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Austria: Practitioners Commemorate Six Years the Lives Lost in Six Years of Persecution
2005-07-28On July 20th 2005, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution against Falun Gong practitioners entered its seventh year. Austrian practitioners gathered in Vienna’s Stephansplatz to commemorate the victims and to let the Austrian people know about the human rights abuses that have been happening in China every day since 1999. -
Ireland: Candlelight Vigil at the Chinese Embassy on July the 20th to Condemn the CCP's Atrocities
2005-07-28Falun Gong practitioners depend on the righteous belief of “Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance” to face violence with kindness, to face terrorism with courage and to pass through the most evil persecution used in the annals of human history. Today, after six years, the CCP still violently persecute Falun Gong. -
Russia: Practitioners in Irkutsk held a Rally on July 20th to Call for an End to the Persecution
2005-07-28On July 20th 2005, the Russian practitioners in Irkutsk held a rally at the statue of Alexander III to call for an end to the brutal persecution against Falun Gong. During the rally, some practitioners demonstrated the exercises and others distributed leaflets. Passers-by all stopped to watch the photo exhibition of the cruel methods used in the persecution. -
Sweden: Practitioners Commemorate Six Years of Persecution and Urge the Chinese Communist Party to Stop Persecuting Falun Gong
2005-07-28Practitioners went to the Chinese Embassy to commemorate six years since the start of the persecution against Falun Gong. They sent forth righteous thoughts, practised the exercises and urged the Chinese Communist Party to immediately stop the persecution. -
France: Promoting Falun Gong on National Day
2005-07-28On this day of every year, a grand parade is held on the streets of Paris. Thousands upon thousands of people go to the streets to watch the celebrations and many people from other provinces also come to the busy capital to take part in the festivities. During this national holiday, Falun Gong practitioners went to Paris to promote Falun Gong. -
Russia: Practitioners held a Peaceful Rally in Moscow calling for an End to the Persecution After Six Years
2005-07-27On July 20th 2005, Russian Falun Gong practitioners held a peaceful rally in the square in front of the Moscow Palace of Culture. Practitioners in the 78 countries where Falun Gong is practised have spent the last six years on all sorts of efforts to let people know the truth about Falun Gong and to expose the CCP’s evil deeds. -
United Kingdom: Practitioners in Edinburgh held a Peaceful Appeal at the Chinese Consulate on July 20th
2005-07-27On the 20th of July, a group of practitioners from Edinburgh went to the Chinese Consulate to hold a peaceful appeal. They protested against the campaign of genocide that the Chinese Communist Party has conducted against Falun Gong practitioners for the past six years. -
Holland: On the 6th Anniversary of July 20th, Practitioners Appealed for an End to the Persecution at the Chinese Consulate
2005-07-27On July the 20th, Dutch Falun Gong practitioners appealed for an end to the persecution against Falun Gong outside the Chinese Consulate. The banners in English read, “Oppose Violent Persecution”, "Remember the 2696 Falun Gong Practitioners persecuted to Death,” and “Stop the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners.” -
Spanish News Agency: Falun Gong Appeals to the Chinese Government to Stop the Genocide of People who Ask for Freedom of Belief
2005-07-27More than twenty people from the Spanish Falun Gong Association and their legal team peacefully protested at the Chinese Embassy in Madrid. They urged that the genocide, persecution and torture of hundreds of thousands of innocent people who have a right to freedom of belief in China be stopped. The organiser said that to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the persecution against Falun Gong was the purpose of the day’s gathering. The former president of the Chinese Communist Party, Jiang Zemin, initiated the comprehensive persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, the followers of an ancient Chinese spiritual practice, with the policy of defaming their reputations, bankrupting them financially, and destroying them physically. -
Bulgaria: Practitioners Commemorate Six Years of Persecution with an Open Air Exhibition
2005-07-26On 23rd and 24th July 2005, Bulgarian Falun Dafa practitioners organized an open air exhibition in Boris Garden – the central park of the capital city Sofia. The exhibition commemorated six years since the persecution against Falun Dafa was launched by former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin and enforced by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). -
Sweden: Peacefully Appealing outside the Chinese Consulate on July 20th
2005-07-26On the 20th of July, Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside the Chinese Consulate General in Gothenburg. The gathering was held because July 20th was the day that the Chinese Communist Party, under the leadership of the previous president Jiang Zemin, began a brutal persecution against Falun Gong. Falun Gong practitioners will continue to hold peaceful appeals outside the Chinese consulate until this brutal persecution stops. -
France: The People of Rouen were Touched by an Anti-torture Exhibition
2005-07-26On July 8th, Falun Gong practitioners visited Rouen. They set up a stall in the city centre opposite various elegantly designed buildings and held an anti-torture exhibition where they simulated a few of the many torture methods that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses in its attempts to force Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their beliefs. -
The Call of People in Europe: Saluting a New China Without the Rule of the CCP
2005-07-26Local people who were warm-hearted had made many colourful, big banners and slogans such as “Support the Million People who have Withdrawn from the CCP”, “Saluting a New China Without the Rule of the CCP” and “It is High Time We said Goodbye to the CCP”. The parade was about two hundred metres long and was very eye-catching. -
Czech Republic and Slovakia: Exposing the Persecution and Promoting Falun Gong (II)
2005-07-26On Saturday 18th of June, the largest TV station in the Czech Republic, Cesha Televize 1, interviewed Xiong Wei at a memorial where victims of the Communist Party used to be tortured. She spent two years in a Chinese forced labour camp, imprisoned for handing out leaflets exposing the human rights abuses against Falun Gong. -
Belgium: Falun Gong Practitioners Filed a Lawsuit Against CCP Officials for Telephone Harassment
2005-07-25On 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.