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United Kingdom: Falun Gong Practitioners Participate in the Lord Mayor's Parade in Oxford
2006-06-04On May 29th, 2006 UK Falun Gong practitioners participated in the Lord Mayor’s Parade in Oxford. This is the fourth time that Falun Gong took part in the parade, which was mainly made up of local charities. The Lord Mayor of Oxford expressed his gratitude for Falun Gong practitioners’ participation which greatly enriched the city. -
Germany: Local People Wear Yellow Ribbons to Express Support for Falun Gong
2006-06-04On May 15th, 2006, German practitioners appealed outside the office of the Chancellor, who was going to visit China. They called on Chancellor Merkel to pay attention to the harvesting of living Falun Gong practitioners' organs by the CCP, and to help to urge the Chinese Communist regime to stop persecuting Falun Gong. -
Switzerland: Exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s Crimes in Lucerne
2006-06-03Swiss Falun Gong practitioners held a live anti-torture exhibition at a famous tourist spot in the city of Lucerne in Switzerland. There were also display boards and petitions to be signed to support an end to the persecution. Many people were shocked to see a live performance in which “doctors” harvested fake organs from “patients”. -
Russia: Falun Gong Practitioners Introduce Falun Gong During the City Festival in St. Petersburg
2006-06-03Many people surrounded the small table on which practitioners folded paper lotus flowers. Practitioners folded lotus flowers as they explained how innocent Falun Gong practitioners in China were persecuted. A little girl would not leave until her mother signed the petition supporting an end to the persecution of Falun Gong. -
Sweden: Using the Internet to Expose the Truth about Falun Gong to People in Mainland China
2006-06-03“You don’t know the facts that prevail now inside China; corruption is all over the whole country, from top to bottom, without even one word of truth. Nowadays, the CCP does not care about serious matters; it wholeheartedly persecutes innocent common people. No matter whoever has a different voice, will be labelled by CCP as creating public disorder, subverting the country, and revealing national secrets and so on ... The common Chinese people have no satisfactory things in his or her life, how can they be in a good mood." -
German Media Reports on Falun Gong Photo Exhibition
2006-06-03On May 10th, local media in Furth im Wald, a small city in Bavaria, reported a photographic exhibition depicting the phenomenon of Falun Gong.Koetzting Daily published a story entitled "Pictures make people think about the dark side of China. Falun Gong photo exhibition at municipal hall touches the people; Go see it." -
EFGIC: European Leaders Herald the Winds of Change in China, Beijing Contacts in Life Danger
2006-06-02After meeting with Falun Gong practitioners during a three-day investigatory trip to Beijing, McMillan-Scott was convinced that, despite a huge increase of foreign trade relations, the human rights situation in China - and particularly the repression of religious and spiritual groups including Falun Gong, haven't changed in the least, and expressed his admiration for them. "Today in China religious movements demonstrate [...] courage, they are giving the lead [in the quest for freedom], they inspire those hundreds of millions enslaved by the CCP". -
Czech Republic: Seminar on Human Rights in China
2006-06-02Since 1999, people practising Falun Gong have been detained in forced labour camps and concentration camps where they are inhumanly tortured. According to witnesses who decided to talk openly to the public and gave interviews to the Epoch Times newspaper, in these camps, the organs from living practitioners are being harvested for transplants. Practitioners are then thrown directly into the incinerator to cover all the evidence. All the detained people are marked with numbers, just as the Jews in the Nazi concentration camps. -
Holland: Introducing Falun Gong to the People of Hoensbroek
2006-06-02In the noisy crowd, our stand was a peaceful area; practitioners demonstrated the five exercises to people. Many people stopped and watched, and asked for information about exercise classes. When some people received flyers about the persecution of the practitioners in China, they said they would like do their best to help stop this persecution. -
Sweden: Art Exhibition Exposes Persecution of Falun Gong
2006-06-02On May 13th, to celebrate Falun Dafa Day, disciples from Gothenburg and peripheral cities held a series of activities in a beautiful park, to let people know about the wonderful benefits from practising Falun Gong and to expose the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the CCP. They exhibited paintings created by practitioners. -
The “Tagesspiegel” (Germany): Death and Games
2006-06-02Berlin: An Olympic medallist participated recently in a hunger strike, because of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. Martin Rubenis, who was awarded the bronze metal in Turin Italy for his figure skating performance, joined a protest event outside the Chinese Consulate in Riga Latvia three weeks ago. This was a short-term hunger strike by the spiritual group Falun Gong because their members are suffering cruel repression in China. -
France: The French People Strongly Condemn CCP Organ Harvesting
2006-06-01French Falun Gong practitioners went to Convention metro station in Paris and revealed the evil deeds taking place in Chinese Communist Party labour camps. Many French citizens signed the petition to the French president, urging the French government to make an effort to rescue those Falun Gong practitioners who are being persecuted. -
Italy: Exposing CCP Atrocities to Delegates at the International Conference on Liver Transplant Technology
2006-06-01From May 4th - 6th, 2006, an international liver transplant technology exchange meeting was held in Milan. The participants were famous surgeons and professors from countries all over the world. Falun Gong practitioners in Italy revealed to the participants the Chinese Communist Party's act of stealing and selling Falun Gong practitioners' organs. -
Germany: The Persecution of Falun Gong Exposed in Bayern State
2006-06-01Falun Gong practitioners in Germany’s Bayern State took advantage of warm weather to expose the inside stories of the Chinese Communist regime’s persecution against Falun Gong and the atrocities of harvesting living Falun Gong practitioners’ organs. -
Turkey: Falun Gong Practitioners Expose CCP Atrocities at an Agriculture and Livestock Fair
2006-06-01On May 18th, an Agriculture and Livestock Fair was held in Mersin, in the south of Turkey, which was organised by the Turkish Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Nearly a hundred companies and enterprises from all over the country attended this fair. At the fair, Falun Gong practitioners visited each participating unit and gave them leaflets.