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Germany: Chinese Resident in Berlin Reveals Offer to Spy on Falun Gong
2007-06-01My name is Liu Deqin. Since July, 2003, I have worked in Germany. On June 30th, 2003, I was granted a visa to Germany. As soon as I received the visa sent by the German Embassy, I found the envelope had been torn open. In July, staff of the “610” Office [known as the 'Chinese gestapo', the 610 Office was created specifically to persecute Falun Gong] came to have a talk with me. The subject was mainly that since I had been given an exit visa, I had to serve China by taking some photos in Germany for them. -
Finland: Introducing Falun Gong to the Finnish People at the 'World Village'
2007-06-01The World Village, which is held once a year in Helsinki, was held in Kaisaniemi Park near the central railway station. On May 26th and 27th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners took the opportunity to let the Finnish people know about Falun Gong. Though it was raining heavily on the morning of the 26th and the ground was muddy, people still came with huge interest. -
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Practitioners Celebrate World Falun Gong Day in Sarajevo and Inform the Public about the Falun Gong Genocide in China
2007-06-01Practitioners from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia organised two events to inform the public on May 12th and 13th, 2007, in the centre of Sarajevo. The people of Sarajevo were given the opportunity to learn the Falun Gong exercises, to talk to practitioners and to read Falun Gong flyers and posters. Moreover, the people of Sarajevo learned about the genocide committed over the last eight years against Falun Gong practitioners in China as well as about the systematic organ removals from living Falun Gong practitioners in labour camps and prisons. -
Russia: Raising Awareness about Falun Gong in Vladivostok
2007-05-31Vladivostok is a big city in Russia close to the border with China. There are many Chinese tourists in Vladivostok. To raise awareness about the persecution of Falun Gong to the Chinese people, Falun Gong practitioners have been passing out leaflets at tourist spots for several years. -
Germany: German Federal President Requested to Lodge a Complaint Concerning the Labour Camp System During his Visit to China
2007-05-31German President Horst Koehler was asked to lodge confidently and publicly a complaint concerning human rights during his May 23rd to 26th state visit to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The International Society for Human Rights (ISHR), encouraged him to include this subject on his agenda, as well as lodge a complaint regarding China's labour camp system. -
Slovakia: Introducing Falun Gong to the People of Banovce nad Bebravou
2007-05-31On Saturday May 26th, 2007, Slovakian practitioners of Falun Gong visited the city of Banovce nad Bebravou in western Slovakia. They set up a petition table with information material and started to demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises, attracting a lot of attention. About fifty people signed the petition against the persecution of Falun Gong in China. -
Poland: Falun Gong Practitioners Invited to Protest in Front of the Parliament During Wu Bangguo's Visit to Warsaw
2007-05-30During the visit of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Politburo Standing Committee Member Wu Bangguo and his party in Warsaw on May 24th, 2007, members of the Polish Parliament invited Falun Gong practitioners to demonstrate when the CCP delegation arrived. Their presence sent an effective message to the CCP officials. -
Germany: Falun Gong Practitioners from the Ex-Soviet Union Protest against Russia’s Illegal Deportation of a UN Refugee
2007-05-30Large numbers of people living in Germany are from the ex-Soviet Union. With Falun Gong spreading, some of them have also started to practise Falun Gong. On May 15th, a group of German Falun Gong practitioners from the ex-Soviet Union submitted a letter of protest to the Russian Consulate in Berlin condemning the second case of forcibly deporting a Falun Gong practitioner with UN refugee status to China. They called on the Russian government not to submit to both economic and political pressure from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and not to serve as an accessory in persecuting Falun Gong. -
Nexus (Croatia): Genocide under the Olympic Flag
2007-05-30Nexus, a Croatian magazine for alternative medicine and spirituality, in its issue, no. 18, April - May 2007, published an article entitled "Genocide under the Olympic Flag: Horrible Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in China." The author of the article asks why China's government started the persecution against Falun Gong in 1999 and why are practitioners today subjected to arrests and torture, despite the fact that many practitioners have been cured of chronic sicknesses, became healthy and have raised their spirituality according to principles of Truth, Compassion and Tolerance. -
Over 30 UK Parliamentarians Sign a Petition Calling for the Freedom of Wenjian Liang
2007-05-29A total of 34 UK MPs, Lords, and MEPs have signed a petition calling for the freedom of Wenjian Liang, who together with her husband Zhiyong Lin, have been sent to labour camps in Guangzhou in March 2007 for “illegal gathering” with six other Falun Gong adherents in her own home. Among the parliamentarians signing the petition are the Rt. Hon. Charles Kennedy MP, who was the former leader of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Rt. Hon. Lord Steel, who was the first Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament and a former leader of the Liberal Party. -
Germany: Falun Dafa Practitioners Publicly Appeal for an Open Human Rights Dialogue Between the EU and China
2007-05-29The EU-China Bilateral Human Rights Dialogue was held in Berlin. Falun Gong's banners hung across the road reminding participants that a peaceful cultivation group is still being cruelly persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and that living Falun Gong practitioners' organs are still being harvested for profit in China. -
Belgium: Falun Gong Practitioners Expose the CCP’s Brutal Persecution
2007-05-29On May 19th, Falun Gong practitioners held activities in the centre of Brussels, the capital of Belgium, to expose the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) brutal persecution of Falun Gong and its corruption of morality. The event called for an end to the persecution. Exhibits in this event included graphics of persecuted practitioners as well as a full length French version of the Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China, a report published by independent investigators David Kilgour, Canadian MP and former Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific, and David Matas, international human rights lawyer. -
Germany: Falun Gong Practitioners Gather in Berlin to Request a Public EU-China Human Rights Dialog, Vice President of the European Parliament Shows Support
2007-05-28On May 14th, 2007, one day before the European Union and Chinese Communist Party opened their human rights dialog, European Falun Gong practitioners assembled at Pariser Platz, in front of Brandenburger Tor in Berlin to request that the dialog should involve everyone's human rights in China. -
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s State Television Station Airs a Forty Minute Interview with a Falun Gong Practitioner
2007-05-28On May 9th, shortly before practitioners conducted activities for World Falun Gong Day, Bosnia’s state-owned television station FTV (Foederale TV) aired a forty minute interview with Igor Jancev, a practitioner from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who is the representative for the Bosnian Falun Dafa Information Centre. -
Germany: Raising Awareness in Leipzig about the Persecution of Falun Gong
2007-05-27On May 19th, Falun Gong practitioners from Leipzig, Sachsen-Anhalt, and Niedersachsen raised awareness about Falun Gong in Leipzig city centre.When people learned that human organs are being harvested from live Falun Gong practitioners, they were shocked. The kind-hearted citizens of Leipzig said it was intolerable that human rights abuse nowadays is more brutal than that perpetrated by the Nazis.