(Clearwisdom.net)

Media Reports

The Apple Daily newspaper reported on November 17, that six Hong Kong policemen went to the buildings near the Hong Kong Liaison Office of the Central Government asking every unit whether Falun Gong had harassed them. Some residents voiced the opinion that such activities of the police were in fact harassing the people; and some legislative councillors raised the view that there is obvious political purposes behind the police's attempt to provoke Anti-Falun Gong sentiments among the city residents.

Brandenburg Daily of Germany reported on the 9th of the month: recently, four overseas Chinese students walked with banners held in their hands telling people the situation of Falun Gong practitioners in their homeland. They believe firmly that if the people around the world know the truth, the situation of Falun Gong in China will change.

Mainland China

Today, 116 people published solemn declarations, which declared that what they had said and done against Falun Dafa under intense pressure was null and void. Also, the things their relatives and family members had done that did not conform to Dafa under any circumstances or any situations were invalid. They expressed that they would "Follow Teacher closely, steadfastly cultivating Dafa," and try hard to make up the damage they had done to Dafa.

Jiang Zemin's and Luo Gan's criminal group have used the system of implication to force people to participate in the persecution of Falun Gong, which caused black clouds to roll all over China and countless disasters to befall China.

--Yuzhong District/Chongqing City-- Xinhua News Agency reported that around 10 a.m. on November 14 an explosion destroyed the service desk of the Eye Section at No. 3 People's Hospital. The explosion caused four deaths and over twenty injuries.

--Beijing -- An explosion happened also at the Xinrui Restaurant, 129 Laoqianggen Street of Beijing. The one-story building including the restaurant, operations room and dorm was leveled to the ground, and the shockwave shattered nearby windows.

--Xiamen City -- On the evening of November 14 a fire broke out in a photography center located on Haitian Street. The blaze caused four deaths.

--Kunlun Mountain Area -- On November 14, an 8.1- level earthquake occurred in the Kunlun Mountain range, followed by numerous aftershocks. Some houses collapsed. Qingzang Highway [connecting Qinghai Province and Tibet] had numerous cracks in the roadbed and Kunlun Mountain is encircled by huge cracks. The Qingzang Railroad bed, which is still under construction, was also partially damaged.

--Recently, a traffic accident took place in Liaoning Province. A long distance bus caught fire as it was going through a tunnel. Twelve of the nineteen passengers were burned to death and the rest were injured. In the past year alone, over 90,000 people died from traffic accidents in China.

Overseas News

The SOS Walk from Montreal to New York has been completed. The purpose of the SOS Global Walk was to give a voice to those who had been deprived of the right to speak for themselves and to protect those who had lost everything because of their beliefs. It was to rescue the Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted in China.

The practitioners who participated in the SOS Walk from Montreal to New York spoke about Falun Dafa at the Santycreek Township Council. They held a press conference at Utica City Hall, where the mayor and a city councilwoman made a proclamation in support of Falun Dafa and condemned the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners in China. The councilwoman said, " Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance will definitely win."

Cultivation Stories

One practitioner puts in every effort to clarify the truth about Falun Gong. One day she was arrested while validating Dafa on Tiananmen Square. In the prison she told those who were beating her about the greatness of Dafa, the principles she has come to understand, and the relationship between De (virtue) and Ye (Karma), and with her kindness moved those people. In less than two days the prisoners began to protect her when she practiced Dafa exercises. Six to seven people began to practice Falun Gong as well.

On Oct 25, practitioners came to Tiananmen to tell people the truth about Falun Gong. They were arrested and sent to the Huairou Detention Center in Beijing. Practitioners started a hunger strike and were force-fed. They were tortured to the verge of death. Neither their heartbeats nor their pulses could be found. However, when they left the detention center, all of their health problems disappeared and they joined the torrent of Fa-rectification again.

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