By Geraldine Fagan, Forum 18 News Service This article was published by F18News on: 14 December 2012 Russian Falun Gong practitioners have appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg after their core spiritual text was ruled “extremist”, Mikhail Sinitsyn, Falun Gong practitioner and lawyer, has told Forum 18 News Service. The appeal followed failure to...
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[Note from FOFG: Please see our petition regarding the suppression in Russia by clicking here.] This article was published by F18News on: 10 December 2012 By Geraldine Fagan, Forum 18 News Service Russia’s small community of followers of the Chinese spiritual practice of Falun Gong face increasing state pressure, Forum 18 News Service notes. In 2005, officials refused to register a...
read moreThe Parliament [European Parliament] By Martin Banks - 17th July 2012 [From the editors: we just recently became aware of this article that was published in July.] Twenty MEPs have signed a petition condemning the alleged “mistreatment” of religious minorities in Russia. The petition calls on the Russian authorities to “respect the rule of law” and guarantee a...
read more“It’s ridiculous that Canadians should be prosecutable in Russia for doing human rights work in Canada.” -David Matas, human rights lawyer By CHRISTOPHER GULY The Lawyers Weekly (Canada), Feburary 17, 2012 [Note from FOFG editor: we just found this article.] Two Canadian lawyers nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize are seeking to appeal a string of Russian court...
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Rigged court case lays groundwork for suppressing Falun Gong By Andrey Volkov Epoch Times Staff, August 21, 2012 Last week, a 2008 court decision inspired by policies made in Beijing became real for one older Russian woman who practices Falun Gong. Olga Chernova saw her home ransacked and the Falun Gong literature and materials she owned confiscated on the pretext that the materials contained...
read moreConcurrently, while economic ties between the Russian government and the Chinese Communist Party have grown, so has the Russian Federal Migration Service’s discrimination against Falun Gong practitioners. 2005 Li Zhihe (male), Zhang Guirong (female), Li Cheng (male), Moscow A family of three. They were granted United Nations (UN) refugee. However, the Russian Federal Migration...
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