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Established in 1999, The Falon Dafa is a New York based information center led by Li Hongzhi that is the equivalent of a press office. It hosts a multilicultural and multilingual network of public relations and web design serving as Falun Gong’s spokesperson (Zhao 216). This management not only oversees the movement from its headquarters, but it also provides news releases and newsletters to the public, and it established the journal Compassion. Members could now feel more secure knowing a large corporation looks out for the group’s overall well being.

 

The Chinese government began exercising violence as means to suppress the Falun Gong. Any citizen caught with Falun Gong material was immediately imprisoned. Only a handful of prison mates received a trial, while the remaining prisoners were simply handcuffed and placed in labor camps. According to a CNN correspondent, “Bu Dongwei, 41, a longtime adherent who spent three years in a labor camp, was forced to share a room with about 30 other people. Most of the thieves and drug addicts were encouraged to abuse the Falun Gong detainees” (Falun Gong: A Brief but Turbulent History). In 2002, as many as eight thousand members have been detained according to experts in human right, and at least one hundred have died in police custody (Galli, Lu 129). Most are said to be tortured to death, but the Chinese government have labeled their deaths as mass suicides or natural causes. In the case of Mrs. Zhao, one news reporter confirmed her affiliation with Falon Gong and concluded that she indeed committed suicide, while another news reporter claimed that she had marks all over her body and she had been tortured (Smith).

 

In response to the reported mutilation and brutality regarding fellow adherents of Falon Gong, members began reacting violently and proactively. A great number of followers began exercising in from of news organizations and harassing individual editors and reporters. Their displays caught the attention of worldwide journalists, but they soon lost their spark after months of day to day media coverage on the topic. To keep the stories alive, Falun Gong members organized news conferences both inside and outside of China, and they staged demonstrations at the international level. After creating various news headlines, members began hacking not only into China’s cable television networks but also into Sinosat State Satellite by late September of 2002 (Falun Gong: A Brief but Turbulent History). Other “discursive strategies include truth claim, personal testimonies, gain[ing] legitimacy from established authorities, mak[ing] use of highly selective and historical analogies, not foreground[ing] [their] leader, and tak[ing] an activist approach” (Zhao 211).

 

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