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Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) first launched its campaign in 1999 to “eradicate Falun Gong,” it has often taken incidents of injustice or violence in China and through state-run media, either framed them on Falun Gong or used them to incite hatred against Falun Gong.
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Chen Yunchuan was a Falun Gong practitioner in Canfangying Village, Beixinpu |
53-year-old Ms. Wang Huilan from China’s northeastern Hebei Province has died in police custody six days after being taken from her home.
Practitioners of Falun Gong were forbidden to communicate openly. Yet as the guards motioned for them to begin walking, Wang felt the group fall into step like a gentle migrating herd. He looked down at the red earth, streaked with straw and human waste, to the barren mountains on the horizon. Whatever lay ahead, Wang knew they were not afraid.
I am not a Falun Gong practitioner. However, any difference in opinion over spiritual matters is, I feel, of little import when it comes to human rights.
Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) learned in mid-July that three lawyers in different locations in north-eastern China were detained over several weeks by local authorities.
The three, Liu Ruiping, Wang Yonghang, and Wang Ping, who have previously been harassed because of their work defending Falun Gong practitioners, were seized between July 2 and July 8 in Shandong and Liaoning Provinces.
As some see it, Nostradamus’s most famous quatrain, predicting that the King of Terror would descend in July 1999, failed to come true, costing the prognosticator his credibility. To millions of Falun Gong practitioners in China, however, that prophecy has fulfilled itself with terrifying precision.
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Jailed for joining Falun Gong, forced to pack 8,000 |
A human body is composed of cells, including the cells of the immune system. Cells are also tiny beings living in a community. After one practices Falun Gong and follows the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance to become selfless, the cells inside the person’s body may change accordingly.
As an everyday person without cultivation, one will live within the cycle of birth, aging, illness and death. When I was a student, I used to ask others: “What is the purpose of life? What is the truth of the universe?” Upon hearing this, many people laughed at me: “This question is meaningless since nobody can answer it.”
