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  • Finland: Collecting Petition Signatures and Exposing the CCP’s Organ Harvesting Atrocities

    Practitioners from Helsinki displayed banners, photos and posters on the pavement in front of Helsinki train station to expose the Chinese Communist regime’s seven years of persecution against Falun Gong in China. They particularly wanted to raise the awareness about the atrocities of harvesting organs from living practitioners and selling them to transplant seekers.
  • European Falun Gong Divine Land Marching Band Performs in Berlin

    On February 10th 2007, when the European Falun Gong Divine Land Marching Band made its debut on Berlin’s Unter den Linden, the magnificent resounding music attracted a lot of people’s attention. The band, consisting of one hundred and fifty Falun Gong practitioners from about twenty European countries, was established in October 2006.
  • Italian Newspaper Reports on NTDTV Chinese New Year Spectacular

    On February 20th 2007, Italy’s largest daily newspaper Corriere della Sera carried a half-page article about the NTDTV Chinese New Year spectacular. The article reported that the spectacular, with a live orchestra of forty five musicians and over one hundred and fifty dancers, singers and actors, is magnificent. The show displays China’s five thousand year old history and civilization.
  • Russia: Falun Gong Practitioners Expose the CCP Crime of Harvesting Organs

    From January 20th to 27th and on February 3rd 2007, practitioners in St. Petersburg held activities to raise awareness about the persecution against Falun Gong in China, exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s crime of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. People were shocked by the CCP’s crimes.
  • France: Mainstream Media Support Chinese New Year Spectacular in Paris

    The report introduced the beauty of the Chinese culture, the dazzling costumes and the legendary fight between the good and the evil staged by the Chinese New Year Spectacular. It quoted the director of the band Mr. Chen Rutang who said his mission was to revive the spirit of the five-thousand year old Chinese culture destroyed by the CCP.
  • Human Rights Lawyer Condemns the Singapore Government for Appeasing the CCP

    Recently, six practitioners were charged by the Singapore authorities with assembling without a permit and underwent a trial inaccessible to the public, media and family members. The secret trial caused extensive concern. Human rights lawyer Mr. Ravi’s certificate to practise law was revoked by the Singapore government due to his defence of Falun Gong practitioners.
  • Article from German Newspaper Kurier (NÖ West): Chinese Artists Protest Against the Brutal Regime

    The Amstetten Town Hall is showing shockingly real and, at the same time, colourful and symbolic artworks, depicting human rights violations in China. Followers of the peaceful spiritual practice Falun Gong are persecuted with a brutality that is beyond belief. Artists who have often fallen victim to the military regime themselves, use their art to talk about the cruelties they suffered or which they observed others suffering.
  • Austrian Foreign Minister Shows Concern over the CCP’s Illegal Organ Harvesting

    At the end of November 2006, Petra Bayr, Elisabeth Hlavac and some other Austrian Parliamentarians wrote a formal letter to the Foreign Minister and the Health Minister asking for replies on the issue of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) practice of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. In her reply, the Foreign Minister emphasised that Austria supported the efforts of organizations to investigate Chinese prisons, especially the UN Special Rapporteur on torture.
  • Russia: Promoting Falun Gong in the City of New Siberia

    On the evening of the 10th of February 2007, four Falun Gong practitioners from Tomsk in Russia drove to the nearby city of New Siberia to distribute material to local Chinese people. From 1st of April 2007, foreign retailers will be completely banned from trading in Russia. With this in mind, practitioners in Tomsk wanted to deliver the latest edition of The Epoch Times into their hands before the Chinese went home for the New Year en mass. They would learn the latest news about quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliate associations. These precious Chinese people were given yet another chance to learn the truth and to withdraw from the evil party.
  • Germany: European Practitioners Hold a Grand Parade in Berlin Against the Persecution

    Falun Gong practitioners from European countries held a grand parade, calling on people to pay attention to the continuous persecution of Falun Gong in China, expressing support for eighteen million brave people who quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and disclosing the CCP's organ harvesting crimes.
  • Article from Turkish Newspaper: Falun Gong is the Latest Fad for Turkish People to Keep Fit

    On February 6th 2007, Turkish newspaper Takvim published a news article saying that Falun Gong has become a latest fad for Turkish people to keep fit. It reported that with the increasing popularity of Falun Gong among Turkish people, it has become a fad to practise Falun Gong exercises in Turkish parks. It added that Falun Gong’s principles and exercises have spread widely all over the world.
  • Russia: Raising Awareness about the Persecution at a Large-Scale Ski Tournament

    On February 11th, a large-scale ski tournament was held in Siberia’s Irkutsk city. Several Falun Gong practitioners went to the ski resort and distributed fliers to tens of thousands of people, letting them know what Falun Gong is and about how the practice is being persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party.
  • Article from Lower Austria News: Pictures That Strike a Chord in People

    The majority of the artists who are from Mainland China have personally experienced how human rights can be spurned. As practitioners of the cultivation school Falun Gong they live by the principles Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance. This is the reason why they are persecuted in China.
  • Sweden: Exposing how the CCP Harvests Organs from Living Falun Gong Practitioners

    On January 27th, a group of Falun Gong practitioners in Stockholm and some volunteers from Swedish branches of the CCP Withdrawal Centre held an activity in Victory Square in the city centre. They exposed the CCP harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, encouraging the public to stop the unprecedented atrocity happening in China now.
  • MP from Belgium: “I fully support the investigation by the CIPFG”

    "We see a continuing violation of human rights, which even cannot be openly protested against without facing the consequence of immediate liquidation. It is also impossible for organizations to help people, because of the ever increasing corruption and abuse of power in China, as seems from the reports of Amnesty International. The most distinguished group of victims at the moment are Falun Gong practitioners. There is a whole case of evidence about the brutal persecution of this group of people."