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The Spanish Falun Dafa Association Is Officially Established

July 6, 2002

With the strength given us by Teacher, the students' hard work, and with the help, support, and endorsement of people in different sections of the government, on June 19, 2002, the Spanish Falun Dafa Association was officially registered and established.

Dafa Practitioner Zhang Xiaochun Tortured to Death in Fuyu County Detention Center, Heilongjiang Province

(Clearwisdom.net) At 8:50 p.m. on June 29, 2002, Dafa practitioner Zhang Xiaochun in Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province died from torture in Fuyu County Detention Center.

Zhang Xiaochun, male, 43 years old, was a worker at Heilongjiang Province Suihua City Railroad Bureau Water and Electricity Work-section. He began practicing Dafa in November 1997. In January 2000, Zhang went to Beijing to appeal and was forcibly returned by his work unit. He was sent to Suihua City Railroad Bureau Detention Center, where he was illegally detained over 40 days. During this period, he was not allowed to go home, even when his wife had to undergo surgery.

Letter of Support for Falun Dafa from the Honorable Seishu Makino, Member of the House of Representatives of Japan [June, 2002]

I sincerely support Falun Gong practitioners, who take Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance as their guiding principle, pursue high moral standards, think of others first, and are very kind.

I am so sad and sorry that China [Jiang's regime] has ignored the appeals to "Stop the Persecution" from so many legislators around the world and continues to persecute the practitioners and violate their human rights.