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  • Germany: Large-Scale Media Coverage of CCP's Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Gong Practitioners

    During a seminar on March 30th, Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas and former MP David Kilgour's report on CCP's live organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners became the focus of the forum. Matas and Kilgour told more than a hundred attendees and representatives from several media about the findings from their investigation.
  • Denmark: Rally in Copenhagen to Support Twenty Million Withdrawals from the CCP

    On April 1st, an activity to support twenty million people quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was held on Town Hall Square in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. Lots of people passing by stopped to look, converse and discuss. On the central square of the oldest city in northern Europe, banners and signs caught people’s eye.
  • France: Activities in Paris to Mark the Twenty Million Withdrawals from the CCP

    On March 31st, 2007, the French Branch of the Global Service Centre for Withdrawing from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held activities in Chinatown in the thirteenth District of Paris marking twenty million Chinese people withdrawing from the CCP and its affiliated organisations. They called on the Chinese people to recognise the evil nature of the CCP.
  • Ukraine: Exposing the Persecution of Falun Gong to the People of Slavjansk

    Falun Gong practitioners in Ukraine held activities in Slavjansk, introducing Falun Gong to local residents and exposing the truth about the brutal persecution of practitioners in China. Practitioners displayed photos and information posters and demonstrated the five simple Falun Gong exercises.
  • United Kingdom: Raising Awareness about Falun Gong and the Persecution in Woking

    People asked if it was really true as they simply could not believe that such things could be happening these days. Some people also expressed their support for us. A few footballers stopped by and very happily imitated the movements of practitioners along to the calm music. Although expecting it to be a kind of martial srts, after telling them that for doing these exercises people are being killed in China, each young footballer took a flyer before they went to watch the Woking football team conference match.
  • France: A French MP Appeals to the Foreign Minister to Rescue Falun Gong Practitioner Ma Jian

    Falun Gong practitioner Ma Jian, general manager of a French PCM Pump Company for China and the north Asian region, was arrested in his Beijing office by Chinese police in February. On March 23rd, Mr. Jacques Pelissard, MP for the Province of Jura, Mayor of Lons le Saunier and Chairman of the French Mayor’s Association that represents over thirty five thousand and five hundred Mayors across France, wrote a letter to the French Foreign Minister.
  • Austrian and Hungarian Media Reports on New Evidence Regarding the CCP's Trade in Organs Harvested from Living People

    On April 2nd, 2007, by invitation from Austria’s International Society for Human Rights and the Hungarian Amnesty International, Canadian human rights lawyer Mr. David Matas attended a press conference at the Hungarian Reporters Association in Budapest to disclose new-found evidence in the report written together with co-investigator Mr. David Kilgour about the Chinese Communist Party’s harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. Many media from Austria and Hungary wrote reports on this afterwards.
  • United Kingdom: Film and Discussion in the Peace Studies Department of Bradford University

    On March 13th, a Falun Gong practitioner arrived in Bradford to share her experiences of the persecution of Falun Gong in China and to draw attention to recent allegations of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners. The event was held at Bradford University and was made possible with the assistance of staff from the Peace Studies Department.
  • Spain: Spanish People Support Activities Marking 20 Million Withdrawals from the CCP

    With these activities, the bleak square seemed to come to life. The hustling people started to slow their pace and came in groups to view the display boards exposing the Chinese Communist regime’s atrocities. From time to time, we could hear people condemning the atrocities and expressing their support for the campaign against the persecution.
  • Sweden: Falun Gong Practitioners Participate in a Health Exhibition in Skvde

    On March 24th and 25th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners attended Skvde's annual health exhibition and set up an information booth in the city’s election hall. Reporters from local newspapers came to interview practitioners. They wanted to know the benefits that Falun Gong had brought to practitioners as well as Swedish citizens.
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany): Organs from executed prisoners are not sufficient for transplants

    While patients in other countries have to wait for up to ten years, the waiting time to obtain an organ in China is unusually short because a large number of human organ banks exist, which makes the supply possible. "[Kilgour and Matas] said: Only those who have a greater and stable source of organ supply without depending on organ donations can do this.”
  • Germany: "CCP's Dictatorship Makes This Kind of Things Become Possible"

    On the night of March 29th, 2007, the seminar hall inside the Victims of Stalinism Memorial Library in Berlin was fully seated, and some attendees even went to find chairs elsewhere. The topic which kindled so much interest from the German attendees is "The Chinese Communist Party's Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Gong Practitioners".
  • Sweden: Rally to Support the 20 Million Brave People Who Have Quit the Chinese Communist Party

    On March 31st, 2007, Chinese people living in Sweden held a rally in front of the Chinese Embassy in Stockholm to support the 20 million Chinese who have withdrawn from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). They made speeches and read out their messages to the Chinese Embassy with a loudspeaker, urging staff to quit the CCP.
  • Ukraine: The Chinese Communist Party’s Ruthless Conduct Shocks the Ukrainian People

    When practitioners informed people that two days earlier, due to pressure from the CCP, the Russian authorities deported a Chinese Falun Gong practitioner and her eight-year-old daughter to China, even though they held the status of international refugees, they were indignant. After hearing about this injustice, many of them signed a petition calling for the mother and daughter to be rescued from China as soon as possible.
  • Czech Republic: Touring the Cities of Moravia (part 5)

    Just as they had in previous cities, many people in Vsetín rushed to sign the practitioners' petition calling for an end to the persecution after hearing about the suffering inflicted on Falun Gong practitioners in China by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). After practitioners thanked them for signing the petition, a lot of people replied something along the lines of: “Do not thank me. Signing this petition should be everyone’s duty“.