AP: United Kingdom Voices Concerns about Hong Kong Government's Stance On Protests

U.K. officials acknowledged worries that the territory is becoming less tolerant of demonstrations.

In a twice-yearly report on Hong Kong's progress as part of China, received in Hong Kong Wednesday, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said "freedom of assembly and speech must not be compromised."

Practitioner Ms. Li from Penglai City, Shandong Province, Dies From Torture at the Hands of Beijing Police

(Clearwisdom.net) At the beginning of February 2002, Dafa practitioner Jiang Yibin's wife, Ms. Li, also a Dafa practitioner, from Long-shan-cun-dian of Daxindian Town, Penglai City in Shandong Province, went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She was beaten brutally by Beijing police, and tortured to a vegetative state before she was sent back to Yantai City by airplane and on to Penglai Hospital for emergency treatment. The treatment failed, however, and she died in the middle of February at Penglai Hospital.

Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhang Aijiao from Hebei Province Died After Being Tortured for 40 Days

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Zhang Aijiao, female, 39 years old, was a resident of the fourth group of Xiaonan village, Ganhe branch, Xiantao city, Hubei Province. She was severely tortured by the Xiantao city's "610 Office" [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems] because she remained firm in her cultivation of Falun Dafa. She died on May 24, 2002 because her wounds were too severe to recover. This is another bloody crime that Jiang's regime committed.

Dafa Practitioner Zhang Zhuo from Leshan City, Sichuan Province, Tortured to Death at the Zhanggongqiao Second Police Station in Leshan (Photo)

June 22, 2002

(Clearwisdom.net) Zhang Zhuo, male, 32, graduated from the China Agricultural University in Beijing in 1991. He was an official in the Agriculture Bureau of Leshan City. He started to practice Falun Gong in 1996 and was very active in promoting Dafa. He was always smiling, polite, and well mannered.

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