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  • UK Parliament Seminar Speech: “Bloody Harvest: Some Unpalatable Truths as the 2008 China Olympics Approach”

    "The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) in China now has hundreds of legislators, lawyers, doctors, academics, religious and spiritual leaders in more than twenty countries who are ready to go to China to investigate our report findings. They should be allowed to do so. The Olympic Games and organ snatching cannot occur at the same time in China. The Olympic Charter and movement, including its respect for human dignity and national Olympic committees in seventy countries, require better. I invite the participants in this seminar to examine ways you can help to end this terrible practice. Murdering innocent people for their organs is a new form of evil on this planet."
  • French MP Appeals to Foreign Minister to Rescue Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Ma Jian

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Ma Jian, general manager of the French PCM Pump Company for China and the northern Asian region, was arrested in his Beijing office by Chinese police on February 28th 2007. It was reported that police took Ma Jian to a brainwashing centre. This serious incident is a gross abuse of citizen’s rights and severely affected the operation of the French Company. The French people and political circles are very concerned.
  • Finland: A Chinese Lady Takes a Copy of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party

    On March 24th, 2007, the sun shone brightly and it felt like spring had arrived at last. People shed their winter clothes. Falun Gong practitioners went to Helsinki Central Railway Station at noon as they had before. They hung a striking banner reading, “Falun Dafa is Good,” and demonstrated the exercises to show the peace and grace of Falun Dafa.
  • Germany: New Evidence of the Chinese Communist Regime's Organ-Harvesting Shocks the People of Munich

    "The atrocities of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit do exist in China. China's military is extensively involved in the crimes to make exorbitant profit," said Mr. David Matas, as he announced these conclusions at a seminar held at Munich University.
  • Sunday Herald (Scotland): Pressure on UK government to act over Chinese organ harvesting?

    A SENIOR EXPERT on Asia has demanded Britain "take action now" against China, which he says is continuing to harvest organs "� la carte" from practitioners of the suppressed Falun Gong movement who are executed in prison. David Kilgour, Canada's former secretary of state for Asia-Pacific, who will visit the Houses of Parliament this week, told the Sunday Herald that Britain is leaving the issue of organ harvesting unchecked and allowing Chinese officials to kill prisoners for their organs with impunity.
  • United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) News Brief: Chinese Asylum Seeker and Her 8-Year-Old Daughter forcibly Deported From Russia

    According to credible information received by UNHCR, a Chinese asylum seeker and her 8 year-old daughter were taken by the Russian authorities from their St. Petersburg residence last Wednesday (March 28th) and put on a plane departing to China via Novosibirsk. The woman and her daughter had submitted a claim for asylum in accordance with the Russian Federation Law on Refugees. Their appeal against a first negative decision was scheduled to be considered by the Dzerzhinky District court in St. Petersburg yesterday afternoon.
  • France: Support for the Twenty Million Withdrawals from the CCP

    After the Epoch Times newspaper's editorial, the “Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party” was published, the momentum of the Chinese people’s withdrawal from the CCP and its affiliated organisations has continued unabated. On March 24th and 25th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners rallied at several locations in Paris to support the twenty million withdrawals from the CCP and raise awareness about the persecution of Falun Gong.
  • Russia: Chinese Communist Party Threatens Another Country

    On March 24th and 25th, 2007, Russian Falun Gong practitioners held activities in front of the Chinese Embassy in Moscow to raise awareness about the CCP's trade in organs harvested from living Falun Gong practitioners. They called for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP. Under pressure from the Chinese regime, Russian police asked practitioners to leave, or they would be charged with “interfering with the Embassy work”.
  • Belgium: People Genuinely Concerned about the Persecution of Falun Gong in China

    Falun Gong practitioners attended the Eco-Therapeutica Beurs Expo in the city of Leuven. While folding paper lotus flowers at the Falun Gong stand, visitors also listened to practitioners talk about the ongoing brutal persecution of Falun Gong in China. Many people asked what they could do to help. It was a regular occurrence see tears in people’s eyes.
  • Sweden: ”Behind the Scenes in China” Seminar Held in Kalmar

    Supporting Human Rights In China (SHRIC) and the International Society For Human Rights (ISHR), together with Epoch Times Sweden, aorganised the seminar “Behind the scenes in China”. One subject discussed was how tyrannically the Chinese communist party rules China and how important it is to consider the CCP seperately from the Chinese people.
  • Belgium: Lotus Flowers Blossom at a Secondary School in Limburg

    On March 7th, 2007, practitioners were invited to introduce Falun Gong to thirty 13 to14 year old pupils at a secondary school in Lommel. A practitioner gave a presentation about the cultivation practice of Falun Gong, the persecution of Falun Gong in China and the actions practitioners take to raise awareness about the unlawful persecution.
  • Germany: Raising Awareness about the Persecution of Falun Gong in Munich

    During the activity someone might say, “These things are happening in China, is what you are doing here useful?” When someone made a comment like this, it incurred immediately refutations from a crowd of people: “Of course it's useful, this is not only China’s matter, but the matter of each person in the world”.
  • Sweden: Rally in Gothenburg Celebrating 20 Million Withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party

    On the afternoon March 24th, a striking banner in front of the Chinese Consulate in Gothenburg attracted the gaze of a large number of people. A rally was being held there by the Swedish Centre for Quitting the CCP, celebrating the 20 million brave Chinese people who have broken away from the CCP. Many Falun Gong practitioners also participated in the activity.
  • Germany: MPs Submit a Resolution Condemning the CCP for Using 'Re-Education Through Forced Labour' to Brainwash its People

    According to a report by Deutsche Welle (DW) on March 15th, 2006, German MPs from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Free Democratic Party (FDP), and the Green’s Party have jointly submitted a resolution to the Federal Parliament condemning the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) system of forced labour education. Based on a report by Florian Toncar, spokesman for the FDP and member of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid Committee, stating that all parliamentary parties had reached a unanimous agreement and that in early May the parliament will have voted to pass the severely critical resolution.
  • Ireland: Raising Awareness about Falun Gong and Depicting the Charm of Traditional Chinese Culture During a St. Patrick’s Day Parade

    Invitated by organisers, Falun Gong practitioners participated in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in County Laois. Their depiction of the beauty of Falun Gong and the charm of traditional Chinese culture won Best Culture Award. Nearly ten thousand people turned up to watch the parade despite the weather.