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• Finland: Appeal at the Chinese Embassy to bring the Chief Criminals to Justice

  2004-03-26
  On March the 22nd 2004, Falun Gong practitioners in Helsinki appealed at the Chinese Embassy calling for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong in China and for the chief criminals responsible for instigating this atrocity to be brought to justice. Legal action has already been taken against them in several countries.
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• Radio France Internationale: The World Psychiatric Association goes to Beijing to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong

  2004-03-26
  'Mr. Zhang Jianping, spokesperson for Falun Gong in Paris, has faxed us the news that a delegation from the World Psychiatric Association will depart for Beijing on the 4th of April 2004 to investigate the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners inside China’s psychiatric hospitals. The persecution allegedly takes place under the directives of Chinese officials.'
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• Sweden: Promoting Falun Gong in Uddevalla

  2004-03-26
  Recently, Swedish Falun Gong practitioners held an activity in the small but beautiful city of Uddevalla to let the local people know about Falun Gong and the brutal persecution against the practice, which has been happening for almost five years in China. Practitioners handed out flyers and collected petition signatures from passers by.
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• Switzerland: Dafa Practitioners promote Falun Dafa in Bern - Compassion Appeals to Public Opinion

  2004-03-25
  A lot of people looked carefully at the Dafa display boards and chatted about their contents. They were deeply shocked by the pictures detailing cruel torture. A lot of people signed their names on a petition form straight away after seeing the display boards and voluntarily asked for information in different languages.
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• Message from German Lawyer at a Rally in Karlsruhe City Centre

  2004-03-25
  On Saturday March the 6th, more than 50 Falun Gong practitioners from Karlsruhe and the surrounding cities held a rally in the Market Square in Karlsruhe city. They let people know about progress in the criminal indictment filed in the German Federal Procuratorate in Karlsruhe against the former Chinese President Jiang and his accomplices. Practitioners also collected signatures to support this lawsuit. Many NGOs gave speeches to express their support. The following is a speech made by a human rights lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck.
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• Report from Swiss Newspaper Le Nouvelliste: From Sitting in Meditation to Action

  2004-03-25
  'Lee Kye Ya listed litigation against the former Chinese state chairman, Jiang Zemin, and his accomplices to confirm what she said. Her face became serious, and then became bright, as she believes the atrocities will end some day. “The prosecutor in Paris just accepted a criminal lawsuit against the Chinese Culture Minister, who is accused of cruel sentences and stirring up hatred through the media.”'
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• Swiss Member of Parliament's Speech from a Falun Gong Press Conference outside the Places des Nations in Geneva

  2004-03-24
  "I hereby offer my support in your fight for the respect of human rights in China. I also express my support for women and men who take action worldwide in favour of human rights. Those who practise discrimination, suppression, imprisonment, physical torture and psychological torture, those who aim at the elimination of women and men because they belong to a particular philosophical, political or religious trend, must meet with wholehearted disapproval and condemnation."
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• EFGIC: An Open Letter from Women in China Who Practise Falun Gong

  2004-03-24
  "We follow the teachings of Falun Dafa [Falun Gong], (website) which expound upon the universal characteristics of Truth-Compassion-Tolerance, and practise gentle exercises and meditation to maintain our health. On July 20th, 1999, the former Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin launched a campaign to eliminate Falun Dafa. We have been deprived of our basic human rights ever since, and have been physically and mentally tortured in many ways."
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• Russia: Ms. Zhang Cuiying's Painting Exhibition is Held in Irkktsk

  2004-03-24
  Zhang Cuiying's Chinese Brush Painting Exhibition at the Artists Centre in Irkktsk, with its theme of “Peace, Beauty and Pounding Hearts,” was formally inaugurated at 4 p.m on March the 18th. It is the first in a series of painting exhibitions to be held in Russia by Ms. Zhang. The exhibition lasted two days, and on the second day Ms. Zhang gave a painting demonstration.
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• A Short Drama Performance in Geneva Touches University Students’ Hearts

  2004-03-24
  On the 16th of March, the Geneva University Falun Gong Association held a large “Falun Gong and Human Rights” photo exhibition in Geneva University. At lunchtime, Falun Gong practitioners performed a short play in the centre of the hall with students from Geneva University. The drama touched the hearts of the university students deeply.
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• Radio Free Asia: Falun Gong practitioners Appeal for More Effective Action to Immediately Stop the Persecution

  2004-03-24
  'Last weekend, Falun Gong practitioners and other citizens around the world who are aware of the situation of human rights came to the Geneva UN building and took part in different activities around the city. Mrs. Zheng Zhihong from Berlin was interviewed and gave some details about Falun gong practitioners from around the world as well as Germany’s thoughts on Falun gong practitioners and the human rights situation.'
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• The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: The Free Practice of Falun Gong Should be Protected by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  2004-03-23
  According to a report on March the 15th 2004 from Falun Dafa Information Centre, some Falun Gong practitioners submitted the case of illegal arrest of Li Ling and Pei Jilin for practising Falun Gong to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (the Working Group). After over 5 months of investigation, the Working Group rendered the above opinion, which will be reproduced in the Working Group's report to the Commission on Human Rights at its sixty-first session.
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• Message of Support from a Geneva Councillor: “I support the campaign of Falun Gong”

  2004-03-23
  "Torture is unacceptable and total prohibition against all inhuman treatment that undermines the dignity of the individual must be promoted in the most forceful manner possible. Torture is one of the most shameful attacks against human rights."
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• Introducing Falun Dafa on the Shores of Lake Evian in Geneva

  2004-03-23
  Again we set up Falun Gong information booths alongside Lake Evian. The weather had changed to beautiful sunshine and we were able to distribute flyers, speak to those who showed interest in Falun Gong and tell them the facts of the persecution. Everywhere there were little groups of practitioners either practising the exercises or sending righteous thoughts.
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• New Tang Dynasty TV Interviews Zhao Ming at the Annual Irish Students’ Human Rights Conference

  2004-03-23
  The second annual Irish Students’ Human Rights Conference was held in Dublin at the end of February. Guest speakers included human rights officials, activists, and researchers from England and Ireland, as well as UN human rights officials. Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for human rights, made a speech at the conference. Zhao Ming is a Falun Gong practitioner who recently obtained his MSc in Computer Science from Trinity College in Dublin. As a victim of human rights violations rescued from China, he was invited to make a speech in the conference. He also accepted an interview with NTDTV reporters.
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