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Photo report: In Commemoration of "UN International Day In Support Of Victims Of Torture," Vancouver Practitioners Call for Urgent Rescue of Falun Gong Practitioners

June 26, 2001 was United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Practitioners in Vancouver, along with nine non-governmental organizations including Amnesty International, Alliance in Support of Victims of Torture, gathered in Vancouver Art Gallery to call on people of the world to take action and stop torture.

A Survivor of the Holocaust Gives Speech at UN Anti-Torture Day's Event on University of South Florida Campus

Attendees of the UN Anti-Torture Day' Event on June 26 at the University of South Florida included Tampa Bay Falun Gong practitioners, officers from the Red Cross, Amnesty International, the university communities, and a reporter from St. Pete Times. Presentations included some Falun Gong practitioners who shared their true experience in practicing Falun Gong, and their personal testimony of persecution suffered in China. An introduction tape of Falun Gong, and a documentary film titled "Human Rights Violations," exposed the persecution against Falun Gong in China quite vividly. Representatives from the local office of the Red Cross, Amnesty International, and the ISSS (International Students and Scholars Services) advisor also gave speeches expressing their concerns about the unjust treatment of Falun Gong practitioners in China, and offered their support. The ISSS advisor said that many Chinese students had been to their office due to the persecution, with concerns about the impact on the students and their families in China and abroad. ISSS staff members are well aware of, and will continue watching the situation in China. They said that the ISSS office would always be open to students who want to discuss the issue or seek help. They all expressed hope that the persecution will end immediately.

WoonsocketCall.com [RI]: Students stage protest march to nation's capital

June 30, 2001

WOONSOCKET -- Wearing vivid yellow shirts emblazoned with the words "Falun Gong," a group of young Chinese students passed City Hall on Main Street carrying a banner that read: "Stop the Killing in China." Greeted with quizzical looks from passersby, the students were traveling through Woonsocket on Thursday as part of a nationwide walk from Boston to Washington D.C. to raise awareness regarding China' human rights abuses against practitioners of Falun Gong, a meditation [group] targeted by the Chinese government as a subversive threat since 1999.

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