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  • Belgium: Falun Gong Practitioners Filed a Lawsuit Against CCP Officials for Telephone Harassment

    On Tuesday July 19th 2005, Mr. Georges-Henri Beauthier, a prestigious human rights lawyer, filed a lawsuit on behalf of two Falun Gong practitioners in Brussels. The lawsuit was for the crime of harassment and was filed against China’s “6-10 Office” and the responsible Chinese officials. The lawsuit was filed on the eve of the 6th anniversary since Falun Gong was banned in China on July 20th 1999.
  • Germany: Appealing at the Chinese Consulate in Munich after Six Years of Persecution

    According to the statistics from ClearWisdom.Net, to date there have been 2,646 practitioners who have been killed in this persecution, but these are only the documented death cases. Nearly one hundred million Falun Gong practitioners have been deprived of the right to believe in “Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance”, and countless families have been broken up.
  • Radio Free Asia: German Society Pays Close Attention to the Development of Jiang Renzheng's Case

    Due to the concerns of the International Organisation for Human Rights and the German Government, during the human rights forum between China and Germany the Chinese Government was obliged to admit the arrest of Mr. Jiang Renzheng, a Chinese Falun Gong practitioner who was deported back to China from Germany at the beginning of May. According to a lady from Wuerzburg who has been actively involved in the efforts to rescue Jiang Renzheng, the Chinese Government was once again obliged to admit to the German Government that Jiang Renzheng was arrested for political reasons.
  • Czech Republic and Slovakia: Exposing the Persecution and Promoting Falun Gong (I)

    Between the 16th and 22nd of June, for the first time Falun Gong practitioners in the Czech Republic and Slovakia received mainstream media attention on a large scale. While exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal persecution of Falun Gong, the practitioners held activities to introduce the exercises and principles of the practice.
  • France: People in Le Havre Sympathise with China’s Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners

    Practitioners demonstrated Falun Gong’s five sets of beautiful and simple exercises and this attracted both attention and admiration from tourists. People naturally came over to find out more and saw the posters exposing the persecution against practitioners in China at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
  • Article from a Norwegian Newspaper: Support Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners

    Falun Gong has five powerful and peaceful exercises that cultivate the body and the soul...The Chinese authorities banned Falun Gong in 1999, because the number of practitioners far outnumbered the number of members of the Communist Party. Since then, several thousand Falun Gong practitioners from China have been persecuted, illegally jailed, tortured or sent to forced labour camps. Several thousand have been killed.
  • Denmark: Anti-Torture Exhibition in Copenhagen to Commemorate Six Years of Persecution

    On July 20th six years ago, the former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Jiang Zemin initiated a brutal campaign of persecution against Falun Gong. On the 16th of July, Falun Gong practitioners from Denmark and Sweden went to the largest square in Copenhagen, Kongens Nytorv, to expose the on-going campaign of genocide against Falun Gong in China.
  • United Kingdom: Practitioners in Manchester Commemorated Six Years of Persecution with an Appeal at the Chinese Consulate

    In remembrance of more than 2,700 fellow Falun Gong practitioners who have lost their lives in the CCP’s human rights abuses, practitioners from Manchester and surrounding cities gathered at the Chinese Consulate on this anniversary to hold a press conference, to appeal for the public’s concern and to urge the CCP to stop the persecution of Falun Gong immediately.
  • Sweden: Appealing for an End to the Persecution of Falun Gong at the Chinese Embassy on July 20th

    Practitioners in Stockholm gathered at the Chinese Embassy on July 20th, six years since the official launch of the persecution, to appeal for an end to the ruthless violence against Falun Gong practitioners. They demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises, held up a big banner reading “Stop Persecuting Falun Gong” and distributed flyers.
  • United Kingdom: Practitioners in Edinburgh Commemorate Six Years of Persecution

    On July 20th 2005, the official starting date for the Chinese Communist Party’s campaign of terror and persecution against Falun Gong, practitioners in Edinburgh held an all-day appeal outside the Chinese Consulate. All over the world, commemorative activities called for an end to the torture that has taken the lives of over 2,600 innocent practitioners.
  • Germany: Paper Lotus Flowers Send a Profound Meaning at the Munich International Multicultural Festival

    Having learned about the persecution, people were shocked and wanted to know more about Falun Gong. Some asked for leaflets, some learned the exercises from practitioners and others learned how to make the paper lotus flowers. Many people were interested in the lotus flowers, admiring the care and attention that had gone into making them.
  • Russia: Promoting Falun Gong in Stavropol City

    Practitioners practised the exercises in a local park. People who were interested in learning were taught on the spot. Many of them were young people. At the beginning, they were a little hesitant. But they all joined the exercise group later on. Some of them even learned how to do the meditation with their legs crossed in the double lotus position.
  • Germany: A Letter from Falun Gong Practitioners to Citizens of Shenyang City and Benxi City

    "Recently, three Chinese officials sought political asylum in Australia and announced their intention to defect from the CCP...They were unwilling to tolerate the CCP’s dark and inhumane dictatorship, or to work for the evil against their conscience. They thus decided to forsake darkness and stand by the side of justice. They exposed to the world the Chinese Communist Party’s evil nature, uncovering the detailed facts of the persecution against Falun Gong by the “6-10 Office”, and alleging that 1,000 Chinese spies are operating in Australia and Canada particularly to spy on Falun Gong. The disclosures caused waves of surprise and shock throughout the international community."
  • United Kingdom: The “Saying Good-Bye to the CCP” Alliance Attracted a Lot of Attention during the G8 Summit

    This year’s G8 summit in Edinburgh attracted international attention because the summit was to discuss the issue of world poverty. Before the summit, over 22,000 people attended the “Make Poverty History” parade. Among many protest groups, the “Saying Good-Bye to the CCP” Alliance attracted special attention.
  • France: People in Normandy are Concered about the Persecution Suffered by Falun Gong Practitioners in China

    On the 7th July 2005, French practitioners held an anti-torture exhibition in Lisieux to let more people know about Falun Gong and the human rights abuses being carried out against practitioners in China. They simulated some of the barbaric torture methods used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in attempts to force practitioners in China to renounce their beliefs.