Germany: Activities Calling for the Resumption of NTDTV’s Signal to China

On August 17th, Falun Gong practitioners held activities on the streets of Hamburg to expose the Chinese Communist regime’s cruel persecution of Falun Gong. They also collected signatures calling on the Eutelsat Company to immediately resume broadcast of the New Tang Dynasty Television’s (NTDTV) signal, as NTDTV is the only independent Chinese language TV station that has the will to cover the true situation in China.

Since it was the weekend, there were many shoppers and tourists on the streets in Hamburg. Some signed the petition right after viewing the display boards; others came over to ask for flyers upon hearing Falun Gong practitioners’ explanations through the loudspeaker; still others came back to ask for more flyers for their relatives and friends after accepting a flyer in a rush. After reading the flyer, some returned them to the practitioners, saying that they hoped others could also know the truth after reading that same flyer. Many people were concerned about NTDTV’s situation and signed the petition as soon as they saw the banners reading “Eutelsat Disconnects NTDTV’s signals to China on the eve of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.”

When passing by the spot, two Tibetan couples took initiative to ask for flyers in Chinese. They also signed the petition seriously and said, “Good job! We Tibetans support you.”

After viewing the display boards exposing the Chinese regime’s atrocity of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, a lady pushing a baby carriage burst into tears and talked to a practitioner, “Only after reading the information on the display boards did I really know that I was so ill-informed. My parents often told me something terrible under the communist party’s rule, but today I finally realised what they said to me. How can I help you?”

A Swedish couple who went to Germany for sightseeing said, “We immigrated to Sweden from Eastern Europe when it was under the communist party’s rule. We used to live in poverty, but now we own three big houses. The communism didn’t want people to lead an affluent life and it even went so far as harvesting organs from living people for sale now. Please provide me with more material and I’ll read them thoroughly.”

Seeing so many people coming to know about the intrinsic evil nature of the CCP and signing the petition supporting justice, practitioners participating in the activity expressed that they were pleased to be there.