Falun Gong is a Chinese meditation practice with five meditative exercises and teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance
Man Convicted of Spying on Falun Gong in Germany
By Epoch Times By Matthew Robertson & Tian Yu ——Bio and Archives--June 16, 2011
CELLE, Germany—For the first time a Chinese agent has been convicted of spying on practitioners of Falun Gong, the meditation and spiritual discipline that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1999 vowed to crush. The guilty party, John Zhou, was given a two-year suspended sentence on June 8, along with a hefty fine.
Zhou, 55, a Chinese doctor by profession, was one of the earliest adoptees of Falun Gong in Germany in the late 1990s. He began working with Chinese agents over five years ago. After several years of investigation—including visits from German counterintelligence informing him that he was under suspicion—prosecutors brought him to trial on May 26 in the Niedersachsen State Supreme Court in the city of Celle.
The court handed down a suspended sentence of two years in prison and a fine of 15,000 euros (US$21,530), to be paid to the human rights group Amnesty International.
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