Physical Space Politics: Falunkong and HK Police

The first three photos were taken on 14 Nov2007, near the Wong Tai Sin Temple, when I were on my way home, I saw that the members of Falun Dafa were being questioned by the Hong Kong Police about their illegal use of that private space (e.g. the car park). Apart from taking photos, I have also used my digital video camera to capture the process of the police negotiating with the members of Falun Dafa, as well as I have done an 40minutes interview with one of the members(for example, she told me that the car park was bought by the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government this year, in order to further block the promotion of Falun Dafa in Hong Kong) . I may upload the interview video later.

Then, the last 4 photos were taken on 16Nov, just 2 days after the event. The car park were covered by plastic covering in order to prevent the promotion of Falun Dafa at that site.

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when I first access to this web, I am so surpriesd that the scale of it are so large and international that not only 13 languages can be chosen but even for English only there are already 6 different posts provided for different countries.
Even I have no special attitude towards the belief of falunkong, it is a good illustration of how the politically maginalized group making visible in society by the use of Internet distribution and Independent Media.

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