Fa-Rectification Period Dafa Disciples

A Dafa disciple who fails to achieve the effect of safeguarding and upholding Dafa has no way of reaching Consummation, because your cultivation is different from that of the past and the future. Therein lies the magnificence of a Dafa disciple. Since Master has borne for you almost everything in history, during the Fa-rectification period, disciples must not depart until the Fa-rectification is over. So your meeting the standard for your own Consummation during the course of your cultivation becomes an important process.

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published August 16, 2001

August 26, 2001

Falun Gong Father, Mother and Daughter from France Kidnapped in China

A family of Falun Gong practitioners, residents of France, have been missing in China since they were seized by public security agents on August 7th.

Chi Jian, a doctoral student in economics from Grenoble, France, his wife, Sun Fenglong, and their daughter, Chi Yifan, a middle school student, were visiting Inner Mongolia to spend time with relatives. Sources say agents from the Chinese Public Security Bureau stormed their house and kidnapped the family. No one has seen or heard from them since. All three were Falun Gong practitioners.

Irish and Swedish MEPs Raise Questions to the EU Council

WRITTEN QUESTION P-0491/01

By John Cushnahan (PPE-DE)

To the Council

(14.02.2001)

Subject: Falun Gong

Has the Council registered its strong disapproval to the Chinese authorities regarding their treatment of Falun Gong practitioners? If so, what response has it received?

Speeches at a Human Rights Watch Sit-in Appealing to German Chancellor (Excerpt)

(Translated from German original)

August 15, 2001

Speech by Mr. Ulrich Delius from the Society for Endangered Human Being, Asia section:

"The human rights situation in China has taken a serious turn for the worse in the year 2001. None of the other religious or minority groups or even opposition groups in China are hunted and persecuted as brutally as the Falun Gong. Since July 1999, China has put into effect numerous edicts to curb and nullify religious freedoms, freedoms once guaranteed under Article 36 of the Chinese Constitution and. We are especially concerned and follow closely the pronouncement by the Chinese rulers to completely and totally rub out and erase Falun Gong from the face of the earth. Every week we receive reports of Falun Gong practitioners who have been murdered while in police custody or during incarceration. The authorities are proceeding with such unbridled brutality that we have to take this situation seriously. We demand that the European Union (EU) will finally react to this circumstance and require an end of the repression against Falun Gong. As representatives of human rights organizations we cannot condone the Falun Gong practitioners' hunger strike, an expression of extreme necessity. We do support the Falun Gong appeal to the German Chancellor, to speak openly against the persecution of Falun Gong and to all in his power to affect the release of all incarcerated practitioners."