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Belgium: Falun Gong Practitioners Expose the CCP’s Brutal Persecution
2007-05-29On May 19th, Falun Gong practitioners held activities in the centre of Brussels, the capital of Belgium, to expose the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) brutal persecution of Falun Gong and its corruption of morality. The event called for an end to the persecution. Exhibits in this event included graphics of persecuted practitioners as well as a full length French version of the Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China, a report published by independent investigators David Kilgour, Canadian MP and former Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific, and David Matas, international human rights lawyer. -
Germany: Falun Gong Practitioners Gather in Berlin to Request a Public EU-China Human Rights Dialog, Vice President of the European Parliament Shows Support
2007-05-28On May 14th, 2007, one day before the European Union and Chinese Communist Party opened their human rights dialog, European Falun Gong practitioners assembled at Pariser Platz, in front of Brandenburger Tor in Berlin to request that the dialog should involve everyone's human rights in China. -
Germany: Raising Awareness in Leipzig about the Persecution of Falun Gong
2007-05-27On May 19th, Falun Gong practitioners from Leipzig, Sachsen-Anhalt, and Niedersachsen raised awareness about Falun Gong in Leipzig city centre.When people learned that human organs are being harvested from live Falun Gong practitioners, they were shocked. The kind-hearted citizens of Leipzig said it was intolerable that human rights abuse nowadays is more brutal than that perpetrated by the Nazis. -
Germany: Support for Falun Gong During Berlin Parade
2007-05-26Falun Gong paraded during the EU-China human rights dialogue and found the approval of Berlin’s citizens. “I wish Falun Gong success, I support them”. A Berlin resident, who mentioned that she had never heard of Falun Gong before, became very sad when looking at the posters depicting murdered Falun Gong practitioners. -
Norway: Raising Awareness about the Persecution of Falun Gong
2007-05-26There was more than just shopping on the menu during 'no-car-day' in Oslo on May 5th, 2007. Falun Gong practitioners in Norway took to the streets to distribute information about organs being removed from living Falun Gong practitioners in death camps in China, their bodies cremated to remove all evidence and the organs sold for large profits. -
Hungary: Raising Awareness about Falun Dafa in Margate Park
2007-05-26On May 13th, Falun Gong practitioners in Hungary introduced and promoted Falun Gong in Margate Park. When people heard that Falun Gong has spread to over eighty countries and is persecuted only in China, some of the local people said that they knew that similar persecution occurred when Hungary was ruled by the Communist Party. -
Germany: Human Rights Organisation Debates the Human Rights Situation in China
2007-05-25On May 14th, 2007, the day before the human rights talks between the EU and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were held, many human rights organisations gathered in Berlin, Germany, condemning the CCP's violations of human rights. The Asian affairs director of the “Organisation supporting threatened groups” (which is an organisation based in Goettingen, Germany), Ulrich Delius, could not attend the gathering and sent a letter of support instead. In his letter, Delius said that since the human rights talks between EU and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began in 1996, the state of human rights in China has not improved in eleven years. -
Holland: Falun Gong Marching Band Defies Chinese Regime at a Parade
2007-05-25On the flyers distributed by practitioners supporting the European Celestial Band is an internet link, which reveals the band's background and the name of one of the songs in its repertoire: Falun Dafa is Good. Falun Dafa is another word for Falun Gong, the spiritual movement forbidden in China and persecuted so brutally. One mouse click and we know how harshly: a colour photo shows a dead Falun Gong practitioner who, according to the caption, has been killed for his organs (organ harvesting). Realistic drawings show the torture techniques that China uses against Falun Gong adherents. -
Holland: Exposing the CCP's Atrocities in Amsterdam
2007-05-24On May 6th 2007, Falun Gong practitioners in Holland held activity in Dam Square, Amsterdam, appealing to the EU to use open-door human rights dialogue with China to urge the Chinese communist regime to release all illegally detained Falun Gong practitioners and to condemn and stop the regime’s persecution of Falun Gong. -
Germany: On World Falun Dafa Day and during the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue, Practitioners Inform the People of Berlin about the Persecution
2007-05-24On the occasion of the eighth World Falun Dafa day and the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue, many activities were organised in the form of an awareness-raising day on the square of Berlin’s Gedächtniskirche (Remembrance Church). Around 250 Falun Gong practitioners from all over Europe arrived for these activities. -
Bulgaria: People of Plovdiv Welcome Falun Gong and Condemn the Persecution in China
2007-05-24Practitioners exhibited posters that attracted passersby. They gathered in front of the petition and carefully read the information on the panels. Many of them asked questions about the essence of the practice and the reasons for the persecution. Many children signed the petition and gladly took colourful paper lotus flowers as souvenirs. -
Finland: Nordic Falun Gong Practitioners Celebrate the 8th Anniversary of World Falun Gong Day in Helsinki
2007-05-23On May 13th, 2007, Finnish and Russian practitioners celebrated World Falun Gong Day in Helsinki. On May 13th, 1992, Master Li Hongzhi introduced Falun Gong to the public in Changchun, China. There are practitioners in over eighty countries practising Falun Gong; the book Zhuan Falun has been translated into more than thirty languages. -
Germany: Hamburg Practitioners Commemorate the Peaceful April 25th 1999 Appeal in Beijing
2007-05-23On April 24th, 2007, practitioners from Hamburg and Hanover gathered outside the Chinese Consulate in Hamburg. They were commemorating the April 25th, 1999 peaceful appeal by 10,000 practitioners in Beijing. Practitioners called for attention to the persecution of Falun Gong and the cruelties perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party. -
Germany: Practitioners Appeal to the EU to Stop China from Extending the Persecution of Falun Gong to Russia
2007-05-22On May 14th, 2007 on the eve of the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue in Berlin, international media carried the shocking news that the Russian government, bowing to pressure from the Chinese Communist Regime, forcibly kidnapped and deported Falun Gong practitioner Gao Chunman to China. Mr. Gao, 73, a former professor from Tsinghua University in China. He was granted refugee status by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Office in Russia in 2003 and his wife is a Russian citizen. -
Turkey: Experience Sharing Conference Held in Ankara
2007-05-22On May 12th 2007, a group of practitioners in Ankara successfully took part in the first Falun Gong Experience Sharing Conference in the local Cultural Centre. The conference proceeded peacefully from beginning to end, and practitioners shared their understandings with each other and exchanged their personal experiences of cultivation.