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United Kingdom: Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance International Art Exhibition held in Central London
2005-06-08From the 31st of May to the 3rd of June, the Truthfulness, Compassion Forbearance International Art Exhibition was successfully held in central London. This special art exhibition is created by Falun Gong practitioner artists, many of whom have suffered vicious persecution first-hand in Chinese forced labour camps and prisons.
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Romania: “The Evil CCP is the Same as Ceausescu!”
2005-06-08Romanian Falun Gong practitioners went to Suceava city to promote Falun Gong and raise awareness of the human rights abuses influicted on practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party. They handed out leaflets about Falun Gong to tourists in the park and allowed more people to get to know that the world needs “Truthfulness Compassion and Forbearance”.
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Slovakia: People in Povazska Bystrica Help to Raise Awareness of the Persecution Against Falun Gong
2005-06-07Povazska Bystrica is a city with about 40.000 inhabitants in western Slovakia. Practitioners demonstrated the five sets of Falun Gong exercises and exposed the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights crimes against Falun Gong on large poster boards. People who passed by stopped to sign a petition calling for an end to this persecution.
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Radio Station in Czech Republic Broadcasts 60-Minute Falun Gong Programme
2005-06-07The radio listeners learned about the brutal persecution against Falun Gong practitioners in China. They also learned that Falun Gong is based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. In answer to a question about whether Falun Gong can help people, the practitioner revealed that when the practice was spread in a Taiwanese jail, some of the inmates improved their moral character to such an extent that their sentences were shortened.
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Finland: Falun Gong Warmly Welcomed at the World Village Event
2005-06-06On May 28th and 29th 2005, a two day “World Village” celebration was held in a park in the Finnish capital Helsinki. When people got to know that such a wonderful practice, which has brought benefits to 100 million people all over the world, is facing brutal persecution in China, they all signed the petition to show their sympathy and support.
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United Kingdom: Photo Report - Falun Gong Practitioners in the Oxford Mayor’s Festival Parade
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United Kingdom: Falun Gong Practitioners in the Oxford Mayor’s Inauguration Parade
2005-06-05The 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.
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Czech Newspapers Report on Falun Gong Activities to Raise Awareness about the Genocide in China
2005-06-05Truthfulness, 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.
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European Friends of Falun Gong Submits a List of Chinese Communist Party Criminals to the UK Home Office
2005-06-04European 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.
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Russia: Photo Exhibition Successfully Held in Nizenyi Novgorod City
2005-06-04Many 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.
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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.
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A Dutch Practitioner’s Experience of Being kidnapped in China
2005-06-03They 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.
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Holland: Promoting Falun Dafa in Eschede on the Dutch-German Border
2005-06-03Dutch 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.
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Bulgaria: Presenting Zhuan Falun at the Biggest National Book Fair in Sofia
2005-06-02Practitioners 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.
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Spain: Anti-Torture Exhibition in Parla is Widely Supported
2005-06-02After 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.