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Today’s Articles — February 22, 2003

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Urgent Action Needed to Defeat the Second Wave of the Evil Article 23 Legislation

On Thursday 13 February 2003, the Hong Kong government published the full text of the draft law to implement Article 23, which it hopes will come into force as soon as possible. The full text is extremely difficult to find on the HK government website. In two days, the HK government changed the Internet address of the full text twice making it almost inaccessible to the public. What is it trying to hide?

Dafa Practitioner Wang Fengqin Tortured to Death by Police of Zhifu District, Yantai City, Shandong Province

(Clearwisdom.net)

Ms. Wan Fengqin of Shandong province, approximately 36 years old, was illegally arrested by policemen while distributing truth-clarification materials in a residential building near Yuhuangding Hotel in Yantai City. (See previous report on Clearwisdom.net http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/2/11/31977.html) She was then sent to Nanjiao Detention Center in the Zhifu District of Yantai City, where she was tortured to death around January 28, 2003. The perpetrators notified her family only after the Spring Festival. Wang Fengqin's family members saw that her clothes were stuck to her dead body and could not be removed. Her wrists showed clear marks from handcuffs. After extorting 1,000 Yuan from her family, the authorities cremated her body.

73-Year-Old Astronautics Scientist Ren Hanfen is Persecuted to Death for Upholding Her Belief in Falun Dafa

(Clearwisdom.net) Dafa practitioner Ren Hanfen, female, 73 years old, lived in the residential area of the China Academy of Launching Technology, Fengtai District, Beijing. In the 1950s she returned to her home country after her studies in Russia. She had always devoted herself to national astronautics science research and attained many achievements. She had been a doctoral mentor and a scientist in the Rocket Dynamics Institute of the China Academy of Launching Technology. Because she enjoyed physical and mental benefits from Dafa cultivation according to the universal principle, "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance," she was determined to practice Falun Gong, even after July 20, 1999, the date Jiang's regime began persecuting the practice. She was forced to attend a brainwashing class by the police in charge of the Rocket Dynamics Institute and from the "610 Office" of the China Academy of Launching Technology. There, she suffered inhumane tortures both in mind and body, and was forced to write the so-called "three statements." She was steadfast and was not released even after the brainwashing term was over. Her detention term was extended, open-ended. Eventually, she signed the statements against her own will. After coming back home, she was very repentant. She decided to cultivate Dafa, even in the face of death. In order to avoid harassment from the secret police, she had to leave home and move from place to place.