An International Trial for Jiang Zemin
This essay will be published by the Magazine Huso Crítico of the University of Guadalajara in its Summer 2008 edition. It has already elicited reactions.
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Daughter Died Due to Persecution, Mother Sentenced to Forced Labor Again (Photo)
Around 10:00 a.m. on August 21, 2008, several officers from the Jiadong Police Station, Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province arrested fifty-eight-year-old practitioner Ms. Chen Xiuling. Then they ransacked Ms. Chen’s home.
Photojournalist Released From Chinese Jail, Now Back In States
NPPA member and photojournalist Jeffrey Rae is safe in Manhattan today after spending four days in a Beijing jail for trying to photograph pro-Tibet protesters at the Olympic games, and the story he tells about how he was treated by Chinese police comes as no surprise to those familiar with China’s history or their police.
China Consule “Admits” Inciting NY Attacks
The State Department is considering expelling New York’s Chinese consul general
after the official was allegedly caught on tape saying he helped incite violent
attacks in Queens against the Falun Gong spiritual group.
Beijing Resident Killed During Olympics for Practicing Falun Gong
Mr. Wang Chongjun, age 65, died at home on August 23, 2008 after being
injected with an unknown drug in a Beijing labor camp, according to sources
in China. His wife, Ms. Wang Zhiqin, remains illegally detained and is unaware
of her husband’s death.
Breaking footage: China’s Brutal Labour Camps, Part 1
Today we begin a special series on the shocking conditions within China’s “re-education through labour” camps. Now, with cell phone camera footage that has just been smuggled out of China, the international community is being given a rare glimpse of life within these camps.
Olympic Clean-up Costs Another Life
A painter from Hunan province, arrested in a nationwide pre-Olympic roundup of Falun Gong adherents, died the day before the opening ceremonies from injuries incurred in custody. Detained in March, an emaciated Mr. Hu Heping (???) from Yueyang city died August 7, 2008 according to recent reports received by The Falun Dafa Information Center. He was 55 years old.
Falun Gong: defying the odds
If this persecution is so severe, why is it so rarely in the news and why isn’t more being done about it?
China’s other world
It was 2:00 am and we were sitting on the floor of a Bangkok slum. We had a flight to catch the next morning, but after interviewing Falun Gong refugees for a week we still couldn’t pull away from what they were telling us.
Being a Falun Gong practitioner
Often in the news but rarely understood, Falun Gong is regularly associated
with Chinese human rights issues. Leeshai Lemish gives his understanding of what
Falun Gong practitioners actually believe I would have laughed if ten years ago
you told me that my search for a meditation practice would land me on Beijing’s
blacklist.