In the University of Geneva, students, professors, and people from all walks of life were shocked to learn that a Government could consider implementing a law that would seriously jeopardise the fundamental freedoms of its own people and threaten those of citizens worldwide.
During this brief campaign, spontaneous support and offers of help flowed in from all sides. A person responsible for authorising the use of the university building wrote: I congratulate you and encourage you in this enterprise! A member of the Universitys Amnesty International group, sorry not to have participated in this campaign, took many copies of the petition to collect signatures. A student in international relations had even thought about presenting this subject at a seminar in international public law and had offered to bring a person from the information stand on Article 23 to meet the professors assistants, one of whom subsequently made slides in order to showing them during the seminar. One student offered an impromptu invitation to a person from the information stand to speak for five minutes on the proposed draft law and the petition at the opening of a conference on human rights and refugees that same evening. A considerable number of non governmental organisations also signed the petition. Although the campaign only lasted a couple of days, the lively reactions of many concerned people shows the degree of sensitivity and indignation at this threat to individual freedom, thus linking them with the great international outcry against Article 23 that has already occurred.
University of Genevas Falun Gong Student Association
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