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Germany: Franziska Methodist Church Centre Reports on Lawsuit Launched Against Jiang Zemin in Taiwan
2003-12-28
"Jiang Zemin started an anti-Falun Gong campaign in 1999. According to the Falun Dafa Information Centre, during the persecution that Jiang instigated, 822 people have lost their lives. However, Chinese government officials claim this number to be over 1600. Tens of thousands of Falun Gong believers have been arrested and sent to labour camps without any legal procedures.” -
United States: Practitioners Rally in Front of the Chinese Embassy on Christmas Eve
2003-12-28
While most Americans are celebrating this holiday season, Falun Gong practitioners Charles Lee and Meiyu Zhao have to suffer in prisons in Mainland China. On December 24, Washington DC Falun Gong practitioners held a press conference in front of the Chinese embassy to U.S to help rescue them. -
United States: Falun Dafa Practitioners Awarded Second Place in the 51st Quincy Christmas Parade
2003-12-28
Falun Dafa practitioners from the Boston area participated in the 51st Quincy Christmas Parade. It is estimated that 150,000 to 200,000 people lined the three-mile course of the parade. Out of over 90 parade entries, the practitioners were awarded second place for their float. -
United States: A Letter to Charles Li From Fellow Practitioners in Washington DC
2003-12-27It has been almost a year since you left us for China. We have heard about you from time to time in the past eleven months. Many of us did not know you before, but we were all deeply touched by your courage and selflessness upon learning the reason why you went to China...Together with Yeong-ching, we all look forward to the day that we will welcome you home with flowers and applause. We believe that day is not much longer. -
China: Charles Li Sends Greetings to All Practitioners through American Consul
2003-12-27On December 23, a spokesperson for the American State Department, Mr. Stuart Pratt, told the reporter in an interview that American citizen Charles Li, who has been illegally detained in China for nearly one year, had a conversation with the American consul in Shanghai on December 10, 2003. He wanted the consul to pass his greetings to practitioners, to his fiancé, Yeong-ching Foo and to American officials in Shanghai. -
Canada: National Post Suggests Athletes Practice Falun Gong Exercises During the 2008 Beijing Olympics
2003-12-27The Post proposed, athletes could announce that if China doesn't change its ways, they'll march into the Beijing Olympic Stadium on opening day in 2008, congregate on the field, and perform slow-movement meditation in the style of Falun Gong while several billion TV viewers look on. They could start practicing it at athletic meets right now, as a sign of solidarity. -
Melbourne Herald Sun: Moomba exclusion unlawful
2003-12-26Judge John Bowman found Melbourne City Council had breached the Equal Opportunity Act 1995 when it refused the Falun Dafa Association of Victoria a place in the March Moomba parade. Judge Bowman described the council's actions as "somewhat shabby conduct". "In my opinion, not only did the MCC discriminate against Falun Dafa, it treated it harshly," Judge Bowman said. "Falun Dafa was, effectively, led along the garden path to participate in the parade, and then abruptly rejected." -
United States: Proclamation of Falun Dafa Month, City of Columbus, Georgia
2003-12-26
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Taiwan: Falun Gong at Taipei's Health and Life Expo
2003-12-25
Invited by the sponsor of "2003 Health and Life Expo", on December 29, 2003, Falun Gong practitioners had a booth to introduce Falun Gong and demonstrated the exercises onstage in the First Exhibition Hall of Taipei's World Trade Centre. It was the second year that Falun Gong participated and like last year they received a very positive response. -
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Falun Dafa To Appear in Moomba Parade This Year
2003-12-25"Chinese spiritual group Falun Dafa has vowed to march in next year's Moomba parade after winning a legal battle with Melbourne City Council. The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has found the council discriminated against Falun Dafa by banning it from last year's Moomba parade. Vice president Judge Bowman found the council breached the Equal Opportunity Act by excluding the group from Moomba and said it was the council, rather than Falun Dafa that was motivated by politics." -
United States: Falun Gong Practitioners Welcome Wen Jiabao's Visit to the U.S.; Jiang's Political Lies Collapse on Their Own
2003-12-24For the past few years, Jiang Zemin has abused his position as the leader of China, exhausting public funds, and fabricating lies to blaspheme and denounce Falun Gong in a manner reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution. When he finally toured overseas, he met with people who had not been poisoned by his anti-Falun Gong movement, or what he called "Nationalism." Practitioners' welcoming activities for Wen Jiabao clearly express that Falun Gong is neither anti-China nor against the Chinese Government, shattering the lies concocted by Jiang and his followers. -
United States: Falun Gong Practitioners Hold Press Conference to Expose Slanderous Lies Spread by Chinese Consul-General in San Francisco
2003-12-24
On the evening of December 19, 2003, while being interviewed by a local TV station, the Chinese Consul-General in San Francisco, Wang Yunxiang, who was about to leave his post, once again spread lies to defame Falun Gong. Local Falun Gong practitioners immediately went to the TV station to clarify the facts. -
Australia: "Sound of Light Christmas Gala Celebration" Held in North Sydney
2003-12-24
On December 20, 2003, the "Sound of Light Christmas Gala Celebration" was held in Sydney. Performances by Falun Gong practitioners included dances, songs, piano solo, folk arts, and a Tang Dynasty fashion show, which won rounds upon rounds of warm applause from the audience. -
Canada: Wen Jiabao's Final Destination
2003-12-23"In China, you won't be able to see any Falun Gong practitioners rallying in public. No Falun Gong practitioner in China can afford to raise the banner in public or in front of the Chinese Premier like we are doing here without suffering severe consequences. The police assisting in Jiang's persecution will claim your life if you practice Falun Gong and conduct yourself according to its principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance in China. So we would rather stay here and grasp the opportunity to deliver the important message to Wen." -
Australia: 'Petals of Peace' Attracts Many at Nerang Celebrations
2003-12-23
From the very young to the elderly, the wider community gathered round our table to experience making a lotus flower or collect information, discuss with practitioners and read our colourful photo and information display on the outside of our gazebo
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