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		Falungong is a form of qigong, an ancient Chinese deep-breathing exercise system sometimes combined with meditation that enthusiasts claim promotes physical, mental, and spiritual well-being by enhancing the flow of vital energy through a person's body.
		Falungong's tactic of mounting orderly public protests had been in use for several years before it backfired on April 25, 1999, when at least 10,000 men and women quietly demonstrated for legitimacy outside Zhongnanhai, the compound in the heart of Beijing where the Chinese Communist Party leadership lives and works.
		Falungong leaders apparently thought there would be no repercussions from the April 25 demonstration even though it was much larger than earlier protests and at a much more sensitive site.
	math.ucr.edu /~zguan/Cult.htm (1014 words)

	HARIAN UMUM SUARA MERDEKA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Falungong has denied the five were true followers, saying its teachings do not condone suicide.
		Falungong said in a statement on Friday that authorities had refused to allow the family of a 36-year-old Falungong follower who died in detention to reclaim her body, photograph the corpse or get an independent autopsy.
		Falungong has said in an earlier statement that more than 10 adherents were beaten to death at Changlinzi.
	www.suaramerdeka.com /harian/0108/19/eng3.htm (658 words)

	China: Repression Against Falungong Unabated (Human Rights Watch, 7-2-2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Falungong members have been classified with Tibetan and Uighur 'splittists' and unauthorized religious groups as a major threat to the Communist Party, Human Rights Watch said.
		Human Rights Watch notes that the "anti-cult" legislation developed to eliminate Falungong is being used against at least sixteen other religious organizations that refuse to tailor their beliefs and practice to the demands of the Chinese government.
		Falungong's capacity to mobilize its supporters inside and outside China has stemmed from a highly sophisticated use of electronic communication.
	www.hrw.org /press/2002/02/falungong.htm (639 words)

	Asiaweek.com \| China: A Two-Way Siege \| 2/11/2000
		By practicing Falungong and studying its texts, a devotee can get a small wheel in his or her abdomen, which spins one way to absorb energy, and the other way to eliminate harmful elements.
		What sets Falungong apart is that Li Hongzhi simplified the arduous and often secret qigong exercises, married them to a moral, if esoteric, philosophy, and set himself up as a teacher equal to Buddha.
		Ho Laiha, a Falungong coordinator in Hong Kong, started practice in 1994 while living in southern China, where she had been waiting with her husband for a decade for a migrant visa to join her husband's parents in Hong Kong.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/magazine/2000/0211/sr.china3.falungong.html (2062 words)

	Falun Gong and health (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Falungong, practitioners of a certain form of qigong, has been branded a dangerous sect by the Chinese government, and has been banned on the mainland since last July.
		As many have pointed out, the popularity of Falungong on the mainland has much to do with the fact that, in a society that is changing so quickly that many feel helpless, disoriented and fearful, Falungong appears to offer answers to the one thing that people do have the power to control: themselves.
		In particular, Falungong is said to be filling an ideological vacuum in China left by discrediting of socialism, and to offer an alternative form of health practice for people left with limited treatment options with the collapse of free public health care services on the mainland.
	www2.kenyon.edu /depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln270/FalunGong/c-7.htm (1334 words)

	Falungong jams satellite during Shenzhou flight, China says
		Falungong was banned in China in July 1999 by the government, which considered the millions of followers of the group the biggest threat to social stability since the 1989 Tiananmen democracy protests.
		Falungong mixes traditional Buddhist and Taoist beliefs with mass breathing and meditation exercises.
		Several hundred Falungong followers have been jailed in China for their beliefs, while some tens of thousands have been incarcerated in labor camps or detained by police for shorter periods of time, exiled members of the group say.
	www.spacedaily.com /2003/031016112919.tck23wm1.html (343 words)

	Transnational China Project Commentary: David Ownby on Falungong as a Cultural Revitalization Movement
		And the point that I will try to make there is that study of Falungong enables us to understand a whole host of similar groups that we have known about in the past but did not really know what their significance was.
		In my opinion, the Falungong, or the Qigong movement as a whole, are contemporary reincarnations, with numerous and important alterations of a popular religious tradition, or a number of related traditions, that date back in their organized form to the middle of the Ming Dynasty.
		And for me as an historian one of the most exciting things about working on Falungong is it gives us a chance to rethink or to re-characterize a body of knowledge that we have possessed for some time, but which has been, in my opinion, inadequately characterized.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~tnchina/commentary/ownby1000.html (9625 words)

	Falun Gong, Falun Dafa, Falungong - religious cults, sects and movements
		July 22: Falungong is formally declared an ''illegal organisation.'' The move coincides with the launch of a media campaign accusing the movement of causing 1,500 deaths.
		July 22: Falungong members are kicked and badly beaten by police in Tiananmen Square in the most violent crackdown yet seen on the group since it was banned exactly one year ago.
		Falungong founder Li Hongzhi issues a new year statement titled ''Beyond the Limits of Forbearance'' in which he for the first time he says his teachings make allowances for going beyond forbearance, one of the three principles of Falungong.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /f02.html (4921 words)

