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Article: Falun Gong protests China's legal sanctions; China brands group an 'evil religion' Saturday, and prepares trial offour leaders.(World)(Religion Vs. State)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
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China's detention and torture of Falun Gong followers, and continued public protests by members of the spiritual movement, are raising the stakes over the rights of the banned group to practice their beliefs.
Yesterday the Beijing government said four Falun Gong leaders had been charged with organizing a cult, the day after the national legislature rushed through a law to retroactively criminalize many Falun Gong activities.
And for the past seven days, Falun Gong followers from virtually every corner of the country who heard the law was being considered have converged on Tian-anmen Square, staging silent, peaceful protests in the political heart of ...