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United Kingdom: The Song "Missing My Child" Moves People to Tears

2005-08-20

In order to draw attention to the plight of orphans of Falun Gong practitioners tortured to death by the Communist regime, UK practitioners held a non-profit open-air concert in Edinburgh on August 7th, 2005, the first day of the Edinburgh International Arts Festival. The concert was entitled “Rescue Orphans of Murder and Torture Victims in China."

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Finland: Letting People Know the Truth about Falun Gong at the World Track and Field Games in Helsinki.

2005-08-20

The games returned to Helsinki, Finland, where they were originally held in 1983. There were 1,900 athletes from two hundred countries participating in the various contests and more than one hundred and ninety countries and regions participated in the live broadcasts. It is estimated that four billion people will watch the broadcast worldwide. After learning about this, Falun Gong practitioners in Finland and other North European countries arranged the activity to tell as many people as possible learn about the persecution.

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Germany: Falun Gong Practitioners Invited to Participate in the Hannover Festival

2005-08-20

The Ferryman’s Festival is a popular open-air festival that takes place close to a small river. The organiser invited us to participate when we met at one of our Falun Gong events because he noticed that our demonstrations of paper Lotus Flower folding and Chinese calligraphy were extremely popular. On both days of the festival, our yellow booth was a great attraction.

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Italian Newspaper "Unità" Publishes an Article on the Persecution of Falun Gong

2005-08-20

"I was taking a walk in New York City. On the corner of Fifth Avenue near Central Station, many Chinese were giving out fliers to passers-by and telling their stories. They seemed very concerned and needed help. The fliers they gave out described the gross human rights abuses currently happening in China. I spoke to them to find out more. These Chinese people then started recounting to me the tragedies that happened. They said the government in Beijing persecuted a spiritual practice called Falun Gong."

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The Capital Times (Wisconsin): What Are You Reading?

2005-08-20

Hong Jiang, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, said that at the moment he was reading Zhuan Falun by Li Hongzhi. Falun means law wheel, and law here refers to the three principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. An understanding of the book helps me to conduct myself in a more truthful way and to be compassionate and tolerant of other people.

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United Kingdom: Falun Gong Touches People’s Hearts at the Edinburgh Parade for a Fourth Consecutive Year

2005-08-19

On August 7th, over eighty teams from around the world came to participate in the Edinburgh International Art Festival Parade in the capital of Scotland. This year was the fourth time Falun Gong practitioners have participated in the parade and also the fourth time that they have won the community category award for their parade performance.

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France: President of the French Falun Gong Association Spoke at the Prayer Meeting of Asian Democracy and Peace

2005-08-19

So we will continue to expose and condemn the crimes committed by Jiang and the CCP. We have to be aware that all the CCP is capable of is lies and violence. When people who are deceived by it know its evil history, they will no longer be cheated. More and more people stand out to expose its crimes, and more and more people yearn for peace.

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Slovakia: Falun Gong Activities in Middle and East of the Country

2005-08-18

Recently reports about the persecution of Falun Gong began to appear in the Slovakian media but few people realise how inhuman and cruel this persecution is. To help more people understand this, Falun Gong practitioners tour a few Slovak cities every year where they inform the public about the genocide against Falun Gong and ask for support.

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Finland: Promoting Falun Gong and Exposing the Persecution at the World Track and Field Games in Helsinki

2005-08-18

The public passed by in streams. They were attracted by the elegant and quiet exercises. A lot of tourists took picture of the practitioners doing the exercises. After seeing the posters of some practitioners who were persecuted to death, some people wanted to resolve a question: why were these men and women, old and young with kind and gentle faces, persecuted to death? They went to read the display boards or talk with practitioners. After they understood the truth, they signed their names on a petition to show support.

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Hong Kong: Widespread Concern Over the Arrest of Journalist's Family Members in China

2005-08-18

Liang Zhen's mother Yuan Yuju and brother Liang Jinhui are practitioners of Falun Gong. They were arrested on July 19 on false criminal charges. Situ Hua expressed that Liang Zhen's revealing the facts would at least prevent her family members from quietly disappearing from the world. He hoped that those Chinese Communist Party members who had not quit the party would not assist the evildoers in the persecution of Falun Gong or other groups.

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France: Report on Paris Tour to Expose the Truth - Place Félix Eboué

2005-08-17

Erected in 1867, Fontaine aux Lions (Fountain of the Lions) is situated in the centre of the 12th District of southern Paris, where it is tranquil and peaceful with lots of shady greenery. This is also the usual place for citizens of the 12th District to take a walk. French practitioners held an activity here to introduce Falun Dafa on July 30th.

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United Kingdom: Thought-Provoking "Stories in the Pictures"

2005-08-17

On the first day of the Edinburgh Festival, UK Falun Gong practitioners held an open-air concert called “Rescue Orphans of Falun Gong Practitioners”. A small female choir sang songs based on the stories behind three paintings entitled, "Homeless", "Why?" and "Come Back Daddy". A narrator explained the stories in the pictures to the onlookers in detail.

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Diario de Ferrol (Spain): Condemned for Practising Falun Gong

2005-08-17

"Something so inoffensive was all of a sudden prohibited by the Chinese government, then presided over by Jiang Zemin. The reasons for this persecution, according to the organisations that defend this large collective, point to the harsh control that the dictatorship exerts over everything that does not follow the regime’s principles. In barely six years, the number of people murdered, tortured to death, persecuted and incarcerated has not ceased to grow..."

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United Kingdom: "Rescuing Orphans" Concert on Prince’s Street in Edinburgh

2005-08-16

In order to draw attention to the plight of the orphaned children of Falun Gong practitioners, who have been tortured to death in China, Falun Gong practitioners held a non-profit concert in St. James Square off Princes Street. The on-going persecution has affected many innocent Chinese children, whose parents have been killed or imprisoned

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Finland: People of Helsinki Learn the Truth about the Persecution of Falun Gong

2005-08-16

On July 20th 1999, China’s head of state Jiang Zemin branded 100 million innocent citizens as criminals. Fearing that Falun Gong’s widespread popularity was overshadowing his own, Jiang ordered that this traditional practice should be “eradicated”. The Falun Dafa Information Centre has verified details of 2,676 deaths since the persecution began.

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