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• MP Statement from London Activities to Commemorate April 25th: “The suffering which Falun Gong practitioners have experienced is not conceivable in the 21st Century”

  2007-05-06
  This statement by UK MP Mark Lancaster was read at a press conference opposite the Chinese Embassy in London on Saturday April 28th 2007. The press conference was the start of a day of activities to commemorate April 25th 1999 when Falun Gong practitioners in China appealed to the government to release fellow practitioners who were wrongfully imprisoned. This appeal was used by members of the Chinese Communist Party as an excuse to publicly launch the persecution against Falun Gong, which had previously been happening clandestinely.
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• Finland: Practitioners Give a Helping Hand to a Chinese Student

  2007-05-05
  "What can I do? What has the Finnish government done?" These questions are often heard when Finnish Falun Gong practitioners raise awareness at the central railway station. On April 28th, 2007, the practitioners came to the railway station to tell people about the eight-year cruel persecution that the CCP inflicted on Falun Gong practitioners.
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• United Kingdom: "Force cannot chain conscience and belief in freedom"

  2007-05-05
  From April 19th to 25th 2007, Falun Gong practitioners in Cambridge held an art exhibition comprising of work created by artists who are also Falun Gong practitioners. The exhibition is entitled the International ‘Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance’ Exhibition and was held in St Laurence’s Catholic Church. This event was fully supported by the church, politicians and artists. This is the fourth time this internationally renowned exhibition has been held in Cambridge.
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• German Practitioners Write an Open letter to the Chinese Consulate in Munich to Commemorate the April 25th Appeal

  2007-05-05
  "The publication of the Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party started the overwhelming tide of defections from the CCP. Over twenty one million Chinese people have defected from the CCP’s organisations. The final days of the CCP are being counted ... At such a critical moment in human history, of your counterparts, some chose a bright future for themselves. For instance, Chen Yonglin in Australia and Zhang Jiyan in Canada announced they would quit the CCP. Of your counterparts, some chose darkness, though. Pan Xinchun, the Deputy Consul General in Toronto, was convicted of libel for attacking a Canadian Falun Gong practitioner in a Canadian newspaper article".
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• Germany: Reflecting on the International Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance Art Exhibition in Dresden

  2007-05-04
  It has been four weeks since the opening ceremony of the International Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance Art Exhibition took place in the citizen’s hall of the Saxon Parliament in Dresden. This exhibition drew the attention of many people. Visitors have been deeply touched by the deep inner meanings they see in the pictures, but they were shocked when they heard of the brutal persecution against the peaceful Falun Gong practitioners, a persecution that has been perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for eight years.
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• Speech from London Activities to Commemorate April 25th: "My experience of being persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party"

  2007-05-04
  My name is Xinxia Jiang. I have been practicing Falun Gong since 1994. On 21st of July 1999, I went to Beijing with some of my fellow practitioners to appeal to the central government to lift the ban on Falun Gong. Police arrested all of us. I was sent back to the school in Shanghai where I worked as a fine arts teacher. Once back, I was locked up in a small classroom and was not allowed to see anyone for over a month. During which time, five to six policemen took turns interrogating me everyday.
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• MP’s Statement from London Activities to Commemorate April 25th: “I join the people here today condemning the persecution of Falun Gong”

  2007-05-04
  The statement here by UK Member of Parliament Mark Hunter was read at a press conference opposite the Chinese Embassy in London on Saturday April 28th, 2007. The press conference was the start of a day of activities to commemorate April 25th 1999 when Falun Gong practitioners in China appealed to the government to release fellow practitioners who were wrongfully imprisoned. This appeal was used by members of the Chinese Communist Party as an excuse to publicly launch the persecution against Falun Gong, which had previously been happening clandestinely.
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• Holland: European Celestial Band Well Received in Amsterdam

  2007-05-03
  On April 21st, 2007, the European Celestial Band was invited to join the 60th Flower Parade and also took part in a big parade and assembly organised by the local Withdrawing from the CCP Centre in Hague. The second parade celebrated the twenty million Chinese people who have withdrawn from the CCP and its related organisations.
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• Speech Given by European Friends of Falun Gong to Commemorate the April 25th Appeal in Beijing

  2007-05-03
  "Today marks the eighth anniversary of the day when 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners spontaneously gathered at Zhongnanhai in Beijing to appeal peacefully to the Chinese government to release practitioners who had been arrested in Tianjin. Since then the Chinese government has been responsible for the worst series of organised persecution ever perpetrated in the history of mankind. Over 3,000 practitioners have been tortured to death in prisons and labour camps across China, while thousands more have been subjected to a horrific variety of abuse and torture with little hope of freedom or justice."
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• Sweden: Letting the Swedish People Know about Falun Gong

  2007-05-03
  After the CCP's trade in organs taken from living Falun Gong practitioners was exposed in the media, many kind Swedish people were shocked and condemned this atrocity. At the same time, many people were attracted by Falun Gong’s noble principles and contacted practitioners to find out where they could learn the Falun Gong exercises.
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• Statement by the European Falun Dafa Association: EU-China Human Rights Dialogue

  2007-05-02
  "We sincerely urge the EU to take this valuable opportunity to openly and publicly speak out against the human rights abuses. The EU’s efforts and public condemnation of this senseless and horrific persecution can significantly contribute to easing the pressure that the practitioners in China are currently enduring and take us one step closer to ending their suffering. It has now been over 8 years since the crackdown began. Every day, we receive more news of yet another torture victim, another family torn apart, another human rights crime."
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• Ireland: Commemorating April 25th, 1999

  2007-05-02
  On the 25th of April 2007, Falun Gong practitioners in Ireland held a protest at the Chinese Embassy to Ireland. They commemorated the 25th of April 1999, when ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners in China peacefully appealed at the Beijing Bureau of Complaint. Practitioners in Ireland protested against the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) eight years of brutal persecution, raised awareness about the peaceful appeal on the 25th of April 1999 and exposed organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners, which is taking place today.
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• Ukraine: Falun Gong Practitioners Commemorate April 25th 1999

  2007-05-01
  On April 25th, Ukrainian Falun Gong practitioners held a candlelight vigil at the Chinese Embassy in Kyiv to commemorate the 1999 appeal n Beijing and to protest against the brutal persecution of the practice. The practitioners strongly called on the world to take action to end the CCP’s genocide of Falun Gong.
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• Spain: Spanish Practitioners Rally at the Chinese Embassy to Commemorate the April 25th 1999 Appeal

  2007-05-01
  On April 25th eight years ago, over 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners peacefully appealed to the Chinese State Council’s Appeal Office in Beijing, requesting the Chinese Communist government to release the Falun Gong practitioners who had been illegally arrested in Tianjin and to allow Falun Gong practitioners to practice the Falun Gong exercises in public places.
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• Denmark: Falun Gong Practitioners Commemorate the April 25th Appeal in Front of the Chinese Embassy

  2007-04-30
  On April 25th eight years ago, over ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners went to the State Council Appeals Office in Beijing, to appeal to the state leaders about interference and unfair treatment of practitioners by the Public Security Bureau in Tianjin.
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