"As many as one in 10 websites may be deliberately blocked to users in China, a US study suggests."

The latest issue of the Austrian magazine Best of Vienna, which is published twice a year, contained a report on Falun Gong and some of the benfits of practising.

Whatever the line taken by the new leadership of the Party, the desire to eradicate Falun Gong is totally absurd and doomed to failure. Inner freedom cannot be destroyed, even by the most powerful tools of suppression.

[Finland's Minister for Foreign Affairs Erkki] Tuomioja also brought up the violations of the human rights of members of the Falun Gong [..] movement, which he said was a cause for concern in Finland and the rest of Europe.

"Britain has also expressed its concerns regarding the law, saying in a statement on Monday that any laws which undermined basic freedoms would be "seriously damaging" to the territory. And the Paris-based World Association of Newspapers warned on Wednesday that the legislation would "give excessive weight to national security at the expense of civil liberties, especially press freedom and freedom of speech"."

The widely opposed Article-23 legislation has caused deep concerns within the UK. Several MPs and Lords have raised the issue with UK and HK authorities and the UK government has urged the HK authority at various occasions to protect human rights and freedoms which must not be jeopardised by any legislation.

"As the chinese regime changes, censorship of the internet is intensifying."

"..Trials are rare. Torture occurs in accounts of interrogation and police detention, including accounts of the treatment of foreign nationals. There are numerous reports of deaths in custody of Falun Gong adherents."

"But the Falun Gong delegation had its 50-room hotel booking mysteriously cancelled a few days ago and were offered rooms elsewhere, far away from where Jiang is staying. The hotel insists it was suddenly overbooked. Perhaps the US has taken some tips from the UK which, three years ago, shamefully quashed all peaceful protest against Jiang while he was on a state visit to London."

Mr. Ian Luke MP and Mr. John Letford, Lord Provost of Dundee, with Baby Minghui and her parents. They are holding Baby Minghui’s new Chinese passport and her mother’s passport, on which her registration was stamped but later cancelled by the Chinese Embassy.

"..What Zhao Ming has gone through is quite different to what any other students of his age have gone through. Solely for his faith [in Falun Dafa], he was tormented by cruel torture in a labor camp in China."

On September 24 2002, one of Denmark's major newspapers, Jyllands-Posten, published photos of practitioners peacefully appealing at the Asia-Eruope Summit Meeting.

Left: One of the pictures to appear in Jyllands-Posten.

"Falun Gong encompasses five easy to learn movements and the teachings of Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance, the principles taught and thoroughly explained in the book Zhuan Falun. These all help people to lead a life of inner peace and harmony, free from excess stress."

"In Ireland there was a growing attention on his case, and Zhao Ming was released in March this year after international pressure from, among others, the Irish Prime Minister. Shortly after he was back in Ireland, even though he is physically free, he is still mentally captured."

"“It is reprehensible and very non-Danish, if the Chinese authorities have taken part in the censorship of a Danish cultural festival”, says Peter Skaarup, The legal spokesman of The Danish Peoples Party, who has asked the Foreign Minister for a statement of the Chinese authorities’ role in the case."

“We are not on a confrontation course, but we will use our democratic rights to demonstrate. The Danish authorities have been pressed by the Chinese embassy, and for that reason we will not move,”

"With great dignity and complete peacefulness, the Falun Gong [practitioners] from Denmark, as well as from others countries including China, Poland, Germany, Holland and France, turned the attention to the suppression the movement is exposed to in China."

"When the British government handed Hong Kong back to China a little over five years ago it promised to do everything possible to help preserve the city's civil liberties. Now is the time for London to step in to fulfil this promise."

"Public Security officials in Yantai city arrested Song Tao, of Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, on 19 July, according to the Jinan-based Qilu Evening News. Song was accused of [tapping into] a cable television channel in Jiamusi and beaming footage of the banned group on 20 April."

Text of report in English by Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post web site on 6 September