Falun Gong practioners protest in Hong Kong and Taiwan

http://www.euronews.net Falun Gong practioners protest in Hong Kong and Tapei in Taiwan.

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[antihaninvasion]

Eating up people is real traditional Chinese politic values. How can they impose their culture, values to others?

By aggressive expansion policy, Chinese gain nothing but their own internal upset, and then collapse.

[GaryPansey]

Very Courageous!

[Hosea22]

In 2006, human rights lawyer David Matas and ex-Canadian secretary of state David Kilgour published an investigative report concluding that a large number of Falun Gong practitioners have become victims of systematic organ harvesting in China and that the practice continues. In November 2008, The United Nations Committee on Torture called the Chinese State to commission an independent investigation of the reports, and "ensure that those responsible for such abuses are prosecuted and punished."

[Hosea22]

Since 1999, reports of torture, illegal imprisonment, beatings, forced labor, and psychiatric abuses have been widespread. 66% of all reported torture cases in China concern Falun Gong practitioners, who are also estimated to comprise at least half of China's labor camp population, according to the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, and the US Department of State respectively.

[Hosea22]

In April 1999 over ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners gathered at Communist Party of China headquarters, Zhongnanhai, in a silent protest against beatings and arrests in Tianjin. Two months later the People's Republic of China government, led by Jiang Zemin, banned the practice, began a crackdown, and started what Amnesty International described as a "massive propaganda campaign."

[Hosea22]

Another sinologist, Benjamin Penny, says that while Falun Gong is a "qigong cultivation system," the heavy emphasis on morality makes it appear to be a religion. Penny regards Falun Gong as one of the most important phenomena to emerge in China in the 1990s.

[Hosea22]

According to David Ownby, Professor of East Asian studies at the University of Montreal, Falun Gong emerged at the end of China's "qigong boom", and has a heritage in a centuries-old tradition of "cultivation practice". Sinologist Barend ter Haar regards it as a distinctly new form of Chinese religious movement shaped by the Maoist revolution.

[negkreyol21]

thank you i was just wandering what it was... so why are they protesting is there some limits in their ability to practice it

[Hosea22]

Falun Gong is a spiritual discipline founded in China by Li Hongzhi in 1992. It has five sets of meditation exercises and teaches the principles truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance, as set out in the main books Falun Gong and Zhuan Falun. The teachings deal with issues such as "cultivation of virtue and character", "moral standards for different levels", and "salvation of all sentient beings."