Human Rights Watch

"China's efforts to equate the Falungong with terrorists are ludicrous. Most Falungong [practitioners] are peaceful, law-abiding citizens, and there is no excuse for the human rights violations they have endured."
          -- Sidney Jones, executive director of Human Rights Watch's Asia Division

Dangerous Meditation: China's Campaign Against Falungong

Comprehensive 117-page report documents systematic abuses

TABLE OF CONTENTS I. SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Executive Summary Note on methodology: Recommendations To the Chinese government: To the Hong Kong government: To the international community: To corporations doing business in China: II. WHAT IS FALUNGONG? The Membership Freedom of Belief in China III. DEFIANCE AND RESPONSE: A CHRONOLOGY IV. ZHANG KUNLUN -- AN ILLUSTRATIVE CASE Analysis V. FALUNGONG IN CUSTODY: COMPETING ACCOUNTS Judicial Prosecutions Reeducation through Labor; Transformation Centers Death in Custody, Torture and Other Ill-treatment Psychiatric Incarceration VI. FALUNGONG OUTSIDE MAINLAND CHINA Falungong in Hong Kong Falungong Elsewhere in Asia Thailand Singapore Japan Australia Taiwan Falungong in the West Europe Canada United States United Nations VII. ANALYSIS OF THE GOVERNMENT RESPONSE Why Eradication? A "rule of law" veneer VIII. CONCLUSION APPENDIX I: REEDUCATION THROUGH LABOR IN CHINA APPENDIX II: LAWS AND REGULATIONS USED TO CRACK DOWN ON FALUNGONG Social Organizations Regulations The Assembly Law and Implementing Regulations Public Order Regulations The PRC Criminal Law State Secrets and State Security Laws Laws Governing Electronic and Print Media Internet Regulations APPENDIX III: A LETTER FROM ZHANG KUNLUN TO BRIGADE LEADER LIANG JUNLING

Other Reports

• World Report 2003: Asia: China and Tibet
• Dangerous Minds: Political Psychiatry in China Today and its Origins in the Mao Era
  (Note especially chapter VIII, "The Falun Gong: New Targets of Psychiatric Abuse".)

Related Material

• China: Repression Against Falungong Unabated
  Press release, 7 February 2002
• China Tightens Internet Controls
  Press release, 1 August 2001
• China Human Rights Update
  February 2000
• Human Rights Watch web site