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Holland: Practitioners Display Photographs at the Peace Palace in The Hague
2006-11-03Dutch Falun Dafa practitioners hold a Falun Gong photo display at the Peace Palace in The Hague every Sunday. As it has become a famous tourist attraction in Holland, and attracts a lot of tourists from various places around the world. With the photo display, more and more people come to know about the persecution of Falun Gong. -
Germany: Introducing Falun Gong and Exposing the Persecution in Schweinfurt
2006-11-02It was a beautiful and sunny late summer day. Numerous people were on the streets and many accepted our flyers gladly and also read the information detailing the persecution of Falun Gong in China, the grave human rights violations and torture, as well as about the organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners. We saw a diverse group of people, also from other countries, with whom we held deep discussions. Many were rather interested and we found that the majority had not heard or heard very little about the seriousness of the crimes perpetrated in China. -
French Human Rights Group Urges President Chirac to Pressure the CCP to End the Persecution
2006-11-01Ms. Marie-Francoise Lamperti, president of the French human rights organization Agir pour les Droits de l'Homme, recently met with Laurent Billi, the Foreign Affairs Advisor for President Chirac. During the meeting, Ms. Lamperti emphasized the persecution of Falun Gong and asked the council to pass a letter from the French Falun Dafa Association to the President. -
Germany: Introducing Falun Gong to the People of Göttingen
2006-11-01Practitioners came from far and wide to expose the persecution of Falun Gong in China to the people in Göttingen. Falun Dafa practitioners from Bremen, Bielefeld, Hannover, Kassel und Göttingen travelled to the activity to expose together the organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners, as well as the cruel persecution. Many people wanted to listen to the truth. -
Vice-President of European Parliament Writes to Chinese Ambassador
2006-10-31"On 21 May in Beijing I held a meeting with Mr Cao DONG, a Falun Gong practitioner, who had been ‘administratively detained’ for his religious beliefs. He had discharged his sentence and was guilty of no crime. Following this meeting, he was arrested. I have recently learned that he is still being detained by the Chinese public authorities, has been transferred to Gansu province and is being held in the Public Security Bureau detention centre. An arrest warrant for 'producing Falun Gong material' was issued on September 29 2006. I now insist that your superiors release him immediately: I am about to refer this matter to the United Nations in person." -
Turkey: Falun Gong Practitioners Hold a Mini Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference
2006-10-31On October 21st, Turkish Falun Gong practitioners held a mini cultivation experience sharing conference. Thirty plus practitioners from Andaka (the capital) and Istanbul arrived at Moexun shi to attend the conference. Practitioners from Sweden and Denmark were also in attendance, and a local reporter also covered the story and filmed the event. -
Finland: Exposing the Persecution of Falun Gong During the European Union Meeting
2006-10-31On October 20th, leaders from the 25 member countries of the European Union held an informal meeting in Lahti. In the evening, Russian President Putin joined the other leaders. Taking this opportunity, some Helsinki practitioners came to the city to expose the persecution of Falun Gong and the CCP's atrocities of organ harvesting to the general public. -
United Kingdom: Telling Members of the Scottish National Party about the Persecution of Falun Gong
2006-10-30On October 13th and 14th, 2006, Scottish Falun Gong practitioners came to Purse during an SNP congress to expose the Chinese Communist Party's trade in organs harvested from living Falun Gong practitioners. Practitioners hung up banners reading "Stop organ harvesting in Chinese concentration camps", and distributed leaflets beside the main entrance to the congress hall. Many congress participants said they learnt about the issue from BBC news a few weeks ago. -
Letter to French President Jacques Chirac from the French Falun Dafa Association
2006-10-30"For seven years now, over 3.000 practitioners of Falun Gong have been identified as being tortured to death by the notorious “610 office” which commits crime with impunity. Thousands are still detained in psychiatric hospitals where they are tortured, hundred of thousands are still in forced labour camps where they are used as free labour while being tortured. Innumerable practitioners, men, women and children, are in miserable conditions avoiding the persecution. The very last revelation is even more horrifying and unbearable: it is the massive traffic of organs taken from living Falun Gong practitioners." -
United Kingdom: Exposing the Persecution in Glasgow University
2006-10-29Falun Gong practitioners visit Amnesty International student society every year. At the beginning of October 2006, Falun Gong practitioners held a seminar, at which they gave a presentation to the students regarding an independent investigation report of live organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) -
Germany: Introducing Falun Dafa and Exposing the Persecution to the People of Münster
2006-10-29On Saturday October 21st, much interest was shown in what goes on in China’s slave labour camps, concentration camps and hospitals, along the long pedestrian zone in Münster. Passersby watched the torture re-enactments and accepted our flyers. We were so busy that the day passed quickly. Many people thanked us for the information we gave them. -
Russia: Special Musical Performance at Nishne Novgorod City Music College
2006-10-28One special thing about the State Language University Choir is that they sing in many languages. Musical works by many composers were played, but the focus of this concert was a Chinese song entitled Coming for You, which was composed by a Falun Gong practitioner. One member of the choir is a Falun Gong practitioner and all the other members of the choir know about Falun Gong and the ruthless persecution of the practice in China. -
Holland: After Learning the Truth, People in Heerlen Condemn the CCP's Atrocities
2006-10-28On October 21st, 2006, in Heerlen in Holland, Falun Gong practitioners held a demonstration disclosing the CCP's trade in organs harvested from live Falun Gong practitioners. They set up a picture exhibition exposing how the CCP persecutes Falun Gong practitioners by torturing them. One after another, shoppers and passersby signed practitioners' petition calling on the Dutch government to help stop the persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP. -
UK Human Rights Report 2006 Critical of Regime in China
2006-10-28“The Chinese authorities continue to violate a range of basic human rights. The use of the death penalty remains extensive and non-transparent; torture is widespread; there is a lack of judicial independence; obstacles to fair trials include administrative detention and re-education through labour (RTL); prison conditions are poor and prisoners are treated badly; human rights defenders, worshippers and Falun Gong adherents face harassment and detention ... " -
Denmark: A Human Rights Organisation Expresses Concern about Organ Harvesting in China's Labour Camps
2006-10-27On September 8th, 2006, David Matas, the prestigious Canadian lawyer who co-authored the Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China arrived in Denmark for a visit. A press conference was hosted in the parliament building to expose organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners in China.