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CHINA’S COMMUNIST leadership has spent the past few days bombarding the
country’s long-suffering population, and anyone in the outside world who
will listen, with skull-numbing speeches about the supposed
philosophical
breakthrough of President Jiang Zemin.
Technology companies are dashing to China in search of salvation and sales. Many will return broken and beaten.
‘Falun Dafa Day’ was warmly welcomed by the community of Caloundra Shire, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, on Friday, 1st November 2002.
China’s roaring industrial economy, its burgeoning consumer class,
and greater individual freedoms of movement, for example, now present an
undeniable veneer of openness. However, dissent continues to be swiftly
crushed as the recent brutal crackdowns on the Falun Gong attest.
News reports on the congress by Canadian, German, Finnish and Hong Kong television agencies, all intended for home audiences, were blocked as they were beamed out of China, reporters said. The footage showed protests in Tibet, practitioners of the Falun Gong and other politically sensitive material.
Beijing police abducted four female Falun Dafa practitioners in Beijing on December 31, 2001, while the practitioners were busy making truth clarification materials. After ten months of illegal detention, they were convicted and heavily sentenced by the Beijing First Intermediate Court on September 5, 2002.
Falun Dafa practitioner, Li Ying, 33 years old, lives in Shanghai. She is the fiancee of Dafa practitioner Lee Cheezong an Australian citizen. In January 2001, Li Ying was arrested and sent to a brainwashing center because she practices Falun Gong.
DISGRACEFUL. Nothing else can be said about the decision to exclude the Chinese meditation movement Falun Gongs prized dance performance from the festival, Asian Comments that started yesterday in Copenhagen.
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.
