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• Sweden: Falun Gong Practitioners Invited to Talk about Falun Gong at an American Women’s Club in Gothenburg

  2003-12-03
  When Falun Gong practitioner Pirjo Svensson talked about her experience of being illegally detained in Thailand for five weeks, an American woman excitedly said that: "I know who you are! When your friends launched a signature collection campaign to rescue you, I signed my name to that petition. They patiently approached every passer-by to explain the facts about Falun Gong and the reason why you were detained. I was really moved by their action..."
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• Italian Radio Station "Pamparana": An Interview with Sterling Campbell, the Drummer of a Famous Band

  2003-12-03
  When talking about the reason for the persecution against Falun Gong, he told the audience that China’s former leader, Jiang Zemin, out of his personal interest and jealousy, abused his power to launch a persecution against good people who practise “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.” He listed a large number of the persecuted cases. Finally, the host invited the audience to take note of the persecution and help to put an end to it.
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• Reporters Without Borders: China - 2003 Annual Report (Excerpt)

  2003-12-03
  'At least seven foreign journalists were detained for two hours and threatened by police in Beijing on 14 February. Two Associated Press reporters, an Agence France-Presse photographer, two Reuters reporters and a BBC journalist were arrested while covering a demonstration by about 40 Falun Gong members in Tiananmen square, in the course of which some of them saw the police use violence against the demonstrators...The Chinese authorities have harassed foreign journalists trying to cover the Falun Gong since the movement was banned in July 1999. According to the estimates of Reporters Without Borders, at least 50 representatives of the international press have been detained since then, and some have been hit by police.'
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• Ireland: Irish Student Organisations Appeal for Falun Gong Practitioners Suffering Persecution in China

  2003-12-02
  The rally was followed by a march to the Irish Prime Minister’s Office, where representatives of eight Students’ Unions and Societies from USI and major Dublin universities handed in a co-signed letter. They then went on to the Chinese Embassy to hand in a letter appealing for justice but the Embassy officials refused to accept it.
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• Greece: Support for Falun Gong in an Athens Park

  2003-12-02
  The practitioners have appealed to the embassy to help stop the genocide in mainland China, and have sent forth righteous thoughts in the small park opposite the embassy. People that have been visiting the consular section of the embassy have taken the information materials that the practitioners have offered and have supported the appeal.
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• Austria: Dafa Practitioners Again Invited to the Annual Health Expo in Vienna

  2003-12-02
  The peaceful exercises interested many audience members and some asked how they could learn how to practise. After learning about the persecution, a lot of people signed a petition to rescue Xiong Wei, a German practitioner currently being detained in China. Many people stood in front of the display boards that exposed Jiang’s crimes, for a long time. The horrific torture depicted on the boards formed a sharp contrast to the beauty of the Dafa exercises.
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• Report from "Radio Free Asia": Interview with a German Human Rights Lawyer Regarding the Lawsuit Against the Former Chinese President

  2003-12-02
  “The plaintiffs are 44 victims, including more than 10 Germans. The 90-page submission outlined the personal experiences of 15 victims who currently live outside the Chinese mainland and 800 plus torture cases that have resulted in death. Mr. Kaleck thinks the importance of this case is similar to that of the lawsuit against Augusto Pinochet and the on-going case against former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic.”
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• Letter from Dublin Students to the Irish Prime Minister: "Ireland should do all in its power to help bring this absurd persecution to an early end."

  2003-12-01
  "The campaign directed at eradicating Falun Gong is a systematic state terrorism and a policy that has drained China's fragile economy. The assurances given in the EU China dialogue over the past few years have changed nothing on the ground; everyday new death cases are being received. The Chinese consulates and officials even continue to spread slanderous material concerning Falun Gong in the hope that this will incite hatred or at least doubt in the minds of overseas politicians. Indeed politicians in Ireland have received such material. Their aim is clear: To justify their campaign against the practice so that they can continue their brutal suppression and genocide while escaping condemnation from the international community."
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• Germany: Famous German Lawyer held a Press Conference with the German Falun Dafa Association

  2003-12-01
  On November 24th, famous German criminal lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck held a press conference with the German Falun Dafa Association in Berlin, announcing that a lawsuit has been launched in Germany against the ex-president of China, along with fifteen other accomplices in his persecution of Falun Gong, charging him with torture crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.
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• Article from Scottish Newspaper "Metro": An Interview with Sterling Campbell, David Bowie's Drummer

  2003-12-01
  'Sterling Campbell has been David Bowie's drummer for the past ten years and he is currently part of Bowie’s Reality Tour, which plays the SECC in Glasgow tonight. An exponent of the ancient Chinese practise of Falun Gong, New Yorker Sterling was arrested and jailed in China for voicing his support for the discipline, which has been banned by the Communist government.'
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• IFGIC Press Release: Dublin Students Rally to Rescue Prisoner of Conscience in China

  2003-11-30
  At 2pm on Friday 28th November outside the Central Bank in Dames Street, Dublin city centre, students from the major universities of Dublin including Trinity College, UCD and DCU held a rally and march to call for the release of Dun Laoghaire students Mr. Liu Feng and Ms Fang Yang, both of whom have been prevented from returning to Ireland under the Chinese regime’s campaign to suppress Falun Gong. Mr. Michael Dowling, the President of GSU of TCD, said, “We should double our efforts to get these two Chinese students Mr. Feng Liu and Ms. Fang Yang released.”
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• Global Coalition to Bring Jiang Zemin to Justice Submits Evidence to International Court in The Hague

  2003-11-30
  The coalition submitted printed materials about the lawsuit against Jiang from different countries to the first judge of the International Court and requested a trial of the Chinese dictator. The attendees came from Holland, Switzerland, Germany and Israel. This is the sixth public rally organized by the Global Coalition, following similar rallies in Paris, Munich, Frankfort, Cologne, and Berlin.
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• Germany: Several Hundred Falun Gong Practitioners Rally at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to Support the Lawsuit against Jiang Zemin

  2003-11-30
  A spokesperson of the German Falun Gong Association said, “At the moment we are resorting to legal proceedings and legal evidence to expose what has happened in China. Of course, it is to expose all the persecution of Falun Gong and we urge the general public around the world to support Falun Gong practitioners in China.”
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• Ireland: Irish Practitioners Clarify the Facts During a Concert

  2003-11-30
  Concertgoers were very interested to learn more about Dafa when they found out that a member of the band is a Falun Gong practitioner. Many of them expressed deep sympathy and irritation over the inhuman persecution against Falun Gong in China. Lots of people asked for leaflets to learn more and gave encouraging remarks to practitioners to show their concern, including ‘good luck’, ‘freedom’, ‘stop the persecution’ and ‘best wishes’.
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• Germany: International Human Rights Association Holds a Benefit Concert for the Human Rights of Falun Gong Practitioners

  2003-11-29
  A spokesman for the International Human Rights Association presented the concert together with a Falun Gong practitioner. All performances were given by Dafa practitioners, including both singing and dancing. Between performances, time was allowed for interviews with the spokesman of the International Human Rights Association acting as a reporter.
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