Video about Falun Gong interrupts Chinese state TV

[dArKeR]

China's state television broadcasts were interrupted for nearly 15 minutes by video about the banned Falun Gong spiritual group, a spokesman for a Hong Kong-based satellite company said yesterday.

Falun Gong -- which China has labeled an "evil cult" and tried to suppress -- denied tampering with the programming beamed across the country.

The interference occurred on signals from the APSTAR 6 satellite on Sunday evening, and affected 25 channels -- 13 belonging to state-run CCTV and 12 provincial or city channels, spokesman Brian Lo for Hong Kong-based APT Satellite Holdings Ltd, which operates the satellite, said.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2005/07/06/2003262381

[smirkymonkey]

1. What is the deal with Falun Gong anyway?

They have demonstrations on the street here in NYC and they seem like very peaceful people who are being mercilessly persecuted by the Chinese government.

However, I wonder if there is something more to it than that. Why would the Chinese Government persecute a peaceful group that seems to be only interested in meditation and spreading the word of peace. Am I missing something?

[Cobalt Violet]

3. Yes, you are missing something very big.

70 million Falun Gong - 60 million Communist Party Members.


And of the transplants:

http://www.organharvestinvestigation.net/report200701/report20070131

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[bemildred]

2. Ha. That will piss them off. nt