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• UK: Promoting Falun Gong in Manchester’s Chinatown on Chinese New Year

  2004-02-01
  On January the 25th, Dafa practitioners went to Manchester’s Chinatown to hold celebration activities for the Spring Festival. While here, practitioners handed out flyers and clarified the facts about Falun Gong to Chinese people and westerners. The Chinese people's attitude had also changed a lot. When receiving information from practitioners, many of them sincerely said thank you. Some of them even asked for information about practice sites and said that they would like to learn the exercises.
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• AFP: Taiwanese Falun Gong [Practitioners] Protest Police Harassment in France

  2004-02-01
  'The group [...] demanded Taiwan's foreign ministry relay a strong protest to Paris over what it called an "unreasonable and unlawful" act infringing on the basic rights and freedom of its members. "They were checked by French police on the streets just because they were wearing yellow scarves. The police could not give them any proper reasons, except (for) saying 'yellow scarves are illegal in France today'," Chang Chin-Hwa, a spokeswoman for Taiwan Falun Dafa, or Falun Gong, told AFP.'
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• Lawyers' Open Letter to the Government of France

  2004-01-31
  "...we would like to call on the government of France to immediately initiate an investigation of this incident, and to ensure that essential human rights to freedom of association and freedom of belief are fully respected. France has been known as a democratic country with a long-standing history of liberty and freedom. What occurred yesterday brings doubt to the free world that France intends to respect that history."
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• China Culture Minister Sued in France for "Incitement of Massacre and Persecution"

  2004-01-31
  On January the 28th 2004, Four Falun Gong practitioners entrusted a senior French lawyer, Ms. Hauser-Phelizizon, with the filing of a lawsuit at the Paris prosecutor's office against the Chinese Minister of Culture, Sun Jiazheng, for "incitement of massacre and persecution." He is currently visiting France.
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• Lawyers From Different Countries Deliver Speeches at an International Conference on "Genocide in the New Era"

  2004-01-31
  The International Workshop on “Modern Genocide", which was jointly held by the “International Advocates for Justice" and “Friends of Falun Gong", convened in Stockholm, Sweden, on January the 26th 2004. The conference was scheduled to last three days. On the second day of the conference, lawyers from various countries spoke at the workshop.
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• Radio France Internationale: Falun Gong Practitioners Held a Series of Activities

  2004-01-31
  'The New Year Parade on Champs Elysees Avenue on January 24th is a public cultural activity demonstrating Chinese culture for all the Chinese people in France. When the French Falun Dafa Association applied, the application was interfered with by the Chinese Embassy. This unreasonable action by the Chinese Embassy aroused a lot of attention in society. Many social groups and people expressed their opposition to the Chinese Embassy using the New Year celebration activities to export China’s persecution of different beliefs to France.'
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• Norwegian Newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad: The Chinese have Committed Genocide Against Falun Gong

  2004-01-31
  The persecution of Falun Gong has been going on for several years now. The Chinese authorities fear that it will develop and become a strong grass root movement, which could be hard to control. Practitioners say that they have no political agenda, and that they just want to help people become better human beings with this method. There are several examples where western governments have kowtowed to the Chinese leaders, and prohibited demonstrations, says Giertsen. This has happened both in Iceland, Denmark and Germany.
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• Public Notice

  2004-01-30
  In and around the time of Hu's recent visit to France, China used economic incentives to lead a few people in the French government who were overcome by temptation to order the French police to arrest Falun Dafa practitioners for no reason. To those behind this incident--the people in China who ordered it, orchestrated it, and participated in it--you will be held responsible for all consequences. We will comprehensively investigate everyone involved both in China and abroad, and bring you all to justice in accordance with the law in the near future.The Falun Dafa Association The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong
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• EFGIC: French Police Arrest American, UK, Danish, French Citizens for Wearing Yellow During Chinese State Visit

  2004-01-30
  LONDON (EFGIC) Citizens of the U.S., U.K., Denmark and France were among at least 11 arrested in Paris this past Saturday for wearing clothing with the words Falun Gong on it. These arrests appear to have been an attempt to keep the presence of Falun Gong invisible from the many Chinese groups that took part in a Chinese New Years Day parade.
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• UK: Chinese New Year Celebrations in London Provide a Great Opportunity for More People to Know the Facts

  2004-01-30
  In Trafalgar Square, Chinese people who understood the truth about Falun Gong and the persecution expressed that they opposed the persecution of Falun Gong instigated by the Jiang regime. Many people asked for truth-clarifying materials. Some western people specially asked for Chinese materials and told those who were distributing the materials that they were for their Chinese teachers. Some people said that they wanted to download the information from the Internet many times but failed and they were really happy to get it from practitioners.
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• France: "Coming for You Again and Again" - Heartfelt Wishes Resound Across Paris Sky

  2004-01-30
  On the evening of January the 23rd, clear calls of "Happy New Year, Master!" and "Falun Dafa is good!" were heard in front of the glittering Eiffel Tower. Piercing through the cloudy, cold evening Paris sky, these calls seemed to echo across the colossal firmament, breaking through layers of cosmic barriers. They represented the heartfelt wishes of Dafa disciples from various European countries and Taiwan.
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• The Epoch Times: Today, the Color Yellow is Illegal in France

  2004-01-30
  'This weekend local Paris police, under intense pressure from the Chinese government, initiated a new trend in Parisian fashion with an unusual directive- “Yellow is illegal.” Or to be more specific, yellow worn by Falun Gong practitioners is illegal. The thinly veiled attempt by Chinese officials to target Falun Gong practitioners from around the world, in town to mark the Chinese New Year, was swiftly enforced by Paris police. A group of practitioners on their way to a New Year’s celebration were detained for wearing yellow clothing on the city streets.'
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• International Forum on "Preventing Genocide: Threat and Responsibility" Held in Stockholm, Sweden

  2004-01-30
  On January the 26th, the Stockholm International Forum held a workshop on “Preventing Genocide: Threat and Responsibility". The Prime Minister of Sweden invited representatives from sixty countries to attend and discuss the important issues related to genocide, including humanitarianism, various policies, and the question of morality.
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• Letter from a Member of European Parliament to the Mayor of Paris -- "Paris Should Not Have Yielded to Beijing!"

  2004-01-30
  "I was saddened to learn that you yielded to pressure for the dictators of China and stopped the French Falun Gong practitioners from participating in the Chinese New Year parade in Paris. 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!"
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• Testimony: Summary of Arrest in Paris of Danish Citizen

  2004-01-30
  "...three or four plainclothes policemen approached me and demanded that I take off my yellow scarf with the words "Falun Dafa." When asked what the reason was for this unusual demand, their reply was something along the lines of "today Falun Gong is forbidden in the area around Champs Elysees" and they warned me to take it off or I would be in trouble."
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