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  • United Kingdom: Striking Performances at the Cambridge Multicultural Festival

    On Saturday 18th November 2006, Cambridge City Council invited Falun Gong practitioners to its Multicultural and Sports Festival as representatives of the local Chinese community. Practitioners put on a powerful show of dancing and music. The hall was packed. The show started and finished with a demonstration of the five sets of Falun Gong exercises.
  • Chinese Embassy in Ireland Refuses to Renew Falun Gong Practitioner's Passport

    "In April 2006, I went to the Chinese Embassy in Dublin to have my passport renewed. At that time one of staff in the Embassy first helped me go through some formalities, accepted my passport and then told me that I could come to collect my new passport in four weeks. On the 8th of May, I went to the Chinese Embassy for my new passport. When I went to the window to get my passport, I told one of staff the reason why I was there. She simply checked and then told me: “I haven’t got your passport."
  • Czech Republic: Third Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference is Held in Prague

    On November 18th 2006, the Third Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference in the Czech Republic was held in the Agricultural University in Prague. Ten practitioners from the area shared their experiences of how they have improved themselves through cultivation and during their work to let people know about the persecution against Falun Gong.
  • Germany: Practitioners Expose the CCP's Brutality and Support the Fifteen Million Withdrawals from the Party

    Falun Gong practitioners in Germany organised an activity at the St. Mary’s Square in the centre of Munich, exposing the Chinese Communist regime’s trade in organs harvested from living Falun Gong practitioners and supporting over fifteen million Chinese people who have quit the Chinese Communist Party and its associated organisations.
  • Norway: Falun Gong Practitioners Participate in Bodo International Week 2006

    From the 5th to the 12th of November 2006, Bodo City in the northern part of Norway held a week-long “Bodo International Week 2006”. As part of the celebrations, the Language School in Bodo held a series of activities. Performances by Falun Gong practitioners added colour to the school’s International Week and helped to raise awareness about the persecution of Falun Gong in China.
  • Germany: Exposing the CCP's Atrocities to the People of Ratingen

    On October 28th, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners from Nordhein-Westfalen went to Ratingen, to tell local people about the CCP's trade in organs harvested from living Falun Gong practitioners’ organs. When people heard about the atrocity of the CCP extensively imprisoning practitioners and harvesting their organs, they all were astonished and expressed their dismay.
  • Denmark: Supporting the Fifteen Million Withdrawals from the CCP

    On November 9th, 2006, Copenhagen's 'Quitting the CCP Service Centre', several Epoch Times volunteer workers and Falun Gong practitioners held a rally outside the Chinese Embassy in Copenhagen. The rally was to support the fifteen million brave Chinese people who have renounced the CCP and also to protest against CCP’s illegal detention of human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng.
  • Spain: Falun Gong Makes a Good Impression at the International Health Expo in Barcelona

    On the 3rd and 5th of November 2006, Falun Gong practitioners from Spain were invited to participate in the annual International Health Expo held in Barcelona, which attracts many visitors from all over the world every year. Many visitors signed a petition condemning the persecution of the practice by the CCP.
  • Sweden: Introducing Falun Gong and Exposing the Persecution Taking Place in China

    The practitioners unfolded two banners in the small square and exhibited photos documenting the persecution happening in China. Several practitioners demonstrated the exercises and the others distributed flyers. People were moved by the gentle exercise music and the beautiful exercises and two children learned the exercises there and then.
  • United Kingdom: Leeds Locals Learn the Truth

    Many of the passers-by had extremely cold hands and found it hard to hold the pen and yet they were still determined to sign the petition no matter how much effort it took. It was also pleasing to find people passing by commenting that they already knew about the persecution, had taken a leaflet or/and had signed the petition.
  • Sweden: Positive Responses to Falun Gong at a Gothenburg Health Fair

    Falun Gong practitioners from Gothenburg and nearby areas participated in a Health Fair held on the 14th and 15th of October. This was the 6th year that Falun Gong practitioners were invited by the organisers. A lot of people received information about Falun Gong and asked questions about the persecution started by the Chinese communist regime in 1999. There were also many other participants at the fair who came to our booth and wanted to know more about Falun Gong and the good effects that the practice has on health.
  • Russia: Introducing Falun Gong and Exposing the Persecution to the People of Kingisepp

    On November 4th, 2006, Russian practitioners came to Kingisepp in St. Petersburg and held activities to introduce local people to Falun Gong and tell them about the persecution of the practice taking place in China. Many passers-by talked to practitioners in order to get to know more about Falun Gong and the local media also conducted interviews with practitioners.
  • Greece: "Truthfulness Compassion Forbearance" Art Exhibition held in Athens

    On the evening of November 1st, a “Truthfulness Compassion Forbearance” Art Exhibition lasting twenty two days opened in Athens, the capital of Greece. Forty works by artists, who are Falun Gong practitioners from all over the world, were exhibited in a city centre Art Gallery and they attracted many visitors. Similar exhibitions have been held in over seventy countries in Europe.
  • Italy: People of Verona Appeal for an End to the Persecution

    On October 21st and 22nd, Italian practitioners took to the streets of Verona to introduce local people to Falun Dafa and expose the persecution of practitioners taking place in China. Some practitioners set up a table with leaflets and a petition, while others reenacted various torture methods used against practitioners in Chinese labour camps and prisons.
  • Germany: Exposing the CCP's Harvesting of Organs from Falun Gong Practitioners

    On November 4th 2006, Falun Gong practitioners from Munich held activities in the city centre to expose the harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners by Chinese Communist party (CCP) institutions. Exasperated by the Chinese Communist regime’s atrocities, many kindhearted people signed a petition calling on the German government to take action to put an end to the persecution in China.