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  • Germany: Human Rights Organisation Debates the Human Rights Situation in China

    On May 14th, 2007, the day before the human rights talks between the EU and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were held, many human rights organisations gathered in Berlin, Germany, condemning the CCP's violations of human rights. The Asian affairs director of the “Organisation supporting threatened groups” (which is an organisation based in Goettingen, Germany), Ulrich Delius, could not attend the gathering and sent a letter of support instead. In his letter, Delius said that since the human rights talks between EU and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began in 1996, the state of human rights in China has not improved in eleven years.
  • Holland: Falun Gong Marching Band Defies Chinese Regime at a Parade

    On the flyers distributed by practitioners supporting the European Celestial Band is an internet link, which reveals the band's background and the name of one of the songs in its repertoire: Falun Dafa is Good. Falun Dafa is another word for Falun Gong, the spiritual movement forbidden in China and persecuted so brutally. One mouse click and we know how harshly: a colour photo shows a dead Falun Gong practitioner who, according to the caption, has been killed for his organs (organ harvesting). Realistic drawings show the torture techniques that China uses against Falun Gong adherents.
  • Lithuania: Renowned Rabbi Condemns Organ Harvesting

    Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, ninety seven years old, was the leader of Jews in the Orthodox Church in Lithuania in central Europe. He is a well known person in Jewish religious circles around the world, renowned as the authority of contemporary Jewish Laws. The Rabbi recently denounced the atrocities of organ harvesting from live people perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party. According to the report of NTDTV, the Rabbi’s son-in-law, Rabbi Yitzhak Zilbershtein, heard the Rabbi’s comments about organ harvesting from live people and he stated the Rabbi’s opinions during a public occasion.
  • Holland: Exposing the CCP's Atrocities in Amsterdam

    On May 6th 2007, Falun Gong practitioners in Holland held activity in Dam Square, Amsterdam, appealing to the EU to use open-door human rights dialogue with China to urge the Chinese communist regime to release all illegally detained Falun Gong practitioners and to condemn and stop the regime’s persecution of Falun Gong.
  • Germany: On World Falun Dafa Day and during the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue, Practitioners Inform the People of Berlin about the Persecution

    On the occasion of the eighth World Falun Dafa day and the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue, many activities were organised in the form of an awareness-raising day on the square of Berlin’s Gedächtniskirche (Remembrance Church). Around 250 Falun Gong practitioners from all over Europe arrived for these activities.
  • Bulgaria: People of Plovdiv Welcome Falun Gong and Condemn the Persecution in China

    Practitioners exhibited posters that attracted passersby. They gathered in front of the petition and carefully read the information on the panels. Many of them asked questions about the essence of the practice and the reasons for the persecution. Many children signed the petition and gladly took colourful paper lotus flowers as souvenirs.
  • Turkish Magazine Interviews Practitioner About Falun Gong and the Persecution in China

    "Today in China, people who practise Falun Gong are not accepted to schools and universities, they are fired from their jobs, and their houses are ransacked and phones tapped. Women and men are kidnapped, given electric shocks and are not allowed to sleep, and they are exposed to all kinds of torture methods and persecution. Over three thousand have been confirmed tortured to death, but it is believed that the real number is more than ten thousand. There are also hundreds of thousands of people in jail and prison camps, and most of these people are innocent Falun Gong practitioners."
  • Finland: Nordic Falun Gong Practitioners Celebrate the 8th Anniversary of World Falun Gong Day in Helsinki

    On May 13th, 2007, Finnish and Russian practitioners celebrated World Falun Gong Day in Helsinki. On May 13th, 1992, Master Li Hongzhi introduced Falun Gong to the public in Changchun, China. There are practitioners in over eighty countries practising Falun Gong; the book Zhuan Falun has been translated into more than thirty languages.
  • Germany: Hamburg Practitioners Commemorate the Peaceful April 25th 1999 Appeal in Beijing

    On April 24th, 2007, practitioners from Hamburg and Hanover gathered outside the Chinese Consulate in Hamburg. They were commemorating the April 25th, 1999 peaceful appeal by 10,000 practitioners in Beijing. Practitioners called for attention to the persecution of Falun Gong and the cruelties perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party.
  • Falun Dafa News (Austria): A country choked by propaganda

    The board of the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced at the end of last year that it had issued nine new digital channels to TV stations of the People’s Republic of China. Some of the Canadian media, along with various members of Parliament openly disagreed with the CRTC’s decision because the same stations, which are controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), are known to spread slander and hate propaganda against Falun Gong as well as other groups persecuted by the regime.
  • Germany: Practitioners Appeal to the EU to Stop China from Extending the Persecution of Falun Gong to Russia

    On May 14th, 2007 on the eve of the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue in Berlin, international media carried the shocking news that the Russian government, bowing to pressure from the Chinese Communist Regime, forcibly kidnapped and deported Falun Gong practitioner Gao Chunman to China. Mr. Gao, 73, a former professor from Tsinghua University in China. He was granted refugee status by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Office in Russia in 2003 and his wife is a Russian citizen.
  • Turkey: Experience Sharing Conference Held in Ankara

    On May 12th 2007, a group of practitioners in Ankara successfully took part in the first Falun Gong Experience Sharing Conference in the local Cultural Centre. The conference proceeded peacefully from beginning to end, and practitioners shared their understandings with each other and exchanged their personal experiences of cultivation.
  • Italy: Celebrating Falun Dafa Day

    On May 13th, Falun Gong practitioners in Italy separately gathered in Rome and Milan to celebrate the 8th Falun Gong Day and extend their wishes and thanks to the founder of the practice, Mr. Li Hongzhi. Introduced in 1992, Falun Gong has benefited over one hundred million practitioners around the world, so practitioners wish more people could share this good news.
  • Finland: Rally to Support 21 Million Withdrawals from the CCP and its Related Organisations

    On May 12th, 2007, the Finnish Service Centre for Quitting the CCP held a rally and a parade in Helsinki's Central Square to support the twenty-one million withdrawals from the CCP in China. People from many Nordic countries participated in the event, which attracted a lot of tourists and local people’s attention.
  • Vice-President of the European Parliament: "The greatest mistake committed by the Chinese Communist Party is to crack down on belief"

    Prior to the EU-China human rights dialogue, eight non-governmental human rights groups in Europe held a seminar at the Silken Berlaymont Brussels Hotel, next to the EU headquarters. Those present called on the EU to take action before the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing to ensure that China’s human rights will be improved by then.