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Holland: Raising Awareness about Falun Gong in Rotterdam
2007-09-05On August 25th and 26th,, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners in Holland used display boards to introduce Falun Gong and expose the Chinese communist regime’s persecution, including organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, in Rotterdam's central square. They set up information boards depicting the persecution of Falun Gong -
Sweden: "You Must Help More People Learn the Facts"
2007-09-05On August 25th and 26th, 2007, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Falun Gong practitioners in Sweden made use of the two day holiday to demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises at the famous Vasa Museum in Stockholm. In the meantime, they also set up display boards to let tourists from various places around the world learn the facts about Falun Gong. -
Russia: Practitioners Raise Awareness about Falun Gong in the Parks of St. Petersburg During the Summer
2007-09-05Russian Falun Gong practitioners' activities in St. Petersburg every Saturday have been ongoing for several years. On three consecutive Saturdays, practitioners hosted a series of activities in several municipal parks to introduce Falun Gong and expose the Chinese communist regime’s brutal persecution against practitioners in China to local residents. -
Sweden: Raising Awareness about Falun Gong at Popular Tourist Spots
2007-09-04On August 18th and 19th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners used their weekend to raise awareness about Falun Gong and the persecution to tourists from all over the world. They disclosed the CCP's atrocity of removing organs from living Falun Gong practitioners and exposed the cruel persecution of Falun Gong which has lasted for over eight years. -
Turkey: Turkish People Express Support for Falun Gong.
2007-09-04From July 20th to the 25th, 2007, Turkish Falun Gong practitioners visited Selcuk in North Eastern Turkey, to raise awareness about Falun Gong and the Chinese communist regime’s persecution. They talked to people in many different sections of society, including journalists, local businessmen and government workers. -
Letter from CIPFG to the German Chancellor Urging an Immediate End to the CCP's Persecution of Falun Gong
2007-09-04On August 24th, 2007, German members of the CIPFG (Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China) wrote a letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel, who will visit China soon. In the letter, they urged Mrs. Merkel to help to end the persecution of the Chinese communist regime against Falun Gong and pass along the CIPFG’s letters to China’s president Hu Jintao and the premier Wen Jiabao. Their letter to Merkel is translated here. -
Switzerland: Exposing the CCP's Atrocity of Organ Harvesting
2007-09-03Falun Gong practitioners in Switzerland returned to a busy shopping street in Zurich to spend a day exposing to local people the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist regime, which has lasted over eight years.Tourists from all over the world could also find leaflets in their own native languages at the information stand. -
Sweden: Falun Gong at the Swedish Cultural Festival in Gothenburg
2007-09-03On August 14th, 2007, a one-week Cultural Festival was held in Gothenburg, the second biggest city in Sweden. The centre of the Cultural Festival was held in a park. Practitioners took part and the demonstration of Falun Gong exercises and instruction of the exercises interested many adults and children. -
Finland: Supporting an End to the Persecution of Falun Gong
2007-09-03On August 18th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners and volunteers from the 'Quitting the CCP Service Centre' in Finland held an activity at Esplanadi Park in the centre of Helsinki to expose the evil nature of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and protest against the CCP's eight year long persecution of Falun Gong in China, as well as support the 25 million wihdrawals from the CCP. -
Ireland: Falun Gong is Popular During the Irish Rose Festival
2007-09-02The annual Irish Rose Festival is held in Tralee, an important town in the Southwest of Ireland, in late August every year. Irish Falun Gong practitioners took advantage of this opportunity to help more people know the fact about the magnificence of Falun Gong and the Chinese Communist regime’s persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. -
Germany: German Practitioners Expose the Chinese Regime's Persecution of Falun Gong in China
2007-09-02In the weeks before the 131st Richard Wagner Festival, visitors from around the world were able to practitioners' photo exhibition on the “Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party” and on the Chinese Communist regime's crimes involving harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. Many signed the petition condemning the persecution as a result. -
France: The People in Guadeloupe Express Their Concern about the Persecution of Falun Gong
2007-09-02“Sandstorm,” a movie that exposes the Chinese Communist regime’s persecution against Falun Gong was played at the media centre in Gosier, the cultural centre in Saint Rose and the technology centre in Douville, Guadeloupe on May 25th, June 8th, and June 22nd, 2007. Among others, it was due to the support from the cultural service department of the city government which made it possible for the shows in Gosier and Saint-Rose to be played in such good venues. In addition, the invitations were sent by these departments. -
Sweden: Demonstrating Falun Gong Exercises during the Gothenburg Culture Festival
2007-09-01On August 14th 2007, the week-long Cultural Festival began in Sweden’s second largest city, Gothenburg. Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the five sets of exercises and taught them for free in the Botanical Gardens, where most of the celebration activities were held. The exercise teachings attracted a lot of adults and children alike. -
Shocked at the CCP's Atrocities, a German Man Writes to the International Olympic Committee
2007-09-01On August 25th 2007, a German couple, the Nehrings, travelled from Ruhrgebiet to Munich to attend the Human Rights Torch Relay ceremony. Mr. Nehring had written to the International Olympic Committee prior to this event, expressing his indignation about the human rights violations happening in China, particularly the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. -
Finland: Falun Dafa Introduced at the "Night of Art" in Helsinki
2007-09-01On the evening of August 24th 2007, invited by the organizers of the "Night of Art" in Helsinki, Falun Gong practitioners participated in an activity held in the Kannelmakeen Library. Practitioners demonstrated the five sets of Falun Gong exercises, performed a dance called "Lotus Flower" and distributed Falun Gong materials and beautiful paper lotus flowers to the audience.