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• The Standard (Austria): UNO-Consultant Nowak investigates the organ trade

  2006-10-13
  Geneva: Against China’s wishes, the United Nations Organization’s (“UNO”) Human Rights Counsel in Geneva is looking into the alleged organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners. The UNO rapporteur for torture, the Austrian Manfred Nowak, will investigate the grave accusations. “The responses by the Chinese authorities to our inquiries are disappointing,” said the Canadian Human Rights lawyer David Mata on Tuesday in Geneva. “They insult us instead of disproving the accusations.”
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• Swedish National TV: Organs for Sale

  2006-10-03
  Since a while back it is known that China is selling organs taken from prisoners sentenced to death ... However, it is now claimed in a report published recently that the organs that are for sale on the internet also come from Falun Gong practitioners ... David Matas: "They are treated as, as less than human beings and the rhetoric suggests this whole evil cult propaganda that China makes it easier for people caught up in the system to kill these people without having the qualms of conscience they might have in killing others".
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• German Media Reports Falun Gong Practitioners’ Protests during Wen Jiabao’s Visit

  2006-09-30
  During Chinese leader Wen Jiabao’s visit to Germany, Falun Gong practitioners organised activities in Hamburg and Berlin to protest against the Chinese Communist regime’s human rights abuses. They called on Wen to help end the persecution of Falun Gong in China, bring the main culprits of the persecution to justice, and release the illegally detained human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng. Gao wrote three open letters to Chinese leaders Hu and Wen calling them to stop the brutal persecution of Falun Gong. He was secretly detained by the regime a month ago.
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• Germany: Local Media Reports on the Persecution

  2006-09-23
  On August 26th, a Chinese lady Luyi Schwab held a Falun Gong information day in Herrenberg to raise public awareness of the persecution of Falun Gong in her homeland. Local newspaper Gäubote published an article on her event beforehand. The article said that the information day will touch upon the Chinese Communist regime's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Luyi Schwab stated that these practitioners' organs were removed by the Chinese Communist regime for sale.
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• European Parliament Resolution Urges Major Chinese Reforms

  2006-09-18
  The European Parliament adopted a resolution expressing alarm over a range of Chinese economic, foreign policy, environmental and human rights issues, including the forced removal of organs from imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners. The resolution was passed ahead of the summit in Helsinki between the European Union's executive body and China.
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• St. Gallen Taglatt Newspaper (Switzerland): Bachmann Acquitted

  2006-09-15
  “This cheque has particular symbolic value,” said Erich Bachmann. He received the cheque worth 2,200 Swiss Francs from Hong Kong’s Ministry of Justice, “after we were acquitted by the highest Court of Appeal, which is comparable to our Federal Court.” What happened? In March 2002, Erich Bachmann and fifteen other Falun Gong practitioners held a protest against the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China in a public area in Hong Kong. In 1999, the former President of China ordered this movement to be banned.
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• EFGIC: A Call for Justice at EU-China Summit

  2006-09-09
  Helsinki (EFGIC) - Two months ago, an investigative report was published by David Kilgour, former Canadian Secretary of State, and David Matas, a renowned international human rights lawyer. This report concludes that organ harvesting is widespread on live Falun Gong practitioners in China. In the wake of the EU-China Summit in Helsinki, MEP's such as Simon Coveney, Charles Tannock, and Edward McMillan-Scott have co-signed a letter to the European Commission, expressing their concerns on this serious human rights violation. They urge the EU Commission to look into this matter and raise the issue during the Summit.
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• UK Newspaper Yorkshire Post: Grandmother Tortured by Chinese – all for her beliefs

  2006-09-06
  The 66- year- old claims she’s been beaten, force fed and suffered electro-shock therapy at the hands of the Chinese police – all because of her beliefs. Zhen is one of the lucky ones, though, she’s alive ... more than 2300 have been tortured to death.
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• UK Newspaper Sunderland Echo Reports: Stand up and be counted against these atrocities

  2006-09-05
  It is unbelievable and horrific that in this day and age such atrocities are happening in China. I’m talking about the killing and organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience – transplantation of their corneas, kidneys, liver and hearts. It’s like the holocaust all over again, only in China there is big money in the killings with a booming trade in transplants.
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• German Magazine “Der Spiegel”: Human Rights Lawyer Gao Arrested

  2006-08-27
  Beijing: The official news agency Xinhua reported that the arrest of forty two year old Gao Zhisheng was announced in a brief statement by police in Beijing. “Suspicion of entanglement with criminal activities” was cited as a reason for the arrest. In the past, Gao had been involved in the defence of Christians and Internet dissidents. In addition, he complained about the torture of Falun Gong practitioners, a movement that is prohibited in the People's Republic. He was disbarred last November and placed under police surveillance.
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• Radio France Internationale: The CCP Minister of Public Security Zhou Yongkang is Sued by Falun Gong practitioners in Paris

  2006-08-19
  The French Falun Gong Association, on behalf of the three Falun Gong practitioners as the plaintiffs, filed a complaint with the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris to sue Zhou Yongkang, the CCP Minister of Public Security and State Council Member of China and the former CCP General Secretary of Sichuan Province. The complaint alleges that Zhou Yongkang bears direct responsibility for the crimes of torture against Falun Gong practitioners in China.
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• Finnish Media (Hufvudstadsbladet): Falun Gong practitioners protest against the CCP's persecution

  2006-08-17
  On the 23rd of July, Finland’s main newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet published an article about Finland’s Falun Gong practitioners in Helsinki protesting against the Chinese Communist Party’s seven year long persecution of Falun Gong entitled: “Falun Gong Practitioners Protest against the Persecution”. Finnish Falun Gong practitioners are worried about people not paying enough attention to the illegal organs trade in China. Falun Gong practitioner Sinikka Sutakan says: “People find it very difficult to believe that such cruel things are still going on”.
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• European Media Reports that European Union Should Adjust the Unbalanced Relationship with Communist China

  2006-08-14
  A report in the “European Voice” said that the excessively weak stand of the European Union in free trade against China is very disappointing. The report also pointed out that the same situation happened in the human rights issues too. Not only is the dialogue between China and the European Union weak, but so is it between China and the fifteen European countries (including Norway and Switzerland). China has greatly enhanced its defense ability in international negotiation; however, in fact its human right situation has not truly improved. The recent incident of a large number of Falun Gong practitioners being forced to “donate” organs is an obvious example.
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• Bulgaria: Two Radio Broadcasts about Falun Gong in the City of Varna

  2006-08-12
  On “Alfa Radio”, the practitioners talked about the persecution in China, the imprisonment of practitioners in labour camps, mental institutions and prisons and the evidences for organ harvesting for profit by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The practitioners told the listeners about the good physical health that Falun Gong brings.
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• Swedish Oriental Daily Newspaper Exposes the CCP's Crimes of Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Gong Practitioners

  2006-08-08
  "According to the investigation report recently published by a Canadian former MP and a human rights lawyer, sixty thousand organs have been harvested between the year 2000 and 2005 and 41500 organs cannot be traced to their sources. The living prisoners of conscience have become merchandise for making profit. Their organs were harvested when they were lucid ... "
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