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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."
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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.
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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.
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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".
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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.
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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.
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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
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Russia: Russian Falun Dafa Practitioners Protest against the CCP's Atrocities at the Chinese Consulate in St. Petersburg
2006-07-13On June 30th, 2006, Russian Falun Gong practitioners held activities outside the Chinese Consulate in St. Petersburg to protest against the Chinese Communist Party's brutal persecution of Falun Gong. For several years, Falun Gong practitioners’ applications to protest at the Chinese Consulate in St. Petersburg have not been ratified by the Russian government.
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Holland: Exposing the CCP's Atrocities on July 1st in Amsterdam
2006-07-13On July 1st, 2006, the Global Service Centre for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party in Amsterdam, Holland, along with some Falun Gong practitioners, held activities in Chinatown to support eleven million brave people publicly announcing their renunciation of the Chinese Communist Party and revealing organ harvesting by the CCP
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Edward McMillan-Scott Urges European Parliament President to Inquire About Practitioners Cao Dong and Jinhui Liang on His Upcoming Visit to China
2006-07-13"On 21 May in a hotel room in Beijing I held a meeting with Mr Cao Dong, a Falun Gong practitioner (aged 36), who has served time in prison for his religious beliefs. He had discharged his sentence and was guilty of no crime. Following this meeting, he was arrested and he has not been seen since. I fear for his welfare. His flatmate was arrested and questioned for five days and Mr Dong's possessions have been seized by the police."
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Germany: German People Want an Urgent Investigation into Organ Harvesting by the Chinese Communist Party
2006-07-13In order for the German people to have a deeper understanding of the cruel persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), in particular organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners, and urge the German government to make efforts in helping the investigation of the persecution, Falun Gong practitioners in Germany launched an activity to "collect a suggestion to the German Chancellor." The practitioners also mailed the suggestions collected to politicians and media in Germany.
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Russia: Police Illegally Detain Falun Gong Practitioners
2006-07-12On June 30th, 2006, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, Moscow Falun Gong practitioners held a peaceful protest at the Chinese Embassy against the CCP's trade in organs harvested from living Falun Gong practitioners. When the first group of practitioners arrived, the police were already standing there waiting for them. Local government did not agree with this protest.
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Germany: Falun Gong Practitioners Expose the Chinese Communist Party's Trade in Organs Harvested from Falun Dafa Practitioners
2006-07-12On June 17th, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners held an information day in Augsburg in the south of Bayern, Germany, to reveal the Chinese Communist Party’s bloody crime of taking organs from live Falun Gong practitioners for profit and cremating their bodies to destroy the evidence. Several local people who had seen similar activities before came to talk with practitioners.
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Czech Republic: Falun Gong at Ethnic Gathering and Policka Festival
2006-07-12On Sunday June 24th, in a small scenic town called Policka, a festival of ethnic music and “Colour Meeting” took place. Its main goal was to foster mutual understanding and tolerance between people of different ethnic groups and cultures. Falun Gong practitioners took part in the event. They performed a demonstration of the Falun Gong exercises and distributed leaflets.