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• Germany: Frankfurt Bathed in Sunshine

  2007-07-12
  A performer in the Celestial Band works for a company in Frankfurt. When her colleagues saw her performing music in the parade, they greeted her merrily. Ever since the parade at the culture festival some time ago, in which Falun Gong took part, their attitude toward Falun Gong has changed. They were greatly impressed by the European Celestial Band.
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• Sweden: Falun Gong Practitioners Support the Campaign to Quit the CCP and Protest against the Hong Kong Forced Deportation

  2007-07-12
  On July 5th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners from Stockholm and the Service Centre for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rallied at the Chinese Embassy to voice their support for the lawsuit brought by Hong Kong practitioners against China's former President Jiang Zemin, who is the leading culprit in the persecution of Falun Gong.
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• Denmark: Danish Falun Gong Practitioners Protest against the CCP’s Illegal Abduction of Zhang Weijie and Chen Man

  2007-07-11
  On July 6th, 2007, some Falun Gong practitioners from Copenhagen, regardless of the rain, went to the Chinese Embassy in Denmark to protest against the Wuhan 610-Office’s atrocity of abducting Wuhan Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Weijie and his wife Chen Man, and called on the Chinese authorities to release them immediately.
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• United Kingdom: More about the CIPFG Human Rights Torch Relay

  2007-07-11
  On July 3rd, 2007, the European Chapter of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) held a press conference at the Foreign Journalists’ Club in London, announcing the start of the European Human Rights Torch Relay. In one month, the global Human Rights Torch will be lit in Athens, Greece, the birth place of the Olympic Games. Mārtiņš Rubenis from Latvia, who won the bronze medal at the men's singles luge event at the 2006 Winter Olympics, will carry the torch for Europe.
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• United Kingdom: Press Conference Held in London to Announce the Launch of the Human Rights Torch Relay

  2007-07-10
  On July 3rd 2007, the branch of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) in Europe held a press conference in London, announcing the launch of the Human Right Torch Relay. The purpose of the relay is to expose the brutality and crimes of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and call upon the international community to prevent the Olympic Games, which is the symbol of peace, from becoming a Bloody Harvest Games.
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• Austria: Falun Gong Exercises Generate a Strong Energy Field in Vienna’s Chinatown

  2007-07-10
  On Saturday, June 16th, 2007, Austrian Falun Gong practitioners organised an information day in Vienna. For about six months, this information day has been organised once a month at the U4 Metro Station Kettenbrueckengasse. This is the location where Vienna’s unofficial Chinatown is located. In addition, this time practitioners also demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises.
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• Germany: The Crimes Committed by the Chinese Communist Party Must be Stopped

  2007-07-09
  The nine meter long poster that we laid on the ground attracted many people. It tells the history of the crimes committed by the CCP from the time of the student massacre in 1989 [on Tiananmen Square] to the most recent discoveries, the organ theft on thousands of living Falun Gong practitioners and their subsequent murder.
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• Ukraine: Falun Gong Practitioners Raise Awareness about the CCP's Atrocities During Anti-Torture Exhibition

  2007-07-09
  On Ukraine Anti-Torture Day, Falun Gong practitioners in Kiev held an event on Independent Square in the city centre disclosing the CCP's eight year cruel persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. They re-enacted some of the types of torture Falun Gong practitioners experience in forced labour camps in China.
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• Greece: Celebrating World Falun Dafa Day in Athens

  2007-07-08
  It was a beautiful sunny day in Athens for the celebration of World Falun Dafa Day on May 13th, 2007. Practitioners travelled to Thiseio to celebrate the benefits of Falun Gong and to allow people to see the Falun Gong exercises. Passersby on their afternoon stroll through the historic ruins and cafes stopped and admired the exercise demonstration.
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• Switzerland: Interesting Stories While Raising Awareness about Falun Gong among Chinese Tourists

  2007-07-08
  Lausanne is a renowned tourist site in Switzerland. There are always many tourists visiting its famous attractions, including more and more tourists from Mainland China. It is an excellent place for Falun Gong practitioners in Switzerland to talk to Chinese people face-to-face, distribute the “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party,” encourage withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party and let the precious Chinese people know the truth.
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• European Falun Dafa Association writes to UK Foreign Secretary: “These encroachments on basic freedoms in Hong Kong cannot stand”

  2007-07-08
  More than 800 Falun Gong practitioners have been denied entry to Hong Kong in recent days, having traveled there for demonstrations over the ten-year anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China. Witnesses say police officers have disregarded standard deportation procedures and used excessive force, including forcefully wrapping detainees in tarps and physically carrying them onto airplanes departing Hong Kong. An email leaked by a Taiwanese travel agency details instructions from the Hong Kong Immigration Department to bar Falun Gong practitioners from boarding Hong Kong-bound planes in Taiwan.
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• Austria: Almost Eight Years Have Passed Since the Beginning of the Systematic and Brutal Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in China

  2007-07-07
  Many hold hope for an improvement in China's human rights situation with the promise of the Olympic Games. However, a black list has been distributed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), in which forty-three different categories of undesirable people that should not be allowed to come to China for the Olympics are listed, among them Falun Gong practitioners.
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• Germany: Falun Gong and Lotus Flowers to the Fore at The Altonale Culture Festival

  2007-07-07
  With the theme “The Path of Falun Gong” we organised a photo exhibition in two pavilions. There were photos depicting the dissemination of Falun Gong, photos about the persecution that began in July of 1999, as well as photos about the peaceful protests that call for an end to the torture and murder of Falun Gong practitioners in China.
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• Speech Given at a Press Conference in London by Vice-Chair of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China

  2007-07-07
  No world event symbolises peace and harmony amongst the people of the world more than the Olympic Games. Besides the significance of Greece being the site of the first Olympics, both ancient and modern, it also hosted the last games in 2004, when all nations of the world were united in the spirit of fair play. If China is allowed to host the next Olympics without first ending its morally corrupt human rights abuses, especially the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, it will be a sad indictment on the moral standards of the world as a whole".
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• Statement at Press Conference in London by Chair of Coalition to Investigate Persecution of Falun Gong in China

  2007-07-06
  "The torch will start on the 9th August in Athens and will then be carried through more than ten countries in Europe and then onto other countries around the world, in order to show the Chinese authorities the volume of support for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong, and to demonstrate the strength of feeling amongst right-minded people that the 2008 Olympics cannot co-exist with a climate of intimidation and physical and mental abuse of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese government".
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