In February 2000 (lunar calendar), my entire family and I were detained at the Town Judicial Department. My husband, my mother-in-law, my brother-in-law and his wife were all severely beaten; my brother-in-law’s wife didn’t recover until a month later, and she had to be led by the arm in order to use the bathroom.
CNN satellite feed to an apartment compound
housing
foreigners in Beijing went black during a report on the illness –
something
that has happened in the past when the news network reports about the
banned
Falun Gong spiritual movement or other stories that make the communist
government uneasy.
On March 27th, the organisers placed an advertisement in the newspaper “Romania libera”. Very soon after the paper came out, at around 10:00 am on March 27th, the organisers received a phone call from a Mr. Chen (or Chan) who introduced himself as a representative of the Chinese Embassy in Bucharest and who told them…
Between March 21 and 27 2003, Mrs. Zhang Cuiying’s painting exhibition was successfully held in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. Many spectators appreciated Mrs. Zhang’s outstanding traditional Chinese paintings and came to understand her experiences of practising Falun Gong.
“Police often used excessive force when detaining peaceful
(Falungong) protesters, including some who were elderly or who were
accompanied by small children,” the report said.
Amnesty International has been made aware that approximately 550 deaths have occurred in custody since the Falun Gong was banned in July 1999; deaths have been attributed to ill treatment and torture.
UN findings: “The regime points
to a supposed self-immolation incident in Tiananmen Square on January 23, 2001
as proof that Falun Gong is …. However, we have obtained a video of that incident that in our view proves that this event was staged by the government”.
During my three trips to China (1996 to 1999) I met many Chinese Falun Gong practitioners. Their pure minds and unselfish behaviour made a very strong impression on me. After the persecution of Falun Gong started I often wondered what happened to the friends that I’d met. Have they suffered from torture? Are they still…
Sydney(FDI) — According to inside sources from China, more than a dozen female Falun Gong practitioners are now facing extreme horrors — what many are calling a “slow execution” — in the Harbin “Drug Rehabilitation” Center.
GREENACE resident Rona Rui was denied a basic human right this week – the right to attend her mother’s funeral.
Here is a painting I just finished. I want to give you a little background
as to what this painting is about, why I painted it, and what I hope to do with
it.
Preface: I am a third year undergraduate. In February 2001, the school said that I would only be allowed to go back to school if I wrote a guarantee to stop practicing Falun Dafa and “expose” Falun Gong.