Image for article Hong Kong: Appeals Court Overturns Obstruction Convictions, Practitioners to Take Case to Court of Final Appeal (Photos)

(Clearwisdom.net) On November 10 2004, at 10am Hong Kong time, a Hong Kong Court of Appeal overturned some of the charges against 16 practitioners for protesting outside China's liaison office in March 2002. However, the court upheld 5 other charges against 9 practitioners. The practitioners' lawyer stated that the arrest was not justified as the charge of "Obstruction" had been overturned. Therefore, the court should not find the practitioners guilty for mildly resisting the police's unlawful arrest ...

Image for article Media Summary: Hong Kong Appeals Court Overturns

On Wednesday, November 10, the Associated Press reported that in a case seen as a test for the territory's freedom under Chinese rule, a Hong Kong appeals court dismissed some of the convictions Wednesday against 16 Falun Gong practitioners for protesting outside China's liaison office.

Image for article Chinese Communist Party Delegation of Over 100 People Visits Africa, Party Secretary of Gansu Province Is Barred from Leaving Zambia

(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Su Rong, the Party secretary of Gansu Province was detained by Zambian Supreme Court on the afternoon of November 4, 2004 after he and a Chinese Communist Party delegation paid an official visit to Zambia's Vice President Lupando Mwape. An information source claimed that Su Rong had to leave the delegation led by Mr. Wu Bangguo, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Chinese National People's Congress (NPC) and stay in Lusaka, the capital of ...

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