Re: [iwar] [fc:Falun.Gong.hijack.TV.in.second.Chinese.city]

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Subject: [iwar] [fc:Falun.Gong.hijack.TV.in.second.Chinese.city]


> Falun Gong hijack TV in second Chinese city
>
> BEIJING, May 10 (Reuters) - Defiant members of the banned Falun Gong
> spiritual group hijacked the airwaves of a second northeastern Chinese
city
> in April to show footage protesting a government crackdown on their faith,
> witnesses said on Friday.
>
> Images touting the virtues of Falun Gong were broadcast on thousands of
> television sets in a district of the industrial hub of Harbin on the night
> of April 21, a TV repairman told Reuters.
>
> "I heard it went on for about five minutes," said the worker in Harbin,
> capital of Heilongjiang province which borders Russia. "Other
sub-districts
> in the city were not affected."
>
> A local broadcast bureau official confirmed the incident had taken place
but
> would give no details. Police and government officials declined comment.
>
> The move was the latest in a string of high profile attempts by Falun Gong
> to try and convince the public that adherents suffer wrongful persecution
by
> a Communist government which is trying to crush it.
>
> Falun Gong hacked into a cable television broadcast in the northeastern
city
> of Changchun on March 5 to show a similar film.
>
> The airings have been among the group's most daring actions since it was
> banned in 1999 after followers shocked leaders with a mass protest at
their
> Beijing leadership compound to demand recognition of their faith.
>
> In late March, Falun Gong adherents slipped poems by their exiled leader
Li
> Hongzhi into an economic page of the Guangzhou Daily newspaper describing
> suffocating sandstorms over China, alluding to widespread death and
imminent
> salvation.
>
> China, always on the look out for seeds of social unrest, is particularly
> wary of threats to one-party rule given plans for a critical leadership
> reshuffle late this year and wrenching economic reforms which have thrown
> millions out of work.
>
> "EVOLVING METHODS"
>
> Falun Gong, which combines traditional Chinese exercise with Taoism and
> Buddhism, appears to be turning to new tactics such as intrusions into
state
> press following a nationwide crackdown.
>
> Followers, once believed to number millions, have been driven underground
> and now rarely protest in Beijing's politically sensitive Tiananmen Square
> where a rash of foreigners have unfurled protest banners and deported in
> recent months.
>
> The New York-based Falun Dafa Information Centre said earlier in a
statement
> the group had hijacked the airways of large Chinese cable networks five
> times in the past three months. This could not be independently verified.
>
> Police have arrested more than 20 Falun Gong members for the March 5
> incident. They could face prison terms of up to 15 years, according to
> Chinese officials.
>
> The New York centre also said that Falun Gong's methods of trying to bring
> an end to persecution in China were evolving but the message remained the
> same.
>
> "No longer appealing just in Beijing, practitioners and supporters of
Falun
> Gong clarify the truth about the persecution on thousands of street
corners,
> sign-posts, highway overpasses and increasingly, on millions of
televisions
> throughout China," it said.
>
> China's campaign against Falun Gong has drawn sharp criticism from some
U.S.
> rights groups who maintain the International Olympic Committee overlooked
> human rights considerations in the world's most populous country.
>
> Some rights groups hope the 2008 Beijing Olympics will encourage greater
> scrutiny of China's rights record and be a catalyst for change for the
> better.
>
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