The Taipei mayor is the first high-level politician to speak out
against the harsh Chinese crackdown on the spiritual group that has seen
hundreds killed.
NEW YORK, December 30, 2002 (Falun Dafa Information Center) A 39-year-old medical doctor whose 5’6″ frame was reduced to 80 pounds from nine months of police brutality and forced-feeding, died on December 4, 2002.
The International Rescue Committee is an organization established by worldwide Falun Gong practitioners voluntarily in September 2002 with a mission to rescue the family members and friends imprisoned in China for practicing Falun Gong.
Lesson From History.
December 1938. Germany. Open violence against Jewish people has become commonplace. Most quietly and fearfully look the other way. Dr. Joseph Goebbelsý Ministry of Propaganda maintains draconian control over what Germans read, see and hear.
During her detention, Gong went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution and was kicked, punched, and force-fed with food and medicine. The guards usually did not do it themselves. They ordered the criminals to pinch her tendons and force-feed her while plugging her nose.
Eight Falun Gong members have been sentenced to up to 13 years in prison for
hijacking local television and radio signals in eastern China’s Anhui
province to promote the banned spiritual movement.
Since China joined the World Trade Organisation, it is meant to be trying to attain international standards in how it is operates its judiciary. The proposed changes to Article 23 of Basic Law in Hong Kong do not seem to be a step in that direction.
Li was having dinner at a McDonald’s when the program went on the air, and a number of people walked up to him and shook his hand, telling him that they had just learned about his story on TV and wishing him all the success.
Our fellow Falun Dafa disciple Wang Fengwei died from the torture in Shen County Detention Centre at the end of November 2002.
The Taiwan Falun Dafa Society has a modest office in Taipei, but its
unofficial centre of gravity is the economics department of National Taiwan
University, the island’s most prestigious school, where at least four of the
30 or so faculty are practitioners.
United States, Britain and Canada are among the nations raising
questions, and many here doubt the “trust me” approach.
“Talk is baseless,” said Falun Gong spokeswoman Sharon Xu. “It’s not legally
binding.”
I am writing to express my strong opposition to the current proposed draft of Article 23, legislation that would, if not substantially modified, essentially revoke the promise of “One Country, Two Systems” for the people of Hong Kong.