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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...
...State security officials have in the past travelled to the US to harass practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual group....
...In China, the president of the Supreme Court is not a simple practitioner of law,” said He Weifang, one of China’s top reformist legal scholars and a frequent target of online “leftists” who support a Maoist...
...A craze for its practices in the 1990s was dealt a blow by the persecution of the Falun Gong sect, which combined qigong with Buddhism....
...properly censoring user accounts as well as “engaging in media hype” and allowing the spread of “rumours”, pornography and “messages advocating heresies”, a reference to banned religious movements such as Falun...
...Falun Gong practitioners meditate on the 14th anniversary of the beginning of the persecution of Falun Gong in China on Sunday in Sydney, Australia....
...Falun Gong....
...Since then thousands of Falun Gong members have been jailed and many more subjected to brutal “re-education”....
...More recently, Beijing launched a vicious crackdown in 1999 on the Falun Gong spiritual movement that has seen thousands of adherents tortured and imprisoned....
...The man is a member of the Falun Gong, a spiritual group banned in China....
...The Human Rights Law Foundation and members of the Falun Gong spiritual group sued Cisco last year, claiming that it had helped Beijing build an internet filtering and surveillance network which allowed...
...- Why Russia’s new beer law have its people crying in their cups - How the Falun Gong, a spiritual movement banned by the Chinese government is finding a new voice in the renminbi note - China’s latest...
...But the message is highly inflammatory: “Falun Dafa’s (another name for Falun Gong) spirit has spread across the world, cultivate truthfulness, compassion and forbearance and your morality will be raised...
...Gong practitioners in China”....
...Senior executives at Cisco Systems worked closely with Chinese government security agents to tailor hardware and software they knew would be used to track, detain and torture followers of the banned Falun...
...Practitioners of Falun Gong say Mr Bo presided over one of the harshest crackdowns on the banned religious sect in Dalian and have filed lawsuits against him in more than 10 countries, alleging torture and...
...One of its main priorities was for an appearance free of embarrassments for Mr Hu, who was interrupted in his 2006 visit to the White House by a Falun Gong protester....
...He was previously arrested in 2006 for his work defending Falun Gong followers. When he has released, he provided graphic testimony about his alleged torture in custody....
...Even members of Falun Gong, a sect banned on the mainland where it is the subject of a brutal repression campaign, are free to lobby Chinese tourists at some of Hong Kong’s most popular sightseeing spots...
...for the rights of Falun Gong practitioners and political dissidents in China....
...Members of groups critical of China’s policies on Tibet, human rights, the banned Falun Gong sect and Sudan are expected to try to demonstrate during the games....
...websites that had been blocked at the Olympics media centre, such as Amnesty International, would now be available to foreign journalists, though sites on other controversial topics such as Tibet and the Falun...
...Chinese students in Australia had an obligation to “defend our sacred torch”, he said, and “strong men” were needed to counter any attacks from pro-Tibet forces or from Falun Gong, the outlawed religious...
...The forbearance of Beijing police is likely to face plenty of tests, with human rights campaigners, Tibetan activists and members of the banned Falun Gong sect all expected to seize the chance to publicise...
...From his tiny office on the outskirts of Beijing, he barely makes a living defending China’s untouchables – Falun Gong practitioners, dissidents and organisers of non-state-approved Christian churches....
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