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The lawsuit is filed by a total of 39 victims of this persecution, the German Falun Dafa Association and dedicated citizens who support an end to the terror campaign against Falun Gong in China by taking part in this lawsuit. The complaint charges them with genocide, crimes against humanity and torture, as well as dangerous bodily harm to Falun Gong practitioners in China.
Legal experts say the trial is poised to test the boundaries between freedom of expression and freedom of the press, and the right to be protected from defamation and hate.
The movie “False Fire,” which analyzes the 2001 Tiananmen Square “self-immolation” incident, won a Certificate of Honorable Mention at the 51st Columbus International Movie Festival. New Tang Dynasty TV, a non-profit privately owned Chinese TV station, produced the movie. The award ceremony was held in the Kansas Center, Columbus Arts College, Columbus, Ohio.
Taiwan Falun Gong practitioners will file a lawsuit in a Taiwan High Court on November 17, 2003 accusing Jiang Zemin of committing the crime of genocide.
A U.S. Consulate official in Shanghai has informed Ms. Yeong-Ching Foo that Chinese authorities have been forcing her fiancé Dr. Charles Lee to undergo brainwashing sessions on a daily basis. The sessions are carried out to force Dr. Lee to renounce Falun Gong.
A Quebec Court of Appeal reinstated Falun Gong practitioners’ Motion for Contempt of Court against the Montreal Chinese Newspaper Les Presses Chinoises and the author Bing He. The decision will be recorded in the most prestigious law journal — Dominion Law Reports.
Two weeks ago, the Falun Dafa Information Center confirmed specific information about how the Mary Kay Corporation’s operations in China have been pressured by Chinese authorities to force employees and sales consultants to sign a statement guaranteeing they will neither practice nor advocate for Falun Gong.
Resolution 304 says that it is the sense of Congress that the Government of the People’s Republic of China should cease using the diplomatic missions in the United States to spread falsehoods about the nature of Falun Gong and release from detention all prisoners of conscience, including practitioners of Falun Gong.
WASHINGTON DC (FDI) – Last week, Congress introduced a concurrent resolution calling on the Chinese government to end its brutal persecution of Falun Gong in China and stop all activities against Falun Gong practitioners inside the United States.
October 12, 2003, more than 1000 Falun Dafa practitioners, mostly from North America, Taiwan, Europe and Australia gathered in Houston to attend the 2003 U.S. South Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference to celebrate the seventh anniversary of Master’s teaching the Fa in Houston.
