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Russia: Promoting Falun Gong and Exposing the Persecution to Young People in Community Activities
2004-11-07Dafa practitioners from Pyatigorsk city were invited to take part in a community activity where the participants were mainly young people. Practitioners took this opportunity to demonstrate the five sets of Falun Gong exercises and tell people about the campaign of genocide that is being waged against people who practise Falun Gong in China.
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Hamburg’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Regional Chairman Dirk Fisher Declares Support for Falun Gong Practitioners’ Human Rights
2004-11-06"China’s human rights record has been and is still of great concern to us, as it has shown no improvement. Please be assured that the CDU Task Force for the Protection of Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid (on the federal level), within the scope of its mandate, has given great attention to religious freedom and freedom of belief worldwide for many years...During all our activities, be they parliamentary initiatives, media releases and discussions, we have continuously raised the repression of Falun Gong by the Chinese regime."
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Germany: Successful Falun Dafa Information Day was held in Düsseldorf
2004-11-06When practitioners were demonstrating the five sets of Falun Gong exercises, a reporter from one of the local news papers appeared, he was passing by chance with his camera and attracted by the exercise demonstrations. He thus approached the information desk and took shots of the demonstration and information desk for over ten minutes before he left.
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Finland: Promoting Falun Gong at the Train Station in Helsinki
2004-11-06At lunchtime on the 30th of October 2004, Falun Dafa practitioners again visited the train station in Helsinki city in Finland. It is over two years since we first started our Saturday Dafa activities there in 2002. The people who see us and receive Dafa materials are countless and they are not just from Helsinki but from different cities in Finland and different countries.
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Germany: Successful Anti-Torture Exhibition held near the Famous Church of Ulm
2004-11-05When the exhibition started, the crimes of the Jiang regime were exposed to local residents and tourists as practitioners re-enacted the vicious methods of torture used to attempt to force people to give up their belief in Falun Gong in China. After hearing the truth, people signed a petition to call for Jiang Zemin to be brought to justice in a court of law.
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Denmark : Introducing Falun Gong and Exposing the Persecution at a High School
2004-11-05Throughout the talk all the pupils were quiet and attentive, which surprised the teachers. At the end they had many questions and found it shocking that Jiang and his regime could act so outrageously. The teachers also asked questions and were surprised that they had not heard about the persecution before. Finally, we had some time to teach them the first of the five sets of Falun Gong exercises.
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France: Promoting Falun Gong and Exposing the Persecution in the City Centre of Toulouse
2004-11-04We left Paris and travelled several hundred miles to the city of Toulouse to tell local people about Falun Gong. Our activities, including exercise demonstrations and an anti-torture exhibition, were held in the city centre. After hearing the facts about Falun Gong and the brutal persecution being inflicted on the Chinese Falun Gong practitioners, people looked dumbfounded.
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Germany: Falun Gong Information Day held in Bad Homburg
2004-11-04Many people asked whether there is a practice site where they can learn the Falun Gong exercises in Bad Homburg. Most people signed the petition form calling for an end to the persecution even before listening to our explanations since they felt sympathy for Dafa practitioners being persecuted in China and contempt for the evil people who use torture and maltreatment to try to force innocent people to betray their beliefs.
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Mayor of Lübeck in Germany: “I have a deep appreciation for your efforts against the persecution of Falun Gong…”
2004-11-03In the five years of persecution that people who practise Falun Gong have suffered, voices of support have echoed all over the world and many officials, government representatives and non-governmental organizations have publicly stated their opposition to the human rights abuses against Falun Gong in China, that are being instigated by former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin.
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France: 2004 French Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference
2004-11-03On the 31st of October, the 2004 French Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference was held in the Paris Overseas Chinese Culture and Education Centre. More than two hundred Falun Dafa practitioners from France, Belgium and the Kingdom of Lesotho took part in the conference.
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Sweden: Many People Want to Find Out More about Falun Gong at Karlstad Health Expo
2004-11-03Many people stayed at the big stage to watch and listen to the Falun Gong exercise demonstration. Every time the demonstration ended, people came to talk to the practitioners and wanted to learn more. When they found out that there would be a free class in Karlstad on the coming weekend, they all wanted to know the details.
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EFGIC: Rescue Mission Turns to Chinese Children
2004-11-02LONDON [EFGIC]– Along with the verified death toll of 1,099 Falun Gong practitioners has come the suffering of countless children in China. An international organization is now working to bring those children out of China to a warm home. Five-year-old Rongrong is the kind of child this mission is aiming to help. The girl’s father was tortured to death because he practised Falun Gong and her mother was later arrested.
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France: Anti-Torture Exhibition held in Baie-Mahault City in Guadeloupe
2004-11-02On Saturday the 13th of October 2004, Falun Gong practitioners from Baie-Mahault city in Guadeloupe organised an anti-torture poster exhibition to expose the serious and violent human rights violations against Falun Gong in China and to show people the barbarity of the various torture methods used to try and force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their beliefs.
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Switzerland: Falun Gong Practitioners hold an Anti-Torture Exhibition in Baden City
2004-10-31People found it hard to believe that former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin would order China’s policemen to carry out such barbaric crimes against people who just want to practise their qigong exercises in peace and live by the principles of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. They signed the petition calling for an end to the suppression of Falun Gong.
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France: Falun Gong Practitioners were Invited to a Festival in Lons-le-Saunier City
2004-10-31To conclude a year of Chinese culture that has recently taken place in France, Lons-Le-Saunier city of Jura province organised a Tasting Festival with the theme of China. A Local MP invited Falun Gong practitioners to join the performance to let more people know about Falun Gong and to talk about the persecution against the practice that has been happening for the last five years.