Amnesty International Australia Representative Addresses Falun Gong Issue at Human Rights Day Seminar

"There is little hope for us until we become tough minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half truths and downright ignorance." That was said by Martin Luther King -- and would seem to epitomize the current struggle of the Falun Gong practitioners in China who are continually struggling with the Chinese authorities for their most fundamental freedoms.

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California University Student Detained in Beijing; Whereabouts Unknown

"I'm merely trying to help people who have no voice and are in desperate need of justice."

Sierra City Family Worried, but Supportive and Proud

Taken just before his trip to Beijing, Andrew Ellsmore displays the banner he unfurled on the Square yesterday afternoon. He was taken away by Chinese police, and his whereabouts are currently unknown. The banner reads, "Falun Dafa [Falun Gong] is good."

LOS ANGELES, April 15, 2002 (Falun Dafa Information Center) - According to the Associated Press, Andrew Ellsmore, 21, was taken into custody in Beijing after peacefully appealing for Falun Dafa [Falun Gong] at Tiananmen Square earlier yesterday. At the square Andrew unfurled a yellow banner and called out its contents in Chinese: "Falun Dafa is good!"

AP: American Held in Falun Gong Rally

BEIJING (AP) - A young man identified as an American university student was taken into custody peacefully Sunday after unfurling a banner on crowded Tiananmen Square and shouting [statements] supporting the outlawed Falun Gong [group].

Andrew Ellsmore's Statement: Why Am I Going to Tiananmen Square to Appeal for the Chinese People?

Andrew Muir Ellsmore displays a banner that reads "Falun Dafa is good" in the Tiananmen Square;. A police is grabbing the banner away (AP photo).

I will go to Tiananmen Square to appeal for the Chinese people, as they deserve to know the truth and scope of the systematic attack against a kindhearted group of citizens, the persecution of Falun Dafa.

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