government does have some reason to worry about 70 to 100 million people practising Falun Gong.
According to reliable sources in China, since Communist Party head Jiang Zemin launched the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, Ms. Fu had been kidnapped and taken away to brainwashing classes and detention centers several times, and had been incarcerated in a mental hospital for one month.
(Falun Dafa Information Centre) – UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan may be receiving a large number of letters from Chinese citizens this year that read more like forced confessions than heart-felt appeals.
(AP) — Fifteen Falun Gong sympathizers were sentenced Friday to up to 20 years in prison for hacking into a cable television system to show
protest videos in two Chinese cities.
19 September 2002, (Australian Falun Dafa Information Centre) There was no demonstration against Li Peng by Falun Gong practitioners, only the regular appeal that has been on-going since May 2001 across from the Embassy to make people aware of the brutal persecution of practitioners by the Jiang regime in China.
The diplomatic privileges law will be used to restrict demonstrations outside the Chinese embassy in Canberra.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese Internet users trying to access the blocked search engine Google are being routed to an array of similar sites in China, the latest sign of an escalating media clampdown ahead of November’s Communist Party congress.
