On 27 March 2003, the UK government issued a formal statement on the draft bill of the Article-23 legislation in Hong Kong.
The US State Department has voiced concern over what it perceives as
pressure on Hong Kong from the mainland to restrict Falun Gong criticism
of
Beijing’s policies on the banned spiritual group.
The Government continued its crackdown against the Falun Gong (FLG) spiritual movement. Thousands of practitioners were incarcerated in prisons, extrajudicial reeducation-through-labor camps, psychiatric facilities or special deprogramming centers.
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.
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…
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”.
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.
“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.
Whenever a Falun Dafa disciple in Mainland China is persecuted to death at a forced labor camp, brainwashing class, etc, we, all of the other Dafa disciples, will quickly expose those evil people who directly plotted and gave orders for the persecution, as well as those who directly participated in the persecution.
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.