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Finnish Government Continues to Closely Follow the Persecution Against Falun Gong
2005-01-09"The Finnish Government continues to closely follow the human rights situation in China. In addition to other issues, Falun Gong’s situation is being monitored constantly both in the private relations between Finland and China and with regards to the human rights dialogue between the European Union and China." -
Switzerland: Exposing the Persecution with an Information Stall
2005-01-09Many of the tourists and locals were shocked that such brutal violations of human rights are happening in China today. Pictures of re-enactments of the methods of torture used in attempts to force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their belief were instrumental in driving home the extent of the cruel persecution to all those visiting the booth. -
Germany: The 2004 German Falun Gong Experience Sharing Conference was held in Erbach
2005-01-08On the 30th of December 2004, a Falun Gong experience sharing conference was held in Erbach. Over two hundred practitioners from Germany and the German-speaking areas of Switzerland and Austria attended the conference. Experience sharing articles were read by five practitioners and a project group. -
Czech Republic: Peaceful Appeal at the Prague Chinese Embassy and Exposing the Persecution on Vaclavske Square
2005-01-08Many tourists took pictures of the Dafa activity to take home and show their friends. People from different countries in Europe and Asia wanted to learn more about the persecution. After they got to know the truth from practitioners or from reading leaflets they showed their support by signing a petition calling for an end to the persecution. -
Turkey: New Practitioner Finds the Benefits from Practising Falun Gong Too Good to Keep to Herself
2005-01-07A female tailor in Ankara became a Falun Gong practitioner only two months ago and feels the exercises are very good. After three days of learning, her back and neck pain had gone. She went to spread the practice to her friends. Now she says Falun Gong brings people not only good health but also good fortune. -
“Reporters Without Borders” Condemns the Chinese Regime’s Arrest of Falun Gong Practitioners
2005-01-07The reason the practitioners were arrested by the Chinese authorities is that they posted pictures of how they were tortured in prison on the Internet. Over twenty Falun Gong practitioners have already been put into prison for the same reason. “Reporters Without Borders” believes that Falun Gong practitioners have the right to use the Internet to condemn the violence against them in a country where there is no freedom of information. -
United Kingdom: Falun Gong Practitioners took part in London’s Famous Lord Mayor’s New Year Parade
2005-01-07On January the 1st 2005, Falun Gong practitioners from the UK took part in the world famous Lord Mayor’s New Year Parade in central London. The practitioners walking along both sides of the parade were busy distributing leaflets and many spectators got to learn about Falun Gong and the brutal persecution that is happening against practitioners in China. -
An Interview on England’s BBC Radio Leeds Focuses on Falun Gong and the Persecution
2005-01-06“You may remember listening to BBC Radio Leeds a few weeks ago when we featured the moving case of a Chinese woman who now lives here in West Yorkshire, in fact in the city of Leeds. She fled China because she says she was being persecuted there. She claimed that it was because she practised Falun Gong, a kind of self-improvement technique which its followers say is based on the three principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance." -
Ukraine: Practitioners Promote Falun Gong and Expose the Persecution at a Party
2005-01-06The practitioners introduced Falun Gong to the guests and media at the party and informed them about the persecution in China. Many people were shocked to learn that innocent people, who want to live by the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance, are being illegally detained and subjected to brutal torture by the Chinese communist regime. -
Hungary: Picture Exhibition Reveals the Many Methods of Torture Used Against Falun Gong Practitioners
2005-01-06The picture exhibition revealed that many torture methods are being used to force Falun Gong practitioners to betray their conscience and go against the practice. People came to get leaflets and signed their names on a petition to show their support for Falun Gong practitioners. Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance are touching the hearts of the world’s people and they strongly called for an end to these human rights abuses. -
United Kingdom: Falun Gong Procession in London’s Famous Lord Mayor’s New Year Parade
2005-01-05This was a great opportunity for practitioners of Falun Gong to show the beauty and goodness of the practice and Chinese culture to literally hundreds of thousands of people. At the same time, as the procession passed people on the street, many leaflets where handed out letting people know about the persecution against Falun Gong in China. -
Slovakia: Calling for an End to the Persecution Outside the Chinese Embassy on New Year’s Eve
2005-01-05On the evening of the last day of 2004, Falun Gong practitioners from the Czech Republic and Slovakia gathered at the Chinese Embassy in Slovakia’s capital city, Bratislava. They held a peaceful appeal to raise awareness about the five years of persecution against Falun Gong, a persecution has already taken over 1,200 innocent lives. -
New Year's Greetings to Master Li from a Practitioner in Estonia
2005-01-04I had yet to obtain the Fa last New Year’s Eve, but I made a wish to find my own path. Luckily, I ran into a practitioner in the city where I live who introduced me to Falun Gong. I’d like to avail myself of this opportunity to express my sincere appreciation to Master Li for his great compassion and to all the practitioners who help rescue sentient beings with a kind heart...We are not longing for easy lives, but we hope that our compassion and tolerance would make the world brim with kindness in this New Year. In addition, what could we possibly desire after we already got the most significant things and our hearts are filled with truth, benevolence and tolerance? -
All Practitioners in Germany Wish Master a Happy New Year
2005-01-04In the New Year ahead, we will strive to do well the three things practitioners should do and cultivate ourselves well while rescuing sentient beings. We will rationally and clear-headedly walk toward maturity, and realise our promises made before history, so that we will not let Master down and not let the sentient beings down. -
All Falun Dafa Practitioners from Belgium Send Most Sincere New Year's Greetings to Master
2005-01-04In the process of following Master to rectify the Fa, we have gone through another year of validating the Fa and rescuing sentient beings. In the New Year, we will be more diligent, and solidly do well the three things that Fa-rectification period Dafa disciples are supposed to do.