	Harvard Asia Pacific Review
		The qigong and Falungong movements appeared to be especially threatening because their followers included state workers such cadres, scientists, and military leaders in addition to ordinary citizens.
		Though spokespersons for the Falungong organization claimed to be practicing not qigong but the Spinning Wheel of Law (referred to as Falun) in meditation exercises, the emphasis on qi cultivation as a basis for healing and the social phenomena of the practices were the same.
		Most qigong and Falungong devotees in China are notably older, consisting of retired workers, intellectuals, and cadres- far from being outsiders, these are people fully entrenched in the socialist system.
	hcs.harvard.edu /~hapr/winter00_millenium/Falungong.html (2403 words)

	Human Rights in China
		Chinese authorities intensified detention of Falungong practitioners as members marked the anniversaries of their demonstration in Beijing and the official outlawing of the group.
		In April, a year after Falungong came to prominence with a 10,000-strong sit-in outside government headquarters in Beijing, dozens of Falungong followers sat silently in Tiananmen Square and unfurled banners proclaiming the benefits of their spiritual practices.
		Falungong groups have remainded undaunted in staging demonstrations to protest the ban on their movement.
	www.hrichina.org /public/contents/2529 (3532 words)

	Falungong movement is not 'exercise practice': Police
		It also called the Falungong movement an anti-China activity organized and planned by forces in the United States and Taiwan, and that the movement was taking advantage of Indonesia's ignorance of Falungong's "evil cult nature" in order to expand its activities in the country.
		As the Falungong organization grew in popularity and gained support from a large number of members in China, authorities there outlawed the Falungong in July 1999, saying its group exercises and mystical Buddhist and Taoist teachings were the biggest threat to communist rule since the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy protests.
		Falungong believers have stated that they can often feel the wheel turning in their stomachs, adding that their use of meditation and martial arts exercises can radically improve health.
	www.rickross.com /reference/fa_lun_gong/falun253.html (703 words)

	[11-03-99] Falungong Crackdown -- Invisible Arrests Of Invisible Protesters In Tienanmen Square
		Indeed, their action is so discreet that it is not clear whether this is a gentle attempt to stem protest by Falungong members or the beginning of a serious crackdown.
		Another friend told of a 50 year old woman in her office detained a month ago on falungong charges and still in jail -- furthermore, her colleagues were warned to stay away from her.
		Is falungong being treated any worse than the tens of thousands of rural migrants, street vendors and prostitutes who were rounded up and ejected from Beijing in the months leading up to the national day celebrations -- or is this the beginning of a heavy handed social cleansing?
	www.pacificnews.org /jinn/stories/5.22/991103-square.html (931 words)

	Over 40 Foreign Falungong Followers Held For Beijing Protest
		More than 40 foreign followers of the banned Falungong group were arrested for protesting in Tiananmen Square, with some maltreated by police.
		Before the protest, another 21 Falungong followers, including four Britons and seven Germans, were detained in hotels during raids on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, said Gail Rachlin of the group's New York headquarters.
		Human rights groups estimate that hundreds of Falungong followers have been sentenced to jail terms and tens of thousands sent to labour camps since the ban.
	www.rense.com /general20/gfol.htm (509 words)

	Asia Times: The burning issue of Falungong
		Despite these mistakes, the message of Falungong's madness made huge inroads, as the cult was forced into a campaign, still ongoing, to deny the episode and lay the blame for it on the government.
		The government's response to the Falungong offensive was to prove that it was not persecuting religious belief.
		A better approach to resolving the Falungong issue would be to try practitioners for specific crimes and violations of the law rather than for their beliefs.
	www.atimes.com /china/DD10Ad01.html (1113 words)

	FalunInfo.Net - Human Rights Watch slams China over 'repression' of Falungong
		Falungong, which HRW said once claimed 40 million adherents in China, was outlawed as an "evil cult" in July 1999, and by September 2001 it had mostly been driven "underground", the report said.
		However, as the Falungong continued to grow and defy government efforts to curb the group, the government raised the stakes by calling Falungong a threat to social stability and then more recently a terrorist organization.
		Without disputing the government's claim that Falungong is a highly organized "sect", the report maintains that law-abiding citizens have a right to peacefully practise their beliefs.
	www.faluninfo.net /displayAnArticle.asp?ID=5276 (613 words)

	Asiaweek.com \| The Year \| Newsmakers: Li Hongzhi \| 12/31/99
		The Falungong demanded the release of five followers during an earlier demonstration in the city of Tianjin and the dismissal of the editor of a local youth magazine that had rebuked the sect's beliefs.
		Further, Falungong is unique among qigong disciplines because it is portrayed as a holistic way of living rather than just an aid to good health.
		Falungong claims a membership of 60 million in China alone (the authorities insist the figure is about 2 million) and another 40 million overseas.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/magazine/99/1231/year.falungong.html (1042 words)

