With Teacher guiding the voyage, the Fa saves all beings,
One sail is hoisted, one hundred million sails follow.
With attachments left behind, the lightened boats sail swiftly,
With a preoccupied human heart, crossing the ocean proves arduous.

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[Lan-zhou, Gan-su Province] Practitioner Ms. Yao Bao-rong Got Killed From Jumping Out of the Building

Ms. Yao Bao-rong, 52 years old, a practitioner from the An-ning district of Lan-zhou city, was taken away by the police on the morning of May 20. At around 2pm of the same day, she got killed from jumping out of the building on the fifth floor. Details are unknown.

Image for article Recent Report on Persecutions Against Falun Gong Practitioners (#11)

[Beijing]

1, On May 2 of 2000, Ms. Yan Bao-shuang went to the Tiananmen Square with her mother in 70s and her 11-year-old son to appeal for Falun Gong. She and her mother got detained in the Chao-yang District detention center of Beijing afterwards. In the detention center, many practitioners went on hunger strike to protest the illegal detention and to request the government to release detained practitioners unconditionally. The guard punished practitioners on hunger strike together with their inmates ...

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NOTHING NORMAL ABOUT CHINA

05/22/2000

The Boston Globe

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It will be time to upgrade China' trade status with the United States when the Chinese government stops torturing middle-aged widows to death. No member of Congress should vote on the bill to establish permanent normal trade relations with China without first reading Ian Johnson' harrowing April 20 account in The Wall Street Journal of what Beijing did to Chen Zixiu, a retired auto worker ...

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ASSOCIATED PRESS in Bejing

Updated at 4.19pm:

A member of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement who was detained by police in northwestern China has committed suicide by jumping from a building, a human rights group said on Tuesday. Yao Baorong, 52, leaped from the fifth floor of a police station in Lanzhou, capital of Gansu province, during a police interrogation on Saturday, according to the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy.

Image for article Salt Lake Tribune: Human Rights Disputes Should Not Forestall Liberalizing Trade With China (excerpt)

According to Salt Lake Tribune (May 23), "the anti-WTO forces in America who are complaining that China' human rights record is growing worse and worse are, unfortunately, all too right in their analysis."

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