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Germany: Urgent Rescue Effort for Falun Gong Practitioner Wang Xiaoyan and Exposing the CCP's Crimes of Organ Harvesting
2006-07-18From July 6th, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners at the University of Augsburg in Southern Germany organised a two-week long activity, appealing for the urgent rescue of Falun Gong practitioner Wang Xiaoyan in China and for the immediate end to the Chinese Communist regime's evil trade in organs harvested from living people. -
Czech Translation of Zhuan Falun Officially Published
2006-07-17On June 15th 2006, the Czech version of Zhuan Falun was officially published, and is now available in bookstores across the Czech Republic. Zhuan Falun is the primary text among the thirty plus books published by Mr. Li Hongzhi. The publication of Zhuan Falun was preceded by a second translation of the introductory book Falun Gong. -
United Kingdom: Press Conference and Parade Mark Seven Years of Persecution
2006-07-17On Saturday 15th July, UK Falun Gong practitioners held a press conference and parade in central London to let people know that Falun Gong has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for seven years. After the press conference, the practitioners paraded through central London. The beautiful sunshine meant that the streets were crowded. -
France: People Condemn the CCP's Trade in Organs Harvested from Living Persons
2006-07-17On July 9th, Falun Gong practitioners publicised the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s trade in organs harvested from living Falun Gong practitioners. Many local people and tourists told us they felt that in the 21st century, murdering people in order to trade in their harvested organs is a shame for humanity. -
Report in German Newspaper Buersche Zeitung: "More and more people practice Falun Gong"
2006-07-17“The means of brainwashing in Shanghai labour camp is very sly. They don’t beat people. The guards are kind and friendly to Falun Gong practitioners on the surface. But every Falun Gong practitioner is arranged to stay alone in a squadron of prisoners. A dozen prisoners watch one practitioner day and night. They never punish Falun Gong practitioners but punish the watchers. If practitioners do not give up their belief, the labour camp does not let them do their chores of daily life, but let the watchers do it for them". -
Czech Republic: People are Concerned about the CCP’s Organ Harvesting Crimes
2006-07-16Falun Gong practitioners in the Czech Republic held an activity in Prague to let people know about the persecution against Falun Gong in China. They exposed how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) harvests organs from living Falun Gong practitioners and several banners described some methods of torture that the CCP uses. -
Italy: Chinese Language Newspaper in Milan Found Guilty of Slandering Falun Gong
2006-07-16During February and March of 2002, “European Chinese Newspaper” carried many articles slandering Falun Gong practitioners and spread hatred among the Chinese Community. These articles played a part in assisting the carrying out of the persecution of Falun Gong initiated by Jiang Zemin, the former leader of China. The shocking news that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has removed organs from living Falun Gong practitioners and subsequently sold them, which has been recently exposed, shows that the persecution is so severe that it has far exceeded people’s imagination. -
Belgian News Agency Reports on China's Illegal Organ Trade
2006-07-16"(BELGA) Since 1999, the Chinese government has executed an unknown number of adherents of the spiritual movement Falun Gong in various places in the country, especially in hospitals, forced labour camps and prisons. Without any written consent, their vital organs are also sold for high prices to foreigners. This is claimed by David Kilgour, former Canadian MP, and David Matas, international human rights lawyer. In Brussels today, thursday, Kilgour presented an independent investigation report, in which they claim to reveal indisputable evidence about the illegal organ trade." -
AFP Photo Report: Report Exposing Organ Harvesting from Living People in China
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Germany: People Sign a Petition Calling on the Government to Help Stop the Persecution
2006-07-15“This kind of act is really ignominious. It totally violates belief in God”, said a mother with a child after seeing practitioners re-enact the CCP's removal of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. She signed the petition calling for an end to this atrocity. Many local people were shocked and couldn’t believe that the CCP would be so cruel to its own people. -
Russia: Falun Gong Practitioners from Pyatigorsk Expose the Persecution of Falun Gong
2006-07-15June 26th, 2006, was “United Nations International Day In Support Of Victims of Torture”. Falun Gong practitioners assembled on the plaza in front of city hall in Pyatigorsk to expose the persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP. Practitioners displayed information and photo boards and re-enacted the torture that the CCP inflicts on Falun Gong practitioners. -
Norwegian National Media Reports on CCP's Trade in Organs Harvested from Falun Gong Practitioners
2006-07-15Kilgour and Matas point to the difficulty trying to prove the allegations, as a result of them being denied permission to travel to China to do this research. However "everything seems to point to the fact that thousands of prisoners are having their organs removed forcefully without consent, to become items for transplantations. Thereafter the prisoner dies, are cremated and all evidence is removed" according to NRK. According to NRK, the report further says that, "many arrested Falun Gong-practitioners are missing, and nobody knows what happened to them. It is likely that many of these have had their organs removed". -
Czech Republic: Introducing Falun Gong at the Cultural & Reggae Vibez festival in Hořice v Podkrkonoší
2006-07-14In the picturesque enviroment of a stone quarry near Hořice, a Reggae festival took place between the 23rd and 24th of June 2006. On the 24th, Falun Gong practitioners arrived to let festival goers know about the torture and illegal organ harvesting taking placd in China's labour camps. -
Germany: "You should hold this kind of activity in every city in Germany"
2006-07-14During the 2006 Football World Cup, many media outlets and football fans from all over the world gathered in Nierenberg, because there would be four matches played in the city. German Falun Gong practitioners held an activity to reveal the CCP's trade in organs harvested from Falun Gong practitioners. The activity received a great deal of attention from the public. -
Italy: Milan Criminal Court Pronounces Judgment on Chinese Newspaper after it Slandered Falun Gong
2006-07-14On July 6th, 2006, the Milan Criminal Court pronounced judgment on the Chinese newspaper, “European Chinese Paper”, which had slandered Falun Gong and the charge was established. After practitioners won the case, their lawyer Giuseppe Rossodivita made a declaration about the charge, talked about the case and the impression he has of Falun Gong