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  • Sweden: Celebrating the Fourth Falun Dafa Day in Lerum

    Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, has been practised in Lerum since 1999. There are practice sites where new practitioners can learn the exercises for free and others can practise the exercises in a group. The practice of Falun Gong has received a lot of support and appreciation in Lerum. Many people there have experienced benefits from Falun Gong.
  • Scotland: Practitioners Join an Activity to Highlight the Crimes of the Chinese Communist Party

    On Sunday February 19th, an event was held in Edinburgh to expose the brutal history of the Chinese Communist Party as well as some of the recent crimes that the CCP has committed against the Chinese people inside and outside of China. This was a good opportunity for Falun Gong practitioners to highlight the inhumane persecution of Falun Gong.
  • Czech Parliamentarian: "I was surprised by the striking realisation of communism’s black history"

    "In the 1950s, people were killed in our country as well as other communist countries. In the 1980s, the terror was psychological. However, there can be no victims – hard or soft – without representatives of a regime and without murderers. There can be no representatives of a regime or murderers without servants of the system. That is why we are discussing the totalitarian crimes of communism after 15 years. Condemnation of Nazism was quick because it took only months for the world’s community to unify against it. There is a difference in the case of communism."
  • Norway: Rescued Falun Gong Practitioners Hold a Press Conference to Express Thanks to the Norwegian Government

    On February 25th, eleven Falun Gong practitioners who had been granted asylum by Bodoe city government in Norway held a press conference at the International Centre in Bodoe to express their appreciation to the people and government of Norway. They were joined by Bodoe city media and some local residents.
  • France: Paris Gala Makes People Proud to be Chinese

    This Gala awakened Chinese peoples’ memories of traditional culture and made them feel proud to see such a magnificent performance by their fellow countrymen. This type of display of traditional culture has been banished from its home in China since the Communist Party snatched power there over half a century ago.
  • Swedish Parliamentarian: "Stand up for people who suffered under these terrible dictatorships"

    We can see the same effect today in communist China, where the regime is very tough against anyone with a different opinion. Falun Gong and certain religious denominations are very badly treated in China. We can see that the same thing will happen there, with many dissidents in opposition. That is good, because I could bet you €100 that the Chinese communist regime will be gone within five years. There are defecting diplomats; we saw the same thing in the Soviet Union. Many people are leaving the communist party; the same thing happened before the fall of the Soviet Union’s iron curtain.
  • Official Launch of the Czech Clear Harmony Web Site

    Published voluntarily by Falun Gong practitioners in Europe, the Czech Clear Harmony Web site aims to tell the facts about Falun Dafa, to give readers first hand information about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China, to display the voices of support for Falun Gong from all over Europe and to provide a forum for practitioners across Europe to share their thoughts and views.
  • Germany: Foreign Minister Encouraged to Pay Attention to Persecution of Falun Gong before China Visit

    On February 17th, Falun Gong practitioners rallied with several other international human rights organisations in Berlin, hoping to draw Foreign Minister Steimeier's attention to the Chinese Communist Party’s cruel persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China and the recent assault on Li Yuan before the minister visits Asia.
  • United Kingdom: Introducing Falun Dafa to the People of Bradford and Exposing the Persecution in China

    On February 25th, 2006, several practitioners gathered in Bradford in the north of England to let people there know about Falun Gong and tell them about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners taking place in China. Inquisitive passers-by continually approached to chat with practioners and sign the petition in support of Falun Gong.
  • Falun Dafa in Europe: Falun Gong Takes Root and Flowers in Slovakia

  • Russia: Falun Gong Welcomed at an International Health Expo in St. Petersburg

    A three-day International Health Exposition was held at the Saint Petersburg International Exhibition Centre. Falun Gong practitioners in St. Petersburg were invited to participate in the Expo. They held two seminars to introduce Falun Gong, along with a demonstration of the five Falun Gong exercises, which was highly acclaimed by the organisers and the public.
  • Germany: Ministry of Justice Hopes for the Speedy Release of the Jiang Family

    Mr. Jiang Renzheng, his wife and two small children were deported from Würzburg to Beijing in March 2005. Following his deportation from Germany and only four weeks after his arrival in China, Mr Renzheng Jiang was sentenced without trial to three years of forced labour for practicing Falun Gong and thereby ‘endangering public security’. Jiang has subsequently been released but is under house arrest. He has now been granted asylum in Germany.
  • Nordland Daily (Norway): Details of the Persecution

    On February 24th, two reporters from the Nordland Daily, the largest newspaper in northern Norway, interviewed eleven Chinese practitioners who have been recently accepted by the Norwegian government as refugees. Eleven practitioners from four families recounted the benefits to mind and body that Falun Gong has brought to them, and the brutal persecution that they have experienced in China at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.
  • Germany: Support from a Small Town in Bavaria

    On February 18th, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners held a Falun Gong information day in Ansbach, a beautiful small town in Bavaria, Germany. Although it is a small town with a population of only a few thousand, local people came in streams to sign their names in support of Falun Gong and often stopped to find out more.
  • United Kingdom: Introducing Falun Dafa to a school in Leeds

    Whilst taking part in an activity to introduce Falun Dafa in Leeds city centre, a lady approached me informing me that she was from Bank Side primary school and that they were going to have a focus on health week. She asked if I would teach the set of five Falun Gong exercises to their year 6 children as part of the week’s activities. I immediately agreed.