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France: Press Conference Exposes Chinese Authorities’ Refusal to Co-operate with French Authorities’ Investigation
2005-10-11On Thursday the 29th of September, at a press conference held in the office of William Bourdon, a famous lawyer in France disclosed that the related Chinese authorities refuse to co-operate with a Commission Rogatoire Internationale and a notice sent to them by Noria Faucherie, a law-officer from Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris. -
Sweden: Appealing to Stop the Persecution of Falun Gong at the Chinese Consulate
2005-10-10Falun Gong practitioners unfurled two very large banners outside the Chinese Consulate in Gothenburg. One banner read “Stop the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners” while the other consisted of photos of Falun Gong practitioners who have been persecuted to death in China. Practitioners also demonstrated the exercises. -
Radio France Internationale: Xia Deren, the Mayor of Dalian City in China, Cannot Lead a Group to Visit Canada Due to Persecuting Falun Gong
2005-10-10According to Falun Gong Minghui Net’s report today, the Mayor of Dalian City in China Xia Deren was sued by Falun Gong practitioners for crimes against humanity and human rights abuses. For this reason Xia Deren will not be able to lead a business team to visit Canada. -
France: Drawing Attention to the Orphaned Children of Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners on Human Rights Square
2005-10-09On September 25th, 2005, Falun Gong practitioners in France held large-scale activities to draw attention to the orphaned children of Falun Gong practitioners. The event, which received strong support from the public, was held on the Human Rights Square (Paris des Droits de l’Homme au Trocadero) opposite the world-famous Eiffel Tower. -
Germany: "The CCP is Exactly the Same as the Saddam Hussein Regime!"
2005-10-09After earnestly looking through the pictures exposing the CCP’s persecution, a young man from Iraq said that he knew about it very well and understood very much what practitioners in China had suffered because he was persecuted in Iraq as well. He said, "The Communist Party of China is exactly the same as the former Saddam regime." -
Germany: Spending a Nice Mid-autumn Festival in Dresden
2005-10-08Many kind German people found out how the Chinese Communist Party brutally persecutes Falun Gong practitioners. Some people asked for petition forms and leaflets to take for their families and friends. And still many people wanted to learn Falun Gong and practitioners happily invited them to the local exercise practice site where they can learn for free. -
Ukraine: Bringing the Goodness of Dafa to the Automobile Workers Festival
2005-10-08Dafa practitioners used coloured paper to make lotus flowers as a symbol of tranquillity and peacefulness. Many kind-hearted children and adults were delighted to learn how to fold paper lotus flowers. The practitioners called on kind-hearted people to express concern over the Chinese Falun Gong practitioners persecuted by Jiang and his Communist regime. -
Italian Magazine Introduces Falun Gong's Good Effect on Health
2005-10-08Scholars at the University of Texas found that modern technology can be utilised to analyse thousands of genes at the same time. Those scholars studied one group of leucocyte of the Asian descendants who have practised Falun Gong for at least one year of and a group of persons who did not to make comparisons. They found that the leucocyte of the persons who practise Falun Gong is highly vigorous, and its immunity is very strong. And they can recover from infection with higher speed..." -
Finland: "I Want to Let More People Know About the Persecution Happening in China"
2005-10-07Falun Gong practitioners in Finland went to the train station to promote Falun Gong and tell people about the persecution against the practice in Mainland China. They collected petition signatures to call for an immediate end to the brutal torture of Falun Gong practitioners, which has been going on for the past six years in China’s prisons and forced labour camps. -
Russia: People in St. Petersburg are Concerned about the Persecuted Dafa Practitioners
2005-10-07Falun Dafa practitioners in St. Petersburg held an activity to promote Falun Gong. People signed the petition calling for an end to the persecution after they heard about the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party, which is directly responsible for the persecution against Falun Dafa practitioners and many other persecutions over the last 50 years. -
Sweden: Falun Gong Participates in Uppsala Health Fair
2005-10-06The practitioners had unlimited access to the stage and continuously displayed the graceful and vitalising exercises. Many people came to watch and the organiser came to personally thank the practitioners for being there; she said that the beautiful practice had been an important contributor to the peaceful and harmonious atmosphere at the fair. -
Radio France Internationale: French Judicial Authorities Outraged by China’s Refusal to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong
2005-10-06This afternoon, renowned French human rights attorney William Bourdon held a press conference in his office. Mr. William Bourdon stated that a French court had sent a Commission Rogatoire Internationale (CRI) to China’s counterpart department, requesting related Chinese authorities to cooperate in an investigation into the roles played by Li Lanqing, Chinese Minister of Culture Sun Jiazheng, the “6-10 Office” and the Chinese police in the persecution of Falun Gong. Li Lanquing, former Deputy Prime Minister of China, was in charge of the “6-10 Office”, a Gestapo-like organisation of the CCP that specifically suppresses Falun Gong. -
Second Czech Republic and Slovakia Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference Successfully Held in Prague
2005-10-05The Second Czech Republic and Slovakia Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference was successfully held in Prague on October 2nd 2005. Falun Dafa founder Master Li Hongzhi sent a message saying that he hopes the conference is a success. Falun Dafa practitioners from fourteen countries attended this conference. -
Spanish Newspaper Exposes the Brutality of the Chinese Communist Party's Persecution Against Falun Gong
2005-10-05More than 2,600 people have been killed in China over the past six years for practising the meditation system Falun Gong, but it is estimated that over 10,000 people have been tortured to death, 200,000 jailed and over 1,000 forced into mental institutions. The abuse of human rights in this Asian country has reached the extreme limits with people being persecuted, tortured and thousands killed and forced into exile, making it border on the limits of genocide. -
United Kingdom: Falun Gong Practitioners’ Merciful Call to Staff in the Chinese Embassy on the 1st October, the National Day of Mourning
2005-10-05"We are Falun Gong practitioners who often petition in front of the Chinese Embassy...It has been almost three and a half years since UK Falun Gong practitioners started the silent vigil on the 5th of June 2002. We see one another across the road 24 hours a day. Regretfully we have not been able to communicate verbally face to face."