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a large number of the sect's followers have broken away from its influence with government
support. The book contains both text and pictures, and some key stories are available for
readers on compact disk. (Peoples Daily, 4/23/02, Internet)
A May 12 story from Xinhua (via COMTEX, Internet), ―Falun Gong Mother Said to Kill
Daughter,‖ tells how a devotee choked her nine-year-old daughter to death, while attended
by some 40 other followers, in order to exorcise a "demon" from the girl's body.
Followers Detained, Sent to Re-education for TV Network Hacking
Nine Falun Gong members were detained and charged for hacking into local cable
television systems to broadcast video material about the illegal sect. According to this
report, ―The case was a well-organized, premeditated crime with a clear evil purpose, local
police officers said.‖
"Falun Gong has already disrupted social order and disturbed people's normal lives, which
deserves a hard crackdown by the government. We will not enjoy a happy and comfortable
living environment until the evil cult is uprooted," a retired man told local media.
―These Falun Gong practitioners had violated the criminal law of China, and thus should be
sternly punished in accordance with the law,‖ according to Li Jie, professor of the Law
School at Jilin University.
"Every nation in the world will crack down severely on any crime that harms public
infrastructure, regardless of its political and religious motives," said to Li Jie. (Xinhua,
Internet, 4/18/02)
Authorities are said to have detained 2,000 additional followers in the wake of the incident
and sent 150 to "re-education through labor'' camps, the Information Center for Human
Rights and Democracy said. (AP, Internet 4/25/02)
In June, the government accused Falun Gong of video hacking into a channel that the
government uses to beam TV programs via satellite to remote areas of China that have little
access to outside news.
―This was a serious attack on satellite broadcasting — and on international regulations ...
that should be condemned by the entire international community,‖ said Liu Lihua, director
general of the radio broadcast department in China's Ministry of Information Industry [sic].
He blamed overseas activists. Falun Gong spokesman Levi Browde said in New York, ―We
have no knowledge of such a broadcast. We know that all prior broadcasts have been grass-
roots efforts from practitioners inside China.''
In the past year, Falun Gong supporters have interrupted cable broadcasts in at least six
cities, often simply showing banners that say ―Falun Dafa [Falun Gong] is good.‖ People
arrested in some of the hacking incidents have been sentenced to up to 16 years in prison.
(Christopher Bodeen, AP, 7/8/02)
The Ministry of Information Industry said that the satellite hacking endangered China's
national security by seizing the satellite signals of government-run television stations. (AFX-
ASIA, 7/8/02)
A live broadcast of a speech by Chinese President Jiang Zemin at Hong Kong's handover
anniversary celebration in early July was scrapped due to fears that Falun Gong would cut
into the transmission and broadcast pro-sect messages. (Yahoo News, Internet, 7/3/02)
Barred From Iceland
Iceland in June barred all Falun Gong members from entering the country in a bid to
prevent a large demonstration against Chinese President Jiang Zemin when he visited. (AP,
Internet, 6/7/02)
a large number of the sect's followers have broken away from its influence with government
support. The book contains both text and pictures, and some key stories are available for
readers on compact disk. (Peoples Daily, 4/23/02, Internet)
A May 12 story from Xinhua (via COMTEX, Internet), ―Falun Gong Mother Said to Kill
Daughter,‖ tells how a devotee choked her nine-year-old daughter to death, while attended
by some 40 other followers, in order to exorcise a "demon" from the girl's body.
Followers Detained, Sent to Re-education for TV Network Hacking
Nine Falun Gong members were detained and charged for hacking into local cable
television systems to broadcast video material about the illegal sect. According to this
report, ―The case was a well-organized, premeditated crime with a clear evil purpose, local
police officers said.‖
"Falun Gong has already disrupted social order and disturbed people's normal lives, which
deserves a hard crackdown by the government. We will not enjoy a happy and comfortable
living environment until the evil cult is uprooted," a retired man told local media.
―These Falun Gong practitioners had violated the criminal law of China, and thus should be
sternly punished in accordance with the law,‖ according to Li Jie, professor of the Law
School at Jilin University.
"Every nation in the world will crack down severely on any crime that harms public
infrastructure, regardless of its political and religious motives," said to Li Jie. (Xinhua,
Internet, 4/18/02)
Authorities are said to have detained 2,000 additional followers in the wake of the incident
and sent 150 to "re-education through labor'' camps, the Information Center for Human
Rights and Democracy said. (AP, Internet 4/25/02)
In June, the government accused Falun Gong of video hacking into a channel that the
government uses to beam TV programs via satellite to remote areas of China that have little
access to outside news.
―This was a serious attack on satellite broadcasting — and on international regulations ...
that should be condemned by the entire international community,‖ said Liu Lihua, director
general of the radio broadcast department in China's Ministry of Information Industry [sic].
He blamed overseas activists. Falun Gong spokesman Levi Browde said in New York, ―We
have no knowledge of such a broadcast. We know that all prior broadcasts have been grass-
roots efforts from practitioners inside China.''
In the past year, Falun Gong supporters have interrupted cable broadcasts in at least six
cities, often simply showing banners that say ―Falun Dafa [Falun Gong] is good.‖ People
arrested in some of the hacking incidents have been sentenced to up to 16 years in prison.
(Christopher Bodeen, AP, 7/8/02)
The Ministry of Information Industry said that the satellite hacking endangered China's
national security by seizing the satellite signals of government-run television stations. (AFX-
ASIA, 7/8/02)
A live broadcast of a speech by Chinese President Jiang Zemin at Hong Kong's handover
anniversary celebration in early July was scrapped due to fears that Falun Gong would cut
into the transmission and broadcast pro-sect messages. (Yahoo News, Internet, 7/3/02)
Barred From Iceland
Iceland in June barred all Falun Gong members from entering the country in a bid to
prevent a large demonstration against Chinese President Jiang Zemin when he visited. (AP,
Internet, 6/7/02)
