09 Feb 2002

Dangerous Meditation: China's Campaign Against Falungong
Human Rights Watch, New York, NY, USA
Supplied note: "This report [ISBN 1-56432-270-X, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2002100348 and written by Mickey Spiegel, research consultant to the Asia Division of Human Rights Watch - ed.]. provides a comprehensive account of the emergence of Falungong in China and the government's response, with particular emphasis on events since the mass Falungong demonstration on April 25, 1999 outside Zhongnanhai, the compound in Beijing housing China's leaders. The report sets forth a detailed chronology of major developments as well as analysis of existing data, much of it flawed, on who is in custody in prisons, reeducation through labor camps, psychiatric institutions, and other incarceration facilities and how they have been treated."
Site contents: I. SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Executive Summary; Note on methodology; Recommendations: To the Chinese government, To the Hong Kong government, To the international community, To corporations doing business in China; II. WHAT IS FALUNGONG? The Membership; Freedom of Belief in China; III. DEFIANCE AND RESPONSE: A CHRONOLOGY IV. ZHANG KUNLUN -- AN ILLUSTRATIVE CASE Analysis; V. FALUNGONG IN CUSTODY: COMPETING ACCOUNTS Judicial Prosecutions; Reeducation through Labor, Transformation Centers; Death in Custody, Torture and Other Ill-treatment; Psychiatric Incarceration; VI. FALUNGONG OUTSIDE MAINLAND CHINA Falungong in Hong Kong; Falungong Elsewhere in Asia: Thailand, Singapore, Japan, Australia, Taiwan; Falungong in the West Europe, Canada, United States, United Nations; VII. ANALYSIS OF THE GOVERNMENT RESPONSE Why Eradication? A "rule of law" veneer; VIII. CONCLUSION; APPENDIX I: REEDUCATION THROUGH LABOR IN CHINA; APPENDIX II: LAWS AND REGULATIONS USED TO CRACK DOWN ON FALUNGONG Social Organizations Regulations; The Assembly Law and Implementing Regulations; Public Order Regulations; The PRC Criminal Law; State Secrets and State Security Laws; Laws Governing Electronic and Print Media; Internet Regulations; APPENDIX III: A LETTER FROM ZHANG KUNLUN TO BRIGADE LEADER LIANG JUNLING;
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