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...Also on Friday, the Department of Justice unsealed charges against two Los Angeles residents for bribery and participating in a state-directed scheme targeting US-based practitioners of Falun Gong, the religious...
...Cabestan said that the party would probably emphasise Jiang’s role in cracking down on dissidents in the aftermath of Tiananmen and against the Falun Gong spiritual group in its memorialising....
...Similar challenges in China, by students across the country in 1989 and the Falun Gong religious sect a decade later, were dealt with violently....
...He also oversaw a brutal crackdown on the Falun Gong spiritual movement, a mystical Buddhist sect that grew popular as Jiang dismantled the “iron rice bowl” of communist times....
...Chris Johnson, a former top CIA China analyst, says it had for years focused on the “five poisons” — Tibetan and Taiwanese separatists, democracy activists, Falun Gong members and Uyghurs — but that changed...
...In the run-up to the Games, human rights groups tried to highlight government abuses against Tibetans and the persecution of the religious sect Falun Gong. But calls for boycotts resulted in little....
...Gong movement....
...“Why did they crack down on ‘cults’ like Falun Gong? It was not merely because they were religious. They could have turned a blind eye to that....
...Gong, a Chinese religious movement that Beijing describes as an “evil cult”....
...All five notices from China received this year were requests from the MPS to take down content related to Falun Gong, a religious group that has been harshly repressed in China....
...Gong....
...Examples include the one-child policy’s forced sterilisations, the persecution of Falun Gong adherents and continuing migrant evictions in gentrifying cities....
...His visit to the White House drew protests against China’s policies towards Tibet, Taiwan and the spiritual movement Falun Gong, prompting debates in the newsroom about how their presence should be explained...
...Facebook said the activity was linked to Epoch Media Group, a far-right American Chinese media network with ties to the Falun Gong spiritual movement....
...Fengrui was at the centre of a network of lawyers who took on cases deemed sensitive by the ruling Communist party, defending dissident scholars, members of the banned religious group Falun Gong and activists...
...State security officials have in the past travelled to the US to harass practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual group....
...Gong spiritual movement and 10 years since race riots killed hundreds in the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang....
...Chapters on tech companies and regulation are interleaved with deeply moving stories of the accidental activists who became the victims of China’s censors: Falun Gong mystics, satirical cartoonists and Uighur...
...But Beijing sees it as the propaganda wing of the Falun Gong movement, and a threat to its rule. It hounds the dancers from city to city, trying to sabotage their shows....
...Rights lawyers willing to challenge gulag-like labour camps or defend followers of the banned spiritual movement Falun Gong and ethnic minorities are suspected of acting on behalf of western powers to destabilise...
...“Falun Gong was cited as an example of undesirable information for enterprises in this context,” it said....
...Fengrui represented clients including dissident artist Ai Weiwei and adherents of the banned Falun Gong sect....
...He has also drawn the ire of Beijing for his call for more open discussion of the Tiananmen Square massacre as well as his defence of Falun Gong, a banned Chinese spiritual movement....
...She objected to the police allowing a small group from the banned Falun Gong sect to be present. Yumei Liu, a Falun Gong follower, had travelled from Finland where she has asylum after fleeing China....
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