BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese Internet users trying to access the blocked search engine Google are being routed to an array of similar sites in China, the latest sign of an escalating media clampdown ahead of November’s Communist Party congress.
Internet servers in Beijing and Shanghai were unable to access the Altavista.com search site
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 1 (AFP) – Members of the spiritual group Falun Gong staged a protest at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg Sunday to call for the release of practitioners held in Chinese jails.
Jane Dai learned of her husband’s death through a Falun Gong website.
CABRAMATTA was the first practice site for followers of Falun Dafa in Australia and early morning exercisers stretching and meditating in Cabra Vale Park have since become a feature of the local landscape.
“The experience breaks my heart. There is no ‘One Country, Two Systems’ in Hong Kong anymore. Democracy does not exist,”
HONG KONG, Aug 22 (AFP) – An Australian Falungong practitioner has been denied entry at Hong Kong’s international airport and allegedly detained by
immigration authorities, a spokeswoman for the spiritual group said Thursday.
Private bureaucratic talks between Australia and China were no way to address China’s human-rights abuses, ACT Greens MLA Kerrie Tucker said yesterday.
Australia says it will raise concerns about the treatment of Falun Gong movement and individual human rights cases.
HONG KONG, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Hong Kong police did not persecute the 16 Falun
Gong followers charged with obstruction, prosecutors said on Tuesday towards
the end of Hong Kong’s first trial of members of the controversial spiritual
movement.
New Zealand’s Auckland airport has defended its decision to order the
removal of a poster promoting the Falun Gong spiritual movement.