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Should Thailand ban Falungong members from holding an international meeting in Bangkok in April? Should Thailand risk souring relations with China for the sake of a marginal group that seeks to combine physical exercise with Buddhist and Taoist spiritual principles? There are only an estimated 1,000 practitioners of Falungong in Thailand, so why should their interest override those of the whole country? It's a given, right? That is what Beijing would like us to believe. ...

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Image for article AP: EU urges end to oppression

ASSOCIATED PRESS in Stockholm

Saturday, February 24, 2001

During two days of discussions with Chinese officials, the European Union overnight (HK time) criticised the mainland' sentencing of opponents to forced labour, its widespread use of the death penalty and its continued persecution of the banned Falun Gong sect.

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