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  • European Parliament (Press Release): Keep up human rights pressure on China in the run-up to 2008 Olympics

    With next year's Olympic Games in Beijing just around the corner, the world must keep up the pressure on China over its human rights record, a hearing of the European Parliament's Human Rights Subcommittee attended by over 200 people was told on Monday. Several NGOs, including a Chinese dissident speaking live via Internet telephone conference, described the widespread human rights violations still being perpetrated by the authorities.
  • Belgium: Four-Day Activity in the City of Hasselt Reaches Thousands of People

    The practitioners demonstrated the five sets of Falun gong exercises, exhibited reprints of paintings from the Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance International Art Exhibition, exhibited photos, taught people how to fold paper lotus flowers and did Chinese calligraphy. The Falun Dafa stand looked very nice and attracted many people.
  • German Press Release: Don’t Send Falun Gong Practitioner Back to Clutches of Chinese Communist Regime

    Mr. Wang arrived in Germany on 2/9/2001. Since March 2003, he has practised Falun Gong and actively exposed the persecution of Falun Gong in China. He filed a petition for asylum on 2/9/2004 but the asylum request was dismissed. Torture victim and friend of petitioner Zhen Wang said, “He can expect torture and possible loss of life if deported to China.”
  • European Parliament Invites Falun Gong Practitioners from China to Hearing on Chinese Human Rights

    Falun Gong practitioners from China, Cao Dong, Niu Jinping and his wife Zhang Lianying, were invited to the hearing. On May 21st 2006, Niu Jinping and Cao Dong met with the Vice-President of the European Parliament Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott in Beijing, and informed the Vice President of the brutal persecution suffered by himself, his wife and other Falun Gong practitioners around him. Two hours after the meeting, Mr. Cao was arrested by Chinese Communist regime security agents and was charged with "accepting an illegal interview". Mr. Cao was sentenced to five years imprisonment and has been secretly detained in the No. 3 Prison in Tianshui.
  • United Kingdom: Leeds Activity Raises Awareness about Human Rights Abuses Against Falun Gong in China

    An activity was held in Leeds to let people know about the human rights abuses that Falun Gong practitioners are suffering at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Many passers by signed a petition to show their support for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, showed their interest in the Falun Gong exercises and asked for information on free classes.
  • Norway: Falun Gong at The Large Health Fair in Oslo

    The Large Health Fair in Oslo, supposedly the biggest in Europe when it comes to the number of exhibitors and offers, took place from the 16th of November to the 18th of November. Falun Gong practitioners participated at the Fair with their own stand and three paintings from the Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance International Art Exhibition.
  • Czech News Agency: Falun Gong Practitioners Protest Against the Persecution in China

    The Czech News Agency reported on the 19th of November, that the European Celestial Marching Band, consisting of over eighty European Falun Gong practitioners, performed at the Old Town Square in Prague on the 17th of November. After the performance, they started a parade in protest against the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution against Falun Gong.
  • Germany: Exposing the Crimes Committed Against Falun Gong in China

    Many people waned to find out more when Falun Gong practitioners held an activity in downtown Bremen to promote the practice and expose the brutal persecution waged against Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The practitioners set up poster display boards and handed out leaflets. They told people about the CCP's crimes of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners.
  • United Kingdom: Exposing the Persecution in Bradford City Centre

    On Saturday the 10th of November, Falun Gong practitioners from northern England went to Bradford city centre to promote the practice. Many people were shocked when they found out that a peaceful meditation practice had been banned in China and expressed their sympathy for those who have died as a result of the Chinese Communist Party's human rights abuses.
  • Germany: Promoting Falun Gong in the University Town of Tuebingen

    Falun Gong practitioners in the German town of Tuebingen exposed human rights violations in China by demonstrating the exercises to peaceful music, displaying poster boards and distributing flyers. A number of people expressed that the persecution in China is hard to believe, especially in the face of the serene and peaceful Falun Gong exercises.
  • United Kingdom: Truth, Compassion and Forbearance Art Exhibition Returns to Cambridge

    A Cambridge resident commented: "People all over the world know about the horrifying persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China, including the horrific crime of organ harvesting from living practitioners. These are enough to make anyone angry. But in these art works you cannot find hatred, only the compassionate pledge for justice and forbearance."
  • Article from German Magazine: Executions on Demand

    "A lady called Annie, who was married to a neurosurgeon at Sujiatun hospital told of her husband bringing home large sums of money. He often had nightmares and woke up drenched in sweat. Finally, her husband opened up to her and told her that the basement of the hospital housed a secret prison with thousands of inmates, all of them members of the forbidden Falun Gong movement. He told her that he had personally removed the corneas from thousands of the prisoners and that the Sujiatun hospital was treating the Falun Gong practitioners as a living organ bank."
  • Radio Sound Of Hope Switzerland: Going to Beijing But Not Without Human Rights

    About fifty people were gathered today in front of Zurich’s athletic arena in Switzerland in order to raise awareness about important human rights violations in China. They called for a boycott of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing because China has reneged on its promise to improve its human rights record. The Super-Decathlon, 2007, was held in the athletic arena with the slogan “Going to Beijing.”
  • Falun Dafa Information Centre: Olympic-Size Violations

    Beijing Olympic organizers have openly expressed a policy banning Falun Gong adherents from attending the 2008 summer Olympics, the Falun Dafa Information Centre reported Wednesday. Beijing's decision stands in stark violation to Articles 35 and 36 of China's own Constitution, which promise freedom of association and religious belief, as well as the International Olympic Committee's bylaws, which prohibit any form of discrimination - including that religious or political.
  • The Heartfelt Voice of German Citizens: “What You Are Doing is Wonderful!”

    On November 3rd 2007, Falun Gong practitioners from Leipzig and the surrounding areas jointly held an information day. They exposed eight years of bloody persecution against Falun Gong in mainland China by displaying poster boards, distributing leaflets and talking to passers by.