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  • Ukraine Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference

    From June 6th to the 8th, a Falun Gong experience sharing conference was held in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. Practitioners travelled from countries including Russia, Belarus and Latvia to take part in the conference and several shared their experiences of practising Falun Dafa and understandings gained through studying the principles of the practice.
  • Belgium: Falun Gong Activities During a Cultural Festival in the City of Leuven

    The Belgium International Cultural Festival attracted tens of thousands of people to the university city of Leuven on May 30th, 2008. Falun Gong practitioners from Belgium set up a booth during the festival, to demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises, tell others about the benefits of the practice and raise awareness about the persecution of pracititioners in China. On learning what is happening in China, many people signed the petition to stop the persecution.
  • Finland: Raising Awareness about Falun Gong in Helsinki

    On Sunday, June 1st, 2008, people in Helsinki ushered in the 12th Métis River Festival on the banks of the Métis. Falun Gong practitioners set up a booth, hung up a banner worded with “Falun Gong is good” and displayed exhibition boards introducing Falun Gong and distributed beautiful folded paper lotus flowers as a special holiday gift to the Finnish people.
  • France: News Agency Report

    Agency France Presse reported on June 5th that two American congressmen accused the CCP regime of prompting the attack on the New York Falun Gong practitioners. They also appealed to the American government to raise an objection to the CCP. The report says, last month when Falun Gong practitioners were holding a CCP condemnation gathering and distributing flyers they were attacked.Agency France Presse quoted the local police’s words reported by the New York Times newspaper, saying there were six people arrested, three charged with assault offences and others accused of disturbing social order.
  • Belgium: Exposing the CCP’s Evil Actions

    Miss Song, a volunteer at the centre, said, “It is not long since the Sichuan Earthquake occurred, this is also a national crisis. For the Chinese nation, it is really one disaster after another that the CCP has incited hatred and shifted the misfortune on to Falun Gong. We have the responsibility to have all overseas Chinese know the facts.”
  • Sweden: Documentary Exposing the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners by the CCP Broadcast on Swedish TV

    Beyond the Red Wall is a documentary produced by the Canadian film director Peter Rowe. It was first broadcast by the Canadian National Broadcasting TV Company (CBC) on November 20th, 2007. The broadcast at that time was not smooth sailing. The originally arranged broadcast time was set on the 6th November, due to the pressure from the Chinese Embassy in Canada, CBC suddenly changed to another programme.
  • L'Est Républicain (France): "A Repressed Practice"

    With the interdiction in July 1999, the paradise is turned into hell. The 610 office set up by the authorities has one goal; eradicate all these dissidents in the country. “Our bookstore bankrupt, our home ransacked my parents in jail and tortured to death, my brother wanted, I have myself spent two years of forced labour in a place stained with blood”.
  • France: The China Democratic Party President Condemns the CCP and Expresses his Admiration for Falun Gong Practitioners

    In light of the recent earthquake in Sichuan and subsequent rumours created by the CCP and violent attacks on Falun Gong practitioners attending the Quitting the CCP centre in Flushing, New York, this reporter interviewed the President of China Democratic Party in France, Wu Jiang, and Vice-president, Jiang Youlu.
  • Sweden: Falun Gong Practitioners Raise Awareness in the Open Market Exhibition

    On June 4th, 2008, Falun Gong practitioners took part in a large open air market exhibition organised by the local government in Rebro city centre. Falun Gong practitioners set up a beautiful booth, demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises, disclosed to the public the truth about the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong and collected signatures to call for an end to the persecution.
  • Switzerland: Raising Awareness about Falun Gong in Neuchatel

    On May 31st, 2008, Falun Gong practitioners held a day of activities to raise awareness about the persecution of Falun Gong at rue de l’hopital in the centre of Neuchatel in Switzerland. Situated near the largest lake in Switzerland, lac de Neuchatel, the northern city of Neuchatel is a city reminiscent of medieval times.
  • Belgium: Protesting against the CCP's Manufacture of the 'Flushing Incident' to Make a False Charge against Falun Gong

    On May 30th, 2008, at the Chinese Embassy in Brussels, Falun Gong practitioners held a protest condemning the CCP for making a false charge against Falun Gong practitioners and harassing the Service Centre for Quitting the CCP in Flushing, New York. Ms Janniek from Ghent said, “We are one body with Falun Gong practitioners in New York".
  • Online Version of the Book "New Life, New Hope" Released on the German Minghui Website

    The amazing stories in "New Life - New Hope" are first-hand experiences by people of all ages and social backgrounds. In many cases these people who had suffered serious and often life-threatening illnesses were cured after beginning to practise Falun Gong. Most of the people who practise the exercises daily and live by the principles of Falun Dafa tell of health improvements. Most of the people who practise the exercises daily and live by the principles of Falun Dafa tell of health improvements.
  • Swedish MP: "The CCP's Incitement of the Attacks in Flushing Is an International Concern"

    Mr. Lindblad said, "The Flushing incident must be initiated by the CCP regime. It tries to incite such things in other countries. It is horrible." When asked why he thought the CCP chose this time, Mr. Lindblad said that the CCP attempted to divert people's attention since it saw that the world's people protested the Olympic torch relay and its suppression in Tibet.
  • “La Tribune” (French Newspaper) Reports on Sichuan Earthquake: The CCP Receives Criticism from Civilians

    The article pointed out the main difficulties the CCP are facing is how to show that it can deal with the situation of the disaster, especially how to respond to the severe criticism of the disaster-stricken people. Decisions to save those in the disaster were made very slowly and areas far from the city only were rescued three days after the earthquake, especially the school buildings of inferior quality, which received much criticism.
  • Spain: Despite Heavy Rain Spanish People Express Support for 37 Million Withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party

    On May 31st, 2008, the Spanish 'Quitting the CCP Service Centre' and the Falun Gong Association held a rally in Madrid's Phoenix Square to condemn the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong and express support for the 37 million withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Though it had been raining for quite a few days in Madrid, the popular Phoenix Square it was still bustling and noisy.