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Falungong says China blocked Hong Kong dance shows

2010-02-22T14:20:45Z

<div><p>The Falungong religious group, which is banned in China, Wednesday accused Beijing of forcing a dance troupe linked to the sect to cancel a Hong Kong performance tour by denying visas to key members.</p><p>The rejection of entry visas for seven production crew of the Shen Yun Performing Arts troup...

Argentine judge asks China arrests over Falun Gong

2010-02-23T12:18:01Z

<div><p>BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine judge has ordered the arrest of China's former President Jiang Zemin and another top official for "crimes against humanity" in the alleged persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual movement.</p>&a...

Vancouver won't crack down on minor t-shirt dissent in venues

2010-02-25T05:15:03Z

<div><p>The Falun Gong and civil rights groups will be allowed displays of minor dissent inside Olympic venues as long as they don't interfere with the competitions, the Vancouver organizing committee said on Friday.</p><p>Vancouver is setting up designated protest areas outside the Olympic events but those that have tickets and want to get their message across with a t-shirt slogan won't be...

Parents held after lead poisoning protest in China: police

2010-02-25T12:13:39Z

<div><p>Police in central China said Thursday they had detained about 10 parents who protested over an industrial pollution incident that left more than 1,300 children with lead poisoning.</p><p>The government in Wugang city in Hunan province has also accused members of the banned Falungong spiritual group of fomenting unrest over the incid...

China detains 15 parents for lead poison unrest

2010-02-25T13:56:58Z

<div id="subtitle">China detains 15 parents for unrest over lead poisoning, claims links to banned sect</div><div><p>Police in central China detained 15 parents for a violent protest over factory pollution that left hundreds of local children with lead poisoning, and accused them of links to the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement, villagers said Wednesday.</p><p>Village...

Falun Gong Practioners Demonstrate In Parliament Square

2009-07-20T07:30:27Z

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 20: Practitioners of Falun Gong protest in Parliament Square over the 10 year persecution of their spiritual discipline by the Chinese Communist Party on July 20, 2009 in London, England. The protesters claim that members of Falun Gong have been persecuted through torture and intimidation si...

Falun Gong seeks U.S. support in Internet censor fight

2010-02-26T07:21:20Z

<div><p>BEIJING (Reuters) - Ten years after a government crackdown drove it underground in China, Falun Gong is trying to position itself to get U.S. government funds to help defeat Internet censors worldwide.</p><p>The spiritual gr...

10 years on, Falungong shows strength

2010-02-26T07:41:50Z

<div><p>Ten years after China banned the Falungong spiritual movement, the two sides are waging a battle both at home and abroad where the group has become a nagging thorn in Beijing's side.</p><p>Falungong has taken its case straight to the Western street, where rallies highlighting the group's signature breathing exercises and grisly photos of purporte...

Falun Gong rallies in US on anniversary

2010-02-26T08:26:38Z

<div><p>Hundreds of supporters of the Falun Gong spiritual movement have rallied in Washington ahead of the 10th anniversary of its ban by China, with a special push to free a prominent rights lawyer.</p><p>China banned Falun Gong, whose Buddhist-inspired teachings focus on exercises, on July 20, 1999. Chinese President Hu Jintao, a local news agency and witnesses said.</p><p>SITA news agency quoted a police spokesman as saying authorities had detained "nine people, including six Slovaks and three citizens of the People's Repu...

China spiritual group endures despite 10-year ban

2010-03-01T01:07:35Z

<div id="subtitle">China's campaign to wipe out Falun Gong drives tenacious movement underground</div><div><p>A musician dies in police custody, a lawyer is beaten, an aid worker abandons China after 10 years of persecution — the stories are the human toll behind China's decade-long campaign to wipe out Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that the government calls an evil cult.</p>&lt...

Asia protests, Beijing quiet on Falungong anniversary

2010-02-28T20:26:38Z

<div><p>Despite demonstrations around Asia, Beijing was quiet Saturday a decade after the spiritual group Falungong was outlawed as an evil cult and made the subject of a brutal crackdown.</p><p>On April 25, 1999, over 10,000 Falungong members surrounded Communist Party headquarters in central Beijing in a demonstration against what subsequently became a 1...

Members of the Falun Gong protest outside the Chinese Embassy in Kuala Lumpur

2009-04-25T00:17:56Z

Members of the Falun Gong protest outside the Chinese Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 25 April 2009. Members of Falun Gong gathered outside the Chinese Embassy in Malaysia to mark the 10th anniversary of the peaceful appeal to the Beijing's Zhongnanhai leaders compound. Now entering its second decade, China's relentless drive to obliterate the Falun Gong spiritual sect had left a human toll ranging from the deaths of followers in custody to the self exile of others and the beatings...

Scotland News - August 03, 2003

2009-04-02T09:48:40Z

FOR NEWS..EDINBURGH FESTIVAL CAVALCADE, 2003. FALUN DAFA DANCER.PIC PAUL PARKE.EVENING NEWS

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EVENING NEWS CAVALCADE 2003

2009-04-02T09:39:19Z

FOR NEWS..EDINBURGH FESTIVAL CAVALCADE, 2003. PERFORMERS FROM THE FALUN DAFA..PIC PAUL PARKE.EVENING NEWS

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China sentences Falungong follower to three years in jail: lawyer

2010-03-01T13:11:54Z

<div><p>The wife of a man who died in police custody in China ahead of the Beijing Olympics was sentenced to prison on Tuesday for supporting the outlawed Falungong spiritual group, her lawyer said.</p><p>A Beijing court jailed Xu Na for three years for "using a heretical organisatio...

China kills five Muslim 'militants' in Olympic crackdown

2010-03-04T14:34:37Z

<div><p>Chinese authorities today claimed they had foiled an attempt to sabotage next month's Beijing Olympics as they confirmed the shooting dead of five alleged Muslim militants.</p><p>Chen Zhuangwei, head of the public security in the north-west city of Urumqi, confirmed more than 100 arrests this year as part of a crackdow...

Taiwan to keep Chinese tourists from Falung Gong

2010-03-04T18:17:32Z

<div id="subtitle">Taiwan aims to avoid confrontations between Chinese tourists and Falun Gong followers</div><div><p>Authorities will try to avoid confrontations between Falun Gong followers and Chinese tourists when charter flights between Taiwan and the mainland resume this week, a Taiwanese official said Tuesday.</p><p>Falun Gong, a spiritual movement rooted in B...