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Chinese court imprisons activist couple

BEIJING, China - Photo shows human rights activist and former lawyer Ni Yulan living homeless at a park in Beijing in May 2010. Hong Kong media reported that a Chinese court on April 10, 2012, sentenced Ni and her husband Dong Jiqin to prison on charges of causing a nuisance and committing fraud. Ni used to help Falun Gong practitioners and homeowners whose houses were demolished.

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Chinese court imprisons activist couple

BEIJING, China - Photo shows human rights activist and former lawyer Ni Yulan (R) and her husband Dong Jiqin living homeless at a park in Beijing in May 2010. Hong Kong media reported that a Chinese court on April 10, 2012, sentenced the couple to prison on charges of causing a nuisance and committing fraud. Ni used to help Falun Gong practitioners and homeowners whose houses were demolished.

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Falun Gong members rally in Kobe in protest against China

KOBE, Japan - Chinese Falun Gong members in Japan hold a rally in Kobe on Sept. 15 in protest against China's government, as Chinese entrepreneurs from around the world gathered in the port city for a three-day conference.

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Falun Gong members seek refugee status amid deportation fears

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese members of Falun Gong, a sect outlawed in China, and their supporters appeal to Japanese immigration authorities not to detain them at a news conference in Tokyo on May 18. They made the appeal in the wake of moves by the Justice Ministry's Immigration Bureau starting this month to detain Falun Gong followers or instruct them to present themselves to bureau officials.

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More than 20 detained, beaten on Falun Gong anniversary

BEIJING, China - Police seize people believed to be members of the Falun Gong spiritual sect April 25 at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. At least 22 people were beaten and detained by police as sporadic protests in the square marked the second anniversary of banned Falun Gong's first major demonstration.

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Security upped after Falun Gong followers set selves ablaze

BEIJING, China - Police officers and vehicles take increased security measures at Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Jan. 23 after five followers of the outlawed Falun Gong movement set themselves ablaze. One person burned to death and the others were injured, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

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Falun Gong members detained by police during protest

BEIJING, China - Police detain members of the Falun Gong spiritual group in Tiananmen Square in Beijing as they staged a large-scale protest rally on Oct. 1, the first day of weeklong celebrations of the 51st anniversary of Communist rule in China.

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Falun Gong members clash with police in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual group clash with police after unfurling protest banners at Beijing's Tiananmen Square on April 25, one year after the group staged a massive sit-in. At least 78 followers were arrested. A year ago, 10,000 Falun Gong followers quietly and peacefully surrounded the Zhongnanhai leadership compound, which lies just to the west of the square.

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Falun Gong member removed by Macao police

MACAO - A member of the Chinese meditation group Falun Gong keeps his meditation posture while he was whisked away by Macao police on Dec. 19. The Falun Gong group, which is banned in China, staged a protest nearby the Hotel Lisboa casino as dignitaries flocked to Macao for the handover of the Portuguese territory to Chinese rule.

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Chinese government predicts end of Falun Gong near

BEIJING, China - Journalists invited to a news conference view a video film featuring the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement at the People's Great Hall in Beijing on Nov. 4. The Chinese government said the end of the movement is near, while admitting there has been a recent influx of quietly defiant believers to Beijing.

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China declares Falun Gong movement a cult

BEIJING, China - China labeled the Falun Gong movement a cult on Oct. 28, vowing to show no mercy in crushing the group. But group members continued their campaign of passive resistance in Beijing's Tiananmen Square for a 4th day. Photo shows the authorities herding Falun Gong members into a minibus in the square the same day before whisking them off to a police station.

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Falun Gong followers urge Beijing to stop persecuting

HONG KONG - About 200 Falun Gong followers in Hong Kong march in meditation Aug. 1 in protest against China's crackdown of the meditation sect. Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China, is the only place in the country where Falun Gong is permitted since Beijing outlawed the sect July 22.

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Falun Gong members protest against Chinese gov't in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Members of the Falun Gong meditation group, which is outlawed in China, protest in front of the head office of the United Nations in New York on July 28 to demand the Chinese government release colleagues who have been taken into in custody. Some 30 Chinese took part in the protest.

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China's meditation discipline sect chief Li in New York

NEW YORK, United States - Photo shows Li Hongzhi, spiritual leader of Chinese Falun Gong practitioners who is known as ''Master Li'' among his followers. This photo was taken in New York in June. In an interview in New York he said that Chinese authorities would be foolish to escalate persecution against the group.

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Police on alert against Falun Gong sect

BEIJING, China - Police question pedestrians in Beijing on July 21 as they tightened security around the Zhongnanhai leadership compound after some 50 Hong Kong followers of the Falun Gong sect staged a silent sit-in in front of the local office of Xinhua News Agency in Hong Kong for the second day in a protest against a major Chinese crackdown on the semi-religious group.

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Li Hongzhi-Falun Gong Leader-China

Li Hongzhi, the spiritual leader of tens of millions of Chinese Falun Gong practitioners, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in New York. Li has challenged Beijing authorities to provoke his followers by cracking down on the movement in China.

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Falun Gong members rally in Kobe in protest against China

KOBE, Japan - Chinese Falun Gong members in Japan hold a rally in Kobe on Sept. 15 in protest against China's government, as Chinese entrepreneurs from around the world gathered in the port city for a three-day conference. (Kyodo)

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Chinese court imprisons activist couple

BEIJING, China - Photo shows human rights activist and former lawyer Ni Yulan (R) and her husband Dong Jiqin living homeless at a park in Beijing in May 2010. Hong Kong media reported that a Chinese court on April 10, 2012, sentenced the couple to prison on charges of causing a nuisance and committing fraud. Ni used to help Falun Gong practitioners and homeowners whose houses were demolished. (Kyodo)

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Chinese court imprisons activist couple

BEIJING, China - Photo shows human rights activist and former lawyer Ni Yulan living homeless at a park in Beijing in May 2010. Hong Kong media reported that a Chinese court on April 10, 2012, sentenced Ni and her husband Dong Jiqin to prison on charges of causing a nuisance and committing fraud. Ni used to help Falun Gong practitioners and homeowners whose houses were demolished. (Kyodo)

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