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Today’s Articles — January 27, 2003

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World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong: Formation of the International Committee to Investigate the "Tiananmen Square Self-Immolation" (Photos)

Ever since the so-called self-immolation incident occurred in Tiananmen Square, the Chinese authorities' persecution of Falun Gong--a popular Qigong practice in China outlawed by the Jiang regime--has clearly intensified; the hostility toward Falun Gong incited by the regime's propaganda among the general population in China has broadly escalated; the death toll of Falun Gong practitioners has increased sharply during the police roundups and in locations such as prisons, labor camps, mental institutions, and all sorts of "re-education" classes and brainwashing centers where practitioners are illegally held.

Falun Dafa Association of Australia Urgently Calls for the Chinese Government to Immediately Release Australian Practitioner Nancy Chen, Who Was Kidnapped During Her Visit to China

(Clearwisdom.net) In the morning of January 20, 2003, Nancy Chen, a Falun Gong practitioner and an Australian citizen was kidnapped in Chengdu City during her trip to visit family and friends in China.

Letter from Friends of Falun Gong USA Urges Myanmar Government to Release Falun Gong Practitioner Chan Wing Yuen

The following letter urgently requests the Myanmar government to release Falun Gong practitioner Chan Wing Yuen, who was secretly tried and imprisoned for seven years for holding up a banner reading, "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," along a roadside during a visit by China's dictator, Jiang Zemin. Similar letters were also sent to Mr. Tung Chee-hwa, Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Mr.Sergio Vieira de Mello, High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Myo Chit, Consul General, Myanmar Consulate General in Hong Kong, and Mr. Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar.