Blacklist Re-emerges in Hong Kong as American is Detained at SAR Airport and Forcefully Deported

"At first I was on a blacklist that the Chinese government was using to keep Falun Gong practitioners from entering China," says Ms. Dan. "Now that list is being used outside of China to profile and discriminate against Falun Gong practitioners according to Jiang Zemin's wishes." "It's really frightening if you think about it... the Chinese President is exerting his influence on other nations to use a blacklist for profiling people and discriminating against people." "Tomorrow, if Jiang decides to go against Catholics or Jewish people, will Hong Kong and those nations who utilized such a list begin profiling and discriminating against Catholics or Jews just because the Chinese President says so?"

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AFP: Falun Gong launches series of TV network [tapping] in China

Wednesday, 26-Jun-2002 6:50AM

BEIJING, June 26 (AFP) - [Practitioners] of the [suppressed] Falun Gong spiritual movement have [tapped into] several Chinese TV networks in recent days as they fight their latest propaganda battle with Beijing, officials and a Hong Kong-based rights group said Wednesday.

Reuters: Falun Gong [Taps into] TV Again in China

Falun Gong [taps into] TV again in China - Falun Gong [practitioners] practice meditation exercises in Hong Kong in this May photo. [Practitioners] of the movement, which is [suppressed] in China, [tapped] into the TV airwaves in a Chinese city on June 23 to show footage [praising] the virtues of their faith. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

SCMP: Protest groups [in Hong Kong] complain police plan pushes demonstrators 200 meters back from 1997 site

Stella Lee

06/26/2002 South China Morning Post Page 4

Police were last night accused of tightening controls against activists planning to demonstrate at Monday's handover anniversary by moving them 200 meters further away from dignitaries than in 1997.