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• Russia: Experiences during the Fourth Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference in Moscow

  2003-10-07
  Outside the conference, three art exhibitions were on display and in the evening practitioners put on a performance for the people of Moscow. This included the elegant traditional Chinese “Fan Dance” and “Lotus Dance”, piano recitals and a graceful ballet. There was also singing and music. All of the performances focused on a theme: “Falun Dafa is good”. Many people in the audience felt that they had witnessed a first-rate performance. At the end, they stayed behind to chat with the practitioners.
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• Article from "The Epoch Times": Human Rights Watchdog Finds No Improvement in China

  2003-10-07
  'Noting that "Chinese citizens are detained and imprisoned for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression, association, and belief," the report criticizes the Chinese government, because it "continues to violate China's constitution and laws and international norms and standards protecting human rights."'
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• Albania: Report on a Successful Art Exhibition in the Capital City of Tirana

  2003-10-06
  Guests who attended the opening ceremony were artists, officials from embassies to Albania, university professors, representatives from human rights organisations, government officials, etc. Reporters were sent to the ceremony from the main media outlets. A local radio station arranged an interview with practitioners after they heard about the exhibition.
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• French Chief of General Affairs of the National Assembly is concerned about the Persecution of Falun Gong

  2003-10-06
  "I have carefully read your letter about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. I am sincerely grateful to you [for contacting me]. I have directly contacted the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dominique De Villepin, and stressed in particular the reason for your concern, which is the scale of this persecution."
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• Swedish Journalist: “The Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs should let the Chinese consular officials pick up their luggage and go back to Beijing immediately!”

  2003-10-06
  'The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Sweden expressed their discontent to the Chinese consulate this time, which is a first. Is this enough? No, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs ought to let the Chinese consulates realise that they are unpopular. Sweden is a small country indeed and China is a big one. Just because we are small, we should actively boycott interventions from China on the basis of human rights and freedom.'
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• Russia: The Fourth Russian Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference successfully concludes in Moscow

  2003-10-05
  Hundreds of practitioners appealed in front of the Chinese Embassy. They held pictures of those who have been persecuted to death while standing on the square in front of the Embassy. They also sent forth righteous thoughts and demonstrated the exercises peacefully, whilst some practitioners handed out materials to passersby.
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• Message from a Swedish Member of Amnesty International: “You have done very well. I wish you success!”

  2003-10-05
  In China, "people are being killed because they appeal to the government and because they are part of a peaceful group. In the distant land of Sweden, the Chinese Consul is using the ship from Guangzhou that is sailing to Gothenburg as an excuse to not let us speak and is also telling the local radio station to follow in the footsteps of the Chinese consulate and change what they broadcast. This was a threat and the consulate should be punished."
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• UK: Scottish Dafa Practitioners participate in the Glasgow Peace Festival (Part 2)

  2003-10-05
  Though the weather was unstable and moved from rain to sunshine, Dafa practitioners’ exercise demonstration and traditional Chinese fan dance attracted a large audience. After the performance, practitioners voluntarily taught people the Falun Gong exercises. Many people came to learn.
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• Germany: Falun Dafa Information Day in Detmold

  2003-10-05
  Many passers-by stopped to look at the display boards and the exercise demonstration. After learning about the truth of the persecution and the lawsuits against Jiang Zemin that have been filed around the world, people praised practitioners for their quest for justice and wished them success.
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• French MP Jean Tiberi: "The Suppression Is Totally Abject"

  2003-10-04
  "Your letter of the 23rd of July last drew my attention to Falun Gong, a traditional Chinese qigong freely practised by 100 million people worldwide. Unfortunately, it is not the same story in China. The practitioners of this particular practice are tortured and killed, total abject suppression as you fairly stated in your letter."
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• Germany: Collecting Petition Signatures and Revealing the Facts at a Town Festival in Nuremberg

  2003-10-04
  In addition to enthusiastically signing their names to support the appeal, many young people asked their friends to sign their names too. Before the end of the activity, a German citizen who was very interested in Falun Dafa talked with a practitioner enthusiastically and was reluctant to leave. He ended up staying with practitioners and helping them to collect their materials and pack everything away.
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• UK: Scottish Dafa Practitioners participate in the Glasgow Peace Festival (Part 1)

  2003-10-04
  The event organiser had arranged for practitioners to teach the exercises to children that were at the festival. Looking at the children’s earnest and innocent appearance, the organiser and many passers-by also came and joined in learning the exercises. One young boy said to his grandmother: “This is the best!”
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• Finland: Tragic Plight of 3-year old Fadu Awakens People’s Sympathy

  2003-10-04
  When the nearby police officers read our posters, they were very friendly. One practitioner walked over to them with Fadu and explained that the person eating in the nearby building was responsible for the persecution. Even before she had finished the sentence, little Fadu said to them: “I haven’t got a daddy, my daddy was persecuted to death.”
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• EFGIC: Brutal Murder of 56-Year-Old Woman Illustrates Regime’s Extreme Form of Censorship Regarding Falun Gong

  2003-10-03
  Less than a month after being arrested, Ms. Zhao was dead. Photographs taken by her family on May 10th indicate her death was horrifyingly brutal. Ms. Zhao’s face and body were covered with dark purple and blue bruises, there was a large open wound in the back of her head, her clothes were covered in blood and four of her ribs were fractured.
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• Sweden: Falun Gong Practitioners participate in an International Conference on Human Rights

  2003-10-03
  Practitioners raised questions with the chairman of the UN commission about the continuing persecution of Falun Gong in China and the issue of immunity for dictators. The panellists explained from different angles and affirmed that the persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese government has caught the attention of human rights organisations and led to condemnation by those organisations.
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