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Germany: Promoting Falun Dafa at the Hamburg Festival
2006-06-30Falun Gong practitioners in Hamburg held a “Journey of Falun Dafa” Photo Exhibition in the city’s festival. They explained to people what Falun Gong is and told them about the persecution. People were concerned when they heard how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has waged a campaign of unprecedented brutality resulting in the deaths of nearly 3,000 innocent practitioners. -
Latvia: Revealing the CCP Crime of Harvesting Organs from Live Practitioners
2006-06-30In order to urge the international community to help stop the cruel persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), on the 21st of June 2006 Falun Gong practitioners in Latvia held an activity in the centre of Riga. The practitioners simulated the CCP's harvesting of organs from live Falun Gong practitioners in Chinese labour camps. -
RFA Reports on Germany's Efforts to Rescue Falun Gong Practitioner Wang Xiaoyan
2006-06-30Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on the 20th of June that Falun Gong practitioner Wang Xiaoyan, wife of a student who studies Computer Science at the University of Leipzig in Germany, is being persecuted in Dalian City, China. RFA reported that two big newspapers in Leipzig have published their interviews with Zhang. They appealed to Dalian City, China, for an end of the persecution and to release Ms. Wang to Germany. The appeal is extended from Leipzig to all places in Germany, especially Dalian’s sister city Bremen. -
Sweden: Exposing CCP Tyranny during a Seminar on China's Human Rights
2006-06-29In March 2003, I was illegally kidnapped by the Changchun City Police along with my colleagues Chen Jing and Wang Wei. The police forcibly tied us to specially-made steel chairs and forced us to answer questions. Chen Jing and Wang Wei were slapped by the police, and after having plastic bags put over their heads they were beaten by rods, whipped by belts and suffered other tortures like twisting the wrists. -
Danish Newspaper Reports on Organ Harvesting in China
2006-06-29Danish broadsheet newspaper Morgenavisen Jyllands Posten published an article on the 16th of May entitled “Organ Harvesting in China”. It was written by Christoffer Brekne, the spokesman of a Danish NGO called “China Human Rights Network”. The article says that the organ removals happening in the Chinese Communist Party’s concentration camps is the most evil thing in the world today. -
Italy: Photo Report - Exposing the Persecution in Florence
2006-06-29Practitioners have held a number of activities in Florence, Italy this year to expose the brutal persecution of Falun Gong and the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP’s) harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. Some practitioners passed out leaflets downtown, and some went to the City Council to let people know the truth. -
Denmark: Warm Response for Falun Gong from Parents, Teachers and Children
2006-06-28In the second half of June, 2006, serene traditional-style Chinese music could be heard playing in the gymnasium of Bjerregrev School in the Danish town of Viborg. Teachers and parents watched with amazement as their usually noisy children sat quietly and did the fifth exercise of Falun Gong, which is a sitting meditation, as part of a project on Chinese culture. -
Germany: Letting the People of Trier Know about Falun Gong and the Persecution
2006-06-28On May 27th, 2006, German Falun Gong practitioners held activities in the “Porta Nigra" (Big Black Gate) neighbourhood in Trier, the oldest German city. After looking at the information boards and banners, passers-by were astonished by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s trade in organs harvested from Falun Gong practitioners. -
Austria: Speech by the Rev. Franz Sieder, Co-Founder of Amnesty International in Austria, at the Opening of the International “Truth-Compassion-Tolerance” Art Exhibition in Amstetten City Hall
2006-06-28"Although Falun Gong is not a Christian organisation or movement, they still deserve the solidarity of Christians. Falun Gong has chosen values for their banners which are sacred to us Christians as well. In general, we must regard the freedom of religion as a supreme value for which we should be willing to fight no matter where in Austria, in China, or in any other country on earth. The Falun Gong artists are offering this exhibition to the world because they want to open our eyes to this shocking reality." -
Germany: Introducing Falun Dafa and Exposing the Persecution to the People of Rostock
2006-06-27Falun Gong practitioners set up an information desk on the left side of Neuer Market in the city, banners were hung up on both sides of the information desk, the pictures on the banners depict something of the atrocities currently happening in China: the brutal persecution of the Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Pictures of Falun Gong practitioners imprisoned in cages, being subjected to torture and beaten to death, and pictures of live organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners were shown. -
Russia: Exposing Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Crimes in St Petersburg
2006-06-27Practitioners from more than ten cities including Moscow, Kiev and Pyaqigorsk, gathered in St. Petersburg from June 10th through June 12th 2006. On the first day, group practice was held in a park on the beach. A rally followed on Pushkin Square, along with a reenactment of the live organ removal from Falun Gong practitioners. Passersby stopped to learn what was going on. -
German Media Pays Attention to Wang Xiaoyan Being Arrested in China
2006-06-27The People newspaper of Leipzig carried an article reporting the news that the wife of a Chinese student abroad has been kidnapped because she practises Falun Gong. Zhentong Zhang is calling on all kind people in Germany to help and make great efforts so that his wife and eight year old daughter can re-unite with him. -
Germany: Practitioners from Braunschweig Re-Enact Organ Harvesting from Practitioners in China
2006-06-26On Friday May 26th, we went to Braunschweig to let local people know about how the Communist Party persecutes Falun Gong practitioners. To this end, we re-enacted scenes of torture and organ harvesting. One young lady said, “Nowadays you really have to do something drastic in order to get people to stop and take notice, don't you?” -
Austria: Speech Given by the President of the Art and Cultural Association ARS CARA, Host of the Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance Art Exhibition in Vienna
2006-06-26"Today, everyone is interested in China, everyone want a piece of China’s pie. Everyone wants to trade with China and no one wants to burn their fingers when it comes to human rights in China. Everyone wants to cut a deal, so the human rights situation in China is brushed under the carpet. Therefore, we want to expose the human rights problems with our art and tell everyone that human rights are violated in China. Since the 1960s, everything spiritual and groups that smell just a little of religious doctrine are persecuted and banned in China". -
Iceland's Biggest Newspaper Publishes a Falun Gong Practitioner's Letter Exposing the CCP's Atrocities
2006-06-26"The special commissioner of the Parliament deemed illegal Iceland officials’ treatment of Falun Gong practitioners during Jiang Zemin’s visit to Iceland in the summer of 2002. Four years have gone by. Yet it is still critical for the Iceland authorities to correct the mistake made, for example, by adopting a clear stance on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) recent atrocities of human rights persecution. The CCP regime, which has claimed sixty or eighty million lives during peacetime, is allegedly profiting from organs harvested from living people".