According to Li, Falun Gong is a cultivation system aimed at cultivating both human life and nature. |
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Falun Gong is a mixture of Buddhism, Taoism and meditation and breathing exercises. |
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To all but the ruling oligarchy in China, Falun Gong looks like any other of countless sects and groups, benign and unthreatening. |
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Falun Gong is a peaceful, spiritual practice without any formal organization, property or membership. |
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According to tortured Falun Gong followers they have been locked up in metal boxes in the torrid heat for up to 80 hours. |
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Harsh sentences have been handed down to Falun Gong practitioners, who were exercising their right to freedom of worship. |
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But that is what the brutal suppression of the group called Falun Gong has accomplished. |
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We asked, and will continue to ask, the Chinese authorities to put an end to the harsh treatment imposed on Falun Gong followers. |
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The Mine Museum in Falun, central Sweden, is a UNESCO World Heritage site, an honour it shares with the town of Falun and homesteader estates. |
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Government officials said that the Falun Gong would continue to be allowed to operate as long as it abided by Hong Kong law. |
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When she refused to read aloud an article defaming Falun Gong, a policeman kicked her in the head repeatedly. |
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Something ought perhaps also to have been included about the situation regarding religious freedom for the Falun Gong sect, but it was not. |
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The undersigned acknowledge that the Falun Gong is a peaceful and beneficial spiritual practice. |
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The activities of Falun Gong are also reportedly banned in a number of towns in the north-east. |
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The widespread blood testing of Falun Gong practitioners in detention cuts off this avenue of disproof. |
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Mr. Allmand called on China to release all Falun Gong detainees and lift the ban against the organization. |
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Their only crime is that they want to practise Falun Gong and be a good person, following truth, compassion, and forbearance. |
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It is implausible that the authorities would blood test Falun Gong as a precautionary health measure. |
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Many, however, wonder whether the overwrought response is making the Falun Gong look stronger than it truly is. |
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For an overview of the proud Dalacarlian folkloristic handicraft history and tradition, visit Dalarnas museum in Falun. |
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Today, the Falun Gong is deeply enmeshed in a propaganda war with Beijing. |
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She was next moved to the Beijing women's labour camp, where the treatment was so severe that she finally signed a pledge to renounce Falun Gong. |
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In one of the major newspapers, the People's Daily, there are over 330 articles slandering Falun Gong. |
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A debate ensued as to whether the Falun Gong should be legally deregistered or banned in Hong Kong. |
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The Falun Gong is clearly filling a spiritual need that Communist ideology long ago stopped meeting. |
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Both he and the local Falun Gong thanked the government for its assistance in securing his release. |
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We are talking, in particular, about the arrest, torture and persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. |
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Authorities tried to smear the workers by claiming that protests had been infiltrated by the reactionary Falun Gong movement. |
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One is that Fairchild TV broadcast a segment on a CCTV, Chinese Central TV, program slandering Falun Gong, saying practitioners kill their parents after they practice Falun Gong. |
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The petitioners want to advise the House that an investigative journalist revealed the existence of a concentration camp in Shenyang City expressly for Falun Gong practitioners. |
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Satanists, krishnaites, Unification Church of Moon, Falun Gong representatives and other sects function in Kyrgyzstan. |
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Indeed, in the build-up to the IOC vote, China applied unremitting pressure on the outlawed Falun Gong sect, and launched a crackdown on newspapers deemed to be straying from the party line. |
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In the first six months alone, inside and outside China, an estimated 300,000 attack articles were published, framing Falun Gong practitioners as mass murders, serial killers, suicide prone, and insane. |
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While Falun Gong followers were being hunted throughout China, the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam was outlawed and temples were seized in Vietnam. |
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She was locked up for five years for refusing to abandon the banned spiritual practice of Falun Gong. |
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Every day, there are reports of torture, the imprisonment of dissidents and the oppression of the people of Tibet, of the Falun Gong movement and of all those who are fighting for democracy. |
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He himself had been harassed by telephone calls and had received letters of protest for having stated that Falun Gong was not a religion and was not part of China's age-old culture. |
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He also called on Canadian Foreign Affais Minister Lloyd Axworthy to condemn the persecution and jailing of Falun Gong practioners and to suspend dialogue with the Beijing. |
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Falun is where the famous, brightly coloured model Dalecarlian horses come from and was home to famous Swedish painter Carl Larsson, whose home is open to the public. |
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I also raised during my last visit to China, the reports of torture and ill-treatment of the followers of the Falun Gong movement and there are other issues which we must address. |
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The Working Group has already in previous Opinions and on the occasion of its visits to China expressed its concern with regard to the treatment to which members of the Falun Gong association are subjected. |
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There were other cases of arbitrary detention in China, particularly involving members of Falun Gong, many of whom were in detention and some of whom, such as members of the Chen family, had been tortured to death in prison. |
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China did not announce to end organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience, of whom Falun Gong is the largest group. |
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The cyclists aim to highlight abuses by the Chinese government against the practitioners of Falun Gong. |
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The book proceeds through six chapters that seek to examine the main aspects of the rise, development, and ideology of the Falun Gong movement. |
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She was replying to reporters' questions ahead of the 10th anniversary Saturday of a protest by Falun Gong practitioners. |
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For nine years the Falun Gong spiritual group has suffered tremendously at the hands of the communist dictatorship. |
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The agreement covers the ramekins and sealing film to costly operations in BorlEnnge Municipality, the Municipality of Falun and Hedemora Municipality. |
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Last October, Heiner Bielefeldt, the UN's special rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, spoke out against intolerance toward religious groups such as Falun Gong. |
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Two days after Mrs. Shirley Ann Lawson's four girls and one boy were delivered in New Zealand, another set of quints was born to Mrs. Karin Olsen in Falun, Sweden. |
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Part of the exhibition is dedicated to showing how the practice of Falun Gong has changed people's lives, providing them with a return to traditional Chinese values. |
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The sausage got its name from Falun, the city from where it originates, after being introduced by German immigrants who came to work in the region's mines. |
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In 1999 the party launched a wide-ranging crackdown against the outlawed quasi-Buddhist falun Gong sect. |
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China in the limelight with its magic act making Uighurs, dissidents, falun Gong and weibo blogs disappear without a trace. |
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