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• Falun Dafa Press Conference Broadcast on Bulgarian National TV

  2005-02-26
  A national cable TV station called Diema 2 featured the conference in their evening news programme on 20th February 2005. The footage showed pictures of the exercises and the book Falun Gong (already published in Bulgarian). The reporter explained briefly about the practice and one of the practitioners was interviewed about the advantages of Falun Dafa. Bulgarian practitioners were happy that so many people had got the chance to learn more about Falun Gong.
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• Severodonetsk-online Reports on “The Journey of Compassion" Art Exhibition in Ukraine

  2005-02-25
  China is the only country that has banned the Falun Gong practice. A large number of human rights organisations in various countries all came forward to support Falun Gong. It is widely recognised that the Chinese leader, Jiang Zemin, violated human rights...At the exhibition, other than the artwork of the famous painter, there were various paintings and sculptures by Falun Gong practitioners in Ukraine on display. The atmosphere at the exhibition was very harmonious, showing the peaceful inner world of people living by the beliefs of “Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance”.
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• European Practitioners' Chinese New Year Celebration Activities: Part 5 - Positive Responses from the Public

  2005-02-25
  After getting to know the truth further, people condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, praised Falun Gong practitioners for bringing the beauty of Chinese culture to the French people and showed their support for those who still persist in opposing the persecution peacefully.
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• European Practitioners' Chinese New Year Celebration Activities in Paris: Part 4 - Hail and Rain Could Not Stop the Events

  2005-02-24
  Following the Chinese New Year celebration parade on Saturday the 12th of February, European Falun Gong practitioners gathered at the Eiffel Tower on the 13th to display the beauty of Falun Gong to tourists from around the world and to let more people know about the brutal persecution against practitioners in China.
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• Russia: Collecting Petition Signatures in St. Petersburg to call for an End to the Persecution

  2005-02-24
  Many passers-by were shocked when they found out what is happening in China from seeing pictures of Falun Gong practitioners being tortured by the Chinese authorities. People found it incomprehensible that such a terrible thing could be happening in today’s world. They were touched and signed a petition to call for an end to the human rights abuses.
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• Falun Gong Appeal Headlines Czech TV News

  2005-02-23
  On the 5th of February, an appeal in Hradec Kralove was visited by regional TV reporters, who came to shoot some footage and interview the practitioners. The report was broadcast that same evening in all three of the station’s news broadcasts and in a repeat the next day. The report on the Falun Gong activity was actually the first feature in that day’s news programme, so hundreds of thousands people who tuned in to watch the news got to learn about Falun Gong‘s appeal to stop the persecution in China.
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• European Practitioners' Chinese New Year Celebration Activities: Part 3 - The Grand Parade

  2005-02-23
  Hundreds of practitioners from all over Europe held a parade through Paris. The parade featured a waist drum formation, fan dancing, lotus flower dancing, practitioners dressed in the costumes of celestial beings such as heavenly warriors and beauties scattering flowers, a float with costumes from China’s most prosperous Tang Dynasty period and a Falun Gong exercise demonstration.
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• Holland: Practitioners were Invited to Demonstrate Falun Gong Exercises to a Church Congregation

  2005-02-23
  A priest invited Dutch Falun Gong practitioners to introduce the practice and demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises in an Amsterdam church. After listening to the practitioners’ talk, one lady stated that she would never believe the lies of the Chinese Communist regime again. The priest and congregation members learned the first set of Falun Gong exercises.
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• European Practitioners' Chinese New Year Celebration Activities: Part 2 - Press Conference

  2005-02-22
  European Falun Gong practitioners’ Chinese New Year celebrations started with a press conference. The first speaker, the Chairman of the French Falun Gong Association, said that under the persecution initiated by Jiang Zemin and the Chinese Communist Party, nearly 1,400 Falun Gong practitioners have lost their lives and hundreds of thousands of others are being tortured in forced labour camps.
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• Sweden: Introducing Falun Gong at Helsjön College

  2005-02-22
  I am a Falun Gong practitioner and I’m studying Music in Helsjön College, 70km southwest of Gothenburg. There are about 120 students in the school and lots of them are Christian, so I had the chance to talk about spiritual issues with them. They were curious about Falun Gong. I provided them with some information and now I run an exercise class every Thursday before lunch. Students come to learn the exercises, and also hear about the persecution.
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• European Practitioners' Chinese New Year Celebration Activities: Part 1 - Preparation Work

  2005-02-21
  Although many practitioners didn’t know specifically which activities they were going to be involved in, everyone was lively and ready to help wherever they could. An exercise demonstration was followed by sending righteous thoughts; whilst some practitioners talked with passers by about the persecution and gave out leaflets.
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• Austria: Anti-torture Exhibition in Vienna Helps People see the Evil Nature of the Chinese Communist Party

  2005-02-21
  On January 20th 2005, Austrian Falun Gong practitioners held an anti-torture exhibition and information day in Vienna’s Stephansplatz. The re-enactments of the methods of torture used to force Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their beliefs helped many people see the terrible crimes committed under orders from the former Chinese Leader Jiang Zemin.
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• Germany: Western Practitioners in Passau City continued to Raise Awareness about the Persecution, Despite the Rain

  2005-02-21
  One of the practitioners demonstrated the exercises and sent forth righteous thoughts whilst the other distributed leaflets to passers by, telling them about the Chinese Communist Party and the Jiang regime’s cruel persecution of Falun Gong practitioners over the last five years. Although the petition form was wet from the rain, there were still people signing it, calling for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong.
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• French Human Rights Lawyer submits a Legal Petition requesting a Comprehensive Investigation into the 2004 Paris Incident

  2005-02-20
  On the afternoon of the 11th of February 2005, on behalf of Falun Gong practitioners, Lawyer Fabrice Orlandi filed a legal petition to the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris. The petition requested a comprehensive investigation into the incident on January 2004, in which, bowing to the pressure from the Chinese communist regime, French police harassed Falun Gong practitioners.
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• Russia: Promoting Falun Gong and Appealing for People’s Concern for China’s Persecuted Practitioners

  2005-02-20
  Practitioners from St. Petersburg, Moscow and Saratov gathered at the subway station of Kirovsko in St. Petersburg. The main aim of this activity was to introduce the practice of Falun Gong to the locals, expose the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal persecution under the Jiang regime and appeal for justice and conscience.
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