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• European Parliament Resolution Shows Concern for Beijing’s Human Rights Infringements

  2007-12-20
  The European Parliament has been gravely concerned over recent increasing political persecution related to the Olympic Games, including persecution of human rights advocators, reporters, lawyers, petitioners and various religious believers and, in particular, Falun Gong practitioners. The European Parliament appeals to the Chinese government for immediate ... stopping of the on-going destruction of large amounts of houses without any compensation only for Olympic facilities, suspending capital punishment during the Olympic Games and recalling the ban on the forty-two categories of people attending the Olympic Games.
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• France: Asian Ethnic Groups Rally to Condemn the Chinese Communist Regime’s Atrocities

  2007-12-19
  "I think China’s current situation (referring to the Beijing Games) is similar to the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games hosted by Nazi Germany or the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games hosted by the former Soviet Union, which was an autocratic country. I think these autocratic countries are unqualified for hosting the Olympic Games.”
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• Frankfurter Rundschau (Germany): Human Rights Week

  2007-12-18
  He performed hard agricultural labour from before sunrise until shortly before midnight. He explained to the more than 300 students in German who were awestruck by what they heard, “We suffered sleep deprivation, had to perform hard labour and were fed awful food.” Even worse than the labour was the brainwashing he suffered. As he refused to renounce Falun Gong after having suffered all that, they tortured him until the moment he renounced Falun Gong in writing. Two implanted artificial hip prosthesis’s after emigrating from China are the most visible signs of the torment he suffered.
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• Sweden: Falun Gong Practitioners Raise Awareness about the Persecution on Nobel Prize Awards Day

  2007-12-17
  December 10th, 2007 was the annual Nobel Prize awards day. At six o’clock in the evening, Swedish practitioners came to the front of City Hall. This day each year has become a good opportunity for them to raise awareness about the persecution of Falun Gong among the guests from various circles that come to attend the Nobel Prize dinner.
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• Sweden: China’s Human Rights Situation Condemned at the International Human Rights Day Gathering

  2007-12-16
  The annual International Human Rights Day was on December 10th. Many Swedish International Human Rights organisations gathered at Gothenburg University and held a report session on “Human Rights Courage, Consciousness and Action”. Mr. Manyang Wu, a China specialist from the ISHR, was invited to speak regarding “The situation in China before the Beijing Olympics”.
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• Germany: “Finally I found you!”

  2007-12-15
  In July 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started a brutal crackdown on the practice of Falun Gong. In their spare time Falun Gong practitioners all over the world started to tell people about the benefits of practising Falun Gong, its success internationally and the brutal persecution happening in China.
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• Switzerland: Interesting Stories from Practitioners Raising Awareness about Falun Gong in Lucerne

  2007-12-14
  After the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party was published three years ago, many Falun Gong practitioners keep spreading them to the Chinese people. They hope that, after reading the Nine Commentaries, they would know better about the truth of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has persecuted the Chinese people.
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• Radio Free Asia: China is the Biggest Prison of Journalists and Internet Dissidents

  2007-12-14
  The report said that Reporters Without Borders (RSF) had affirmed that China was the world’s biggest prison of journalists, internet dissidents and people of free speech. Five representatives from RSF demonstrated in front of the Contact Office of the Central Government in Hong Kong. They set up a banner with the five circles of the Olympics changing into handcuffs to protest against China refusing to fulfill its promises to improve human rights and news freedom, which were made when it was bidding to host the Olympics.
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• Norway: Falun Gong Practitioners Sing at a Christmas Concert in Bodo

  2007-12-13
  On December 1st, 2007, a Christmas Concert was held by the Alle Kan Synge Koret singing group at the cathedral near the Town Hall in Bodo. Wang Yajun, a Falun Gong practitioner who took part in the New Tang Dynasty Television “International Chinese Vocal Competition”, was invited as a special guest at the concert. The host introduced how innocent Falun Gong practitioners were brutally persecuted in mainland China.
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• Radio France International: Amnesty International Condemns the CCP for Failing to Keep its Promise to Improve Human Rights

  2007-12-13
  On December 8th, 2007, French International Radio reported that Amnesty International condemned Beijing for failing to keep the promise of improving human rights that it made at the time of applying for the Olympics. The report said that Amnesty International condemned the Beijing Authorities for not keeping its promise of improving human rights. The Secretary-General of the International Amnesty German Branch said, "Striving for the holding rights of the Olympics in 2001, China made a promise of taking action to protect human rights and relax its examination system, but China rarely does things to realise its promises."
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• Finland: Falun Gong Practitioners Support EU Parliament Public Hearing

  2007-12-12
  In November, Falun Gong practitioners from Helsinki went to the Chinese Embassy to show support for the EU parliament inviting three China-based Falun Gong practitioners for a public hearing about China’s human rights. Many people who came to the Chinese Embassy for visas learned about China’s human rights situation.
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• Italian Branch of Amnesty International Participates in a Global Campaign Calling on China to Respect Human Rights

  2007-12-12
  On December 5th, 2007, the Italian branch of Amnesty International joined a global campaign to call on Beijing to make significant improvement in its human rights situation. In a statement, the director of the Italian branch of Amnesty International said, “The Olympic Games to be held in Beijing in August next year would be a precious opportunity for the people around the world to pay attention to China’s human rights situation. People may call on the Beijing Administration to improve its human rights record directly or through the twenty thousand journalists who have signed up to cover the event.”
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• Greece: Stop the Organ Harvesting from Live Falun Gong Practitioners

  2007-12-11
  On Human Rights Day (December 10th) in Greece, practitioners raised awareness about cases of organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners in China. The information was exhibited in a pedestrian area in the centre of Athens, near many universities. Many young people who passed by were shocked to learn about all these abuses but very interested to support an end to the organ harvesting.
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• United Kingdom: Supporting Justice in Leeds

  2007-12-10
  On November 17th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners in Leeds launched activities to raise awareness about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party. Many pedestrians stopped to sign to support stopping the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and many people showed their interest in the peaceful Falun Gong exercises and obtained introductory information about the free Falun Gong classes in their area.
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• Radio France International: Renowned scholars from China refer to the persecution of Falun Gong as unjust

  2007-12-10
  On December 5th, 2007, Radio France International reported the well-known economist Mao Yushi’s opinion on the system of re-education through labour used by the Chinese Communist Party to persecute many Falun Gong practitioners. Mr Mao stated, "The persecution of Falun Gong is illegal. It is contrary to Chinese citizens’ right to freedom of belief. The Communist Party uses political means to persecute a faith based group that has absolutely no political intentions".
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