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  • Germany: Introducing Falun Dafa and Exposing the Persecution at the Dresden City Festival (3)

    From the 20th to the 22nd of August 2004, Dresden in Germany held its annual city festival. Tens of thousands of people came to the streets to watch the different types of performances. German Falun Gong practitioners were invited to the festival and performed on the stage twice a day for forty minutes each time.
  • Ukraine: "The Path of Compassion" Picture Exhibition Successfully Held in Lviv City

    Between the 11th and 19th of August 2004, Ukrainian practitioners successfully held an exhibition of photographs entitled “The Path of Compassion” in Lviv City. The exhibition served to help people understand Falun Dafa cultivation and the persecution that is taking place in China.
  • Austria: Falun Dafa Information Centre and International Human Rights Association hold a Joint Press Conference

    On August the 31st 2004, the Austrian Falun Dafa Information Centre and the Austrian International Human Rights Association held a joint press conference about filing a lawsuit against Jia Qinglin. In the press conference, a spokesman for the Austrian Falun Dafa Information Centre revealed the persecution that Jia has enforced on Falun Gong practitioners.
  • Sweden: Falun Gong Invited to Participate in Stockholm Cultural Festival

    On the weekend of August the 29th, there was a large Swedish/Italian cultural festival held in Gamla Stan in Stockholm and Falun Gong practitioners were invited to perform. At the same time a three-language photo exhibition was displayed for passersby, who included many tourists.
  • Russia: Photo Report - Introducing Falun Gong in a Moscow Park

    Practitioners introduced Falun Dafa in a park in Moscow. While some performed traditional-style dances and demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises, other practitioners revealed to passersby the extent of the persecution of Falun Gong taking place in Mainland China and collected signatures to bring it to an end.
  • Germany: Introducing Falun Dafa and Exposing the Persecution During Dresden City Festival (2)

    Between August the 20th and August the 22nd, German Falun Gong practitioners took part in Dresden’s annual City Festival. Practitioners were invited to perform for forty-five minutes on the stage twice every day. Also, practitioners at two stalls told people about Falun Gong and the persecution between participating in the dance performances.
  • Article from Austrian Newspaper “Bezirksblatt”: Why a Chinese Citizen is no Longer Allowed to be Chinese

    'The consulate justifies their refusal to extend his passport by saying that he practises and supports Falun Gong. Mr Wang has asked for a written explanation from the consulate but this has been denied so far. Mr Wang would most likely experience confinement to a forced labour camp and torture should he ever decide to return to China. Refusing to issue or prolong passports is often used to make life difficult for Chinese citizens abroad or to force them to return to China. Several cases of refused passport applications have previously cropped up in many European countries and now also in Austria.'
  • Epoch Times: Shocking Photographic Evidence of The Persecution in China

    It is not the kind of publicity that China wants or needs at the tail-end of the 2004 Olympics in which they placed third overall, and leading into the 2008 Olympics in which Beijing will be host: shocking photographs of emaciated and seriously injured Falun Gong practitioners who were tortured while being illegally held in police custody in China.
  • Falun Gong Practitioners File a Lawsuit Against Jia Qinglin During His Visit to Austria

    After visiting Korea, Jia Qinglin arrived in Austria on the 30th of August 2004. During his visit, the Austrian Falun Dafa Association, the International Human Rights Association, the human rights organisation ‘Society For Threatened Peoples’, many individuals, and Falun Gong practitioners who were persecuted in Beijing filed a lawsuit against Jia Qinglin in the Vienna Procuratorate for crimes of torture and also for his crimes in the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
  • Letting all MEPs Know About the South African Shooting Incident

    Five weeks after the South African shooting incident, on the day when new and old MEPs on duty exchange their tasks, we came to the European Union Parliament House. To begin with we brought 1000 English and 600 German press releases concerning the South Africa incident. Little did we know that they would all be distributed by the next day.
  • United Kingdom: Practitioners Hold Anti-Torture Exhibition in London's Trafalgar Square

    After the successful conclusion of the sixth UK Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference in London on 29th of August, UK practitioners organised an anti-torture poster exhibition in London’s famous Trafalgar Square the following day. The exhibition exposed some of the cruel methods used to torture Falun Gong practitioners in China.
  • Austria: Exposing the Persecution of Falun Dafa to the People of Graz

    On August the 21st 2004, Falun Gong practitioners organised an information day in Austria’s second largest city, Graz to let people know more about the Falun Gong situation in China and abroad. They held many activities, including demonstrations of the five sets of Falun Gong exercises, poster exhibitions, a petition signature collection and the distribution of a large amount of leaflets.
  • Russia: Introducing Falun Gong in the Far East and Exposing the Persecution (1)

    Because it was near China and affected by economic factors, the lies that the Jiang regime in China spread to persecute Falun Gong practitioners also influenced Blagovescensk City. We wanted to tell people in Blagovescensk that Falun Dafa was good, and to expose the lies of the Jiang regime.
  • Falun Dafa Information Centre Austria: Press Release Regarding Jia Qinglin's Visit to Austria

    During this week, Jia Qinglin, the former party secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and former mayor of the city of Beijing, is visiting Austria for two days. He has been a member of the standing committee of the CCP’s Politburo since 2002. During Jia’s administration, Beijing generated one of the worst records among many cities with respect to the persecution of Falun Gong (see examples below). As the Party’s General Secretary in Beijing, and in his capacity as Central Committee member of the CCP from 1999-2002, Jia Qinglin has been responsible for the persecution.
  • Radio France Internationale: Falun Gong Practitioner Zhang Zhong Suffers Severe Torture in China's Daqing Prison

    On the night of August the 29th, Radio France Internationale stated that Clearwisdom.net reported a Falun Gong practitioner’s release from Daqing prison after being tortured until close to death. The Clearwisdom report stated that Zhang Zhong had plastic bags put over his head impeding his breathing, he had garlic juice and chilli sauce poured over his face, he received kicks and punches, jabs on the hands with the tip of a sharp pen, and he was stripped to the waist and freezing or boiling water poured over his body. He suffered other kinds of torture in addition to these.