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

    “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.”
  • Russia: Introducing Falun Gong to the People of the Far East

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

    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.
  • Radio Free Asia: Rescuing Falun Gong Practitioner Wang Xiaoyan

    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.
  • Holland: Exposing the CCP Crime of Organ Harvesting

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

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

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

    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”.
  • Germany: Promoting Falun Dafa at the Hamburg Festival

    Falun 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

    In 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

    Radio 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

    In 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

    Danish 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

    Practitioners 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

    In 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.