About 150 Hong Kong-based followers of Falun Gong, a meditation group outlawed in mainland China, on Saturday marked the eight anniversary of the founding of their group with public exercises and a coach parade.
Saturday, May 13, 2000
ASSOCIATED PRESS in Beijing
Updated at 4.19pm, Saturday:
Falun Gong followers defiantly celebrated their banned sect' eighth anniversary on Saturday, holding yellow flowers and signs aloft in Tiananmen Square, and enduring arrest and physical assault. Police beat five people as they tried to unfurl a banner. Another woman was knocked to the ground by plainclothes security as she stood amid 10 followers raising signs. One read '', Benevolence, Forbearance'' - Falun Gong' motto.
(Presented at Harvard University in April, 2000)
HEALTH BENEFITS -BY-PRODUCT OF THE PRACTICE
In March 1999, Mrs. Song, a 65-year-old Chinese woman, came to the United States to visit her son and his wife. For ten years she had hesitated to leave China, where she was under the close care of physicians of both Chinese medicine and modern western medicine. She had a long-standing history of coronary artery disease with angina for which she had to take nitrates every day ...
[Chong-qing City, Si-chuan Province]
There are about 50 to 60 practitioners in the Women' Labor Camp of Chong-qing. They have to work long hours everyday. The workload is too heavy for some practitioners to finish.
An Admirable Recycler
Last year, after a recycler in a city of Si-chuan Province collected over 180 Falun Dafa books that were confiscated from Falun Gong practitioners by the local police station, he took good care of the books for over half a year, at the risk of paying fines, being ransacked and even jailed, etc.. Recently, he handed over all these books to the local Falun Gong practitioners without asking for any money.
Master Li quietly watching the world from amidst the mountains after leaving New York following July 20th, 1999. (Published January 19, 2000)
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Master Li quietly watching the world from amidst the mountains after leaving New York following July 20th, 1999. (Published January 19, 2000)
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