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• Denmark: Drummer of a Famous Musician’s Band attracts Media Attention

  2003-10-08
  Famous musician and rock music icon David Bowie recently performed in Copenhagen. His drummer, Sterling Campbell, has attracted a lot of media attention because he is a Falun Gong practitioner. Like millions of practitioners who work in all sorts of different professions, Sterling volunteers his spare time to let people know the facts about the persecution.
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• Germany: Dafa Practitioners bring a Good Day to Bad Kreuznach City

  2003-10-08
  Many people stopped to watch the exercise demonstration, listen to the music, look at the display boards and take materials to find out more. Some of them signed a petition calling for the release of Xiong Wei, a practitioner from Germany who has been illegally detained in China, and others asked questions about Falun Gong.
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• Germany: Exposing Jiang's Crimes to Tourists during the Munich Beer Festival

  2003-10-07
  Instead of practitioners handing out materials, people were coming up to practitioners and asking for information whilst they watched the Falun Gong exercise demonstration. They expressed a tremendous interest in Falun Gong by constantly asking questions and they were angry at this cruel suppression of the innocent. People could not comprehend that there exists a place where Truthfulness, Benevolence and Forbearance are prohibited and people are not allowed to be good.
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• The Establishment of the “Global Coalition to Bring Jiang to Justice" receives Intensive Interest

  2003-10-07
  According to a report by “Radio Free Asia”, dated October the 3rd, the coalition has received support from European societies ever since its establishment, because its objective is to expose crimes committed by Jiang, bring him to the court of conscience and justice, and have him stand before the law to receive judgement.
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• UK: People learn the Truth at a London Garden Party (pictures)

  2003-10-07
  Practitioners felt that this was a great opportunity to let them know more about the persecution of Falun Gong and the appeal to rescue UK practitioners’ friends and relatives who are illegally imprisoned in China. People signed practitioners’ petition and expressed support after listening to a speech by the brother of Zhu Baolian, who is illegally imprisoned in Beijing for handing out Falun Gong leaflets.
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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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