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Article: Enemy of the state: Shane Leavy enters the world of Falun Gong--China's spiritual alter-ego.(Essay)
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- New Internationalist
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- August 1, 2007
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On Dublin's O'Connell Street, just under the Millennium Spire, a small group of Chinese people are gathered, attracting hurried glances from the shoppers pouring past them. Some hold a large white banner; others are sitting on the ground in the lotus position, meditating on the cold concrete. The rest hand out pamphlets which claim that an innocent spiritual movement, something akin to yoga, is being brutally persecuted in China.
All over the globe practitioners of the Chinese religious movement Falun Gong are holding such protests. Since its banning as an 'evil cult' by the Chinese Government in 1999, foreign politicians have also been jumping on the 'Free Falun ...