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United Kingdom: Photo Report - Falun Gong Practitioners in the Oxford Mayor’s Festival Parade
2005-06-06
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United Kingdom: Falun Gong Practitioners in the Oxford Mayor’s Inauguration Parade
2005-06-05
The city of Oxford held the new Mayor Inauguration Grand Parade. The participants were primarily from local charity groups and local organisations, including Falun Gong practitioners. Cheerful waist drumming, elegant silk fan dancing, eye-catching banners and the spirit of Falun Gong practitioners gave a positive impression to the public. -
Czech Newspapers Report on Falun Gong Activities to Raise Awareness about the Genocide in China
2005-06-05
Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance – these are the main principles of an ancient Chinese cultivation way called Falun Gong. There are about 100 million practitioners of this cultivation method worldwide, but in China they are persecuted, jailed and tortured by the Chinese Communist Regime. -
European Friends of Falun Gong Submits a List of Chinese Communist Party Criminals to the UK Home Office
2005-06-04
European Friends of Falun Gong points out in the letter to the Home Office that the members of EFOFG are not Falun Gong practitioners; they are supporters of Falun Gong practitioners’ freedom of belief and basic human rights. In the last 6 six years, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners has violated the International Human Rights Convention which China has signed. The CCP has also gone against the rules of nature in its widespread destruction of the lives of so many innocent people and the CCP’s crimes are crimes against humanity. -
Russia: Photo Exhibition Successfully Held in Nizenyi Novgorod City
2005-06-04
Many people came to look at the pictures and the practitioners talked with them about Falun Gong practice and the persecution that is happening in China. Local media interviewed the practitioners for their reports on the exhibition, including a news programme that has about three million viewers. -
Radio Free Asia: Practitioners Invited to Demonstrate Falun Gong Exercises at Berlin Gymnastics Festival
2005-06-04The six-day Berlin Gymnastics Festival, which has just been held in the capital of Germany with 120,000 participants, has a history of one hundred and forty-five years. Its goal is to improve the physical and mental health of children and adults. Four German words represent its motto: originality, piety, happiness, and freedom. Under the principle of this motto, the Berlin Gymnastics Festival invited Falun Gong practitioners in Germany to participate in the performance. -
A Dutch Practitioner’s Experience of Being kidnapped in China
2005-06-03
They asked me many questions. I did not mind telling them my good experiences of practising Falun Gong. I told them all about it. But when they asked me specific things like the names of people, certain events or things I felt that could harm other people, I was not willing to tell them. They were not satisfied with my answers and they told me that I was not cooperating well. -
Holland: Promoting Falun Dafa in Eschede on the Dutch-German Border
2005-06-03
Dutch Falun Gong practitioners met in Eschede on the Dutch-German border to promote Falun Gong and raise awareness about the human rights abuses against their fellow practitioners in China. Demonstrations of the relaxed Falun Gong exercises accompanied by the beautiful exercise music attracted many people to stop and watch. -
Bulgaria: Presenting Zhuan Falun at the Biggest National Book Fair in Sofia
2005-06-02
Practitioners presented the book Zhuan Falun to the public at the biggest book forum in Bulgaria – Book Fair 2005. The main text of Falun Gong was published for the first time in Bulgarian language on the 13th of May, World Falun Dafa Day. During the presentation, the practitioners demonstrated the five sets of Falun Gong exercises. -
Spain: Anti-Torture Exhibition in Parla is Widely Supported
2005-06-02
After hearing the truth of the persecution and the purpose of our activity, the police said, "The crime of genocide should never happen in the 21st Century. You can continue your activity, although you should normally apply for a permit in advance to hold such an activity. Your situation is really special.” After finding out more about the persecution, they also signed their names on the petition. -
Dutch Falun Gong Practitioner Kidnapped in China
2005-06-01Peter Valk, a 28-year-old Dutch man from Woerden, was kidnapped from his hotel room by 15 Chinese secret agents in the night of the 24th to the 25th of May. He was forced into a car with his head between his knees under a blanket and taken to the local ‘6-10 Office’. After two and a half days of detention, he was put on a plane to Thailand on the 28th of May and told he is prohibited from entering China for the next five years. The only reason for his arrest is that Peter practises Falun Gong, a meditation practice for mind and body. -
President of Swiss Political Party Strongly Appeals to Director of Suzhou Lumu Shoushen Zhan Xi Prison for Release of Falun Gong Practitioner
2005-06-01"It just can’t be true that during our lifetime a person is treated as a criminal and imprisoned for no other reason than practising peacefully at home. One’s religious belief, under the concept of religious freedom, is sacrosanct. Such a system is beyond my comprehension. I therefore appeal to you strongly, Mr. Director, to do all in your power to exert pressure for the immediate release of Ms. Qiu Minghua. We wish to see her living in freedom." -
Norway: Paper Lotus Flowers Brought the Beauty of Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance to Norway’s National Day
2005-06-01
In contrast to many other nations, Norwegians celebrate National Day with a children’s parade instead of a military parade. Many children received the lotus flowers with surprised and happy expressions; some asked to get one extra to give to their sister, brother or friend. Many people, old and young, asked for and received a lotus flower. -
Germany: Anti-torture Exhibition and Information Day in Darmstadt
2005-05-31
The exhibition included paintings from Falun Gong practitioners, many of whom have suffered persecution first-hand. People were drawn to the caged practitioner, re-enacting a torture scene that is used in cruel attempts to force practitioners in China to renounce their beliefs. They stopped to learn more about Falun Gong and the human rights abuses perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party. -
Amnesty International's Annual Report Criticises the Continuous Persecution of Falun Gong in China
2005-05-30"The Falun Gong spiritual movement remained a key target of repression, which reportedly included many arbitrary detentions. Most of those detained were assigned to periods of "re-education through Labour" without charge or trial, during which they were at high risk of torture or ill-treatment, particularly if they refused to renounce their beliefs. Others were held in prisons and psychiatric hospitals. According to overseas Falun Gong sources, more than 1,000 people detained in connection with the Falun Gong had died since the organisation was banned in 1999, mostly as a result of torture or ill-treatment."
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