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China Attempting To Intimidate Hong Kong Citizens By Making Example Of Residents in "Espionage" Case. China Holds Group From Hong Kong For Espionage Charges May Signal Push for Security Bill By Philip P. Pan Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, March 2, 2004 BEIJING, March 1 -- China has quietly detained a group of Hong Kong residents, including at least three British citizens, and begun to prosecute them on espionage charges, according to people familiar with the cases. The prosecutions may signal a new push to enact the stringent internal security bill that prompted huge demonstrations in the territory last year before it was withdrawn. The exact number of people arrested is uncertain, but the group appears small. Most are former employees of the Hong Kong branch of the New China News Agency, the Chinese government's... [Free North Korea!]
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Persecution of Falun Gong in China update from "Falun Gong Today" Tuesday March 2, 2004, No.9, Volume III
The No. 2 Prison at Prison Complex in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province Has an Annual Quota of Twenty Deaths
The No. 2 Prison of the Prison Complex in Shenyang City colluded with courts and prosecution in torturing Dafa practitioners. They have an annual quota of 20 "normal" deaths, which encourages police to torture Falun Gong practitioners without any restrictions. [Read full story]
Yan Yutao's Eyewitness Account of the Treatment of Dafa Practitioners at Fanjiatai Prison, Shayang City, Hubei Province
Tempted by the promise of a reduction of prison term, inmates from Fanjiatai Prison lashed out in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners ... the persecutors easily got away with and were even rewarded for their persecution.... "My disability forced me to walk only on one leg. If the officers were hard on a disabled person like me, one could imagine how hard they had treated the healthier practitioners. In the last few years, the 7th division prison had more violence than all other divisions put together." [Read full story]
Mr. Liu Zhichen, a Practitioner from Dafangshen Town, Dehui City, Jilin Province Is Persecuted to Death
Dafa Practitioner Mr. Liu Zhichen of Dafangshen Town, Dehui City, Jilin Province was detained at the Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp in Jiutai City in 2002. ... On February 6, 2003, Liu was released and in poor health due to the mental and physical suffering he endured from the persecution. Even in his state, Dafangshen Town local police still harassed him and illegally searched his home. His family did not have any peace. At the age of 32 years old, Liu died in Dehui City Hospital on October 7, 2003. This is another crime the Jiang's regime has committed on an innocent Falun Gong practitioner. [Read full story] |
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