Media Update from Hong Kong: Hunger Strike of Falun Gong Practitioners

(Clearwisdom.net) Hong Kong, August 14, 2002 -- On August 12, 19 Falun Gong practitioners began a hunger strike to protest against the Jiang Zemin Regime exporting its dictatorship and persecution of Falun Gong to Hong Kong.

Statement for August 12, 2002 Hong Kong Chater Garden Hunger Strike

Through this hunger strike we want to inform the world about the brutal persecution for the past three years in Mainland China.

Listen to an excerpt from a letter from Mr. Leo Harris, a practitioner who wrote to a Chinese consulate:

Please Extend Your Helping Hand and Save Hong Kong

August 13, 2002

I am a Chinese student in the UK. It really pained my heart when I heard of the story of the Hong Kong police illegally using force to arrest peaceful protesters and charging them with obstruction and attacking police. Photographs taken by international media have clearly illustrated that this is a completely ungrounded and unjustified case. It is essentially a political litigation intended to sabotage the "one country, two systems" arrangement and the freedom of Hong Kong.

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