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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?”
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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".
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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".
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United Kingdom: The People of Cambridge Support Investigation into CCP Atrocities
2006-06-25On June 18th, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners in Cambridge took part in a local charity event, during which they had the opportunity to expose the CCP's illegal trade in organs harvested from murdered Falun Gong practitioners. The bodies were subsequently cremated to destroy the evidence. Local people signed petitions to support an independent investigation into these atrocities.
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Germany: People are Appalled at China’s Inhuman Trade in Illegally Harvested Organs
2006-06-25“What is this?” In the midst of the pedestrian zone, a man in a surgical gown stood behind a bloody operating table. Next to him was a cage, in which a Chinese person was imprisoned. Surrounding it were posters and boards with words of explanation. Pedestrians saw such a scene on May 27th in Hannover. Many came to a standstill, watched and asked questions.
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Austria: Speech by Mayor of Payerbach at the "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance“ Art for Human Rights Exhibition
2006-06-25"Again art,artists and intellectuals have to take on the task that politics is unable to achieve: To constantly expose how the Chinese government runs roughshod over the human rights of the Chinese people and we are referring to 100 million people at this time. Dear ladies and gentlemen we in Payerbach can help, even if just a little, to achieve the end of human rights violations. Please, look at these pictures ... These pictures tell you more than any media report in the entire world can tell you".
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Danish Newspaper Politiken Reported on the CCP's Trade on Organs Harvested from Living Falun Gong Practitioners
2006-06-25"... a high-ranking official in China officially admitted that most of the organs were harvested from the executed prisoners. The current law in China regulated that organ donation must be proved by the agreement of the prisoner himself. But it has been little known whether the regulation was enforced".
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Sweden: Exposing the Organ Harvesting from Living Practitioners and Supporting the Eleven Million People Who Have Withdrawn from the CCP
2006-06-24Falun Gong practitioners and volunteers from the Service Centre for Quitting the CCP in Sweden held an activity to support the eleven million withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). To expose CCP brutality, practitioners re-enacted the harvesting of organs from living people.
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German TV Station Twice Reports the CCP Crimes of Live Organ Removal from Falun Gong Practitioners
2006-06-24Two hosts and two practitioners from Berlin using a question and answer format introduced Falun Gong, the persecution against Falun Gong in China, the Chinese Communist regime's harvesting organs from living practitioners, practitioners' protest in front of the Berlin Chinese Embassy during the past few years, as well as practitioners' appeal in front of the Federal Chancellor's office shortly before her visit to China in May. Footage of earlier interviews with practitioners during protests was played between the talks. Footage of practitioners re-enacting the CCP's live organ removal was also shown.
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Russia: Introducing Falun Gong and Exposing the Persecution in Arkhangelsk Oblast
2006-06-24Practitioners from Arkhangelsk Oblast attended a local town festival entitled "Dream of Paper" and set up a stand at an exhibition displaying colourful paper lotus flowers hand-made by them. It was a great opportunity to introduce the practice to the local people. The practitioners' beautiful hand-made paper lotus flowers were praised and won an award.