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Sweden: Protesting Outside the Chinese Consulate General in Gothenburg to Mark Seven Years of Persecution
2006-07-26
Falun Gong pracitioners from Gothenburg and nearby places protested outside the Chinese Consulate General on the 20th of July. On 20th July 1999, this persecution was officialy initiated by the Chinese regime. During the Sweden protest, Falun Gong practiioners distributed a special flyer that revealed the background of the persecution. Falun Gong is a qi gong method for body and mind that became very popular in China. -
Germany: German Nationals Sign Petition Protesting against the Cruelty of the Chinese Communist Party
2006-07-25
On July 1st, 2006, German Falun Gong practitioners organised an event in support of the eleven million Chinese who have resigned from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its associated organisations. They displayed pictures depicting the CCP's history, exposing to the world the cruelty of the party. Posters also showed the persecution of Falun Gong. -
French Senator Condemns the CCP's Harvesting Organs from Living Falun Gong Practitioners
2006-07-25
A French senator asked his assistant to send an email message to the French Office of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG) on July 12th 2006. The message indicated: "The senator felt indignant over the brutal and bloody atrocities happening in China (referring to the Chinese Communist regime's harvesting organ from living Falun Gong practitioners). The senator will receive CIPFG members in his office in due course." -
Author of Canadian Independent Investigation Report Visits Germany to Help Expose the CCP's Organ Harvesting
2006-07-25On July 14th and 15th 2006, David Kilgour, former Secretary of State (Asia-Pacific) for Canada, met with German politicians in Berlin. On Friday July14th, Mr. Kilgour had long conversations with Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Gerberlich and the new Human Rights Commissioner Mr. Nook. Mr. Kilgour and Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas recently released a report confirming that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is harvesting organs from live Falun Gong practitioners to sell for profit. Mr. Kilgour shared the findings of his investigation with the German ministers. -
Danish News Agency (Ritzau): The CCP harvests organs for sale
2006-07-25'During Thursday’s press conference, McMillan-Scott urged the United Nations to investigate into this issue. He thought that China’s right to host 2008 Olympic Games should be abolished. Kilgour suggested that westerners who had organ transplant operations in China should at least pay tax for buying an organ. Falun Gong is an exercise like Yoga with millions of people practicing it. This spiritual movement does not get involved in any political affairs. However since 1999, the Chinese government regarded it as a threat'. -
Statement from Vice-President of the European Parliament: “There is enough circumstantial evidence to alert the international community to what amounts to genocide”
2006-07-24"The United Nations’ annual report on China has since 1999 consistently documented widespread human rights violations committed by the Chinese communist regime against Falun Gong practitioners in China. Such violations include illegal arrests and detentions, brainwashing, torture and killing. Now, the atrocities have culminated into the most despicable crime of all – removing organs from living Falun Gong practitioners held as prisoners of conscience n China’s gulag-like network of jails and labour camps, and selling them at huge profit to unsuspecting victims worldwide who are in desperate need of transplants. The UN owes the world an enquiry." -
France: Displaying the Beauty of Falun Dafa on Bastille Day
2006-07-24
July 14th is Bastille Day, the most important national holiday in France. Falun Gong practitioners held performances and demonstrations of the Falun Gong exercises. Practitioners told spectators that while they are celebrating this national holiday together, a lot of Falun Gong practitioners in China are being brutally persecuted. -
UK Councillor: “The WHO must intervene … to see that this illegal and unethical practice is halted”
2006-07-24"I am writing to support the call of the British Transplantation Society Ethics Committee for an international investigation into organ harvesting in China. Like many, I have been shocked by stories coming out of China of organ matching and transplant, without consent, from condemned prisoners. The abuses appear particularly to centre on members of the persecuted Falun Gong sect. This has been widely documented by Amnesty International and many journalists working in China." -
Holland Media Focuses on Organ Harvesting
2006-07-24
On July 14th, Holland TV Channel 2 broadcast a programme about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) atrocities of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong Practitioners. The programme stated that a report from Canada has confirmed that large-scale organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners and induced death are happening in China. -
Russia: Practitioners Expose the Persecution During the G8 Summit
2006-07-24
Mainstream media from Russia and other countries interviewed Falun Gong practitioners. Many people, including reporters of many media, signed their names to condemn the persecution. On the first day of the Society Forum, July 14th, Russia's NTV reported the activity of Society Forum in its news programme. It especially praised Falun Gong in the programme. -
Report from De Morgen (Belgium): ‘Falun Gong followers are being killed for their organs’
2006-07-24That the Falun Gong movement, under persecution in China since July 1999, is subject to virulent repression is nothing new. Hundreds of thousands of people have disappeared within the past few years for a long time, thrown into labour camps, in many cases without any form of trial, but via the convenience of ‘administrative detention’, which approves this kind of deprivation of freedom ... The allegations the two Canadians have formulated in their new report even goes a step further. According to them, Falun Gong followers are being killed only for their organs, and are then being cremated. -
Three Senior MEPs Appeal to European Union to Further Investigate CCP's Organ Harvesting from Living Persons
2006-07-23On July 12th 2006, the vice president of the European Parliament Human Rights Branch Committee, Dr. Charles Tannock, the Human Rights spokesman for the European Parliament EEP-ED, Mr. Simon Coveney, along with the vice president of the European Parliament, Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott, jointly signed to submit an interpellation to the European Parliament Committee, asking the Committee to further investigate the allegations regarding Falun Gong practitioners having their organs harvested in China. -
Austria: Practitioners Protest the CCP's Seven-Year Persecution
2006-07-23
As of July 20th, 2006, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime has brutally persecuted Falun Gong for seven years. On Saturday July 15th 2006, Falun Gong practitioners in Austria held a series of activities in Salzburg to expose the CCP's inhuman brutality against Falun Gong practitioners in the past seven years. -
Russian Falun Gong Practitioners under the Pressure of Persecution (Part 2)
2006-07-23
Currently many people in government departments have learned about Falun Gong and the persecution it suffers in China.On the other hand, under the pressure of the CCP and the direction of the Foreign Ministry, the police and the public security departments have been turning down practitioners' requests to hold protests in front of the Chinese Embassy. -
Germany: Falun Dafa Photo Exhibition at Passau Art Festival
2006-07-23
On that evening, the ancient city of Passau on the bank of the River Donau looked unusually beautiful in the brilliant sunset. People, in an endless stream, were attracted by the photographs and stopped to admire them. After learning about the truth, they asked to sign the petition to support Falun Gong practitioners in opposing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) suppression.
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