Letters from Dafa Associations, Local Events, Press Conferences , Meeting VIPs & Officials

  • Holland: Telling the Mayor about the Persecution of Falun Dafa

    The mayor said, "I know all about Falun Gong. He looked at me, probably not expecting anyone in his city to practise Falun Gong. I showed him some materials about the Chinese Communist Party taking organs from living victims, including Falun Gong practitioners. He looked for a moment and said, "Too terrible, too terrible. These people are too bad; I will read this material carefully." I also told him some experiences of mine; he listened with attention. I finally said that just because of this, I have not seen my daughter for seven years. The Mayor's wife said: "This is one of the most intolerable things. Thank you for telling us your story."
  • Switzerland: A Representative from Geneva City Council Condemns the CCP Crime of Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Gong Practitioners

    On May 9th, 2006, three representatives from the Swiss Falun Gong Association visited Geneva City Council. They were received by one of five city councilors, the Minster of the Department of Culture, Patrice Mugny and others. The Swiss Falun Gong Association representatives explained to them about the CCP's crimes of organ harvesting.
  • Finland: Protest Against the Inhuman Persecution of Falun Gong

    On April 22nd, 2006, Finnish Falun Gong practitioners displayed banners and photos depicting the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. They simply wanted to expose the Chinese Communist regime’s persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, who cultivate according to the principles of “Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance.”
  • Germany: Practitioners Rally in Munich to Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day

    In 1992, on May 13th, the founder of Falun Gong, Mr. Li Hongzhi, started to spread Falun Gong in Changchun. He unsealed people’s Buddha nature, which was hidden for a long time, with the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance, and pointed out a cultivation way to return to one’s original, true self.
  • Belgium: Falun Gong Practitioners Celebrate World Dafa Day in Ghent

    On May 13th, Falun Dafa practitioners held activities to celebrate World Falun Dafa Day. Practitioners demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises while children and parents queued for balloons with a message reading "Falun Dafa is good".
  • Czech Republic: The Czech People Appeal to the Government to Urge the Chinese Regime to Release Falun Gong Practitioners

    On April the 20th and April 21st, Falun Gong practitioners protested in Ostrava and Frydek-Mistek against the CCP removing live Falun Gong practitioners’ organs.We prepared petitions to urge the President of the Czech Republic to ask the CCP to immediately release all Falun Gong practitioners who are imprisoned in the secret concentration camps.
  • Germany: Telling the People of Leipzig about the Persecution of Falun Dafa

    On May 13th 2006, to celebrate Falun Dafa Day, German practitioners in Leipzig held an information day downtown to let the local people know about the persecution of Falun Gong. Many pedestrians happily took flyers and earnestly viewed photos. Some people requested to sign their names to support or enquired how to start to practise Falun Gong.
  • Austria: Exhibition of Practitioners' Paintings at Castle Schlaining

    The international “Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance” art exhibition can be viewed at Castle Schlaining. Arts and Culture Association “Ars Cara” organised an exhibition of twenty nine paintings and photographs. All artists are practitioners of the spiritual practice Falun Gong, which was banned in China in 1999.
  • Norway: Promoting Falun Gong on Norwegian National Day

    May 17th is Norway's National Day. In every Norwegian city and town, people hold grand celebrations and activities. On this day, Norwegians no matter male or female, no matter old or young dress in beautiful traditional costumes, wave national flags and take to the street to celebrate National Day. This year, practitioners took part too.
  • Germany: An Asian Specialist at the Chancellor’s Office is Concerned about the Harvest of Organs from Living Falun Gong Practitioners

    On May 15th, 2006, a week before the German Chancellor Merkel’s visit to China, an asian specialist in the Chancellor’s Office received representatives of Falun Gong practitioners, China Democratic League and a German human right organisation. At the same time, practitioners rallied in front of the Chancellor’s Office.
  • United Kingdom: Practitioners Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day in London

    For fourteen years Falun Gong has been spreading in China and abroad by word of mouth, purifying people’s minds and bodies. Now it has spread to nearly eighty countries and regions across the world. The first annual World Falun Dafa Day was held on May 13th, 2000, shortly after the CCP started persecuting Falun Gong.
  • Sweden: Celebrating World Falun Gong Day in Stockholm

    On Saturday May 13th, 2006, Swedish practitioners celebrated the 14th anniversary of Falun Gong’s introduction to the public. Practitioners held a four-hour celebration, with activities including dancing and singing, demonstrations of the Falun Gong exercises, a photo display, art exhibition and paper lotus flower making.
  • Finland: Falun Gong Practitioners Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day

    On World Falun Dafa Day, Finnish Falun practitioners celebrated in a park in Helsinki city centre and respectfully expressed good wishes for Master’s fifty-fifth birthday. A banner reading “Falun Gong is good” was hung on one side of the park. In front of the banner, practitioners played waist-drums and demonstrated the five Falun Gong exercises.
  • Holland: Expressing Support for the Ten Million Withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party

    Falun Gong practitioners gathered in Dam Square in Amsterdam. Along with the service centre for withdrawing from the Chinese Communist Party in the Netherlands and the volunteers from the Epoch Times, they expressed support for the ten million brave people who withdrew from the CCP and exposed the CCP crime of taking organ from live people.
  • Germany: Mannheim is Shocked by the Organ Harvesting from Live Falun Gong Practitioners in China

    Practitioners organised an information day in Mannheim. They informed passers-by of the gruesome harvesting of organs from live Falun Gong practitioners in China’s hidden concentration camps, which was perpetrated for economic profit. They told the listeners how the bodies are cremated after the organs are removed so as to destroy all the evidence.