On the eve of the Dragon Year, numerous police officers and plainclothes agents beat up and detained at least several hundred appealing Falun Gong practitioners on the Tiananmen Square.
[Police officers and local government officials often took turns to torture practitioners continuously by beating and electrical shocks until practitioners lost consciousness. They also imposed stiff fines on practitioners.]
[1] On September 22, 1999, the local government and the police department of Ling-long Town of Zhao-yuan City, Shan-dong Province arrested practitioners You-ying Lu, Rui-su Gao, Ke-ying Wen, Yan-qin Sun, Mei-feng Li, Dong-fang Chang and Wen-de Li and detained them without going through any legal procedures.
1. Rare Encounter
2. "Mom Will Go to Jail for the Truth"
1. Rare Encounter
A practitioner went to Beijing to visit a childhood friend whom she had not seen for dozens of years. He was an official in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, also a member of the writing group headed by Mr. He, Zuoxiu for "exposing and attacking" Falun Gong.
BEIJING--As fireworks thundered from the outskirts of Beijing, police in Tiananmen Square beat, kicked and then detained at least 50 Falun Gong members who welcomed the Year of the Dragon with one of their biggest and most dramatic protests of recent months. Practitioners began converging on the vast square minutes before the new year began. Many pulled red banners from beneath their clothing and waved them. At least two dozen people emerged from a pedestrian tunnel that opens onto the ...
02/08/2000 The Star-Ledger Newark, NJ
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A New Jersey woman jailed for nearly two weeks by Chinese police because of her membership in an outlawed spiritual movement returned safely to New Jersey yesterday.
BEIJING, Feb 10 (AFP) -
Human rights groups Thursday called on the EU to censure Beijing at an upcoming UN meeting for its "most ruthless repression of dissent" since 1989.
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)
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