More Than 100 New York Practitioners Hold Candlelight Vigil In Front of Chinese Consulate, Call for the End of the Mass Murder of Changchun Practitioners

More than 100 Falun Gong practitioners from the Greater New York area held a candlelight vigil in front of the Chinese Consulate this evening, urgently appealing to all kind-hearted people to help stop the Jiang regime's rampant mass murder of Changchun practitioners. Many passersby stopped to ask how they could help.

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Photo Report: Practitioners in Kaohsiung, Taiwan Hold SOS Urgent Rescue March Calling for an End to the Bloody Killing

Dafa practitioners from the Kaohsiung area held an SOS Urgent Rescue March on March 20, 2002 calling for an end the mass arrests and bloody killing of Falun Gong practitioners in Changchun, China.

AFP: Falungong claims 5,000 members detained in northeast China sweep

Monday, 25-Mar-2002 3:30PM

NEW YORK, March 25 (AFP) - China's banned Falungong spiritual group charged the communist authorities Monday with rounding up 5,000 of its members in a police sweep in northeast China and in which it claimed up to 100 practitioners were killed.

Time: Falun Gong Finds Free Cable

March 18, 2002

Settling in front of the tube one evening last week, residents of the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun thought they were about to watch a special about their rubber-stamp parliament in Beijing. They got some special programming all right--brought to them by the Falun Gong movement, Public Enemy No. 1 of the Chinese state. Hacker devotees had spliced their way into the cable system in Changchun, birthplace of Falun Gong founder Li Hongzhi, and broadcast to as many as 300,000 households. Stunned city officials held an emergency meeting and swore to punish followers "with no leniency"--but the damage was done. Twice during prime time that evening all eight cable channels went dead "and then there was Li Hongzhi speaking," a viewer told the Reuters news agency. Shots of banners reading FALUN GONG IS GOOD were followed by a documentary called Self Immolation or Deception? that accused the government of staging protest suicides in Tiananmen Square last year and blaming them on Falun Gong.