Taiwan: Reuters' Photos Cover Practitioners' Protest Held in Taipei

December 2, 2006

(Clearwisdom.net) In Taipei, members of the spiritual meditation movement Falun Gong rallied to protest the treatment of Falun Gong practitioners in China on December 2, 2006. Chinese authorities tolerated Falun Gong until 1999, when the group [appealed to the National Appeals Office] in central Beijing. Shortly afterwards, China banned it, and thousands [hundreds of thousands] of followers who refused to renounce their beliefs underwent detention and re-education, prompting claims from the group and human rights activists of brutality and human rights abuses. REUTERS/Jameson Wu

Members of the spiritual meditation movement Falun Gong rallied in Taipei to protest against the treatment of Falun Gong practitioners in China on December 2, 2006. Falun Gong has accused a hospital in China of being a 'concentration camp' taking detained practitioners' organs for transplants, but officials from the National Traditional Chinese Medicine Thrombus Treatment Center in Shenyang denied it, although a former employee of the hospital provided witness for the atrocity. REUTERS/Jameson Wu

On December 2, 2006, members of the spiritual meditation movement Falun Gong rallied in Taipei to protest the treatment of Falun Gong practitioners in China. Chinese authorities tolerated Falun Gong until 1999, when the group [appealed to the National Appeals Office] in central Beijing. Shortly afterwards, China banned it, and thousands of followers who refused to renounce their beliefs underwent detention and re-education, prompting claims from the group and human rights activists of brutality and abuses. The placards read, '16 million people' [who have quit Communist organizations]. REUTERS/Jameson Wu