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France: Gathering Signatures in Paris to Stop the Persecution
2005-09-13On September 3rd, French Falun Gong practitioners held an activity on Rue de la Convention, the busiest in the 15th section in Paris. The 15th section is located in the south-west of Paris and is the biggest street section in the city. This activity was to introduce Falun Dafa to people and expose the persecution taking place in China. -
Sweden: "Truthfulness Compassion Forbearance International Art Exhibition" in Malmo City
2005-09-12On August 19th, 2005, the opening of the "Truthfulness Compassion Forbearance International Art Exhibition" was held in a gallery in Malmo City. People from all walks of life attended the opening ceremony. The exhibition was open for one week. Located in the downtown area, the gallery attracted plenty of attention. -
German Media: "People There Have No Rights"
2005-09-12On July 16th 2005, German newspaper Roding published an article entitled "People there have no rights". In the article, Falun Gong practitioner Min Teng-Schwaeger talked about the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights abuses against Falun Gong practitioners and Utz-Reiner Roemer discussed the autocracy of the Chinese Communist party. -
United Kingdom: Holding a Benefit Performance and Petitioning to Rescue Falun Gong Orphans in Oxford City
2005-09-11On Saturday the 27th of August 2005, at Gloucester Green Square in the famous historical city of Oxford, Falun Gong practitioners held activities calling for help to rescue Falun Gong orphans, which included a benefit performance designed by practitioners themselves, distributing leaflets and collecting signatures. -
Switzerland: The Government and Members of the National Assembly Pay Attention To the CCP's Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in China
2005-09-11In the convention of the Swiss National Assembly held this June, Mr Luc Recordon, a member of the National Assembly, interrogated the administration about the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong and the sentencing and arrest of Falun Gong practitioner Chu Minghua, whose daughter Wang Shaoyang is studying in Switzerland. The Swiss Federal Government made an official response to this. Below are the official announcements posted on the website of the Switzerland National Assembly. -
Denmark: Chinese Ambassador Uses Lies to Spread Hate, Practitioners Continue to Advise Him to Do What is Right
2005-09-11Recently Falun Gong practitioners filed a criminal suit against the CCP Procurator General Jia Chunwang during his visit to Denmark, for the crimes against human rights he committed to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. This matter became hot news with various media in Denmark. The lawsuit made people in Denmark pay attention to the tragedy caused by the persecution. They felt deeply shocked. A great number of people wrote letters to the media one after another to express their anger and condemnation. -
Denmark: Press Conference about Legal Action is Attended by Major Danish Media
2005-09-10The CCP Procurator General Jia Chunwang was sued by Falun Gong practitioners for Crimes of Torture while he was taking part in the International Procurator General Association’s annual meeting on 28th August in Copenhagen. The Danish Falun Gong association held a press conference. All mainstream Danish media attended this conference. -
Italy: Falun Dafa is Becoming More Popular on the Island of Sardinia
2005-09-10At the end of July and the beginning of August, some practitioners from Switzerland and Italy went to the island of Sardinia in Italy to promote Falun Gong. Practitioners demonstrated the five sets of Falun Gong exercises in the park every morning. A newspaper reported the stories of Falun Gong practitioners and revealed the truth of the persecution by the CCP using a whole page spread. -
Russia: Exercise Demonstration and Exposing the Persecution at the "International Conference of Traditional Medical Treatments"
2005-09-10Moscow Falun Gong practitioners attended the 4th International Conference of Traditional Medical Treatments. During the conference practitioners demonstrated the five sets of exercises, telling the attendees about what Falun Gong is, and about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) six years of persecution against the peaceful practice. -
Italy: Practitioners Participated in the Virgin Mary Ascension Day and the City Mayor Personally Expressed Thanks
2005-09-09When practitioners were setting up display boards exposing the persecution and cruel torture happening in China, owners of the stores in the neighbourhood could not wait to ask questions. They were all shocked to believe that such things still happen in the world today. A great number of people signed their names on the petition. -
Switzerland: Appealing for Support from United Nations Participants to Rescue my Auntie
2005-09-09My auntie, Ms. Qiu Minghua, is being persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party because she refuses to give up practising Falun Gong. She has been illegally imprisoned since November 25th 2004. In order to appeal for her rescue, during the period of the UN Human Rights Committee from the end of July 2005 to the beginning of August I talked to about one hundred officials from different countries in the United Nations and to members of NGOs (non-governmental organisations). I appealed to them to support the rescue of Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted in Mainland China. The effect was good. -
Sweden: Practitioners Invited to Demonstrate the Exercises at a Health Seminar in Lerum
2005-09-09There were about three hundred and fifty people attending the seminar. Almost everybody was given a pamphlet introducing the practice of Falun Gong and explaining why this peaceful method is so brutally persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party. There were many people who stopped to watch when Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the exercises. -
Article from UK Newspaper: Peaceful Protest over Persecution by Chinese Government
2005-09-09'Followers of the eastern practice of Falun Gong protested against persecution in China yesterday. A group of practitioners handed out leaflets, demonstrated exercises and collected signatures on a petition in Abbey Church Yard. The petition, which calls for the release from labour camps of family members of Chinese Falun Gong practitioners who live abroad, will be sent to the British Government. It is hoped that the government will put diplomatic pressure on China to end the persecution which, according to campaigners, has led to more than 2,750 people being tortured to death.' -
United Kingdom: Falun Gong Practitioners submit a petition and signatures to the British Prime Minister's Office
2005-09-08In order to urgently seek the rescue of Falun Gong practitioners taken into custody and persecuted illegally in China, several British practitioners went to London to the British Prime Minister's office at 10 Downing Street on September 1st. They submitted a petition of more than eight thousand signatures to the British Prime Minister Tony Blair. -
Sweden: Thoughts on Malmo Festival
2005-09-08Malmo is the third biggest city in the south of Sweden, elegant and beautiful. The grand Malmo Festival was held from the 20th to the 27th of August. I took part activities to promote Falun Gong that took place over two days during the Festival.