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• Norway: Norwegian People Hope that the Persecution of Falun Gong Ends Soon

  2004-09-24
  On September the 18th 2004, Norwegian and Swedish Falun Dafa practitioners held an anti-torture exhibition on Karl Johan Street in Oslo city centre. This activity provoked reactions from the Norwegian people. Although it was raining, people still stopped to watch one after another, enquiring, signing petitions and expressing their support for Falun Gong practitioners.
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• Germany: Falun Gong Practitioners Awarded the Bronze Medal at Hamburg's Culture Festival

  2004-09-23
  The Hamburg Culture Festival was held on the 11th of September. There were nearly two thousand people from eighty different countries displaying their own national culture. Falun Gong practitioners were invited again to join the annual festival and after the parade was over they were awarded the Bronze Medal, as well as a certificate of honour.
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• Report in France's "L’Union en Ligne": Falun Dafa: The Method of Relaxing Body and Mind from China

  2004-09-23
  The practise was banned in China in 1999. “This method of relaxing the body and mind is non-political, neither do we seek money or fame.” Tens of millions of Chinese people were practising Falun Gong before it was banned. “ Many people have been put into prison since it was banned and the conditions of some other practitioners are even worse now due to the brutal persecution.”
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• Germany: People Ask Practitioners, "What Can We Do To Help You?" at Anti-Torture Exhibition in Nuremberg

  2004-09-22
  On the 11th of September, practitioners from Bavaria obtained permission for an information day to introduce Falun Gong and expose to the general public the ongoing torture of practitioners in China. We also collected signatures in support of suing Jiang Zemin for genocide of Falun Gong practitioners.
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• Radio France Internationale: Falun Gong Practitioner Wang Xia Tortured in Huhhot Female Prison

  2004-09-22
  'Thirty year old practitioner Wang Xia was brutally tortured and steps were taken to prevent the disclosure of the facts inside Huhhot Female prison in Lin Her City in inner Mongolia. After the spread of the news by international media, a lot of people were concerned and expressed their sympathy for Wang Xia and her family.'
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• Epoch Times: German Court Approves Swastika Use

  2004-09-22
  The group retained an attorney and consulted renowned German Sinologist, Professor Rudolf G. Wagner of the University of Heidelberg. In November 2003, the court rendered a verdict of "not guilty" and declared the display of the Falun emblem as legal under German law. The public prosecutor lodged an appeal, but in March 2004 the original judgement was upheld. The Falun symbol can now be legally displayed.
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• SFGIC Press Release: Press Conference Regarding Criminal Charges in Sweden Against Jiang Zemin and Live Anti-Torture Exhibition

  2004-09-21
  Swedish Falun Gong practitioners together with their lawyer, Falun Gong practitioner Peter Bergquist, are preparing a lawsuit in Sweden in co-operation with international human rights lawyers Georges-Henri Beauthier of Belgium and William Bourdoun of France. The lawsuit charges Jiang Zemin, former Head of State in China, and other responsible perpetrators in the persecution of Falun Gong for crimes of murder, torture and abduction.
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• Belgium: Anti-Torture Exhibition in Brussels City Centre Moves People's Hearts

  2004-09-21
  On the afternoon of September the 11th, practitioners from Holland, France and Belgium held an anti-torture exhibition in Brussels city centre, displaying to the public torture methods used on Falun Gong practitioners in China. People were all very eager to know more about the situation and listened carefully to practitioners' explanations.
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• Finnish Practitioner Interviewed in Chile's "La Tercera" Newspaper

  2004-09-21
  On Monday August the 23rd 2004, La Tercera, one of the largest newspapers in Chile, published an article about Falun Dafa. Pía María Sandas, a Finnish ex-model who's now an executive of the cosmetic company Isadora, is visiting Chile to let people know about the persecution of Falun Dafa in China.
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• Slovakia: Exposing Jiang's Crimes with an Anti-Torture Exhibition in Bratislava

  2004-09-20
  On Saturday the 18th of September, Falun Gong practitioners from Slovakia and the Czech Republic organised an activity to attract the attention of the public: they demonstrated the torture methods which are used on practitioners of Falun Gong in China. Many passers-by stopped to read information on the display boards next to the torture exhibits.
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• Germany: Falun Gong Practitioners Participate in the Second Hamburg Cultural Carnival

  2004-09-19
  Between the 10th and the 12th of September, German Falun Gong practitioners were again invited to participate in Hamburg’s second Cultural Carnival. Practitioners laid out pictures that detailed the history of Falun Dafa at two stalls inside Hamburg University and took part in a float parade on the 11th.
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• Russia: Introducing Falun Dafa and Exposing the Persecution in St Petersburg

  2004-09-19
  On September the 11th, 2004, Russian Falun Gong practitioners held activities in St Petersburg to explain the facts about Falun Gong to the public and to urge them to put an end to worldwide terrorism. Practitioners dressed in white and sat in meditation to commemorate those practitioners who have died due to state-terrorism in China.
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• Germany: The International Human Rights Association Hosts a Long Distance Race in Support of Human Rights

  2004-09-18
  On the 28th of August 2004, the International Human Rights Association hosted its first long-distance race in support of human rights, in the southern German city of Karlsruhe. About one hundred and thirty people participated in the race. With the theme “For the Purity of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games”, the race was intended to raise further public awareness of the serious on-going human rights violation in China.
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• Sweden: Promoting Falun Gong during the Final Day of the Lerum Wellbeing Festival

  2004-09-18
  Lerum community recently held activities over a few days for the people in the commuity to learn more about different ways of promoting health. Many people came to try different activities for promoting health and wellbeing. Falun Gong practitioners were invited by the community to demonstrate the exercises and inform the public about Falun Gong.
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• United Kingdom: Practitioners Invited to Demonstrate Falun Gong Exercises at Birmingham Art Festival

  2004-09-18
  On the 11th and 12th of September, England’s biggest free arts festival was held in the city of Birmingham. Over three hundred arts groups from England came to the performance. Falun Gong practitioners have been invited three years running to take part in the festival and this year they were the first to perform.
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