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Ukraine: New Year's Greetings to Master Li from Practitioners
2004-01-01We, all Ukrainian practitioners, want to send New Year's greetings to our respected Master and all the practitioners in China! Our thoughts are always with you. Hope this year will bring more peace and goodness to the hearts of Chinese people. Wish you Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance! Happy New Year!
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All Dafa Practitioners in Holland wish Master Li a Happy New Year
2004-01-01The New Year is here. At this time of celebration, with the deepest respect, all Dafa practitioners from Holland send New Year greetings to our honourable, compassionate and great Master.
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Russia Dafa Practitioners Participate in the "2003 Sarov Symposium"
2004-01-01On December the 10th 2003, International human rights day, the annual “Sarov Symposium” was held in St. Petersburg. Human rights organisations, city congressmen and the media attended the symposium. Representatives of the Russian Falun Dafa Association were also invited to attend and to give a report about Falun Dafa. After learning the facts, those in attendance were “deeply shocked”.
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Germany: Practitioners Hold an Information Day in Tübingen City
2004-01-01This was the third time that Falun Gong practitioners had come to this city to hold information days. There was a obvious difference between this activity and the first two in that many people came to the booth out of their own initiative to learn the facts about the persecution and to sign their names to the petition form entitled “Bring Jiang to Justice”. Many people also enquired about the place and time for learning the Falun Gong exercises.
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Radio France Internationale: Seoul Court Officially Accepts a Criminal Lawsuit against Jiang Zemin and Luo Gan after it was Filed by Practitioners in Korea
2004-01-01'Recently, a local Seoul court officially accepted a criminal lawsuit against Jiang Zemin and Luo Gan that was filed by a South Korean citizen, Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Shu...The lawsuit was applied for under the Korean national criminal law and the international convention about preventing and punishing the crime of genocide enacted in 1951.'
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Belgium: Dafa Practitioners Appeal Outside the Chinese Embassy for Jiang Zemin to be Brought to Justice
2003-12-31On December the 16th, Dafa practitioners in Belgium held a peaceful appeal in front of the Chinese Embassy to call for a public trial of Jiang Zemin, the main culprit in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. In July 1999, Jiang issued orders to mobilise the Chinese state resources to suppress and persecute Falun Gong.
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Radio France Internationale: Mr. Chengjun Liu, Who Exposed the Atrocities Against Falun Gong over China's State-run Television, has been Tortured to Death on the 26th of December 2003 in Changchun
2003-12-31Radio France Internationale news, December 29th 2003: A report from Falun Gong stated that Mr. Chengjun Liu, one of the practitioners responsible for tapping into a local television network to broadcast the facts of the persecution against Falun Gong on March 5th, 2002, has passed away in Changchun city on December 26, 2003. The news from Falun Gong stated that, on the same day, the Jilin Prison cremated the body without an autopsy and against the family's wishes.
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EFGIC (European Falun Gong Information Centre): Man Who Exposed Atrocities Against Falun Gong over China’s State-run Television Tortured to Death
2003-12-30Mr. Chengjun Liu had spent more than two years working to let his fellow countrymen know about the torture and killings of Falun Gong practitioners throughout China - crimes former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin had kept hidden under a veil of misinformation and with full control over the state-run media. After repeated attempts by Liu’s family to secure his medical parole were denied by Chinese authorities, Liu died at 4 a.m. on December 26. Liu’s body was cremated seven hours after his death with neither an autopsy nor the family’s consent.
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Article from German Website Stimme.de: A Parcel Filled with Hope is On Its Way to China
2003-12-30'Xiong Wei studied at the Berlin Technical University for six years. During that time she began to practise Falun Gong, an ancient and traditional Chinese cultivation practice. She was arrested on February the 5th 2002, on her return to China after she had completed her studies, for distributing flyers and criticising the Chinese government. She was sent, without legal proceedings, to the infamous Xinan camp near Beijing, a camp which is notorious for torturing its inmates.'
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Germany: Many Politicians and People in the Legal Community are Concerned about the Lawsuit Against Jiang
2003-12-29In October of 2003, German Dafa practitioners wrote letters to 3,246 German judges, 2,400 criminal lawyers, 192 professors of criminal law, and some members of Parliament in order to tell them about Jiang Zemin and the government officials who, together with policemen, have persecuted Falun Gong in China and are to be charged with crimes of Genocide and Torture.
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Greece: Introducing Falun Dafa and Clarifying the Facts at the Finnish Embassy in Athens
2003-12-29Over the Christmas holidays, Falun Gong practitioners from Finland and Sweden visited Athens in Greece to introduce Falun Gong to the Greek people, and to let people know about the enormous abuses of human rights that are taking place against Falun Gong practitioners in China.
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Germany: Dafa Practitioners Hold a Series of Information Day Activities in Hamburg
2003-12-29Practitioners took this opportunity to help the Chinese tourists learn about something they may never hear about in Mainland China due to the tight information blockade: many lawsuits have been filed around the world against Jiang Zemin and other cheif persecutors of Falun Gong. Practitioners particularly focused on the lawsuit that was recently filed in Germany charging Jiang with crimes of Genocide, Torture and Crimes Against Humanity.
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Reply from the Chairman of the Swedish Foreign Office: “Your letter provides us with valuable information.”
2003-12-28"For the human rights status in China, we in the Swedish Diplomacy Committee have constantly paid attention to and raised the issue that concerns you. Our international representative has stated our point of view on this. When we meet with Chinese government representatives, we will speak to them about their actions against human rights, among which the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners is included."
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Germany: Falun Gong Practitioners Hold their First Information Day in Cuxhaven
2003-12-28On the first weekend of the Christmas holidays, Dafa practitioners from Bremen and Hamburg held their first information day at Cuxhaven. The purpose of the activity was to clarify the facts to people and to secure the rescue of practitioners in China, such as Xiong Wei.
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MEP Condemns Human Rights Violations Initiated by the Former President of China
2003-12-27"Jiang Zemin should be held responsible for the human rights violations that occurred during his time in power. Jiang's case has also become a clear message to the present leader of China, which is China must make an immediate correction of its policy of persecuting Falun Gong in order to fulfil the requirements of the International Human Rights criterion."