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  • Hungary: Mourning the Deaths of Over Three Thousand Practitioners

    To mark eight years since the CCP persecution of Falun Gong began, Hungarian practitioners held a protest on July 20th at the Chinese Embassy in Budapest. During the few hours that the practitioners were there, many passers-by stopped and read the posters. Practitioners gave them leaflets and explained what Falun Gong is and why it is being persecuted.
  • Czech Republic: Activity in Brusperku To Raise Awareness about the Abuse of Falun Gong Practitioners in China

    On May 19th, 2007, practitioners of Falun Gong gathered in the city of Brušperku to let local people know about Falun Gong, which is a peaceful spiritual practice which cultivates mind and body. They also raised awareness about the practice's persecution by the Chinese government, which banned Falun Gong in 1999 largely due to the fact that the then Chinese leader, Jiang Zemin, was jealous of Falun Gong's popularity.
  • Russia: Practitioners in St Petersburg have Protested against the Persecution at the Chinese Consulate for Three Years

    On July 7th, 2007, as usual, a Falun Gong practitioner with a banner both in Chinese and Russian in his hands was stands in front of the Chinese Consulate in St. Petersburg. A number of Falun Gong practitioners stand on the opposite bank of the canal, protesting against the persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP which has lasted for eight years.
  • Denmark: Let the Lighting of the Olympic Torch Become a Hope for Improving Human Rights

    On the 7th and 8th of July 2007, the Global Service Centre for Quitting the CCP and the Danish China Human Rights Internet Organisation held a joint rally and parade at the largest square in Copenhagen, supporting over twenty three million brave Chinese people who quit the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organisations. European member of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China Leif Bork Hansen made a speech.
  • Switzerland: Stories During Activities to Raise Awareness about the Persecution of Falun Gong

    Luzerne is a famous tourist spot in Switzerland. Many visitors, including more and more tourists from mainland China, are attracted here by its fame. Falun Gong practitioners from Switzerland think that this is a good place to tell Chinese people about the persecution of Falun Gong face to face, distribute the Epoch Times newspaper's editorial “The Nine Commentaries of the Communist Party” and inform people how to quit the CCP. For this reason, Swiss practitioners come here in turns five days a week. When meeting tourists from mainland China, there were many touching stories.
  • Germany: Practitioners Raise Awareness about the Persecution of Falun Gong during the Free Democratic Party Conference

    During the Free Democratic (FDP) Conference in Stuttgart, Falun Gong practitioners handed leaflets to the party representatives at the main entrance to the arena, exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution and organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners in China. Some of the representatives have already had a clear understanding of the persecution. On May 10th 2007, Florian Toncar, spokesman for the FDP and member of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid Committee had pushed German MPs to jointly submit a resolution condemning the CCP system of forced labour education.
  • Turkey: Raising Awareness in Ankara about the Bestial Crime of Organ Harvesting

    On July 7th and 8th, 2007, in the busy city centre of Ankara, Falun Gong practitioners distributed leaflets, talked with passersby and collected signatures to raise awareness about the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong in China, including the removal of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. They called on local people to support an end to the persecution.
  • EU MP Expresses Doubts about the Olympic Games in Beijing

    Following a story in Denmark’s biggest daily newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, entitled “Denmark’s two parties demand that the Prince stay away from the Beijing Olympic Games”, Denmark’s biggest sport newspaper Ekstrabladet also carried an article, written by a Danish MEP, Gitte Seeberg, entitled “The Olympic Games in China”. The article was published on July 7th and focuses on the many human rights problems in China, asking what can Western society do about it?
  • New Falun Gong Practice Site Established in a Remote Part of Russia

    Buryat Republic is a vast but thinly populated area in Russian Siberia. A villager has a relative who is a Falun Gong practitioner in Irkutsk. One year ago, the villager was lucky enough to learn Falun Gong and started cultivation.
  • Denmark: Copenhagen Rally Supporting Twenty-Three Million Withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party

    The Danish branch of the Global Service Centre for Quitting the CCP and the Danish China Human Rights Internet Organisation held a joint rally and parade in the Danish capital Copenhagen, supporting over twenty three million brave Chinese people who have quit the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organisations.
  • Czech Republic: Falun Gong practitioners visit Rock for People Summer Festival

    Despite unpleasant weather, thousands of people gathered at the Rock for People summer festival in Eastern Bohemia. Falun Gong practitioners were warmly received at the festival. They exhibited several banners informing festival goers about the atrocities their fellow practitioners are subject to in Chinese prisons and labour camps.
  • Denmark: Parade Supporting Twenty-Three Million Withdrawals from the CCP During the International Bop Festival in Copenhagen

    The first time the Divine Marching Band made an appearance in Denmark was noteworthy for the crowd of people that followed the band as it made its way through town. Musicians playing on street corners stopped and listened while shoppers carefully read the leaflets practitioners distributed.
  • Czech Republic: Practitioners Speak to Participants of the Jagr Team Event in Chotebor

    On a sunny Sunday, July 7th, several Falun Gong practitioners raised awareness about the inhuman persecution of their counterparts in China during the Summer Fest against Drugs where an exhibition football match with famous Czech NHL hockey star Jaromir Jagr took place. Probably all the visitors received information from practitioners about the cruel persecution in China.
  • Germany: “I am awed by your courage.”

    The fifth Frankfurt Culture Festival was held in downtown Frankfurt. There were over sixty groups from different countries in their tribal costumes together with their ornate floats. The Falun Gong group has taken part in this activity since the first year of the parade. This year, over 180 Falun Gong practitioners paraded through the streets.
  • Turkey: Introducing Falun Dafa at the National Education Bureau of Mersin Municipality

    On June 21st, 2007, Turkish Falun Gong practitioners were invited to hold an introduction forum at the National Education Bureau of Mersin Municipality. More than twenty teacher representatives from different types of school took part. When the introduction finished, participants didn’t want to leave until very late.