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Escalated Campaign against Falun Gong in China
Before and After the Olympics
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Falun Dafa Information Center Annual Report on Falun Gong in 2008
“Persecution cases of Falun Gong prationers across the country have
noticeably increased recently, and I think this deserves attention.
Freedom of religious belief is being violated even more severely during
such a special period [of the Olympic Games], and citizens’
constitutional rights and universal values are under attack in China.”
–Prominent Chinese lawyer Jiang Tianyong, August 2008
“Falun Gong practitioners were at particularly high risk of torture and
other ill-treatment in detention… During the year [2007] over 100
Falun Gong practitioners were reported to have died in detention or
shortly after release as a result of torture, denial of food or medical
treatment, and other forms of ill-treatment.”
–Amnesty International 2008 Annual Report
“The central government intensified its nine-year campaign of persecution
against Falun Gong practitioners in the months leading up to the 2008
Beijing Summer Olympic Games… Official accounts of the crackdown were
publicly available on Web sites for all 31 of China’s provincial-level
jurisdictions in 2007-2008.”
–Congressional-Executive Commission on China, 2008 Annual Report
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