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  • Ruhr Nachrichten (Germany): Protesting against human rights policies

    “They are doing thousands of forced organ removals. We want the federal government to exert pressure on China in order to stop it”, commented Andreas Steinau of the Bochum group. His accusations are grave: “China systematically robs prisoners of their organs and a large proportion die as a consequence”, says Steinau. 41,500 organ transplants occurred during the period from 2000 to 2005, from unidentified sources according to an independent report issued by the former Canadian secretary of state, David Kilgour.
  • Germany: "This is what I must do"

    In October 2006, Falun Gong practitioners from Nordrhein-Westfalen once again disclosed the CCP’s atrocities of persecuting Falun Gong to people on the busiest high streets in Cologne. When collecting signatures, people signed without hesitation upon hearing it is to protest against the CCP harvesting and trading Falun Gong practitioners’ organs.
  • The European Commission Answers a Question about Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China

    "On July 6th, 2006, David Matas and David Kilgour, both Canadian lawyers, published their ‘Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China’ following an independent investigation they carried out into the very disturbing stories leaking out of China that allegedly state institutions in the People’s Republic of China have been harvesting human organs from innocent unconsenting live Falun Gong Practitioners and killing the practitioners in the process by extra-judicial executions during the organ removal process."
  • Agence Télégraphique Suisse (ATS): United Nations to Investigate CCP Organ Trade

    On September 26th, Agence Télégraphique Suisse (ATS) of Switzerland published an article entitled “The United Nations is to Investigate China’s Organ Trade”. The article said that China was not able to stop the discussion in the UN Human Rights Commission about the allegation that it harvested organs from Falun Gong practitioners. The current meeting of commission members ended on October 6th. The UN rapporteur will look into the allegation and report back to the UN.
  • Finland: Introducing Falun Gong at a Health and Knowledge Expo

    On October 14th and 15th, 2006, Finnish Falun Gong practitioners returned to an annual Health and Knowledge Expo held in Helsinki, to introduce Falun Dafa and tell people about the persecution of practitioners in China. Many visitors signed a petition for collecting signatures to stop the persecution of Falun Gong and condemn the CCP's atrocities.
  • Ruhr News (Germany) Reports on CCP Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Gong Practitioners

    "A large ‘medical operation’ took place on Kortumstraße Street on Monday at noon: a man wore a surgeon's gown and mask and a mannequin 'patient' lay on the surgical table in front of him whose body had been opened, and the ‘doctor’ was taking out the patient’s organs which were still bleeding. The Falun Gong practitioners in Bochum protested the atrocity of harvesting the organs from living people, which is happening in China, through this shocking scene on Falun Dafa Information Day."
  • Germany: Informing the Public about the Persecution of Falun Gong in China

    We were positioned in the major shopping district of Stuttgart and thousands of passersby were able to see our display. We got the impression that people lingered longer than usual to get more information. People came from all age groups and backgrounds came to ask questions, receive fliers and support us by signing our petition.
  • A Turkish Falun Gong Practitioner in London Exposes the CCP Atrocities

    On July 20th, AVRUPA, the best-selling newspaper in Turkey published an article with the title: A Turkish Falun Gong practitioner exposes the CCP atrocities in London. The article explains that Falun Dafa (also called Falun Gong) is an ancient way of cultivation improving both one’s mind and body based on the principle of Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance. The practice of Falun Gong is simple, powerful, gentle and easy to learn.
  • England: The People of Leeds Stop to Find Out About the Persecution

    On October 14th, Falun Gong practitioners from various places in the north of England gathered at Dortmund Square in Leeds to spend the day introducing Falun Gong to local people and informing them about the persecution of practitioners taking place in China. Falun Gong practitioners practised the exercises while others collected signatures, handed out leaflets and told people about the brutal nature of the persecution.
  • Turkey: Stories of Western Practitioners in Mersin

    In the last two years, many locals in Mersin City have begun to practise Falun Gong. They try to live their lives by the principles of “Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance.” Many of the practitioners have undergone great physical and mental changes since beginning their cultivation.
  • Germany: The world’s people awaken

    On October 7th, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners from Leipzig, Berlin, and Dresden held an Information Day in Railway Square, the busiest place in Leipzig. It had the theme, “Stop the Persecution, Stop Organ Harvesting”. Many shoppers stopped in their tracks to read the information boards and the leaflets being handed out.
  • 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