Friends of Falun Gong USA- News/Media Reports

1. An Occurrence on Fuyou Street 07.20.09: Ten years ago, on April 25, 1999, while attending a Beijing wedding, I heard a rumor that a large crowd of people had gathered at Zhongnanhai, the Chinese government's compound. I phoned an acquaintance at the South China Morning Post. "Who are they?" I asked. "We think they are called 'Falun Gong,'" he said. "Apparently it's a huge Chinese religious movement, but we don't really know anything about them." Nobody knew much about them, but the scale of the event was shocking: 10,000 Chinese standing silently in the first mass demonstration since Tiananmen. Equally shocking was the party's ferocious crackdown, which came on July 20.
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2. 10 years on, Falungong shows strength 07.18.09: Ten years after China banned the Falungong spiritual movement, the two sides are waging a battle both at home and abroad where the group has become a nagging thorn in Beijing's side. Falungong has tried to show its strength ahead of the anniversary of China's ban on July 20, 1999, with thousands of supporters converging on Washington in yellow shirts for public speeches, prayers and vigils.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1574

3. Falun Gong rallies in US on anniversary 07.16.09: Hundreds of supporters of the Falun Gong spiritual movement have rallied in Washington ahead of the 10th anniversary of its ban by China, with a special push to free a prominent rights lawyer. "One must wonder exactly why Falun Gong, a serene movement based upon traditional Chinese breathing exercises and meditation, has drawn such a frenzied response," Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen told the rally.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1576

4. Top Four Reasons Why "Green Dam Youth Escort" Censorship Software Targets Falun Gong 06.18.09: NEW YORK – Despite a common narrative among many journalists that Falun Gong has largely been "crushed" (a narrative championed by the Chinese Communist Party), the degree to which Falun Gong is targeted by Green Dam demonstrates that the group and its adherents’ resistance remain one of the single biggest concerns of the CCP leadership.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1568

5. “China’s Gestapo” Marks a Decade 06.09.09: New York—Ten years after its creation by fiat on June 10, 1999, the extralegal 6-10 Office continues to lead the Chinese Communist Party’s violent campaign to eradicate the Falun Gong spiritual group, the Falun Dafa Information Center said on Tuesday.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1570

6. Tiananmen Square Remembered: Three Participants Tell Their Stories 06.01.09: On this, the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, The Epoch Times has asked three participants in the events to tell their stories: Nian Hu was a journalist who was there when the soldiers attacked; Yuan Tien was a University lecturer in Xi’an; and Chen Yonglin, who would go on to a career in China’s diplomatic corps before defecting, was a student doing an internship in Beijing with NBC. All three are now living in Sydney, Australia, where they met with Epoch Times reporters.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1567

7. Bittersweet memories at graduation 04.29.09: The author describes his experiences at Columbia University, and as a participant in the historic gathering of 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners at Zhongnanhai on April 25, 1999.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1558

8. How the War Against Falun Gong Started 04.24.09: Ethan Gutmann explores the real story behind the historic gathering at Zhongnanhai by 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1559

9. Honoring Falun Gong’s April 25th Appeal, Ten Years On 04.23.09: Remembering the 10,000 who gathered at Zhongnanhai
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1557