On International Human Rights Day, December 10, the International Society of Human Rights (IGFM) called on people to pay attention to the current [human rights] situation in China. In Frankfurt, their spokesperson stressed that in addition to members of outlawed Christianity groups, Falun Gong practitioners are also being suppressed by the [Jiang regime]
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Falun Gong has been outlawed since 1999, because the Chinese government feared that Falun Gong could jeopardize [..] communism. Since then there have been several thousand practitioners arrested. According to the Falun Gong Information Centre, there have also been several hundred people persecuted to death
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Ms. Wang a 37 years old Falun Gong practitioner from Hong Kong, who was imprisoned in China for several months said that the Chinese government is planning to extend the persecution to Hong Kong [under the guise of a law against secession and subversion]
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Translated from Chinese at: http://www.yuanming.net/articles/200212/15608.html;
German version at http://de.news.yahoo.com/021210/12/343ev.html
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