Four Dafa Practitioners Suffer Mental Breakdowns Due to Severe Torture at Tuanhe Labor Camp, Beijing

Beijing Dafa practitioners Lin Chengtao and Liu Xiao were persecuted to the point of having mental breakdowns. Another Dafa practitioner, Zhao Xindong, was driven to mental collapse due to the relentless physical and mental abuse at the 5th team of the Tuanhe Labor Camp. Zhao Xindong was from Northeast China and was illegally detained in the "Intensive Training Team" due to his righteous belief in Dafa. Because of the brutal torture he endured, Zhao Xindong lost the ability to take care of himself and was released from the labor camp around November of last year.

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published July 13, 2002

July 13, 2002

Cable TV Channel in Southern Chinese City Broadcasts Falun Gong Truth-Clarifying Videos

(Clearwisdom.net)

On July 9, 2002 Beijing time, a cable TV channel broadcasted the Falun Dafa truth-clarifying videos, "Self-Immolation in Tiananmen Square: A Staged Tragedy?" "Witnesses," and "Falun Dafa Spreads All over the World" in two districts of a Southern Chinese City. The truth-clarifying videos broke through the Jiang regime's information blockade and played continuously for more than an hour.

Far Eastern Economic Review: "They Will Not Go Away."

07/18/2002

Far Eastern Economic Review

THEY WILL NOT GO AWAY. More than three years after Falun Gong burst onto China's political stage by [appealing for justice to] the leadership of Chinese government in Beijing, the group is proving startlingly immune to government efforts to eradicate it. In recent months it has [resisted] Beijing's suppression in a series of daring [...] broadcasts on the state's tightly controlled television network.

Outside Opinion: Freedom of the Press is the Only Way Out

(Clearwisdom.net) On July 8^th and 9^th, all major news media in China reported shocking news: from June 23 to June 30, nine CCTV channels that are broadcast through the Xin'nuo Satellite and ten major TV stations in Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other provinces were interrupted by messages that held content about Falun Gong. The state-run Xinhua news agency published the important report. The Wireless Communication Administration Bureau of the State Information Technology Department issued a formal statement. All of the state-run media then again took up the chorus of slander against Falun Gong, using incendiary language like something out of the Cultural Revolution.