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Spain: Promoting Falun Gong and Clarifying the Truth at the "Earth Day" in Barcelona
2004-05-19
On the 24th and 25th of April, 2004, the ninth “Earth Day” was held at Porque de la Ciutadella in Barcelona. The festival draws approximately half a million people from all over the world. Practitioners demonstrated the exercises and explained Falun Dafa and the facts of its persecution in China to visitors. After learning the truth, people came to sign our petition -
Sweden: Falun Gong Appreciated by Many Gothenburg Residents
2004-05-19
On May 15th, 2004, the regular Falun Gong practice session in Slottsskogen, Gothenburg, coincided with the yearly Gothenburg Half-Marathon. Some thirty-six thousand runners participated and just as many people came out to watch and cheer them. After the usual practice, Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the exercises again for the unusually large amount of spectators. -
Radio France Internationale: Falun Gong Practitioners Gather to Celebrate the 5th World Falun Dafa Day
2004-05-19
On May 15th, Radio France International reported the latest news in a Chinese-language broadcast to mainland China and the to the greater Paris region. In order to celebrate the fifth World Falun Day, Falun Gong practitioners in California, U.S.A held a rally to highlight the prosecution pending against Jiang Zemin. A rally was held in Human Rights Square in Los Angeles with displays of the torture instruments that have been used to brutally torture Falun Gong practitioners. -
EFGIC: Fifth Annual World Falun Dafa Day Celebrations Held in 50 Cities Worldwide
2004-05-18
'The celebrations included traditional dancing, singing and public demonstrations of the Falun Gong exercises. Activities in most cities also carried a sobering message, as speeches and pictorial exhibitions revealed details of the violent, on-going persecution of Falun Gong in China.' -
Belgium: Falun Gong Practitioners Appeal to Expel Bo Xilai During Wen Jiabao's Visit
2004-05-18During Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao’s visit to Belgium, Falun Gong practitioners submitted a criminal list of certain people who are persecuting Falun Gong in China to the Belgian government. The officials thanked Falun Gong practitioners for the material and the information they offered. They expressed that they would carry out a thorough investigation, showing the Belgian government’s unremitting efforts in improving China’s human rights. -
Olympic Watch Issues Press Release on World Falun Dafa Day
2004-05-18Prague, March 19th 2004 – On the occasion of Falun Dafa Day, Olympic Watch (Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games in a Free and Democratic Country) has issued a statement today, condemning religious persecution in the People’s Republic of China. Olympic Watch was established in Prague in 2001. Its mission is to monitor the human rights situation in China in the run-up to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and to campaign to achieve improvements in the lives of the people of China. -
Report from Danish Newspaper Kristeligt Dagblad
2004-05-18'"The western governments have a moral authority, which they have to use. They are about to make business relationships with China and invest in the country, but it must all the time be supplemented with a demand for better human rights", says Erping Zhang. Maybe it will be possible some day for him to again phone home to his mother in China. He has not done so since he was blacklisted, knowing full well that his mother would be punished for talking with a son that criticises the government.' -
Sweden: Seminar on “Human Rights in China” Attracts the Attention of an Ancient University
2004-05-17
On May the 11th 2004, a seminar entitled “Human Rights in China” was held in Uppsala University. Mr. Clive Ansley from Canada, Erping Zhang and Harry Wu from USA and Jane Dai from Australia gave lectures on the Chinese legal system, the laogai (slave labour camp) system, the media, and the peace project for children in China. -
Holland: Dafa Practitioners Celebrate the 5th Anniversary of Falun Dafa Day
2004-05-17
May 13th is World Falun Dafa Day. On this important day, practitioners in Holland showed their sincere appreciation for Master’s mercy and compassion. They wished Master a Happy Birthday, and declared that, "Falun Dafa is Good!" In the afternoon, they assembled in the Hague to spread the Fa, demonstrate the exercises and clarify the truth. -
Ireland: Wen Jiabao Visits Ireland, Falun Gong Practitioners Hold a Peaceful Appeal
2004-05-16
On the evening of May 11th, outside Dublin Castle, where EU Chairman Bertie Ahearn and Wen Jiabao held talks, Falun Gong practitioners peacefully appealed, asking, “Bring Jiang Zemin and Bo Xilai to Justice”, and asking for the release of Mr Liu Feng and Ms Yang Fang, students in Ireland who are under house arrest by the Chinese Government. -
Ireland: Human Rights Issues of Falun Gong and Tibet Discussed by the Chinese and Irish Premiers
2004-05-16Zhao Ming, a Falun Gong practitioner who was illegally detained in a re-education labour camp for twenty two months and is in Ireland right now, said, “Wen Jiabao doesn’t add fuel to the flames against Falun Gong, but Jiang Zemin is holding on tightly to military power, it seems that Wen has no power to alter the situation. The persecution against Falun Gong is still going on, so it’s difficult to expect Wen to have any practical commitments to human rights." -
Sweden: Speech Forum on China’s Human Rights Held in Lund City
2004-05-15
"If China’s fundamental problems are not resolved, even those with a PhD degree in law from Oxford University can do nothing significant in China. CCP control penetrates the entire judicial system, and Jiang Zemin even instructs the Chinese Supreme Court how to sentence some cases over the telephone. In China courts make judgments based on politics, not justice." -
UK: Practitioners Appeal Outside Parliament and Buckingham Palace During Wen Jiabao’s Visit
2004-05-15
Wen Jiabao, China’s Premier, visited Parliament in London on the morning of May the 11th 2004, and then went on to Buckingham Palace immediately afterwards. Falun Gong practitioners were there to greet him at both venues with banners reading, “Bring Jiang Zemin to Justice”, “Falun Dafa”, and “Welcome Wen Jiabao”. -
Switzerland: "Chinese Week" Activities in a Middle School in Brugg City Have Come to an End
2004-05-15
Seeing that the teachers and students benefited a lot from Falun Dafa, the mayor expressed his appreciation for Falun Dafa, and for Ms Zhang's paintings, which demonstrated to the Swiss people the essence of Chinese culture. The Swiss newspapers General Zeitung and Agauer positively reported the Falun Gong activities with eye-catching photos. -
Member of European Parliament signs a Petition calling on France to Protect the Liberty of Falun Gong practitioners and of France
2004-05-14
On the 30th of April 2004, UK member of the European Parliament Chris Davies wrote to Falun Gong practitioners in his constituency and enclosed a signed petition, which states the he "deeply regrets that the French government bowed to Chinese pressure, acted against the French values of liberty, equality, fraternity and arbitrarily arrested peaceful people who in no way had disburbed public order."
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