Today’s Articles

January 17, 2003

Voices of Support Worldwide ~

• ▪ Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs Alexander Downer: China's Maltreatment of Falun Gong Practitioners - Including Relatives of Australian Citizens - Contravenes the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention Against Torture
• ▪ Russia: Human Rights Protection Centre Expresses "Deep Respect for Practitioners, Who Follow 'Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance'"

Rallies & Protests ~

• ▪ Poland: Practitioners Hold Peaceful Appeal in Front of the Chinese Embassy to call for an End to the Killing (Photo)

Rallies & Protests ~

• ▪ Holland: Falun Dafa Practitioners Protest Jiang's Persecution Outside the Chinese Embassy (Photo)
• ▪ Milan, Italy: Falun Gong Practitioners Peacefully Appeal in Front of Chinese Consulate for Ending the Killing by the Jiang-Luo Regime

Falun Dafa in the Media ~

• ▪ Irish Examiner: Spiritual Protest at Chinese Embassy

Rallies & Protests ~

• ▪ San Diego, California: Falun Dafa Practitioners Hold Candlelight Vigil to Demand that the Jiang Regime Immediately Stop Its Atrocities in China (Photos)
• ▪ Connecticut: Falun Dafa Practitioners Hold Press Conference and "Journey of Falun Dafa" Photo Exhibition to Expose Jiang Regime's Brutal Persecution (Photos)

Accounts of Persecution ~

• ▪ Persecution of a Disabled Dafa Practitioner

Deaths ~

• ▪ More Information Surfaces in the Case of Practitioner Shi Hongjie, Tortured to Death by Police in Laixi City, Shandong Province

Accounts of Persecution ~

• ▪ An Account of the Torture of Female Dafa Practitioner Su Juzhen at Masanjia Labor Camp, Liaoning Province
• ▪ Masanjia Forced Labor Camp: Solitary Confinement Torture Caused Edema and Great Difficulty Walking
• ▪ Police in Guangdong Province's Sanshui Forced Labor Camp Cruelly Tortures Practitioners
• ▪ Fifteen Practitioners Illegally Sentenced to Lengthy Detention Terms Before China's National Day Holiday in Liaoyuan City, Jilin Province

Solemn Declarations ~

• ▪ 89 People Declare that their Words and Deeds Under Forced Brainwashing are Null and Void

Journeys of Cultivation ~

• ▪ Use Powerful Righteous Thoughts to Arrange Our Time in Fa-Rectification Cultivation and Saving People

Experience Sharing Conferences ~

• ▪ Rescuing Persecuted Family Members Is An Effective Way to Clarify the Truth to the Whole Society

Accounts of Persecution ~

• ▪ Dafa Practitioner Remains Steadfast Under Severe Torture

Health Benefits ~

• ▪ Feeling An Inexhaustible Strength After Practicing Falun Gong

Beginning Cultivation ~

• ▪ Righteous Determination in Dafa Leads to Harmony in My Home Environment

Experience Sharing Conferences ~

• ▪ Seeing in a New Light

Grassroots Resistance in China ~

• ▪ World Journal: Impact on the Future of Hong Kong (Excerpt)

Journeys of Cultivation ~

• ▪ Boundless Tolerance
• ▪ Poem: Every Cosmos

Other Community Events ~

• ▪ Japan: Practitioners Clarify the Facts of the Persecution to a Group Advocating Peace and Friendship (Photos)

Rallies & Protests ~

• ▪ United Kingdom: "Falun Dafa in Great Britain Poster Exhibition" Is Held at the Cambridge Central Library (Photo)
• ▪ United Kingdom: Embassy Staff Discovered Videotaping Falun Gong Practitioners' Peaceful Appeal (Photos)

Accounts of Persecution ~

• ▪ Summary of Other Articles and News - 01/14/2003

Opinion & Perspective ~

• ▪ NASA Publishes Hubble Space Telescope's New Discovery: Giant Radio Jet Coming from Spiral Galaxy (Photo)