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Sweden: Practitioners Expose the Persecution on National Day

2009-06-18

June 6 2009 was Sweden's National Day. Staff from the Northern European Service Centre for Quitting the CCP and Falun Gong practitioners held an activity in Stockholm. They displayed photos about Falun Gong and the persecution taking place in China. They hoped to expose the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party.

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Belgium High Court Holds Hearing on the Chinese Communist Regime's Telephone Harassment of Falun Gong Practitioners

2009-06-17

On May 28, the Belgian High Court held a hearing on a telephone harassment case brought by two Belgian Falun Gong practitioners against the Chinese Communist regime's 610 office. Representing the two plaintiffs, internationally renowned human rights lawyer Mr. G. H. Beauthier requested that the Belgian Justice Department take further legal action in investigating this case.

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Bulgaria: First Balkans Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference Held in Sofia

2009-06-15

On May 24, Falun Dafa practitioners from all Balkans countries, as well as from Austria, Germany, Spain and the United States, gathered in Bulgaria's capital Sofia for the first First Balkans Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference. Fifteen practitioners from Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Turkey, Spain and other countries shared their experiences.

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Falun Gong Practitioner in Germany Faces Lies and Subterfuge in Effort to Get Passport Renewed at Chinese Embassy

2009-06-13

As an overseas organisation that represents a country, they don't even dare to be open about the true reason why they can't issue a passport. And their superior doesn't even dare to see me, let me know his name or give me a certificate. What on earth is the reason that the Chinese Consulate will not give me my passport? I think it could only be that I practise Falun Gong.

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Sweden: Practitioners Introduce Falun Dafa in Finspang

2009-06-12

On May 29, The Lions Club, one of the famous charity organisations in Sweden, organised a big spring market in Finspang. Around 800 enterprises participated in the exhibition. Swedish Falun Gong practitioners were invited to participate and introduce Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa). The person who was in charge of the activity was happy that Falun Gong practitioners participated.

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Austria: Exposing the Persecution Against Falun Gong during the Salzburg Art Festival

2009-06-11

From the 30th of May to the 1st of June 2009, Salzburg celebrated the annual Pfingsten holiday. During this time, Falun Gong practitioners in Austria held activities at Residenzplatz in the centre of the city to let people know about Falun Gong and expose the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) atrocities of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.

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Germany: Practitioners Set Up Information Booth at University of Stuttgart

2009-06-10

On May 22, practitioners in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe set up an information booth in the cafeteria of the University of Stuttgart to let people know about Falun Gong, appeal for public support to end the persecution, and raise awareness of the global movement to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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Chinese Tourists in Europe Eagerly Learn the Facts and Quit the CCP

2009-06-09

Ms. Hao and a couple of other volunteers for the European Service Centre for Quitting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) have been explaining the facts at tour sites and advising Chinese people to quit the CCP for a long time. For example, tourist groups from China come one after another to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. As soon as such a tour bus stops and the bus door opens, the tourists will hear the broadcast of the Service Centre for Quitting CCP from a loudspeaker.

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Slovakia: Falun Dafa Exercise Instruction DVD Published

2009-06-08

In May 2009, Slovak publishing house CAD Press published Falun Dafa Exercise DVD with Slovak instructions to teach people the five sets of Falun Dafa exercises. The introductory book Falun Gong and main book Zhuan Falun have already been published in Slovakia, and now people in Slovakia have the chance to see a DVD to learn the Falun Gong exercises.

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Bulgaria: Practitioners Gather for a Parade In Sofia

2009-06-07

On May 23 2009, Falun Gong practitioners from the Balkan Peninsula, Austria, Spain, Ukraine, Germany and the USA, gathered in Sofia for the first ever Falun Gong parade and rally held in the country. Early in the morning they demonstrated the exercises in Boris Garden. The parade started with a peaceful appeal in front of the Chinese embassy in Sofia.

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Italy: Five Years of Dedication and Persistence – Practitioners in Milan Protest the CCP's Persecution of Falun Gong

2009-06-06

Over the past five years, an information booth set up by practitioners could be seen each weekend on the street in Milan, the economic centre of Italy and the world's fashion capital. Practitioners in Milan demonstrate the five sets of Falun Gong exercises, spread the magnificence of Falun Dafa and call for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party.

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Finland: Falun Gong at Helsinki Global Village Festival

2009-06-04

On May 23rd and 24th 2009, the annual Global Village Festival was held in Helsinki, Finland. Falun Gong practitioners participated in the festival and were given a positive reception. The Global Village Festival is a large scale event with about 50,000 visitors from Finland and many other countries. A few hundred non-governmental organisations and art groups participated.

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Finland: Exposing the CCP's Live Organ Harvesting at an International Medical Conference in Helsinki

2009-05-30

The 19th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) was held at the Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Centre in the Finnish capital from May 16 to 19, 2009, with over 7,000 doctors from all over the world in attendance. Falun Gong practitioners in Finland came to the venue to distribute leaflets exposing the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) hideous crime of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners.

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Turkey: Promoting Falun Gong and Exposing the Persecution in Ankara

2009-05-30

Before the activities, practitioners talked to the city government officials. They explained the facts and obtained permission to hold the activities. The government officials supported the practitioners, and expressed their opinion that society would be better if there were more people like Falun Gong practitioners.

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Belgium: Promoting Falun Dafa at the Mano Mundo Festival

2009-05-24

During the weekend of 9 and 10 May 2009, Falun Gong practitioners from Belgium promoted the practice at Mano Mundo, a global intercultural and sustainable festival located in Boom near Antwerp. This year about 87,000 people visited the festival. Many people were informed about the beauty of Falun Dafa, and about the human rights abuses against Falun Gong practitioners in China.

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