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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 |
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If Falun Gong protest signs outside the Chinese consulate can't be regulated by the City of Vancouver, then no structures on city streets can be regulated, the city's lawyer told a judge Monday. "If the respondents are correct, the city is powerless to regulate," lawyer Tom Zworski told B.C. Supreme Court Justice Sunni Stromberg-Stein. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Friday, 17 October 2008 |
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A two-day international roundtable "Information Extremism: The Truth and Falsehood of Falun Gong Cult" ended on Tuesday, or October 14, in Kiev, Ukraine. Participants from various countries were unanimous in the view that the "Falun Gong" is a well-organized evil cult with great destructive power, which has wrought havocs to society and general public; it is a cult organization with an intrinsic tendency of potential violence. More than 30 scholars or representative from seven countries, comprising the United States, Australia, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and China, analyzed, appraised and verified the character and salient features of the Falun Gong cult as well as grave harms it had done to society and people from such aspects as theology, the science of law, political science, psychology, sociology and the science of information transmission. FULL ARTICLE LINK
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
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An international human rights watchdog has raised concerns that practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual movement in China may be framed on false charges during the Beijing Olympics. The New York-based Falun Dafa Information Centre issued a statement on August 8, saying that the recent escalation of attacks on Falun Gong, inside and outside of China, was similar to previous violence that preceded vilification. The Centre is concerned that there is a real possibility the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) may attempt to stage an incident, and then label the perpetrators as Falun Gong practitioners. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Sunday, 08 June 2008 |
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Two US lawmakers accused the Chinese government Thursday of instigating attacks on practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual group in New York and called on Washington to lodge a protest with Beijing. The practitioners of the sect, which is banned in China, were attacked last month in Flushing, in the New York City borough of Queens, when they were holding meetings and passing out fliers against the Chinese communist leadership. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Monday, 21 April 2008 |
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Members of a peaceful Chinese spiritual movement say that more than 1,500 of its supporters have been detained in the run-up to the Olympic Games and that one of them, a popular folk singer, has died in custody. The arrests have been carried out against Falun Gong, a group that practises traditional meditation and exercise. The Chinese government banned Falun Gong in 1999, calling it “an evil cult”. The official media have not reported the arrests, but there has been lively discussion among music fans on Chinese websites over the fate of the singer Yu Zhou, 42. “F*** authority. Another beautiful soul has left the world,” commented one distraught fan. FULL ARTICLE LINK
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Friday, 04 January 2008 |
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Falun Gong members and a Chinese political dissident said Wednesday they plan to sue Police Chief Bernard Melekian, Mayor Bill Bogaard and City Hall, claiming violation of their civil rights. Denied a permit to hold a sizable march before Tuesday's Rose Parade, activists critical of China and a Beijing Olympics float said they'll file suit later this month and prove in court the denial was a politically motivated move to suppress their First Amendment rights. "We came to protest Beijing's severe abuses and extreme human-rights violations, and now we have to defend our own rights first from our own government," said Shizhong Chen, a Falun Gong practitioner and president of the San Diego-based Conscience Foundation. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Wednesday, 07 November 2007 |
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The Supreme Court of NSW has issued a default judgement against a Chinese government official for his role in the torture and persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. The judgement made on Monday November 5 recognised that the defendant, Chinese Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai, had failed to provide a defense for the case brought against him by Sydney Falun Gong practitioner Mr Pan Yu. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Friday, 27 July 2007 |
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Chinese Embassy staff in Wellington pulled the curtains in their offices and hovered near the windows as around 100 Falun Gong supporters appealed to them on Friday, July 20. The Falun Gong practitioners were protesting against eight years of persecution in China under the communist regime. FULL ARTICLE LINK (Epoch Times) |
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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
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On June 21, 2007, two policemen in Liaoning, Chaoyang City invaded the home of Falun Gong practitioner, Zhang Yuwen. Zhang was sent to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp even though no official arrest warrant was issued. At least 670 Falun Gong practitioners from Chaoyang City and its surrounding areas have been jailed or sent to forced labor camps since July 20, 1999. FULL ARTICLE LINK (The Epoch Times) |
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Wednesday, 04 July 2007 |
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A reporter from the Sound of Hope Radio Network yesterday accused the Hong Kong government of infringing upon the freedom of the press and detaining her for nine hours without reason. Accompanied by Taiwan Solidarity Union Spokeswoman Chou Mei-li (周美里), reporter Ker Yi-chun (柯宜君) told a press conference that riot police at the Hong Kong airport had removed her from the airport's transit area on Sunday while she was taking pictures of a group of meditating Falun Gong practitioners. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Wednesday, 04 July 2007 |
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Three Australians, Falun Gong practitioners, have been deported from Hong Kong ahead of the Chinese president's visit there to mark the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China, their supporters say. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
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The Singapore Subordinate Court began a case against five Falun Gong practitioners for an alleged "Assembly Without Permit" that took place on Oct. 22, 2005 at the Orchard Road Underpass. The hearing started officially on June 4, 2007. The defense asked to have all charges dropped on the basis of insufficient evidence, but the prosecution refused. After the prosecution presented its case, the weakness of the evidence was apparent. The judge, despite the paucity of evidence, ruled that the charges were sufficiently supported. The defendants expressed great disappointment, and chose not to take the stand to testify. The trial thus came to a premature end on June 5. The judge postponed announcing a verdict until the afternoon of June 7. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Wednesday, 30 May 2007 |
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A visiting Chinese diplomat was unexpectedly served with a $6.25 million lawsuit in the elevator of an Ottawa hotel by a group of Falun Gong spiritualists who accuse him of war crimes. Bo Xilai, China's Minister of Commerce, was given the papers Monday during an off-moment in his diplomatic mission to Canada. The papers allege he "orchestrated a campaign of terror" when he was mayor of Dalian on mainland China and while he was deputy secretary for the Chinese Communist Party in Liao Ning. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Monday, 14 May 2007 |
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Chinese national Gao Chunman has been denied refugee status and deported from Russia, the Federal Migration Service said on Monday. Gao, born in 1934, was flown to his homeland from St. Petersburg on Sunday evening. "The court examined all the circumstances of his stay in Russia and denied him refugee status finding no legal grounds for his presence in Russia," the spokesman said. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Thursday, 03 May 2007 |
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Wang Bo, her mother and her father, Falun Gong practitioners from Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, were arrested and prosecuted by the Chinese communist regime. Wang Bo's hearing was scheduled for the morning of April 27 at the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court. Six attorneys from Beijing: Li Heping, Li Xiongbing, Zhang Lihui, Li Shunzhang, Teng Biao and Wu Hongwei, appeared to defend the three defendants at their hearing. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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