The Epoch Times By Jasper Fakkert Epoch Times Staff Assault appears to be part of effort to silence meditation group SAN FRANCISCO—When Justin Chen sat down to meditate in Chinatown on Sunday night, he never expected that two men would throw a large garbage bin on his head. Chen, 38, sells advertising for a local TV station during the week. He is part of a group of volunteers who stay overnight...
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By Jasper Fakkert Epoch Times Staff, September 1, 2012 SAN FRANCISCO—Daily protests have been held in San Francisco following the arrest of a Falun Gong practitioner in Chinatown on Tuesday—a case that has raised concerns of discrimination. Cao Li, the principal of a performing arts middle and high school, who graduated from the prestigious Beijing Dance Academy, was arrested by police...
read moreWoman held overnight in jail after banner hung up By Jasper Fakkert Epoch Times Staff, August 30, 2012 SAN FRANCISCO—For the past seven years practitioners of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong have been present on Chinatown’s Stockton Street telling passersby about the benefits of the practice and about the persecution of the group in China. Until yesterday that wasn’t a reason...
read moreThe Examiner By Dan Schreiber 08/30/12 SF Examiner Staff Writer Two men who attacked Falun Gong practitioners this summer over their unflattering views on China were ordered by a San Francisco neighborhood court to write apology letters and were told to stay 10 feet away from the victims. One of the men also must take anger management classes. Neighborhood courts are used for minor offenses that...
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(Minghui.org) On August 13, 2012, a Neighborhood Court in San Francisco’s Chinatown heard the case filed by the local prosecutor regarding the assault of Falun Gong practitioners by Chinese Communist Party followers in two incidents last June. Based on the testimony of both sides, the court ruled that the two assailants are forbidden to get within ten feet of the practitioners, and write...
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During the spring of 2008, the Chinese Communist Party incited violence on the streets of Flushing, NY against Falun Gong practitioners, including the elderly. For months, the City of New York had to place a small army of police officers throughout a section of Flushing that has a large Chinese population. Keng Peyu, the Consul General of the Chinese Consulate was caught on audio tape...
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