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  • Germany: Promoting Falun Gong in Frankfurt

    On the 4th of June 2005, in the busiest street in Frankfurt town centre, Falun Gong practitioners held an anti-torture exhibition to expose the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) brutal persecution of Falun Gong and an activity with the theme of promoting the beauty of Falun Gong and “Truthfulness Compassion Tolerance”.
  • Switzerland: Anti-Torture Exhibition during a Parliament Meeting

    On 8th June, a Swiss Parliament meeting was held and Falun Gong practitioners held another anti-torture exhibition and collected signatures in the busy streets. The persecution of Falun Gong in Mainland China got a lot worse recently, so Falun Gong practitioners urged the parliament members gathered in Bern to do all they can to help stop the persecution.
  • Letter from German Falun Gong practitioners to Citizens in Shenyang and Benxi

    The persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China is so terrible that it has shocked people all over the world. The German Government had never expected that Jiang Renzhang would be locked up in a labour camp as soon as he went back to China. At present, human rights organisations in Germany, the United Nations, the media and the German people are calling on the German Government to rescue Jiang Renzheng back to Germany.
  • Romania: Promoting Falun Gong and Exposing the Persecution in Brasov City

    Practitioners distributed Falun Gong leaflets to tourists and revealed the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal persecution against those who practise Falun Gong. Passers-by stopped to view a picture exhibition exposing the CCP’s crimes in their 6-year suppression of Falun Gong before signing a petition calling for an end to the persecution.
  • French Falun Gong Information Centre: Chinese Communist Party Official Charged with Crimes of Cruelty and Torture during Paris Visit

    During his visit on the 8th and 9th of June to the International Auto Convention in Paris, Wang Chun-Kwen was charged with crimes of cruelty and torture. The plaintiff in this case is a Chinese student residing in Ireland. He authorised the French Falun Gong Association to file his complaint. This student was jailed and tortured in China for twenty-two months. Wang Chun-Kwen, the Secretary General of the Communist Party in China’s Jilin Province, is directly responsible for organising the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners in this province. Jilin is one of the provinces in China that has the highest number of Falun Gong practitioners who were persecuted to death.
  • Switzerland: International Art Exhibition held in Basel

    The Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance International Art Exhibition was held from May 2nd to May 5th 2005 in a Basel library that is situated in a park. There were large glass windows on both sides of the room, which allowed passersby to see the pictures from outside. It was the perfect place for the exhibition.
  • Ukrainian Newspaper "Texnopolis" Reported on Activities during the Kiev Falun Gong Conference

    A local newspaper called Texnopolis published a feature article related to the events taking place during the conference, including a parade, Falun Gong exercise demonstrations, a concert and a candlelight vigil outside the Chinese Embassy. The report mentioned that the persecution of Falun Gong in China has already led to more than 2000 deaths.
  • Prestigious Chinese Writer and Historian Declares his Heartfelt Support for Falun Gong at a London Rally

    In the face of the various kinds of brutal suppression that the CCP has been executing in the past forty years, there are so many Falun Gong practitioners who are willing to disregard their own lives to struggle and safeguard their beliefs. Don’t you think that these Falun Gong practitioners deserve admiration and support from an intellectual like me? I think the answer is yes.
  • Swedish Member of European Parliament Sends Greetings to the Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance Fine Art Exhibition in Stockholm

    Humans have material and physical as well as spiritual needs. Therefore the work for freedom of religion and freedom to seek and find a spiritual home for the soul is one of a human being’s most basic and undeniable rights. Human beings’ dignity, human rights and freedom will always be preserved all over the world. The silence about what is happening in China and the violations of human dignity in this country are deeply worrying. That is why this is a significant exhibition.
  • Sweden: Promoting Falun Gong and Exposing the Persecution During the Carnival in Hammarkullen

    Falun Gong practitioners participated in the annual carnival in Hammarkullen, which attracts tens of thousands of visitors. The practitioners demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises and distributed leaflets, informing people about Falun Gong cultivation practice and the persecution practitioners in China are suffering at the hands of the Communist Party.
  • Radio Free Asia: Jiang Renzheng's Case is a Hot Topic During the Sino-Deutsch Human Rights Symposium

    According to Ms. Weisbec, the Chinese Government employed despicable schemes to cover up the truth. After 8th April, when Jiang was arrested and sentenced, Benxi City National Security Bureau police showed up at the house of Jiang’s parents with a pre-drafted statement for them to sign. The statement included two declarations. First, Jiang’s parents voluntarily handed over to the National Security Bureau Jiang’s private correspondence and photos from abroad. The other declaration was that Jiang’s parents agreed to send Jiang to a forced labour camp for brainwashing and conversion.
  • Finland: Practitioners from Europe and Taiwan Call for an End to the Persecution Outside the Chinese Embassy

    On June 14th 2005, Falun Gong practitioners from Europe and Taiwan attended a peaceful appeal in front of the Chinese Embassy in Helsinki. A statement was read calling for an immediate end to the systematic human rights abuses that have been waged against Falun Gong practitioners for the last six years by the Chinese Communist Party.
  • Ireland: Cork City Councillors Protest Against Proclaiming Shanghai a "Sister City"

    On May 19th 2005, several members of the Cork City Council in Ireland took a stance against proclaiming Shanghai a sister city. Chris O'Leary, a Green Party member, thought that this might send the wrong message to China. To date, twelve Falun Gong practitioners have been persecuted to death in Shanghai. The Irish Times reported that four of the city councillors from Cork protested outside City Hall against the Mayor's forming an alliance with Shanghai and ignoring China's poor human rights record. Local Falun Gong practitioners also participated in the protest.
  • Russia: St. Petersburg Practitioners Raise Awareness at Lomonosov Tube Station

    Five huge posters displayed information, letting people know about Falun Gong's spread to over 60 countries. They stopped to look closely at the posters and ask questions. After seeing the brutal scenes of persecution, people’s compassionate sides were clear that it must be stopped. Many of them asked, “Why are such things happening in the world today?”
  • European Friends of Falun Gong Speech at a London Press Conference

    The defection of the three Chinese diplomats to Australia within the last 2 weeks is a clear sign that the stranglehold of the Chinese Communist Party on its people is beginning to weaken...A common theme of all three’s explanation for their defection was their unwillingness to work any longer for the CCP or to participate in the persecution of Falun Gong. They have also been able to recount details of the methods of the persecution used by the Chinese Government since 1999, indeed Hao Fengiun actually worked for the infamous 6-10 Office which is directly responsible for monitoring Falun Gong.