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UK: European Friends of Falun Gong Speech at French Embassy in London
2004-02-05
"We as European Friends of Falun Gong would like to express our deep concern at the treatment of certain Falun Gong practitioners by the French police during the recent Chinese New Year celebrations in Paris...It is deeply disturbing that a group of peaceful, law-abiding citizens should be treated in this way in a country which claims to be one of the largest democracies in the western world." -
France: Tourist Groups from Mainland China Visit the Louvre
2004-02-05The visitors to the Louvre on Monday included many Chinese, outnumbering westerners many times over. Especially in the hall of the main entrance leading to the Louvre’s three other display areas, frequently one could see Chinese tourist groups assembling there. Foreign travellers who did not know what was going on thought that Monday was Louvres’ Chinese Day. Today the focus of most Mainland visitors was that everywhere in the Louvre there appeared pale blue jackets and yellow scarves displaying the words Falun Dafa. -
French National Radio Attends Falun Gong Press Conference
2004-02-05On January 29th 2004, France’s national Radio station RTL attended a Falun Gong Press Conference. After listening and asking questions to Falun Gong spokespersons for one hour, the journalist interviewed Mrs. Chen Ying who was persecuted and brainwashed in China for refusing to renounce her practice of Falun Gong. -
EFGIC: Chinese Deputy Consul General Found Guilty in Canadian Court for Libel against Falun Gong Practitioner
2004-02-05"Today, Canadian courts have recognized that calling Falun Gong practitioners 'evil cult' members is illegal. I believe this ruling is the correct classification for the hate propaganda that Chinese officials have spread around the world about Falun Gong as an extension of -- and a veil to divert attention away from -- the genocide that is going on in China right now." -
French Minister Delegate for Local Freedoms: "Unreasonable Acts Will Not Happen Again"
2004-02-04At 4pm local time in Paris yesterday, Minister Delegate for Local Freedoms Mr. Patrick Devedjian met with French Falun Dafa Association President Mr. Tang Hanlong at the French Ministry of the Interior. Mr. Devedjian expressed that the unreasonable acts conducted by the police against Falun Gong practitioners will not happen again. -
Extending the Persecution of Falun Gong to Europe: Summary and Sample List of Chinese Officials' Violations of Civil Rights, Laws and Sovereignty in Europe
2004-02-04Soon after Jiang Zemin first initiated the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China in 1999, incidents of Chinese officials threatening, harassing, and assaulting Falun Gong practitioners in Europe began to occur. In addition to directly harassing Falun Gong practitioners, Chinese officials in consulates and embassies around Europe have interfered with the peaceful, legitimate, and legal activities of Falun Gong practitioners in Europe by pressuring officials, businesses, and community organizations to withdraw support or deny services to those who practice or support Falun Gong. These repeated incidents have become a deeply felt matter of personal security for many Europeans. -
National French Newspaper Le Monde Denounces the Chinese Regime's Pressuring of Authorities in France
2004-02-04In Paris, a sharp contrast was seen between the Chinese President speech at the National Assembly in Paris, which was boycotted by half of the deputies in protest, and the peaceful appeal of Falun Gong in front of the same building. With a touch of humour, the Le Monde journalist hinted at how absurd it is to treat such peaceful people as if they were a threat to security in order to please a regime that does not hesitate to exert economic pressure to hide its crimes. -
Finland: Press Conference Highlights Lawsuits Launched Against Main Persecutors of Falun Gong
2004-02-04
On February 2 2004, the Finnish Falun Dafa Association held a press conference at Finlandia House in Helsinki in order to raise awareness about the international lawsuits that have been launched against the persecutors of Falun Gong. The Association also announced that it will take legal action immediately if any responsible person of the persecution of Falun Gong visits Finland. -
Article from Silicon.com: Microsoft, Sun 'contribute to Chinese human-rights abuses'
2004-02-04'Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Cisco are among major IT vendors slammed by Amnesty International for contributing to human-rights abuses by selling technology to the Chinese government that is used to censor the internet...The report cites cases of students, political dissidents, Falun Gong followers, writers, lawyers and teachers who have been jailed or tortured after being accused of offences ranging from signing online petitions to publishing 'rumors' about the SARS virus.' -
Belgian Falun Dafa Association Writes to the Mayor of Brussels
2004-02-04"All over Europe, and also in Brussels, police officers and city officials know that wherever Falun Dafa practitioners come to demonstrate, it is sure that no problems, violence or any other disturbance will arise. However, it is also known that wherever Falun Dafa practitioners come to expose the persecution, Chinese ‘officials’ will come to cause trouble, trying to influence local police and city officials by spreading hate propaganda against Falun Dafa." -
France: Media Coverage of Jiang's Persecution Exported from China to Paris
2004-02-03On January 22nd 2004, a journalist working for Yahoo France conducted a long interview with two French Falun Gong practitioners about the pressure exerted by the Chinese regime on French authorities, forcing them to exclude Falun Gong from the Chinese New Year Parade in Paris. The journalist took the opportunity to say that Falun Gong is a peaceful method, and that the main person responsible for the persecution in China is former leader Jiang Zemin, who is now being sued for genocide in several European countries. -
"European Friends of Falun Gong" Letter Asks for Public Apology from French Authorities
2004-02-03"We believe therefore that the French authorities should make a public apology to the Falun Gong practitioners for an episode which contravenes the basic democratic right of all citizens to demonstrate peacefully. It is totally unacceptable that the French authorities should allow the same sort of human rights abuse currently taking place in China to be transferred to the streets of one of the largest democracies in the western world." -
France: Many Chinese and French People Happy to Receive Falun Gong Materials at New Year Parade in Paris
2004-02-03Many French people already knew about Falun Gong and expressed their support to us immediately. Chinese people also accepted our material in a kind-hearted way. When they saw it was about Falun Gong, they nodded their heads, smiled, and said cheerfully, “Oh, it’s Falun Gong." They immediately concentrated on reading the booklet and put the VCD into their pockets gratefully. -
Jiang's Group Extends Persecution to Paris; French Government Criticised for Sacrificing Spirit of Democracy
2004-02-03Regarding the French government caving in before the Jiang regime's pressure, Marco Cappato, a member of the European Parliament said, "France should have stayed true to European democratic and egalitarian principles by standing up to the pressure from China. China suppresses its own people and now France is allowing China to suppress the citizens of France from expressing their beliefs!" "Will France, a land of freedom, allow a foreign regime to dictate rules on its own territory?" -
Testimony: A UK Practitioners' Account of Arrest in Paris as Jiang Exports Persecution to France
2004-02-03"At first, the policeman told us that we had been arrested for distributing flyers and it was illegal to distribute flyers. I asked him, "We did not distribute any flyers, why were we arrested? Was it only because we wore yellow scarves embroidered with the words 'Falun Dafa'?" He said that it was because some Falun Gong practitioners wearing yellow scarves had distributed flyers, so other practitioners wearing yellow scarves were arrested as well. Then I asked, "What about me? I am not even wearing a yellow scarf." He said that they were in a hurry to make the arrests so it was understandable that they made a small mistake."
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