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  • Bulgaria: Practitioners Appear on a National State-run TV Show and Expose the Persecution in China

    The presenter asked why Falun Dafa is persecuted in China. The practitioners explained that after estimating the number of practitioners to be 70 to 100 million in 1999, the former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin personally ordered a campaign of persecution despite the disagreement of the other Politburo members...The practitioners went on to talk about how the Chinese Communist Party has never showed any regard for human life and has continually persecuted and oppressed the Chinese people since it came into power.
  • Germany: International Human Rights Day in Bremen

    Live demonstrations of the torture methods used to force Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their beliefs graphically showed the daily horrors suffered by practitioners in China. Passersby were shocked by the brutality of the scenes and the depiction of torture victims on the posters and banners was able to touch even the most hardened of hearts.
  • The Media Reports on a Famous Beijing Lawyer’s Appeal for Falun Gong

    Hong Kong's Ming Bao reported that Mr. Gao wrote an open letter to Chairman Wu Bangguo of the Chinese People's Congress. He said in the letter that he had received many appeals and letters from Falun Gong practitioners who were tortured in prisons or labour camps. Mr. Gao pointed out that the local government abused Falun Gong practitioners by imprisoning them in labour camps. He said that he "felt extreme sorrow" in his letter to Wu Bangguo.
  • Finnish Government Continues to Closely Follow the Persecution Against Falun Gong

    "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

    Many 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

    On 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

    Many 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

    A 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

    The 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

    On 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

    “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

    The 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

    The 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

    This 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

    On 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.