Image for article Chinese New Year's Eve in Tiananmen Square: Chinese police brutally beat and arrest over 1000 Falun Gong practitioners

According to telephone reports from eyewitnesses in Beijing, many Falun Gong practitioners practiced their meditation exercises in Tiananmen square in the Chinese New Year's Eve (Feb. 5, 2000). Some of them raised banners with "Falun Dafa" and "Truth-Compassion-Forbearance". Police stationed in the square started to beat and arrest the practitioners as soon as they discovered any.

Image for article A Letter to The Irish Times

Sir, - It is shocking to read of the arrest in China of Ms Yang Fang, Mr Zhao Ming and Mr Liu Feng for practicing and advocating Falun Gong. I came to know all three in Ireland and nobody could be more inoffensive and respectable, quietly practicing their exercises in Merrion Square.

Image for article Falun Gong members arrested as China welcomes Year of the Dragon

February 4, 2000

Associated Press

BEIJING (AP) - As fireworks thundered from Beijing' outskirts, police on Tiananmen Square beat, kicked and detained at least 50Falun Gong members who welcomed the Year of the Dragon with one of their biggest and most dramatic protests of recent months.

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