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Spain: Calling for an End to the Persecution on World Human Rights Day
2004-12-15
On World Human Rights Day, Spanish practitioners went to the main street in the centre of Madrid to raise awareness about the campaign of genocide that has been waged against Falun Gong practitioners in China for the last five years. They distributed flyers to passers-by, and talked to them about the benefits of practicing Falun Gong. -
Amnesty International: “Human Rights Issues should be the Core Topic for Discussion between the EU and the Chinese Premier.”
2004-12-15
Amnesty International Press Officer Oliver Sutton told Radio Free Asia that Amnesty hopes the European Union can raise the human rights problems to the Chinese leader Wen Jiabao. He continued, “The human rights issue should be the core topic for discussion between the European Union and the Chinese Prime minister. The European Union should urge China not to encroach on human rights activists and should not arrest and detain them. They also ask China to release all detained human rights activists.” -
United Kingdom: Press Conference held on World Human Rights Day
2004-12-15
On the 10th of December 2004, World Human Rights Day, Falun Gong practitioners in the UK held a press conference to remind people of the continuing five-year campaign of genocide against Falun Gong practitioners in China and to support bringing to justice the people responsible for the abuse, torture and killing of countless men, women and children. -
Spain: 6-10 Office Representatives from Four Chinese Provinces are Under Investigation by the Spanish Police
2004-12-14On the 29th November, after hearing that four 6-10 Office representatives would be visiting Europe with a tourist group, Spanish Falun Gong practitioners immediately reported to Spain’s Highest Police Office that the four criminals who are persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in China might be entering Spain. In addition, practitioners handed in evidence of the crimes of the four people and testimonies of witnesses to the police, whilst demanding that the police immediately investigate all four of them. -
Finland: On World Human Rights Day, Falun Gong Practitioners held an Anti-Torture Picture Exhibition in Helsinki
2004-12-14
The 10th of December was World Human Rights Day. Helsinki Falun Gong practitioners went to the city centre to raise awareness about the cruel persecution in China. Widespread human rights abuse has been happening there for the last five years against people who practise Falun Gong and follow the principles of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. -
Speech by Lord Thurlow, Former UK Under-Secretary of State, on World Human Rights Day
2004-12-14"In 1999, Jiang Zemin, overriding the wishes of his colleagues in the Chinese Politburo, introduced a campaign to suppress the innocent group Falun Gong for nothing but their beliefs, amounting to no less than 100 millions Chinese citizens. Suppression of people for their beliefs is known under international law as genocide. The Chinese Government is guilty of genocide and those who have introduced this horror that has lasted for more than 5 years must be brought to justice." -
Holland: During the EU-China Summit, People were Shocked by the Brutal Persecution Against Falun Gong Practitioners in China
2004-12-13
On the 8th of December, during the EU-China summit, Falun Gong practitioners from Holland, Belgium and Germany held an anti-torture exhibition on the square outside the Houses of Parliament in The Hague. This was the third day of activities in the square for Falun Gong practitioners, continuing their efforts to raise awareness of the persecution. -
Sweden: Falun Gong practitioners Appeal at Stockholm City Hall during the Nobel Peace Prize Banquet on World Human Rights Day
2004-12-13
On the 10th of December, World Human Rights Day, Falun Gong-practitioners appealed at Stockholm City Hall during the Nobel Peace Prize Banquet held in the Blue Hall. The guests at the Nobel Banquet and people passing by clearly saw the practitioners’ peaceful appeal about twenty metres away from the entrance to the hall. -
Article from Germany’s Mittelbayerische Newspaper Exposing the Persecution of an Imprisoned Practitioner from Europe
2004-12-13Xiong Wei told us that the Chinese regime felt threatened by Falun Gong. Therefore, they banned this movement in 1999. The Communist regime specially created an agency (“The 610 Office”) that is in charge of persecuting Falun Gong. Xiong Wei wistfully told us that, “Adherents of this meditation school are persecuted by the state security agencies, who use psychological terror methods, beatings and torture.” Tens of thousands of adherents were sent by the regime to re-education camps. -
Speech from Non-Governmental Organisation Friends of Falun Gong Europe on World Human Rights Day
2004-12-12"Despite condemnation from many quarters, the Chinese Government, mainly at the instigation of former President Jiang Zemin and also under the present leader Hu Jintao, has conducted a policy of persecution against Falun Gong which has seen over 1000 practitioners die as a result of torture in police custody, and many thousands more still languish in prisons, labour camps and mental hospitals, suffering unspeakably horrific conditions of squalor, torture and deprivation, with little or no prospect of an end to their misery." -
EFGIC: Persecution of Falun Gong Sparks Broadest Legal Efforts since Nuremberg
2004-12-12LONDON [EFGIC]– Lawsuits against persecutors of Falun Gong have become the broadest collaborative efforts since the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Efforts to hold Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members legally accountable for their role in persecuting Falun Gong are gaining momentum. The last month has seen cases filed in Canada, Ireland, Korea, and the Netherlands. Legal efforts inside China are increasing as well. -
Holland: Practitioners Request Human Rights Violator Bo Xilai is Expelled from the Country during EU-China Summit
2004-12-12
Falun Gong practitioners peacefully appealed outside the EU-China trade talk venue by displaying banners, demonstrating the five sets of exercises, welcoming Wen Jiabao, requesting that human rights violator Bo Xilai be expelled from Holland and calling for chief persecutors Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Liu Jing and Zhou Yongkang to be brought to justice. -
Sweden: Falun Gong Practitioners Meet Christmas shoppers and Commuters on World Human Rights Day
2004-12-12
On the 10th December 2004, World Human Rights day, practitioners went to Gothenburg city centre to inform Christmas shoppers about the persecution against Falun Gong in China. Many people stopped by to read the posters that illustrated details of the human rights crimes that have been committed on the orders of Jiang Zemin and his communist regime. -
Switzerland: Exposing the Torture Methods Used in China’s Labour Camps to Force Falun Gong Practitioners to Betray their Conscience
2004-12-12On a Saturday in November, Falun Gong practitioners met in Glarus Town Hall Square and set up an information booth. They talked to local people about the human rights atrocities that have been perpetrated against people who practise Falun Gong in China over the past five years. Passersby were shocked when they heard that over 1,100 people have lost their lives because they practice this peaceful meditation and exercise system, and because they refuse to renounce their belief in Falun Gong’s guiding principles of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. -
Statement from Jill Evans MEP on World Human Rights Day: "I share the concerns of many about the treatment of practioners of Falun Gong."
2004-12-11"I share the concerns of many about the treatment of practioners of Falun Gong. Peaceful freedom of expression is a fundamental human right that no government should violate...We must work together at the local and European level to bring pressure to bear on the Chinese regime so that it addresses our legitimate concerns on human rights."
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