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United Kingdom: Showing the Beauty of Falun Dafa in Truro Carnival
2007-09-15Practitioners from Cornwall in England, supported by practitioners from London and Brighton, took part in Truro carnival for the first time on 8th September 2007. The Falun Dafa float, decorated with beautiful pink lotus flowers, Falun symbols and heavenly clouds, carried practitioners demonstrating the peaceful Falun Gong exercises. -
Radio France International: CCP Continues Crackdown on Press Freedom Ahead of Olympic Games
2007-09-15On the 8th of September 2007, Radio France International reported that Human Rights Observer, an organisation headquartered in the US, published a report condemning the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for not making good its promise to the International Olympics Committee (IOC) on granting press freedom to the greatest extent possible. -
United Kingdom: Practitioners Raise Awareness about Falun Gong During the Conference Weekend
2007-09-14On the weekend of August 25th, the "UK Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference 2007” was held. The day before the conference, many Falun Gong practitioners living outside London went to one of the capital's parks to demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises and raise awareness about the persecution. Many people were attracted by the peaceful exercise music. -
Italy: Essuno Tocchi Caino: Annual Report Discloses the CCP's Persecution of Falun Gong
2007-09-14The Italian NGO Nessuno Tocchi Caino (Hands off Cain) pointed out in its report of investigation into the frequency of world death penalties published on August 30th 2007: Dictatorship destroys its enemies by using the death penalty. The report gave coverage to the persecution of religions and groups of spiritual movement, such as the persecution of Falun Gong happening in China, the CCP organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners, and the CCP persecution of Buddhists, Christians and Catholics. -
Ukraine: Raising Awareness about Falun Gong in Rivne
2007-09-13“I know Chinese people are smart and wise. Let me make an analogy: I think the communist autocracy can be considered as a virus, and since it is a virus, it will keep spreading and aggravate if you don’t curb it.” He continued, “I am confident that people as wise as the Chinese will find a good remedy to wipe out the virus.” -
Czech Republic: Czech Vice Premier Demonstrates Concern for Human Rights in China
2007-09-12The “Human Rights Torch Relay”, organised by the CIPFG (Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China) to raise global awareness of human rights in China, arrived in the Czech Republic’s capital Prague on September the 6th, 2007 via Berlin and Munich. The Torch Relay has received widespread support from all circles in the Czech Republic. -
United Kingdom: Cherry Hinton Festival in Cambridge, England
2007-09-12It was a beautiful summer’s day in Cambridge for the Cherry Hinton Festival. This festival is an annual celebration for families in the local community with a history that harkens back to the days of celebrating a successful harvest. Local practitioners took part in the festival this year with calligraphy and demonstrations of the Falun Gong exercises. -
Germany: Raising Awareness about Falun Gong in a Small Town
2007-09-11When residents of Sunching in Regensburg celebrated their annual Village Festival (Volksfest), local Falun Gong practitioners took the opportunity to raise awareness about Falun Gong. Falun Gong practitioners in Regensburg set up a booth and placed the display boards on the ground early in the morning. Local people were shocked by the inside stories about the Chinese Communist regime’s harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners’ bodies. -
Norway: Members of the Public Sign a Petition Condemning the Chinese Communist Party's Persecution of Falun Gong One after Another
2007-09-10Falun Gong practitioners gathered at a busy square in central Oslo and exhibited display boards depicting Falun Gong’s spread across the world, as well as the persecution perpetrated by the Chinese Communist regime in China. They also distributed leaflets in various languages and demonstrated the five Falun Gong exercises. -
Finland: Vigil in Helsinki to Mourn the Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners
2007-09-09During the Firework Festival in Helsinki, when the city was filled with visitors, Falun Gong practitioners held a candlelight vigil on the lawn in front of the parliament building to mourn their fellow 3,080 practitioners who have been persecuted to death in China since Jiang Zemin’s evil group instigated the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999. -
Burasi Canakkale Newspaper (Turkey): "Falun Gong: Standing Rock Solid in Face of Inhuman Torture"
2007-09-09A large Turkish newspaper, Burasi Canakkale, published a series of articles by a famous reporter entitled, Falun Gong: Standing Rock Solid in Face of Inhuman Torture. The articles laid out systematically what Falun Gong is about, the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal persecution and the CCP's atrocities of organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners. -
Norway: Falun Gong Practitioners Hold Parade in Oslo to Support the 25 Million Withdrawals from CCP
2007-09-08On September 1st, 2007 Falun Gong practitioners held a grand parade in the Norwegian capital city of Oslo to celebrate the 25 million withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its associated organizations. Many onlookers and passers-by were greatly shocked to learn about the CCP's organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners. -
Ireland: Falun Gong Practitioners Introduce Falun Gong at the Festival of World Cultures
2007-09-07In August, Irish Falun Gong practitioners attended the 2007 Festival of World Cultures in Dun Laoghaire and celebrated the ancient Chinese tradition of cultivation in various forms. They demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises and performed traditional Chinese dances. -
Russia: Falun Gong Practitioners Raise Awareness about Falun Gong on the Streets of Moscow
2007-09-06Falun Gong practitioners held activities at the Moscow business centre to expose the Chinese communist regime’s persecution against Falun Gong practitioners during the past eight years. Some practitioners also distributed material on Kutuzov Avenue nearby where a lot more tourists and cars were encountered. Most people accepted the material happily. -
Germany: Exposing the Harrowing Truth about the Secret Death Camps in China
2007-09-06We set up our booth in the centre of Düsseldorf, hoping to tell the locals all that goes on in China’s labour camps. We wanted people to know how people in China were persecuted and tortured. Many people stopped in front of the large banners that told of the secret death camps in China and appeared to be deeply shaken by the pictures.