Radio Australia Reports 18 Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested for Television Broadcast

According to a report by Radio Australia on April 2, Chinese police have arrested 18 Falun Gong practitioners who were alleged to have been connected with the broadcasting of two films praising the [Falun Gong] group on a city's cable television network.

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published April 03, 2002

April 03, 2002

MEDIA ADVISORY: U.S. FALUN GONG PRACTITIONERS FILE CIVIL LAWSUIT AGAINST TWO CHINESE GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES IN GROUNDBREAKING CASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 2, 2002

Contacts: Dana Cheng 703-725-4168, Terri Wu 202-550-0562

Washington, D.C. -- The law firm of Martin F. McMahon & Associates will announce at a press conference on April 3, 2002, the filing of a major, first-of-its-kind civil lawsuit against two government ministries of the People's Republic of China, alleging a systematic--and often violent--campaign of criminal activities in the U.S. designed to deprive American citizens and residents who practice Falun Gong of their constitutional rights and privileges.

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Summary of Lawsuit

The PRC Ministry of State Security ["MSS"], the Ministry of Public Security ["MPS"], and China Central Television ["CCTV"] have been named as party defendants in this lawsuit, which has been filed in the United States District Court for Washington, D.C. This suit is being served upon them as Peoples Republic of China instrumentalities, pursuant to a United States law known as the "Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act," section 1608, which can be found in Chapter 97 of the United States Code, entitled "Jurisdictional Immunities of Foreign States."