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  • United Kingdom: A Chinese Practitioner Shares Her Personal Experience of Persecution in a Chinese Labour Camp

    Annie, a business woman in her forties, spent one and a half years in a “living hell” - a Chinese forced labour camp - because she refused to renounce her belief in Falun Gong. From October 15th - 19th, 2007, almost exactly one year after being granted asylum in the UK, Annie toured the southwest of England to give a series of talks about what she endured.
  • France: Raising Awareness about Falun Gong at the Eiffel Tower

    The famous Eiffel Tower in Paris, France attracts tourists from all over the world. This is a good spot for Falun Gong practitioners to spread the truth. On Sunday afternoon on the 21st of October 2007, Falun Gong practitioners held a weekly event here as usual to promote Falun Gong and clarify the facts. As soon as one entered the open Champ de Mars in front of the Tower, the banner with four big letters “Falun Dafa”, which formed a sharp contrast with the blue sky, would meet the eye. The exercise demonstrations attracted spectators. Some exclaimed, “Falun Dafa is good!”
  • United Kingdom: Continuous Concern over the Issue of Falun Gong Until the Persecution Stops

    Recently a British MP, Mr. Keith Hill, raised the issue of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecuting and harvesting organs from live Falun Gong practitioners in the House of Commons during a three hour debate about the Foreign Affair Committee's annual human rights report. In the debate, Mr. Hill introduced to other MPs what Falun Gong is, the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong and he mentioned a report about the CCP’s practice of organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners by Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas and former Canadian Secretary of State David Kilgour.
  • Germany: Raising Awareness about Falun Gong at the Frankfurt Book Fair

    The annual Frankfurt Book Fair, one of the largest of its kind, attracted publishers from around the world. Falun Gong practitioners held an activity opposite the famous Messe Frankfurt to introduce Falun Gong and expose the Chinese Communist Party’s atrocities of organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners.
  • Russia: 2007 Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference Held in Moscow

    The 2007 Russian Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference was held on October 20th and 21st, 2007, at a country club in Redkino, in the countryside surrounding Moscow. Falun Dafa practitioners from all over Russia, and countriesincluding Germany, France, Ukraine, White Russia, Czechoslovakia and Israel attended the conference. Since 1999, Russian Falun Gong practitioners have held nationwide cultivation experience sharing conferences once a year.
  • United Kingdom: Tolerance and Compassion Helps to Spread the Truth in Cambridge

    The recent economic growth in China has made a portion of people rich and more Chinese people are travelling to the UK. Giving up their time every weekend, Falun Gong spend the day in Cambridge city centre raising awareness about Falun Gong among Chinese visitors and tourists from all over the world. They call for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party.
  • Switzerland: Spreading the Truth about Falun Gong Throughout the Country

    When talking about Switzerland, would one think of the Maiden Peak perennially covered with pure white snow and Luzern with pleasing scenery of the lakes and mountains? Or of Geneva and Zurich, the international metropolises full of the flavour of modern times? Or of sweet smelling and palatable chocolates, accurate wrist watches and the army knives of excellent workmanship? There are some miraculous stories behind the spreading of Falun Gong in Switzerland.
  • Belgium: Before the Europe China Dialogue, European Parliament Focuses on the CCP Human Rights Record

    On 10th October 2007, before the human rights dialogue between the EU and China, the European Parliament held a press conference about human rights in China and freedom of belief. It was run by the Vice Chairman of the European Parliament, Edward McMillan-Scott, who requested the CCP to release all Falun Gong practitioners before the dialogue.
  • Letter to the Editor of a Swiss Newspaper

    "Practitioners of the peaceful Qigong practice Falun Gong are still being tortured and persecuted. Those people are not criminals; on the contrary, they live according to the principles of Truth, Compassion and Tolerance. It seems as if people with a sense of morals and responsibility are regarded as threatening by the Chinese government. I very much hope that all of us in the West will recognise our responsibility and stop contributing to the problem out of a misplaced sense of greed for cheap goods."
  • Zhuan Falun Published in Greek

    Zhuan Falun is one of the more than 30 books by Teacher Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Dafa. It is his major book that explains the principles of cultivation in Falun Dafa. Every year Greece's publishers and book lovers go to an historical venue in Athens to participate in a book festival. This fall, the 36th Annual Book Festival was held from September 14 to 30. Zhuan Falun in Greek was displayed at the festival and welcomed. Many people with predestined relationships bought the book then and there.
  • Press Release by Falun Gong Practitioners in Bielefeld: German Doctors Aid Torture Victim from China

    "Wang experienced that peaceful people, who are seen by the Communist regime as a threat to their power, are dealt with worse than murderers and rapists in slave labour camps. At the slave labour camp, the guards ordered drug addicted inmates to monitor, humiliate and beat up Wang. On April 15th 2003, five inmates in his cell tortured him and broke both of his hip joints. The slave labour camp doctor gave Wang only a few pain-killers although he suffered from multiple broken bones and his body was covered with wounds from burning cigarettes."
  • Ireland: “We Will Wake Up People with Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance.”

    In downtown Dublin, a ceremony and rally for the arrival of the Human Rights Torch were held. The purpose of the torch relay is to call upon the international society to pay attention to the human rights violations and the persecution of Falun Gong in China, and to ask them to boycott the 2008 Olympics if they are held by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
  • Letter to the German Federal Chancellor and the Foreign Minister

    "Worldwide, voices of people that believe in justice are growing stronger in their condemnation of the organ harvesting by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from live Falun Gong practitioners. Alas, it has been shown that these voices are not welcome in Munich. Mr. Gang Chen was given notice by Munich’s office of the district attorney and served with a summons because he had organised a legally registered and permitted rally outside the Chinese Consulate. The participant demonstrated with banners and the re-enactment of an organ harvesting scene, that depicts the inhuman crime of organ harvesting and violation of diplomatic respect."
  • Germany: Opening Ceremony at the Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance International Art Exhibition

    The opening ceremony of the “Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance International Art Exhibition” sponsored by Mayor Roland Kern, took place on September 7th 2007 at 7:30pm. Mayor Kern stressed in his opening speech that this incredible exhibition was discussed by the city’s officials under the theme “Art is Tolerant” and allowed to proceed by the members.
  • Austria: Promoting Falun Gong and Exposing the Persecution in Vienna

    On October 14th, Austrian practitioners held an information day at the famous Naschmarkt, a popular market square in Vienna, to expose the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) inhumane persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. The Naschmarkt is where the heart of the Chinese community is, and it attracts a lot of Chinese shoppers on weekends.