Verdict Nears in Test Case for Hong Kong's "One Country, Two Systems"

Video footage and eyewitness accounts contradict the charges of obstruction and assault against the 16, including four from Switzerland, who were staging a peaceful appeal on the sidewalk in front of the Chinese Liaison Office on March 14, 2002. The sidewalk in front of the Chinese Liaison Office is approximately 30 feet wide, while the appealers had occupied an area no more than ten feet across, leaving ample room for pedestrians. Video footage of the event also shows that the presence of 50-60 police surrounding the appealers blocked off the entire sidewalk, and that police employed choking, squeezing pressure points, and other violence on the appealers as they dragged them away.

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Hong Kong Practitioners Issue Press Statement on the Current Trial

(Clearwisdom.net)

Hong Kong, August 6, 2002 -- Falun Gong is a peaceful mind and body practice that follows the universal principle of Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance. It is an individual self-improvement practice that has no dealings with political struggle. Falun Gong is practiced freely in fifty countries worldwide, but in 1999 it was banned in its birth-land, China, when President Jiang Zemin portrayed its popularity as a threat to his rule.

Short Essay: Where Righteous Thoughts Arise Is Where the Evil Is Eliminated; Let us Eliminate the Real Cause Behind the Persecution

(Clearwisdom.net) This campaign of persecution started by Jiang and targeting the hundreds of millions of people who pursue "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" and their families was illegal right from the start. In the last three years, nearly one hundred million innocent Falun Gong practitioners have been persecuted, more than one hundred thousand have been imprisoned or sent to forced labor camps and mental hospitals, and thousands have been persecuted to death. And this persecution is still ongoing. This campaign of persecution is not just aimed at China's Falun Gong practitioners; it is also aimed at all people who freely believe in and pursue "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." This is unrestrained trampling of mankind's sense of justice, morality and conscience. Is it a crime to oppose this persecution by appealing through peaceful sit-ins? Of course not! Falun Gong practitioners everywhere are striving to let people and governments all over the world know the truth of this campaign of persecution and the extent of this persecution's wickedness, calling upon even more kind hearts to join together to stop this persecution -- how can this be a crime? Clearly this is creating blessings for the people of the world, because morality, justice and truth form the basis for the happiness of mankind's society, and this happiness needs to be safeguarded by mankind itself.

Video Program: "Sheep Eat Wolves" -- Victimized Falun Gong Practitioners Being Falsely Accused in Hong Kong

This five-minute video program in Chinese shows the whole sequence of four practitioners from Switzerland and 12 practitioners from Hong Kong peacefully appealing in front of the Chinese Liaison Office in Hong Kong, and how police used violence to arrest them. The video footage clearly showed that the practitioners only occupied a very small amount of room on the wide sidewalk and quietly held a banner. It also compared the Hong Kong policemen's violence to the violent arrests and beatings in Tiananmen Square, where Jiang's regime ordered the police to "kill without pardon."

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