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• Finland: SOS Tour Attracts Media Attention in Every City

  2003-08-17
  During this SOS Tour, practitioners had some great opportunities to tell people about the legal process to bring Jiang to justice. In some of the cities they visited, people had never seen Falun Dafa before and were supportive. In every city, a journalist from the local newspaper came to report on the activity and practitioners appeared on the front page of the following day’s paper.
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• Belgium: A Leading Political Party sends a Message of Support for a Lawsuit Against Jiang Zemin

  2003-08-17
  "The N-VA supports your initiative and really hopes that the juridical steps will have a positive consequence. We wish you all success."
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• Ireland: Speech by Psychiatrist Declan Lyons on the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners

  2003-08-17
  "What is happening today in China, however, is the blatant misuse of psychiatry to act as a direct agent of social control and to be a tool of that state’s suppression of Falun Gong. Since the start of the persecution 4 years ago, a steady stream of practitioners have been labelled as mentally ill and been detained involuntarily in state forensic psychiatric hospitals...We know of between 1500-2000 such admissions of Falun Gong practitioners where families have refuted the presence of any mental illness."
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• Falun Gong practitioners in Ireland are preparing to Sue Chinese Dictator Jiang Zemin

  2003-08-16
  Ireland is a country with a population of only 3 to 4 million, a small island on the western flank of the European continent. But in such a small country so far away from China, people have still been the victims of Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin’s campaign of persecution against Falun Gong. Falun Gong practitioners in Ireland are working together with a team of prominent Irish lawyers to launch a lawsuit and bring Jiang Zemin to Justice in Ireland.
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• EFGIC: Pinochet Prosecutors Take Aim at Former Minister of China for Crimes of Torture Against Falun Gong

  2003-08-16
  'Last week, Mr. William Bourdon, one of the lawyers responsible for the trials against Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, announced that a French criminal court has begun legal proceedings in a lawsuit charging the former Vice-Prime Minister of China, Mr. Lanqing Li, with crimes of torture.'
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• Sweden: Celebrating Five Years of Falun Dafa in Kalmar City

  2003-08-16
  Five years ago, we did not even have a video tape to learn the exercises from. We had the book Falun Gong, with pictures of the exercises. We put a key on top of the page so that it was not turned over by the wind and then we practised the exercises, comparing our movements to the pictures. We tried to perfect our movements by pointing out each other’s mistakes.
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• Belgian Falun Gong Practitioners Prepare a Complaint Against the Former Leader of China Jiang Zemin

  2003-08-15
  Jiang Zemin, the former leader of the Chinese communist party, is responsible for this persecution. An international action has been launched to bring him to justice and to hold him responsible for his crimes. Belgian Falun Gong practitioners are using the new Belgian law against genocide to prepare a complaint against Jiang on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and torture and, in this way, to let the world know the truth, to save more lives and to help stop this brutal persecution.
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• UK: Irish and UK Dafa Practitioners Work Together to Publicise the Family Rescue Campign in Northern Ireland

  2003-08-15
  Over three days, the UK practitioner and some Irish practitioners went to three of the biggest cities in Ireland - the capital Dublin, Galway, and Limerick - and three important cities in Northern Ireland - the capital Belfast, Lisburn, and Newtown. We gave petition letters and details of the family rescue cases to local councillors and the media.
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• Article from Belgian Website Expatica: “Jiang Zemin Faces Genocide Lawsuit”

  2003-08-15
  The article revealed that Jiang is to be cited for crimes against humanity under Belgium’s new genocide law, and outlined how according to the lawsuit, “the actions of the Chinese authorities have also deprived the rights of Falun Gong members in Belgium.” The article also mentions that since 1999, when the persecution against Falun Gong began, many people who support Falun Gong have been arrested or imprisoned.
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• Belgian Practitioners Officially Announce the Preparation of a Lawsuit against Jiang Zemin

  2003-08-14
  Falun Gong practitioners were invited for an interview on one of Belgium’s leading radio news programs. Belgian practitioners have already received an encouraging message from a Belgian political party, saying that they support this initiative, wish the practitioners success and hope that the result of the lawsuit will be good.
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• Radio France Internationale: Interview with a Female Practitioner who Suffered Brutal Torture at the Hands of Jiang Zemin’s Regime

  2003-08-14
  'In winter, we were forced to take off our clothes, cold water was poured on our bodies, and we were forcibly fed with food whilst our arms and legs were tied up. What we were fed with was some kind of mixture of chilli, highly-concentrated brine, medicine, excrement and urine. The mixture was inserted through tubes into our noses. It was not uncommon for the insertion to cause a broken wound, blood would spray out and many Dafa practitioners died due to the insertion...'
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• UK: People Can Feel the Goodness of Falun Dafa During Activities in Solihull City Centre

  2003-08-14
  Amazed at how peaceful the exercises looked, many people took information about free classes around the UK and learned more about the brutal persecution that has now been happening in China for over four years. Many people I spoke to were astonished that such a peaceful practice could be so viciously persecuted.
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• EFGIC: University Professor Subjected to Brainwashing Sessions Then Tortured to Death in Chinese Labour Camp for Falun Gong Practise

  2003-08-14
  By early June 2003, Mr. Bai was so emaciated from torture and abuse in the labour camp that he could no longer stand. He vomited whatever he ate and was so weak that he could not even drink water. During Mr. Bai’s last month when he was confined to a bed and obviously dying, the labour camp authorities and medical staff refused to send him to a hospital.
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• UK: Touching People’s Hearts at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

  2003-08-13
  A Western man and a Hong Kong lady had heard some of Jiang’s propaganda about Falun Gong. A Chinese practitioner talked with them and showed them photos of persecuted practitioners. They said they had suspected that the propaganda was lies and now it was confirmed. They left after wishing the practitioner good luck.
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• Article from French Reunion Island Daily News: Li Lanqing should have been Sued in January

  2003-08-13
  Legal proceedings against Chinese Vice-Premier Li Lanqing have officially started in France. Li Lanqing is the head of the "610 Office", an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems in China. He is being charged with the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
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