Friends of Falun Gong USA- News/Media Reports

1. Chinese Human Rights Lawyers Harassed for Attempting to Meet with President Obama 11.24.09: When Jiang Tianyong and his wife were attempting to take their 7-year old daughter to school, Public Security Bureau police allegedly grabbed Tianyong and forced him into a police car; one officer threw his wife to the ground and began beating her.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1649

2. Chinese Labor Camp Director Sued for Torture During New York Visit 10.24.09: Upon being served, Shi threw the documents to the ground. He later fled the scene in a chartered bus, leaving other members of his party stranded at the pier, according to Wang Zhiyuan, spokesperson for the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong and witness to the scene.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1635

3. Chinese Authorities Pursue Victim’s Children 09.30.09: After one Falun Gong practitioner died in a labor camp with mysterious injuries, his family members began to search for the truth. Now, they have become targets for persecution themselves.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1613

4. China Ex - Official Urges Party to Own Up to Mistakes 09.25.09: Bao is a thorn in the government's side and under constant surveillance, and has used the October 1 anniversary of 60 years of Communist rule to write a stinging statement condemning Party mismanagement and disregard for the people.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1619

5. Hu Jintao's New York Visit Met with Protests at U.N. 09.23.09: Scores of Falun Gong practitioners were there, calling for Hu Jintao to put an end to the persecution of Falun Gong. One practitioner, Muluan Luo, says her husband went to Tsinghua University with Hu.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1618

6. Messages for Hu Jintao 09.22.09: As ambassadors and heads of state on Tuesday prepared for the next day’s General Assembly meeting at the United Nations, hundreds of protesters gathered at Dag Hamarskjold Plaza, near the U.N. building. At least a dozen groups appealed for their causes, but most were protesting the human rights abuses of the Chinese Communist regime.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1604

7. Protesters Gather for Chinese Leader's Arrival 09.21.09: The streets and sidewalks around Hu’s hotel, the Waldorf Astoria, were choked by police, police cars, protesters, barricades, media, and mobile police units. Along Park Avenue facing the hotel, two groups gathered to speak out against human rights violations in China under Hu’s watch.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1606

8. China’s Shadow Sector: Power in Pieces 09.15.09: I am more disheartened than I was even a month ago by how things are in China. The central state seems less effective and in control in many areas than I had thought. Its responses to potential threats are becoming more and more predictable - imprisoning, intimidating, coercing. One case in particular haunts me. Gao Zhisheng, an activist lawyer based in Beijing, who had represented the legal rights of some followers of the dissident religious group Falun Gong, was prosecuted in 2006, and then put under semi-house arrest.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1609

9. China 'Waging Offensive' against Human Rights Lawyers 09.07.09: This year several prominent Chinese civil rights lawyers have either been detained or had their licenses withdrawn as Beijing tightens control ahead of next months 60th anniversary of Communist rule in China.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1593

10. Chinese Residents: Comptroller Candidate John Liu Anti-American 09.03.09: A peculiar protest took place at City Hall on Thursday condemning a comptroller candidate for being anti-American. Representatives of several Chinese community groups declared that City Councilman John Liu is not a suitable candidate for city comptroller due to his dishonesty and close ties with the communist regime back in China.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1597