Charged, arrested, and jailed for "disruption of social orders" by chatting with friends in a private home? This may require a stretch of imagination for Americans to comprehend, but it happened to me: I was jailed in Shenzhen, China for 13 days, slept on cement floor, and was forced to assemble head-brushes for exporting to the US, all because I am a Falun Gong practitioner.
SAN DIEGO, Dec 22 (AFP) - A Scripps Research Institute scientist with ties to a banned meditation movement is being detained in China and, because she is not a US citizen, is being denied access to American officials, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Wednesday
BEIJING, Dec 28, 1999 -- (Agence France Presse) China has released three members of the banned Falungong spiritual group who hold green card work permits for the United States after 13 days of forced labor, a human rights group said Tuesday.
24-Jul-1999 Saturday
Falun Gong: There is no chanting, no humming.
Just slightly closed eyes, hands reaching slowly upward and outward for the universe, and quiet recitals of almost poetic Chinese names assigned each motion.
Three Falun Gong members practice medidation exercises outside the Hong Kong branch of the mainland Chinese Xinhua news agency building, background, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 1999. The members who hold U.S. residency rights were arrested by Chinese authorities in the southern city of Shenzhen, sere released Monday after being held for 13 days as part of the nationwide clampdown on the Falun Gong meditataion group which Chinese authorities have labelled "an evil sect." From right to left: Zhao Chen, an ...
Master Li quietly watching the world from amidst the mountains after leaving New York following July 20th, 1999. (Published January 19, 2000)
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Master Li quietly watching the world from amidst the mountains after leaving New York following July 20th, 1999. (Published January 19, 2000)