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• Slovakia: Introducing Falun Gong and Exposing the Persecution to People in Eastern Slovakia

  2004-08-13
  Practitioners of Falun Gong visited several cities in Eastern Slovakia in the first week of August: Spisska Nova Ves, Presov, Kosice, Humenne and Bardejov. In each of these cities they organised a small activity, where they tried to show the beauty of Falun Gong exercises in contrast to the five years of brutal persecution against Falun Gong in China.
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• Hungary: Peaceful Appeal at the Chinese Embassy in Budapest

  2004-08-13
  Practitioners from Sweden, Australia and Taiwan went to Budapest, the capital of Hungary, on the 21st and 22nd of June. A peaceful appeal was held outside the Chinese Embassy in Budapest. Leaflets were given out to passers-by. The Hungarian people were very supportive and one man said loudly to us, “My heart is with you!”
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• Radio Free Asia: Falun Gong practitioners in Athens Demand that China Improves Its Human Rights Situation

  2004-08-13
  According to RFA’s report, two Greek Falun Gong practitioners have already sued three Chinese officials, including former Chinese President Jiang Zemin and the former Chinese Vice-President Li Lanqing, accusing them of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Falun Gong’s lawyer says that they demand the Athens judiciary gives orders to arrest the three officials if they set foot in Athens to watch the Olympic Games.
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• Epoch Times: Manhattan Falun Gong Exhibit Depicts Torture in China

  2004-08-13
  A battered woman with large gashes in her leg crouches inside a small cage on the corner of 8th Avenue and 42nd Street. The woman's name is Nelly Au who is a practitioner of Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa, a meditation practice that was outlawed in China in 1999. She is one of four people in an exhibit demonstrating the tortures used on practitioners of Falun Gong in China.
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• Greece: People Welcome Falun Dafa on the Eve of the Olympic Games

  2004-08-12
  Every morning practitioners have gathered in the Elefterias Square (Freedom Square) for morning group practice. The square is located in the Chinese sector of Athens. As well as many local Greek people, many Chinese have come to watch the tranquil and gentle exercises of Falun Gong and have got to know more about the peaceful nature of the practice.
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• Norway: Persecution of Falun Gong in China lasts Five Years

  2004-08-12
  Norwegian Falun Gong practitioners, with support from Swedish and Danish practitioners, held activities in Oslo to mark the fifth year in the persecution of Falun Gong. Similar exhibitions have been held in many places over the world in the last few last weeks, as well as in the other Nordic countries. The exhibition attracted a lot of attention from passersby.
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• Spanish Newspaper Report about the Fifth Anniversary of the Persecution of Falun Gong in China

  2004-08-12
  'I suppose that deep down inside we fear China. No so much because of its enormous military might, but also for what it would mean to loose 1 billion potential consumers. I can’t think of any other reason to explain how it can be possible that we don’t move a finger when faced with what is happening over there in the matter of human rights.'
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• Sweden: Mourning Practitioners Who Have Been Persecuted to Death in China

  2004-08-12
  On July 23rd 2004, Falun Gong practitioners assembled outside Gothenburg Chinese Embassy and held a vigil to mourn for the more than one thousand Falun Gong practitioners who have been persecuted to death. They also asked for the Embassy’s staff to not betray their conscience and not participate in this persecution of innocent people.
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• Radio France Internationale: The Tanzanian Judiciary Confirms the Lawsuit Against Chen Zhili for Persecuting Falun Gong

  2004-08-12
  On Wednesday August 4th 2004, Radio France Internationale broadcast a report in Chinese to Mainland China and Metropolitan Paris. The French Falun Dafa Association recently sent a message claiming that on Tuesday the Tanzanian Judiciary fixed the case of Falun Gong suing China’s State Councillor Chen Zhili for crimes of persecuting Falun Gong as a criminal case. Related proceedings are listed for hearing.
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• Report from Spain's El Mundo Newspaper

  2004-08-11
  On July the 22nd 2004, one of the two leading newspapers in Spain, El Mundo, published an editorial presenting the repression against Falun Gong as the most evident example of why China’s “economic freedom” is an illusion that will clearly fail without human rights and the rule of law.
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• Hungary: Successful Information Day on Margarethen Island

  2004-08-11
  On July the 25th 2004, Hungarian, Australian, German and Ukrainian Falun Gong practitioners gathered on Margarethen Island in Budapest, to give a presentation on the persecution of Falun Gong in China. Despite the heat, many people stood in front of our booth to view the small photo exhibition and admire the slow flowing excercise movements.
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• Radio France Internationale: Falun Gong Practitioners Sue Zhao Zhizhen

  2004-08-11
  In a fax from the Falun Dafa information Centre to Radio France International, it stated that Falun Gong practitioners had sued Zhao Zhizhen, the former Wuhan TV Station Director and the former Wuhan Radio Station Director. On August 2nd, Zhao submitted an application for an extension to appear in a U.S. federal court with the excuse that his English was limited.
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• The Society for Threatened People (GfbV) Contacts the Chinese Ambassador to Austria Regarding Falun Gong Practitioner Yong Wang’s Passport Extension Rejection

  2004-08-10
  "Mr Yong Wang advised us concerning his Chinese passport extension rejection. We understand that he has not received, as of date, a written clarification concerning the denial of his right and freedom of travel. We view your actions concerning the revocation of Yong Wang’s citizenship without any clarification of due process, as a serious violation of human rights, given legal precedence and direct as well as indirect declarations of applicable UN Agreements."
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• Radio France Internationale: Falun Gong Practitioners Sue Jiang Zemin and Others in Greece Days Before the Olympics

  2004-08-10
  'According to news from Paris, the European Falun Dafa Association held a press conference announcing that two Greek lawyers, on behalf of three Falun Gong practitioners from Australia, Ireland and Greece, filed a criminal lawsuit against former Chinese Dictator Jiang Zemin as well as former Vice Premier Li Lanqiang and another top official Luo Gan.'
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• Ireland: Practitioners Introduce Falun Gong in County Kildare

  2004-08-10
  A series of posters depicting the torture imposed on Falun Gong practitioners in China became a focus for many passersby. They asked many questions and were visibly shocked by the horrifying scenes and found it hard to understand why such awful events are taking place in China today. After seeing the beauty of the Falun Gong exercises, many of the onlookers were moved and asked why such a peaceful thing could ever be prohibited anywhere in the world.
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