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  • Austria: Falun Gong Practitioners Raise Awareness about the Crimes of the CCP on World Human Rights Day

    On December 10th, 2006, Austrian Falun Gong practitioners organised an activity in the famous tourist city of Salzburg to raise awareness about the horrible seven year persecution of Falun Gong practitioner by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Many passersby signed the petition condemning the persecution.
  • United Kingdom: Practitioners Again Invited to London New Year’s Day Parade

    On January 1st 2007, UK Falun Gong Practitioners were again invited to take part in London’s New Year’s Day Parade. This year, for a change, the weather was gloriously sunny and as a result, the streets from Whitehall to Mayfair were thronged with onlookers from all over the world. As usual, the reaction of the crowd was warm. Many people got to learn about Falun Gong and witnessed the beauty of the practice through this parade.
  • Austria: Exposing Organ Harvesting from Falun Gong Practitioners in China During a Press Conference in Vienna

    David Kilgour spoke during a November the 21st 2006 press conference on human rights, arranged by the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR-IgfM) in Vienna, about the unimaginable human rights violations happening in China. Kilgour presented an investigative report that details organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China.
  • Official Launch of the Turkish Clear Harmony Website

    The Turkish Clear Harmony website, launched on January 1st 2007, is one of the 16 language-versions of the European Falun Dafa website. We hope the Turkish Clear Harmony website can help the Turkish people get a clearer and broader view on what Falun Gong is as well as the truth behind the ongoing persecution in China.
  • Russia: Raising Awareness about the Persecution of Falun Gong to the People of St. Petersburg before Christmas

    On December 23rd, 2006, before Christmas, Falun Gong practitioners held an activity near the Saint-Petersburg State University in Island Vasil’evskiy to expose the persecution of Falun Gong.
  • Austrian Newspaper Reports a Lawsuit against the Perpetrators of the Persecution of Falun Gong

    On December 16th, an Austrian newspaper carried a report from the Austrian Press Agency. The report said that a lawsuit against several chief perpetrators of the persecution of Falun Gong had been recently filed in Vienna. The report said that a lawsuit against Liu Qi has been filed to the Vienna Procuratorate. Liu is the president of the Beijing Olympic Games Organising Committee. The Austrian Falun Gong Association charged Liu and three other high ranking Chinese Communist Party officials with “Genocide and Crimes against Humanity.”
  • Romania: President of Romania Condemns the Communist Regime as “Illegitimate and Criminal”

    Romanian President Traian Basescu condemned the Communist regime as “illegitimate and criminal” in a speech delivered at a special Romanian Parliament session on the 18th of December 2006. “For the Romanian citizens, Communism was a regime imposed by a political group self-entitled as a truth keeper, a totalitarian regime born of violence, and ended through violence", he said. "It violated the law and forced citizens to live in lies and fear.”
  • Bremer Tageszeitung (Germany): Highlighting the brutal organ harvesting and protesting against the horror of the Chinese camps

    "Vegesack: A German-Chinese human rights group attracted lots of attention last Saturday in the local outdoor shopping district. Activists were protesting against the forced removal of organs from political prisoners in China. The group had erected a cage surrounding Rosa Jansohn of Ritterhude in the vicinity of the former Kramer’s department store. They explained that similar cages are used in Chinese labour camps, where enclosed inmates are partially immersed in water for hours on end. If the prisoners get too sleepy, they are likely to drown."
  • MEP Raises Questions about Human Rights Lawyer Imprisoned for Speaking out for Falun Gong

    "A court in Beijing recently found lawyer Gao Zhisheng guilty of subversion. Gao is an active human rights attorney. As we can imagine, the Chinese regime sentenced Mr. Gao because he defended Christian members of unofficial churches and practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual movement. His two lawyers were neither allowed to enter the court nor meet their client. Consequently, they cannot confirm whether Gao pleaded guilty as the regime claimed."
  • France: Exposing the Chinese Communist Regime’s Organ Harvesting in Guadeloupe

    On December 9th 2006, Falun Gong practitioners in Guadeloupe, an archipelago located in the eastern Caribbean Sea that is part of France, held activities in downtown Pointe-à-Pitre to expose the Chinese communist regime’s harvesting of organs from live Falun Gong practitioners and the subsequent sales of these organs for profit.
  • Italian MEP Holds Press Conference Highlighting Persecution Against Falun Gong

    On November 22nd 2006, an Italian news agency reported that Mr. Benedetto Della Vedova, member of the Liberal Reformers and Radical Member of European Parliament, held a press conference to expose the lack of basic human rights in China. Former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia and Pacific David Kilgour was invited to the press conference. Recently, Mr. Kilgour has been devoted to raising awareness about the Chinese Communist Party’s forced removal of Falun Gong practitioners’ internal organs.
  • Germany: University Students Call for an End to the Persecution Against Falun Gong

    On December 10th, practitioners from Regensburg and surrounding cities went to a university to let the students know about Falun Gong, the seven years of persecution against the practice by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the peaceful forms of protest that practitioners have used to raise awareness about these human rights abuses.
  • Germany: A Christmas Gift with Best Wishes to the People of Augsburg

    On December 16th, it was very crowded in Augsburg. While they passed by King Square, many people were attracted by the elegant music and peaceful exercise movements displayed by Falun Gong practitioners. After learning about Falun Gong’s peaceful resistance to over seven years of persecution, people condemned the brutal Chinese Communist regime.
  • Ukraine: Calling for an End to the Persecution on Human Rights Day

    On the 10th of December 2006, International Human Rights Day, Ukrainian practitioners held activities to reveal the Chinese Communist regime’s persecution of Falun Gong. Over the past seven years, the Chinese Communist Party has not only persecuted its own citizens – 100 million Falun Gong practitioners – with brutal and inhumane torture, but has also given orders through its Embassies to defame Falun Gong and to buy over other countries with financial interests so that these countries would keep silent over the issue of Falun Gong.
  • French Congresswoman Raises Questions Regarding Organ Harvesting

    Jacqueline Fraysse, a congresswoman, councilor and heart surgeon, recently sent a letter to a French member of CIPFG. “After reading your illustration and the report made by David Matas and David Kilgour, I am convinced of the seriousness of the situation. Thus I made up my mind to request the French Foreign Minister negotiating with the Chinese government to instigate an independent investigation team be allowed into China."