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• Sweden: Practitioners Clarify the Truth at Hammarkullen Cultural Festival

  2004-06-01
  On Saturday May 29th, 2004, the annual Hammarkullen Cultural Festival was held in Gothenburg city. Participants from over twenty countries performed and the festival attracted over twenty thousand people. To let more people from different countries know the truth, some practitioners from Gothenburg and nearby cities came to Hammarkullen to join the activities.
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• United Kingdom: 2004 Scotland Car Tour enters its Second Day

  2004-06-01
  The practitioners went to two television stations and explained the truth about Falun Gong to the journalists there. After speaking to a local radio station, the practitioners moved on to the office of the Lord Provost of Aberdeen. The Lord Provost was moved as he heard the truth and was shocked and sympathetic to hear about the persecution of Dafa practitioners.
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• France: Appeal at the Chinese Embassy in Paris to Support the Hearing Against Jiang Zemin in the Chicago Court of Justice

  2004-05-31
  On May the 27th, joining other countries, practitioners in Paris went to the Chinese Embassy to appeal and support the hearing taking place in Chicago against Jiang Zemin. Passersby stopped to look at information boards illustrating the beauty of Dafa and the cruelty of the persecution happening in China.
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• United Kingdom: First Day of the 2004 Scotland Car Tour

  2004-05-31
  After its launch by Member of Scottish Parliament Mike Pringle, UK Falun Gong practitioners’ 2004 Scotland Car Tour left Edinburgh and travelled to the city of Aberdeen. In Aberdeen, the Car Tour practitioners joined other UK practitioners for a large scale outdoor event to let more people know about the brutal persecution that is happening in China.
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• Radio Free Asia: Supporting the Lawsuit Against Jiang Zemin in a Chicago Court

  2004-05-31
  According to a report by a journalist for Radio Free Asia, German and other European Falun Gong practitioners, human rights groups and the Global Alliance to Bring Jiang to Justice, participated in various activities at the Chinese Embassies and Consulates around Europe to voice their support for the lawsuit against Jiang Zemin currently taking place in a Chicago court. The lawsuit against Jiang Zemin filed by Falun Gong practitioners began proceedings in Chicago on May 27th.
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• UK: 2004 Scotland Car Tour is Launched by Member of Scottish Parliament

  2004-05-30
  On Saturday the 29th of May, UK Falun Gong practitioners began their 2004 Scotland Car Tour aiming to raise awareness of the persecution of Falun Gong in China. Four practitioners from both Scotland and England will be taking part in the Car Tour, which will visit 6 Scottish cities in 6 days. The tour was launched in Scotland’s capital city of Edinburgh by local Member of Parliament Mike Pringle.
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• Germany: To Support the Lawsuit in Chicago, Practitioners in Berlin Send Forth Righteous Thoughts at the Chinese Embassy

  2004-05-30
  On May 27th, the US Federal Seventh Circuit Court conducted a court debate on Falun Gong practitioner’s lawsuit against former Chinese president Jiang Zemin on charges of torture, genocide and crimes against humanity. In this lawsuit, the defendant Jiang is sued for leading the movement in China that attempts to eliminate Falun Gong.
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• Belgium: Practitioners Send Forth Righteous Thoughts at the Chinese Consulate to Support the Lawsuit in Chicago

  2004-05-30
  On the afternoon of May the 27th, Belgian Falun Gong practitioners overcame many difficulties and held an appeal outside the Chinese Consulate in Brussels. Practitioners sent forth righteous thoughts every half an hour to support the latest developments in the Chicago court where an appeal is being considered in the lawsuit against Jiang Zemin. Drivers passing by beeped to show their support.
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• Germany: Introducing Falun Dafa to the Residents of Pforzheim City

  2004-05-30
  For the fourth time, practitioners organised a Falun Gong workshop for the Natural Healing Association of Pforzheim. This association is the biggest and oldest natural healing institution in Germany and has many members. The workshop began at 10 o’clock in the morning, and once again all the seats were fully occupied.
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• Switzerland: Another Good Way to Clarify the Truth

  2004-05-30
  Since many Dafa practitioners drive cars almost everyday, we think that this might be a good way to use our cars to clarify the truth to people. We pasted Falun Gong photos and posters appealing for an end to the persecution to the rear of our cars. Upon seeing the information on our cars many people talked to us about the persecution of Falun Gong.
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• Members of the Swedish Parliament from Five Parties Call for Attention to Human Rights in China

  2004-05-29
  On May the 12th 2004, Swedish MPs from five parties jointly held a seminar in parliament on human rights in China. This seminar aroused great interest from MPs, the media and human rights organisations, as well as the persecuted groups in China. This is the first time that a seminar on Human Rights in China was jointly held by MPs from five parties in Sweden .
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• A French Senator Writes to the Minister of Internal Affairs to Express his Concern About the Mistreatment of Falun Gong Practitioners by the French Police

  2004-05-29
  "The uniformed police took these people to the Paris fourth police station for an identity and security check when they were about to go into the metro station near the city government square. This lady pointed out that the search was carried out in a very rude manner and that they did not do anything to justify this action. She thinks that they were arrested simply because they were wearing yellow scarves with Falun Gong symbols."
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• Germany: Practitioners Gather at the Chinese Consulate in Munich to Support the Lawsuit Against Jiang Zemin in Chicago

  2004-05-29
  On May the 27th, the court debate regarding the lawsuit against Jiang Zemin took place at the U.S. Federal Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. To expose the Jiang group’s brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China and to support the lawsuit, practitioners from Bayern and Salzburg gathered at the Chinese Consulate in Munich to hold petition activities.
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• Austria: Practitioners Support the Lawsuit Against Jiang in Chicago by Appealing at the Chinese Embassy in Vienna

  2004-05-29
  On May 27th, 2004, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago is to proceed with oral arguments from the plaintiffs’ lawyer in the lawsuit against Jiang Zemin (Jiang is sued for the crimes of torture, genocide and crimes against humanity). In support of this lawsuit, on the evening of May 26th, Austrian Dafa practitioners held an appeal at the Chinese embassy in Vienna.
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• Debate from the Irish Parliament Focuses on the Human Rights of Falun Gong Practitioners

  2004-05-28
  "Is the [Prime Minister] aware of the various methods used to persecute the Falun Gong in China: rape, gang rape, throwing stripped female practitioners into male prison cells, using electric batons to shock practitioners' sensitive body parts, imprisonment in water cells where the practitioners are immersed in dirty water with no light, stretching and tying practitioners' limbs to the four corners of a metal bed?"
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