	Chinese police crackdown on Falungong Lunar New Year protest (AFP:2/5/00)
		Li said her friend, a US passport-holding Chinese American, was taken early Saturday to northern Beijing's Xiao Tangshan detention center and hoped to remain in police custody as long as possible to document the treatment of the followers.
		The protest appeared to be the biggest by the Falungong since mid-October when thousands were rounded up for protesting government legislation that aimed to stifle the group.
		At least 50 Falungong members were seen by Western journalists being detained in Tiananmen Square in a round up at midnight Friday as China began Lunar New Year celebrations.
	clearwisdom.net /eng/response/ap020500.html (586 words)

	China jails 32 Falungong in Lunar New Year crackdown
		The pair were accused of being two of the main leaders of the movement in the capital, and were alleged to have sold 1.8 million Falungong books through their store.
		In a second trial at the same court on January 28, 30 Falungong members were sentenced to between four months and two years for carrying out protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, said the centre.
		Centre spokesman Frank Lu said it was very difficult to know exactly how many Falungong members would face trials as the authorities were going to great lengths to keep them secret and had told family members not to publicize proceedings.
	clearwisdom.net /eng/response/jail32.html (526 words)

	Li Hongzhi - Falungong Master Of 70 Million But Mystery To All
		In one of his rare public statements, on the day of the official ban on Falungong by China on July 22 last year, Li tried to answer some of the criticisms leveled against him.
		As for not contacting his persecuted followers, who have been jailed or sent to re-education labor camps, or even died in custody, he said although he was in Beijing when the first Falungong protest took place in April 1999, he did not incite it or even know about it.
		Falungong combines ancient Chinese exercises and meditation with Li's own morality and mysticism, which exhort patience, tolerance, and rectitude as the path to good health and psychological wellbeing.
	www.rense.com /general2/mill.htm (610 words)

	China calls on US to crackdown on Falungong after heckling
		China asked Tuesday how a Falungong member was allowed to breach security and heckle President Hu Jintao during his US visit, and urged Washington to take firmer action against the group.
		Wang was later identified as a reporter for the Falungong supporting Epoch Times who used a temporary press pass to get into the media section of the ceremony held to mark Hu's meeting with US President George W. Bush.
		Falungong members loudly protested at the US capital as well as in Seattle and at Yale University.
	prisonplanet.com /articles/april2006/250406_b_Falungong.htm (411 words)

	Around 70 Falungong On Hunger Strike In Beijing Detox Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		But despite blanket security the Falungong have held sporadic protests in and around Tiananmen Square in the past five days, as they have done since they were banned on July 22 last year and labelled an "evil cult".
		Other Falungong practioners in Beijing have also been rounded up and put in "education centers" or "education courses" at their work units to prevent them from holding demonstrations during the parliamentary meeting, other Falungong sources in Beijing said.
		A Hong Kong Falungong practitioner told AFP her 61-year-old mother was among 17 detained for 24 hours from Sunday near her home in Beijing's western Haidian district.
	www.richmond.edu /~vwang/ps345/art118.htm (479 words)

	CHINA-FALUNGONG
		TEXT: Although the government's sweeping crackdown on Falungong was aimed at quashing the spiritual group, it seems to have had the opposite effect.
		The Legal Daily newspaper Wednesday ran a report focusing on two Falungong members from the central industrial city of Wuhan, who have renounced their belief in the group since the crackdown.
		However, the policeman refused to comment on allegations that another Falungong follower also died from injuries sustained when he jumped from a moving train to escape police torture.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/china/1999/991027-prc1.htm (599 words)

	Court to Handle Case Against Falungong Leaders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Party leadership was reportedly furious by the fact that Falungong had infiltrated at the very high level within the Party.
		Wang suggested that Falungong was beneficial rather than harmful to the country and to its people.
		Another official with the Supervisory Ministry was believed be one of the key organizers of the April 25 rally when thousands of Falungong followers staged a sit-in outside Zhongnanhai, the Party and central government compound.
	www2.kenyon.edu /Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln270/FalunGong/15.htm (607 words)

	Asia Times: China
		After long months of treatment and re-education he had felt good again and had seen that he had been deceived and hoodwinked by the Falungong, so he admitted his activities as co-organizer of many expeditions to Beijing to demonstrate against the government ban of the cult.
		At the entrance he asked to be readmitted, explaining to the guard that he had relapsed into his old Falungong beliefs, and needed to be cured again.
		Many of those old Falungong sympathizers are, or are close to, those now grumbling against opening up to traditional religions, which they see as a move aimed against the spread of Falungong, and one that could destroy the old party tenets.
	atimes.com /china/DF13Ad01.html (1403 words)

	Falungong Accused Of Sabotaging 25 Chinese TV Channels
		APT Satellite Holdings said it had complained to Hong Kong's police and government after 13 China Central News TV channels and 12 provincial channels were blocked for a total of 15 minutes on Sunday.
		The Falungong, which enjoyed burgeoning popularity in China until it was banned as an "evil cult" in 1999, has frequently sabotaged television channels to denounce a crackdown which has seen thousands of adherents detained or jailed.
		The Falungong, which China considers a threat to its rule, mixes traditional Buddhist and Taoist beliefs with mass breathing and meditation exercises.
	www.spacewar.com /news/china-05zzzz.html (442 words)

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