Official Orders Permit Use of the Death Sentence: Shenyang City Government Escalates Its Persecution of Dafa Practitioners

Last month (April 2002), an official document ordering the escalation of the persecution of Dafa practitioners was distributed to middle level officials of some government agencies in Shenyang city, Liaoning Province. The document called for a large-scale assault on practitioners, including a suggestion of using the death sentence.

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Statement of Alex Hamrle, Austrian Arrested after Appealing in Changchun

On May 13, 1992, exactly ten years ago, for the first time a qigong master here in Changchun's Victory Park introduced his cultivation method to the public. This same qigong master was born on May 13, 1951 close to Changchun and had spent most of his life there. His journey is magnificent: the essence of his journey consists of orienting one's daily life to the principles of Truth-Compassion-Forbearance. Because of these principles, within the span of seven years, the number of followers of his school "exploded" to approximately 100 million people! At first the Chinese state showered him with many high honors -- nowadays, only foreign countries award him and his school high honors any longer!

SF Examiner: One man celebrates Falun Gong in China

BEIJING -- The French computer engineer sent a final e-mail to friends back home, then headed to Tiananmen Square. Seconds after pulling out a banner and shouting his support for the Falun Gong movement, police bundled him into a van.

BBC Worldwide Monitoring: Austrian Falun Gong protester arrested in China

May 14, 2002, Tuesday

Kurier, Vienna

Text of report by Austrian newspaper Kurier on 14 May

(in German)

Austrian citizen Alexander Hamrle has been arrested in the northern Chinese city of Changchun. Hamrle, a member of the Falun Gong movement, wanted to protest in public against the persecution of [Falun Gong].

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