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...determine, the so-called “great firewall” blocks access to Chinese citizens who try to access or search for “controversial” or anti-government material on the web—blocking searches for the spiritual group ‘Falun Gong,’ for instance, a group that is critical of the government...
...autonomy as meaning a high degree of freedom to kowtow to the sovereign power in the north. Shorn of its linguistic niceties, it lays down that any organization of which Beijing disapproves on security grounds will be proscribed in Hong Kong. That could, for instance, mean that the Falun Gong movement, which the central government has been persecuting remorselessly, could be outlawed in the SAR. Or it could put Hong Kong's democratic parties, whose members are refused entrance to the mainland, at risk...
...administration in Hong Kong points out, in its defense, that Falun Gong and the Hong Kong Democrats are not so classified. But that misses the point. What the Tung administration is doing is handing to Beijing the power to decide who shall do what in Hong Kong. This makes a mockery of the autonomy pledged five years ago. The snag for those who care about this is that the ill is being done?on the surface at least?by Hong Kong people themselves, who, in another of the stock phrases of 1997, would rule Hong Kong free from the shackles...
...administrators at the U.S. Department of Transportation noticed a problem: requests for information bombarding their network server. It looked like a classic denial-of-services attack, which overloads servers and crashes them. The perpetrator appeared to be a server in Maryland run by practitioners of the spiritual movement Falun Gong, which is persecuted in China. In fact, the Falun Gong server itself had come under attack by hackers who sought to disable both sites and leave Falun Gong bearing the blame. But the hackers blundered, leaving a digital address traceable to a computer at 14 East Changan Avenue in Beijing...
...abuse of psychiatry to detain and institutionalize its political opponents at least equals and probably surpasses similar practices in the former Soviet Union, the report said. After declining from a peak in the 1960s, political psychiatry has been revived as a result of the crackdown on the Falun Gong sect. A Hong Kong court found 16 Falun Gong followers guilty of causing a public obstruction by demonstrating outside China's main office in the territory. INDONESIA Democratic Reform The world's most populous Muslim state abolished an electoral system that let President Suharto hold power for 32 years. The People...