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Holland: To Commemorate the 5th Anniversary of the "4.25" Peaceful Appeal
2004-04-26At the time of commemorating the 5th Anniversary of the April the 25th peaceful appeal, we call for the Chinese Government to immediately stop persecuting Falun Gong, and for the international community to pay attention to this urgent issue. -
Radio France Internationale: The Zhongnanhai Appeal is a Historical Necessity
2004-04-26"The majority of people thought that the suppression of Falun Gong was caused by the appeal of the Falun Gong practitioners who gathered at Zhongnanhai in 1999 and that this shocked Beijing. However, from a large amount of investigations, it has been discovered that the incident of the Zhongnanhai appeal was a historical necessity." -
Geneva: Prosecuting Wang Yusheng, a Prime Culprit of Inciting Hatred
2004-04-26In April 2004, at the U.N. Human Rights Conference, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yoko Kaneko, who was recently released from a forced labour camp in China and was invited to give a speech at a forum on women’s rights in the UNHRC, recognised and identified a man who incited cruel torture and brainwashing in China but attended the UNHRC as a member of the non-governmental organisation “United Nations Association of China” (UNAC). -
Radio Free Asia: A German-Based International Human Rights Association Submits a Five-Point Resolution to the European Parliament
2004-04-26A Human Rights Association based in Germany has been paying close attention to China's human rights problems. At their annual general meeting last year, they passed a resolution asking the German government to express concern over China's crackdown on Falun Gong and to help release the imprisoned Falun Gong practitioner Xiong Wei. Last weekend they passed a five-point resolution based on last year's resolution and submitted it to the European Parliament. -
FDIC: Worldwide Activities Mark April 25th, Call for End to Half-decade of Persecution
2004-04-25Practitioners of Falun Gong will mark April 25 this Sunday with activities around the world, renewing the call for Beijing to end a five-year campaign of suppression that legal experts have come to term genocide. -
UK: Symbolic Trial of Jiang Held Outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London
2004-04-25On April the 24th 2004, UK Falun Gong practitioners held a Symbolic Public Trial of Jiang in front of the Royal Courts of Justice in London. The purpose was to demonstrate the reality of bringing Jiang to justice through legal means, to add weight to the lawsuits already in process around the world and to gain momentum in the preparations of a lawsuit in the UK. -
Finland: Telling People the Facts about the April 25th Incident
2004-04-25Falun Gong practitioners held activities in the central Helsinki for the 5th anniversary of the April 25th incident. Finnish practitioners made a special flyer about the incident. People in Helsinki have become more clear about the evil and brutal nature of Jiang Zemin’s campaign against innocent Falun Gong practitioners, and they condemn the persecutors. -
UK: Falun Gong Practitioners Perform at the Fact Art Centre in Liverpool
2004-04-25On April the 17th 2004, the Fact Art Centre in Liverpool organised a show with the theme “A little peace in this changing world”. Falun Gong practitioners were invited to join the show and used this opportunity to tell the audience about Falun Gong and the persecution in China. -
Swedish Daily: “People Who are Locked up in Labour Camps in China are Suffering”
2004-04-25On April 16th 2004, the Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs visited Sweden. An article written by two Swedish citizens was published in the “Swedish Daily” in which the current conditions and forced illegal enslavement of people in labour camps in China is exposed. -
EFGIC: Legal Action in UK against Chinese Officials for Torture of Falun Gong Practitioners in China, Genocide and Crimes against Humanity
2004-04-24LONDON (EFGIC) – Falun Gong practitioners in the UK are initiating a criminal action against Jiang Zemin, former president of China, for his personal responsibility, from 1999 onwards, in the persecution of the 100 million adherents of the ancient Chinese system of moral discipline, Falun Gong, which is centred on Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. The action concerns the torture of a male UK resident, who has now been granted asylum here. -
Reply From German MP: "We Will Urge China to Honour Human Rights after the 60th Session of UNHRC Meeting"
2004-04-24A German MP, Mr. Hermann Groehe, who is also the president of the Christian Democratic Party’s branch of the Government’s Human Rights Association, wrote a letter in reply to German Falun Gong practitioners on the 6th of April, stating that he agreed with the EU’s decision of supporting the U.S resolution on condemning China for its human rights performance. -
Press Release: Dictator Jiang Zemin on Trial in London
2004-04-24On Saturday 24th April, a symbolic trial of Jiang Zemin will be held outside the Royal Courts of Justice in The Strand and on Sunday 25th at the Chinese Embassy in Portland Place, London. The 25th of April has a special significance, as it is the 5th Anniversary of the original peaceful appeal to the Chinese Government in 1999 by Falun Gong practitioners. This symbolic trial exposes the crimes committed by Jiang, and demonstrates the reality of using legal means to bring him to justice. -
Austria: Clarifying the Truth at a Falun Dafa Information Day in Salzburg
2004-04-24As Spring arrives, many tourists are coming to Salzburg, the home town of Mozart. This provides a good opportunity to clarify the truth to people from all over the world. Although the weather was cold and windy, many people from Austria, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic and the United Kingdom learned about the Jiang regime's cruel persecution of Falun Gong. -
Swedish Media Report: Chinese Foreign Minister Defends the Death Penalty
2004-04-24On April 16th, 2004, an article was published by a Swedish Daily newspaper regarding the meeting between the Chinese and Swedish Foreign Ministers. It states that at the meeting between the Chinese foreign Minister Mr. Zhaoxing Li and the Swedish foreign Minister Mrs Laila Freivalds in Stockholm, they failed to reach unanimity on the issue of the death penalty. -
Human Rights Are Not Negotiable
2004-04-24Due to the pressure from the Chinese Consulate in Toronto, the Toronto city council recently rejected a motion to declare May 13 as Falun Dafa Day. According to a report in the Toronto Star, Councilor Michael Walker said after the vote: "In this case, human rights was susceptible to lobbying by the government of China, which said we might hurt our economic activities with the country of China. I don't think human rights are negotiable."