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- Title: Gao V. Ashcroft
- Author : Third Circuit U.S. Court Of Appeals
- Release Date : January 07, 2002
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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The world has recently come to know Falun Gong as a movement in the People's Republic of China that"blends aspects of Taoism, Buddhism, and the meditation techniques of Qigong (a traditional martial art) with the teachings of Li Hongzhi." U.S. Dep't of State, Human Rights Report for 1999, China, February 25, 2000, available at http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/ 1999_hrp_report/china.html. As the news media has widely reported, in July, 1998, the Chinese government officially declared Falun Gong illegal and began a nationwide crackdown against the movement, launching a massive propaganda campaign against the group. The government "rounded up and detained [tens of thousands of practitioners] for several days, often in open stadiums with poor, overcrowded conditions with inadequate food, water and sanitary facilities. Practitioners who refused to renounce their beliefs were expelled from their schools or fired from their jobs." Id.
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