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  • Blick (Switzerland): Horrible organ trade

    ZÜRICH – A flyer is making the rounds in the country. Whoever accepts this flyer reads about organ harvesting in China. This is an accusation that was confirmed by international experts. One first reads in this flyer, found on Switzerland’s trains, the story of Wang Yuzhi. This forty five year old lady was imprisoned in a Chinese labour camp from 2000 to 2002. The Falun Gong member was force fed after going on a hunger strike. She suffered from being force fed through an oversized tube that was forced through the nose to the stomach. She was fed with her feces and urine.
  • Finland: Supporting the Fourteen Million Withdrawals from the CCP

    Finnish Falun Gong practitioners and volunteers from the Service Centre for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as well as The Epoch Times newspaper held activities in front of the Central Train Station in Helsinki to support the fourteen million withdrawals from the CCP and its affiliated organisations and to expose the persecution of Falun Gong in China.
  • Coburger Tagesblatt Daily Paper (Germany): Meditation to combat crime in China

    COBURG. The passers-by in the Spitalgasse saw yesterday an unusual picture - close to a dozen members of the dangerously suppressed Falun Gong movement in China sending righteous thoughts towards China. They wanted to call attention to the fact that the Peoples Republic sells “human body organs for profit,” said the co-organiser Yuan Zhang.
  • Germany: The Path of Falun Dafa at the Carnival of the Cultures in Hamburg

  • Turkey: Introducing Falun Gong at the State Father Commemoration in Mersin

    Falun Gong practitioners were invited to introduce Falun Dafa before the opening of the State Father Commemoration. The city council officials said, "Falun Dafa is based on Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance, this is just what we should spread and follow, so today we are inviting Falun Gong cultivators to introduce this beneficial practice.
  • The Standard (Austria): UNO-Consultant Nowak investigates the organ trade

    Geneva: Against China’s wishes, the United Nations Organization’s (“UNO”) Human Rights Counsel in Geneva is looking into the alleged organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners. The UNO rapporteur for torture, the Austrian Manfred Nowak, will investigate the grave accusations. “The responses by the Chinese authorities to our inquiries are disappointing,” said the Canadian Human Rights lawyer David Mata on Tuesday in Geneva. “They insult us instead of disproving the accusations.”
  • Germany: People in Stuttgart Appalled by the Brutal Persecution of Falun Gong in China

    Falun Gong practitioners in Germany went to Stuttgart’s main shopping street to hold an exhibition to expose the persecution of Falun Gong. Many people expressed their indignation when they learned about the brutal nature of the persecution and asked how they could help to change the situation. Many signed a petition condemning the persecution.
  • UK Independence Party and Liberal Democrat Groups’ Response to “Organ Harvesting” in China

    The UK Independence Party wrote to the European Friends of Falun Gong to express their concern “about the practice of ‘organ harvesting’ from prisoners of conscience in China. MEP Graham said he and “his UKIP MEP colleagues all abhor the disgraceful practices and will do all they can to try and prevent it. “ He continues to say that they will give their support to “try and bring these horrific practices to an end.”
  • Turkey: Practitioners in Ankara Invited to Introduce Falun Gong

    Practitioners in Ankara were invited by the Artists Association to host a Falun Gong introductory forum on September 30th, 2006. The participants were from various backgrounds, including artists, writers, teachers, anchors of radio stations, businessmen, government officials, retirees and homemakers. Falun Gong exercise instruction was offered to the participants
  • Germany: Participating in a Studio Discussion and Exposing the Truth of the Persecution on TV

    In the middle of September, “BR-Untervegs” from the TV Station of Bavaria in Germany came to Cham city, face to face, listening to evaluation, suggestions and comments about the TV Station from their audience. Representatives of the Falun Gong Human Rights Work Group from Cham city were invited to express their thinking to the media people face to face.
  • Germany: Introducing Falun Gong During German National Day

    During German National Day, on October 3rd, 2006, in downtown Düsseldorf (the capital of the state of the North Rhine-Westphalia), German Falun Gong practitioners took to the busy streets to demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises and expose the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.
  • A French Mayor: "What you are defending is also what we are safeguarding"

    Falun Gong practitioners held a Truth Compassion and Tolerance Art Exhibition in Ceyrat, near Clermont-Ferrand, a town of military importance in central France. Alain Brochet, the Mayor of Ceyrat, watched a performance by the 'Heavenly Maidens dancing group' during the unveiling ceremony of this art exhibition, and also made a speech.
  • Germany: "It's too terrible; this kind of thing must not be allowed to continue"

    On Spitaler Strasse, practitioners laid out a table with exhibits and hung banners, calling on local people to condemn the crimes of the Chinese Communist Party, including removing organs from live Falun Gong practitioners, and to pay attention to the case of human rights lawyer, Gao Zhicheng who has been illegally detained by the CCP.
  • Germany: Brutality of the Persecution Shocks the People of Trier

    On September 30th, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners came to the German city of Trier and exposed the torture of Falun Gong practitioners and the CCP’s crimes of harvesting organs from living practitioners. A practitioner who was persecuted in a women’s forced labor camp in China talked about her own experience.
  • Famous French singer: "I support you with all my heart"

    A sturdy gentleman stood out in the crowd. Having read the exhibits, he solemnly walked to the front of the stand and signed his name on the petition form without a word. Some practitioners recognised him as the famous French singer, M. Renaud. After talking with several practitioners, he was deeply moved. He said, “I support you. I will ask people around me to help stop this terrible persecution. I will tell people around me. That is the least I could do.”