As early as before July 20th, Falun Gong practitioners had already been harassed, wiretapped, tailed. However, the situation became extremely severe after July 20th and the persecution towards Falun Gong was escalated as shown in the records below.
Some Falun Gong practitioners have been sent to hospitals for mental illnesses. The police do even inform their family members. It was said that some had even been injected with medicines that would result in amyotrophy (muscle damage). As a consequence, after they are released, they will look like mentally ill patients even though they are not. Or more seriously they will have to stay in bed forever.
January 1st, 2000, Beijing
At the beginning of December 1999, Cheng-guan police station in Fan-shan District of Beijing arrested more than 50 Falun Gong practitioners who were determined about their beliefs on all kinds of excuses. Later, the police station sent all of them to a local hospital for mental patients on the excuse of preventing Falun Gong practitioners from going to appeal during the period of Macao' return. Also every practitioner was demanded to pay 800 Yuan to 1 ...
(Reported by Journalist Zhou Jia-hong in Hong Kong, January 5th)
On January 1st, twelve Falun Gong practitioners with Chinese passports were denied entrance to China in Beijing. The Information Center for Human Rights and Democratic Movements in Hong Kong said today that the Chinese government felt very upset that overseas practitioners went back to China to appeal. In order to prevent similar things, the National Security Department, the Public Security Department and the customs have recently made up a "black ...
Hello, I am a Canadian practitioner who has been living in Sydney Australia for about a month. When planning to leave Canada I thought I should stop in China before going to Australia. I was planning to go to Tianamen Square and hold up a banner with Chinese practitioners. I thought, if I get arrested, because I am a westerner the whole worlds would know. And if the police beat me, I thought that this would be good. This would ...
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I really want to say a few words here. I am a Caucasian practitioner of only three to four months. I have read Zhuan Falun, watched the nine day lecture and listened to audio recordings of Master Li' seminars. I continue to read and listen to Master Li. I had practiced another cultivation way prior to finding Dafa. Probably most people in the west have no idea what cultivation is or what it means. For the most part, westerners ...
Master Li quietly watching the world from amidst the mountains after leaving New York following July 20th, 1999. (Published January 19, 2000)
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Master Li quietly watching the world from amidst the mountains after leaving New York following July 20th, 1999. (Published January 19, 2000)
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