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Germany: To Commemorate the "4.25" Appeal, Practitioners Held an Anti-Torture Exhibition in Munich
2005-05-09On the 30th of April 2005, Falun Gong practitioners from various cities in south Germany, including Passau, Augsburg, Ulm and Munich, gathered at Karlsplatz in Munich. They organised an anti-torture exhibition to commemorate the 6th anniversary of the peaceful appeal by ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners on 25th April 1999. -
Austria: Appealing at the Singapore Consulate in Vienna
2005-05-08On May the 4th, Austrian practitioners appealed at the Singapore Consulate in Vienna after the unjust verdict issued by a Singapore court against two practitioners. The Singaporeans practised Falun Gong exercises in a park and distributed material regarding the facts of the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners in China. -
Norwegian Practitioners Support Practitioners in Singapore who were Jailed for Spreading Information about the Persecution
2005-05-08When news reached Norway that two female practitioners in Singapore had been jailed for spreading information about the six-year brutal persecution of Falun Gong in China, local practitioners wanted to help. So far, the Nordic Association has sent a letter to the Singapore Consulate in Oslo. Two practitioners went to the office of the consulate to express their concern and to deliver a letter from the Norwegian Association, together with information about Falun Gong and the persecution, information of the same kind that the accused women had spread in Singapore. They had a good conversation with a representative of the consulate who stayed after working hours to be informed. -
Germany: Xiong Wei made a Speech at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Human Rights to Disclose the Tricks the CCP Adopted to Dupe Western Media Reporters
2005-05-08Xiong Wei called for support for Jiang Renzheng, who was deported to China by Germany and sentenced to a forced labour camp. The assembly passed a decision to demand the Chinese Government to immediately release Jiang Renzheng and urged the German Chancellor and Foreign Minister to guarantee Jiang and his family's safety through all kinds of diplomatic means. -
Turkey: Stories of New Practitioners
2005-05-08The largest Turkish TV station SHOW TV interviewed practitioners who were doing the Falun Gong exercises in an Ankara park and videotaped the group practice. On the same night, the station broadcasted the interview nationwide in its news hour. Through practitioners’ persistent efforts in the last several years, the Turkish people are gradually learning about Falun Gong. -
Germany: Commemorating the April 25th 1999 Appeal Outside the Chinese Consulate in Hamburg
2005-05-08Six years have passed since the peaceful appeal in Beijing. Therefore, Falun Dafa practitioners gathered outside the Chinese Consulate in Hamburg’s Elbchaussee. To call attention to the unending persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China, we sent righteous thoughts and practised the five sets of Falun Gong exercises. -
Official Launch of the Russian Clear Harmony Website
2005-05-07The Russian Clear Harmony website aims to tell the facts about Falun Dafa, to give readers first hand information about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China, to display the voices of support for Falun Gong from all over the world, to let readers know the efforts made by Falun Gong practitioners to stop this persecution, and to provide a forum for practitioners across Europe to share their thoughts and views. -
An Open Letter to the Singapore Government from the Spanish Falun Gong Association
2005-05-07Your nation’s recent unjust conviction of Falun Gong practitioners Ng Chye Huay and Cheng Lujin has raised a serious question mark over Singapore’s democracy and rule of law in the international community. Laws should be established based on morality and human conscience. They are used to maintain social fairness and justice, not for justifying self-interest. We believe Singapore is a signatory to the World Human Rights Declaration. The actions of two Falun Gong practitioners were in no way exceeding the scope of basic freedom of speech and belief, especially considering that Falun Gong is a registered legal group in Singapore. -
Spain: Introducing Falun Gong at Tacoronte City in the Canary Islands
2005-05-07Most of the people who practised the five exercises looked radiant afterwards. One lady said that her whole body felt easy and free. Another said that she would tell her husband to practise Falun Gong and would share this good thing she had found. A young girl said that this was the third time she had done the exercises and she felt great. -
Regardless of Pressure from the CCP, German Police Allowed a "Bring Jiang Zemin To Justice" Banner Outside the Chinese Consulate in Munich
2005-05-07On April the 25th 2005, Munich Falun Dafa practitioners appealed outside the Chinese Consulate to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the April 25th peaceful appeal. The Chinese Consulate attempted to get police to force the practitioners to remove a banner calling for Jiang Zemin to be brought to justice for his crimes against Falun Gong. -
France: Falun Gong Association Representative Invited to Armenian Rally
2005-05-07Chairman of the French Falun Gong Association was invited to a rally and press conference. Organised by the General Association of Armenian Descendants in France, the activities were entitled “Celebrate the 60th anniversary of the liberation from Nazi concentration camps and commensurate the 90th anniversary of the holocaust of Armenians in Turkey.” -
Germany: In Commemoration of April 25th 1999, an Information Day and Anti-torture Exhibition were held in Hamburg
2005-05-06On April 25th 2005, exactly six years after 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners in China went to peacefully appeal for freedom and justice, North German practitioners held activities to call attention to the persecution of Falun Gong in China. It has been a long time since practitioners encountered such a sympathetic public as the one they found that day. -
Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group Lodges Complaint with UN Against Singapore for Issuing Unjust Verdict
2005-05-06The organization Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group lodged a complaint against Singapore with the United Nations on April 29th 2005, over the case in which the Singapore police violated the basic human rights of two Falun Gong practitioners and the court issued an unfair verdict. Singapore, as a member of the United Nations, should respect and observe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. -
Spain: Practitioners hold Activities to Commemorate April 25th 1999
2005-05-06On April the 25th, Spanish Falun Gong practitioners held a photo exhibition at Socodover Square in Toledo city centre to commemorate the 6th anniversary of the April 25th peaceful appeal. They showed the peace and beauty of Falun Gong and the persecution practitioners are suffering in China, and they called on people to be concerned and make efforts to stop this persecution. -
Letter from Nordic Falun Dafa Association to the Norway Singapore Consul
2005-05-06There are today court cases in some 20 different countries against the former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin and his collaborators. They face charges of torture, crimes against humanity and genocide. These cases are according to the development of international law. The Swedish Government for instance plans to allow for court proceedings in Sweden against such crimes, independent of where they are carried out – a plan in the spirit of Martin Luther King jr: “A threat to justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”