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Article: Truth of Falun Gong's Besieging of Chongqing Paper
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- August 6, 1999
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The besieging of a newspaper in this southwest China city last
November by the Falun Gong cult was a plotted act aimed at disrupting
social stability.
More than 300 Falun Gong practitioners besieged and attacked on
the Chongqing Evening News from November 4 to 6 last year after the
local paper reported on the cult and the harm it had done.
On November 1, 1998, the newspaper received a hotline call from a
worker at the Southwest Medicine Factory about the break-up of his
family.
The next day, the paper carried a story titled "When would
Laughter Return to My Home?" telling the story of the changes in the
worker's wife, Zhang Longhui, who had practiced Falun Gong for
several months and was ...