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Finland: “Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance International Art Exhibition” Held in Helsinki

2006-07-05

Following the “Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance International Art Exhibition” held in Finland from May 30th to June 5th, 2006, the “Second Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance International Art Exhibition Helsinki” was held from June 20th to July 1st, 2006, at Galleria Oma Huone on Kalevankatu Street in downtown Helsinki.

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Czech Republic: Protest Against Trade in Organs Harvested from Live Falun Gong Practitioners in Chinese Concentration Camps

2006-07-05

Falun Gong practitioners met in Jihlava to inform the public about the inhumane persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. They informed the passers-by with leaflets and banners about Falun Gong and its main principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance and also about the secret concentration camps where organs are being harvested from live practitioners.

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Hungary: Re-enacting the CCP's Organ Harvesting in Budapest

2006-07-04

On the 24th and 25th of June in Budapest, Falun Gong practitioners held an activity to expose the CCP's (Chinese Communist Party) practice of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. The CCP then sell the organs and cremate the practitioners' bodies. The re-enactment got an enthusiastic response and man people stopped to take a leaflet and find out more.

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Germany:During the World Cup, People in Munich Support Withdrawals from the CCP

2006-07-04

"Facing such atrocities, no words can express my feelings. I can sign the petition in the hope of bringing a prompt end to this situation," a German woman told the reporter after viewing the photos depicting the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) atrocities against its people and the vivid reenactment of the CCP’s live organ removal from Falun Gong practitioners.

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Article from Stornoway Today: Campaign to Halt Organ Harvesting Comes to Western Isles

2006-07-04

Following a meeting last month with two Falun Gong practitioners in Beijing (one of them was subsequently held under house arrest, the other hasn't been heard from since), Edward McMillan-Scott, a European Parliament Vice- President, revealed: "The practitioners I met in Beijing told me of their imprisonment and that of their wives, of the specially harsh treatment they suffered, including sleep deprivation, degrading and humiliating punishments and beatings. One said he knew 30 fellow practitioners who had been beaten to death. They were aware of organ harvesting — one had seen the cadaver of his friend and fellow practitioner after body parts had been removed."

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Russia: Exposing the Persecution in Krasnoyarsk

2006-07-04

On June 26th, practitioners in Krasnoyarsk held an event in the largest Chinatown in the central Russian city to expose facts of the 7-year brutal persecution of Falun Gong and to tell the public of the grand spread of Falun Dafa to more than 80 countries. The event received support from a lot of citizens. Many of them signed the practitioners’ petition to condemn the persecution

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Russia: Exposing the Chinese Communist Regime's Trade in Organs Harvested from Falun Gong Practitioners

2006-07-03

Falun Gong practitioners held activities in downtown Moscow to expose the Chinese Communist regime’s trade in organs harvested from living Falun Gong practitioners. In addition to a display of posters and banners, practitioners re-enacted the Chinese Communist regime’s atrocities of harvesting organs from living humans.

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France: Bringing the Beauty of Falun Dafa to a French Music Festival

2006-07-03

“I feel the persecution is very shameful and disgusting. The French government should absolutely take some action ... I watched the dancing by Falun Gong practitioners. It is very beautiful and imaginative. It awakes my eagerness to a life of peace, tranquillity and happiness. I feel that despite the persecution they suffered in China, they are full of hope for a harmonious life.”

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Russia: Introducing Falun Gong to the People of the Far East

2006-07-02

A week after the practitioners arrived, a few people in charge of the station came out to ask practitioners to take the sign away. Apparently the Chinese side applied pressure ... Practitioners went along with station managers to the police station. After reading the materials, the police said, “What’s the problem with that? Wasn’t this copied from newspapers? After all, Russia is a democratic country.”

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United Kingdom: Activities in Inverness to Expose the Persecution of Falun Gong

2006-07-02

Falun Gong practitioners in Scotland held various activities in Inverness to explain the facts about Falun Gong, expose the Chinese Communist regime’s genocidal persecution of Falun Gong and call on the general public to pay attention to the situation so as to help put an end to the Chinese regime’s atrocities.

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Radio Free Asia: Rescuing Falun Gong Practitioner Wang Xiaoyan

2006-07-02

Leipzig City, a famous old town in Germany, is the major city for matches during this World Cup. The match between South Korea and France on Sunday once again attracted tens of thousands of fans from various places in Europe. However, while people are immersed in the fervent atmosphere of the World Cup, Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Zhentong’s wife Ms. Wang Xiaoyan, is persecuted relentlessly in China’s Dalian City. The case has caused a lot of concern to the people of Leipzig at all levels. When interviewed last Sunday, Mr. Zhang Zhentong said that the support is not only from the University, but also from the entire society.

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Holland: Exposing the CCP Crime of Organ Harvesting

2006-07-01

On May the 27th and June the 17th 2006, Dutch Falun Gong practitioners held anti-torture photo exhibitions in the university town of Leiden and the northern metropolis of Groningen respectively. They particularly drew people’s attention to the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners in China.

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Denmark: Teachers Invite Falun Gong Practitioners to Teach Exercises to Pupils

2006-07-01

In the second half of June 2006, a piece of serene exercise music could be heard playing in the gymnasium of Bjerregrev School in the Danish town of Viborg. Teachers and parents watched in amazement as the usually noisy children sat quietly and practised the fifth Falun Gong exercise, a sitting meditation.

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German People Call for Urgent Investigation of Organ Harvesting by the Chinese Communist Party

2006-07-01

Some German people left, yet they came back again to write messages, after they had thought about the organ harvesting situation. An elderly German gentleman came back and left such words to the German Chancellor: "If what the leaflet says is true, I can't imagine people can live safely there. If you do not mention this while visiting China, I really feel ashamed for our leader." A professor came back after to ask for more leaflets for other associates after understanding the situation of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the CCP. A female doctor wrote after seeing the exhibition board: "Investigate independently, rescue the victims through the Red Cross immediately."

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Switzerland: “How can they treat people this way for wanting to be good persons?"

2006-06-30

On June 17th 2006, in Zurich’s town centre Parade Square, Falun Gong practitioners held an information day. Demonstrations of he five sets of gentle and peaceful exercises attracted many people to stop and look. Along with the exercise demonstration, persecution pictures were displayed and a striking banner read: “CCP harvests living Falun Gong Practitioners’ Organs”.

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