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Prominent pro-Beijing politicians also denounced the group for criticizing the mainland government. Regina Ip, Hong Kong's
Secretary for Security, called Falun Gong âdeviousâ and said that it would thereafter be closely monitored. Although she admitted that Falun Gong practitioners had broken no laws, she said such measures were justified because it âmight do that in the future.â Repeating the talking points of the Beijing government, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa said in February 2001 that Falun Gong bore âsome characteristics of an âevil cultââ, and indicated that the group would come under heightened surveillance and scrutiny in the territory. He also stated that Falun Gong would not be allowed to âabuse Hong Kongâs freedoms and tolerance,â and called its protests against the Beijing government âunacceptable.â
109:, Rev. Stephen Chan, a Catholic priest, said âthe government is damaging the reputation of a group of people who have broken no laws.â Officialsâ stance toward Falun Gong began to soften as the March 2002 elections for chief executive approached, as politicians were eager to show that âOne Country, Two Systemsâ remained intact. Soon after the elections in August 2002, however, sixteen Falun Gong followers were convicted of obstruction for meditating outside the Chinese government liaison office.
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102:. This time, practitionersâ protests were more tightly circumscribed, and authorities took measures to limit their freedoms of speech and assembly. The Hong Kong government also enforced a blacklist of Falun Gong practitioners traveling from abroad, and denied entry to the territory to practitioners from Japan, Australia, the UK, and U.S. Hong Kong authorities justified the blacklist as being necessary to safeguard security.
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controversial, and if successful likely would have resulted far greater limitations being placed on Falun Gong practitioners' ability to organise and protest in the territory. The bill was withdrawn after a July 2003 protest that drew approximately 350,000 to 700,000 Hong Kong citizens, thereby ensuring that Falun Gong practitioners would still have the right to assemble.
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Tung Chee-hwa objected to a planned Falun Gong conference, and warned against activities that were "not in the interests of China, Hong Kong, or the `one country, two systems.'" In June 2000 and on several subsequent occasions, authorities enforced travel restrictions to prevent Falun Gong practitioners from entering the territory to stage demonstrations.
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Chinese government. Another large-scale protest was held in January 2001. Practitioners regularly stage sit-ins, hold public meditation sessions, and frequent popular tourist sites to distribute literature detailing alleged human rights abuses by the mainland government.
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From 1992 to 1994, Falun Gong's founder Li
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in Hong Kong once and for all,â according to Human Rights Watch. 800â1,200 Falun Gong practitioners held demonstrations and marches in the city on
January 15, yet they were prevented from showing images of practitioners who had allegedly been tortured or killed amidst persecution in mainland China,
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reports that the government has âquietly chipped away at the rightsâ of practitioners in the territory in response to pressure from
Beijing. By late 1999, there had been several instances of Hong Kong book stores refusing to stock Falun Gong books. In December of that year, Hong Kong Chief Executive
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Chinese state-run media responded to the Falun Gong protests by declaring that Hong Kong was becoming a base for subversion, and accusing Falun Gong of being in collusion with âanti-Chinaâ forces in the West; pro-Beijing newspapers in Hong Kong similarly attacked Falun Gong in front-page articles.
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Several hundred actively practice Falun Gong in Hong Kong, holding a variety of public events and demonstrations to protest against suppression in mainland China and advocate for their rights of their mainland counterparts. On 23 July 1999, approximately 1,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered in
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Chinese central government in Beijing. It also would have prohibited foreign political organizations or bodies from conducting political activities in the region, and to prohibit political organizations from establishing ties with foreign organizations. The proposal was
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Canadian Falun Gong practitioner on a book tour was denied entry to the territory, and in 2008, two Falun Gong practitioners from the United States and Switzerland were separately denied entry while on professional and research trips. In 2007, hundreds of Taiwanese practitioners were
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lectures in Hong Kong in May 1995 on Lantau Island, and again in
November 1997. There has been an active Falun Gong community in Hong Kong since at least 1996, and in 1999 practitioners there were estimated to number approximately 1,000.
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