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• Website (Croatia): Falun Gong practitioners’ peaceful protest.

  2005-08-16
  "In the eyes of the former head of the CCP and Chinese President, Jiang Zemin, his greatest threat was the popularity and respect that Falun Gong held among the Chinese population. He worried that the greatest threat and challenge to the CCP's power was the high ethical principals that are the mainstay of Falun Gong. Once the number of Falun Gong practitioners became larger than the CCP membership, Jiang Zemin began his brutal persecution."
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• United Kingdom: Activity During Edinburgh Festival to Rescue Orphaned Children of Falun Gong Practitioners Receives the Support of Many People

  2005-08-15
  In order to promote the rescue of the orphaned children of Falun Gong practitioners, UK practitioners held an activity on the opening day of the Edinburgh Festival. Practitioners used various means to let people know about the persecution and to appeal for support including Falun Gong exercise demonstrations and a petition signature collection.
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• Croatia: On July 20th, a Memorial Service in Zagreb Generated Great Media Interest

  2005-08-15
  Many months ago we decided that on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of the persecution we would hold a memorial day in Zagreb. Practitioners from all over the world offered their help. Two excellent articles about our event were published in two of Croatia’s largest newspapers the next day.
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• Sweden: A Programme About the Persecution of Falun Gong on Presens TV in Stockholm

  2005-08-15
  A television programme about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China was transmitted by a television-station, Presens TV on July 22nd. The programme was high quality, covering different aspects. As an introduction, two pictures of Falun Gong practitioner Gao Rongrong were shown, one before and one after she was tortured.
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• An Italian MP Asks, "What Can I Do for You?"

  2005-08-14
  From July 10th to 17th, practitioners from Italy and Germany held three activities in Rome. There were crowds of people in Rome during July. Many touring groups from China were shocked when they saw so many western Falun Gong practitioners. Some asked for materials, while more of them excitedly took pictures.
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• United Kingdom: Falun Gong Group Won a Prize in the Edinburgh Festival Cavalcade

  2005-08-14
  The 7th of August 2005 was the day of the 59th International Edinburgh Arts Festival in Scotland. Falun Gong practitioners once again attended the festival cavalcade and were awarded the best Specialty Prize. This is the fourth time that the Falun Gong group has received this prize since they started to participate three years ago.
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• Russia: Appealing for an End to the Persecution of Falun Gong in Moscow City Centre

  2005-08-14
  On the 6th of August 2005, Russian Falun Dafa practitioners gathered in Moscow city centre, calling on the public to pay attention to and help stop the brutal persecution against the Falun Gong spiritual practice by the Chinese Communist Party. People signed a petition calling for an end to the human rights abuses.
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• Hohenloher Newspaper (Germany): Falun Gong Practitioners' Information Stall

  2005-08-14
  "Suddenly on July 20th 1999, one hundred million Chinese citizens are declared as public enemy number one. The former head of state Jiang Zemin was very clear in his instruction: “Tarnish their names, ruin them financially, destroy them physically!” A minority is demonised and become the scapegoats for all the ills in the Chinese system and society."
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• Germany: A Falun Gong Practitioner Handed a Petition to the President

  2005-08-13
  On the first day of their holiday, President Koehler publicly invited local people and tourists to visit the Arber with him and climb to the peak of the hill. On learning the news, local Falun Gong practitioners felt that this was a good opportunity to see the president on such an occasion and tell him about Falun Gong face to face while handing him a petition.
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• Spain’s Oldest Newspaper Reports on Falun Gong Practice and the Persecution in China

  2005-08-13
  Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance are universal principles that were too demanding for the Chinese Government. Each year China tops the lists of human rights violations, torture or the implementation of capital punishment that are published by the most prestigious independent organisations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch. This intolerance has afflicted Falun Gong practitioners.
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• Seminar on Communism and Democracy held at the United Nations in Geneva

  2005-08-13
  A Communism and democracy seminar was held by an international inter-faith organisation at the United Nations. Several organisations took part in the seminar. Russian writer Mr. Marejko, former Xinhua news agency journalist Mr. Bao Zhang Wu, a Chinese student in Switzerland and The Epoch Times journalist Mr. Grangier were invited to give speeches at the meeting.
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• Sweden: Children Perform the Lotus Garden at a Folk Music Festival

  2005-08-13
  Between the 14th and 16th of July, children from different parts of Sweden performed a dance called Lotus Garden during a folk music festival in the Swedish county of Dalarna. The young dancers, aged between four and ten years old, moved slowly and beautifully to sounds inspired by traditional Chinese music. Hundreds of people passed through the area.
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• France: Falun Gong Practitioners were Invited to Attend the 29th International Congress on Law and Mental Health

  2005-08-12
  The University of Paris played host to the 29th International Congress on Law and Mental Health from July 2nd to 8th 2005. Experts, academics and witnesses to the persecution of Falun Gong were invited to attend the mental health summit and talk about persecution against the practice.
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• Letter: ”The Swedish Government can never accept that people are persecuted

  2005-08-12
  The Swedish Government has repeatedly indicated its repudiation of the maltreatment of Falun Gong practitioners in China. It has been done in both direct deliberations with the Chinese government and through calls and addresses in the EU circuit. You can be sure that the Government also will continue to monitor the treatment of Falun Gong practitioners in China in the future. People who are persecuted because of their faith or political views, is something that the Swedish Government can never accept. We all have the responsibility to dare to stand up in the struggle for freedom of religion and human rights."
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• Russia: Practitioners Let People Know the Truth

  2005-08-12
  A lot of pedestrians stopped in front of the exhibition boards and looked carefully. They raised various kinds of questions to our practitioners and wanted to understand more about the persecution. One old lady spent a long time in front of the exhibition boards that exposed the cruel torture. After having finished reading the introduction, she touched softly those practitioners being tormented in the pictures while shedding tears. She showed sympathy and concern about the persecution of good people. People in front of the exhibition boards were moved by her.
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