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Article: FOLLOWERS OF FALUN DAFA SPEAK UP FOR BELIEFS.(CAPITAL REGION)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- April 15, 2002
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Byline: MIKE FRICANO Staff writer
Albany Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute postdoctoral student Xueyuan Wu doesn't know where her mother is.
Lingwen Zeng was arrested Feb. 9 by Chinese authorities and hasn't been heard from since. Her crime: practicing Falun Dafa. Falun Dafa -- or Falun Gong, as it also is known -- is a spiritual practice in China, where a government crackdown has led to the deaths of hundreds and the imprisonment and torture of thousands, according to human rights activists.
All Wu knows about her mother is that she had been taken to a ``brainwashing'' class and later transferred to a prison, where gang rape and torture ...
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