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• Norway: Practitioners Attend Festival of Peace in Drammen

  2003-06-11
  Practitioners introduced people to the Falun Gong exercises and many learned eagerly. The atmosphere was very serene for the entire day and outside, there was warm and sunny weather. Practitioners also talked with many people. Some expressed an interest in learning the exercises and asked about the nearest Falun Gong class.
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• Ukraine: Falun Gong Practitioners Take Part in the ‘Folklorama’ Festival in Kiev

  2003-06-11
  Practitioners took part in a concert, performing the Fan Dance and the Lotus Dance, while the five Falun Gong exercises were being demonstrated in the background. As well as an exercise demonstration and the dance performances, all of the practitioners who were present sang a song that they had composed entitled ‘Way Home’.
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• EFGIC: Chinese Police Rape Female Graduate Student

  2003-06-11
  'According to witnesses, on the evening of May 13th, several policemen took Wei to a cell in Baihelin Detention Centre of Shapingba District. There, witnesses say the police officers forced two female inmates to strip her, and one of the uniformed policemen pushed her to the ground and raped her as the other inmates watched. When Ms. Wei engaged in a hunger strike to protest her treatment, police botched a violent forced-feeding attempt, seriously injuring both her trachea and esophagus, leaving her unable to speak.'
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• Financial Times: Sars takes heavy toll at China Southern

  2003-06-11
  'China Southern Airlines suffered an 85 per cent slump in passenger numbers in May as the country's largest carrier succumbed to the impact of Sars on regional travel...A senior China Southern official admitted that Sars had begun affecting passenger loads in March, had had a major impact in April and that by May numbers were down 85 per cent year-on-year.'
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• EFGIC: Swedish Government Helps Falun Gong Practitioner in Thailand

  2003-06-10
  "No matter how I have been suffering during my detention here, I know that it is nothing compared to how terribly my friends in China are suffering in detention in labour camps. I wish that more people will know the true facts about Falun Gong and the persecution in China. I am even more determined now to help my fellow practitioners in China to the best of my abilities. I hope we all together can stop this senseless persecution soon." -- Pirjo Svennson.
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• Denmark: Practitioners Support the Global Lawsuit Against Jiang and Rescue Efforts for Charles Li

  2003-06-10
  Falun Gong practitioners from Denmark and Sweden gathered in front of the Chinese embassy in Copenhagen to support the global lawsuit against dictator Jiang Zemin for his crime of genocide in his brutal persecution of Falun Gong, and to support US practitioner Dr. Charles Li, who is illegally imprisoned in China.
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• France : Falun Gong Practitioners Hold Activity in Front of Chinese Embassy to Support Lawsuit Against Jiang

  2003-06-10
  The sounds of the practitioners reading aloud Jiang's crimes during the persecution of Falun Gong were loud and clear, drawing some consular officials' attention. A member of Amnesty International happened to pass by. After he listened to the introduction of the global lawsuit against Jiang, he was very interested.
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• Video: Swedish Practitioners Hold a Press Conference at Gothenburg Airport

  2003-06-10
  The Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Swedish Ambassador in Thailand delivered an official note, requesting an “immediate explanation” from the Thai authorities. As of May 30th, the Thai government still had not provided an explanation as to why Mrs. Svensson had been detained.
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• Denmark: The Chinese Embassy has Unreasonably Denied my Passport Application

  2003-06-09
  The clerk said: “We cannot grant your application”, and then returned my old passport and application form. When I asked him why this was so, he said that it was because I practise Falun Gong, which is illegal in China. He also mentioned that it is China’s policy not to process passport applications that are filed by Falun Gong practitioners. When I asked him to give me a written explanation, he said: “Apart from an oral notification, I cannot provide you with any document.”
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• Austria: Falun Gong Information Day and SOS Parade in Graz

  2003-06-09
  People happily accepted materials about the inhuman persecution of Falun Gong in China and the genocide lawsuit against Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin. Many people were touched by the stark contrasts between the beautiful and peaceful Falun Gong exercises, and the horrific persecution of Falun Gong instigated by Jiang Zemin in China.
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• Sweden: To Support the Lawsuit against Jiang, Practitioners Send Righteous Thoughts at the Chinese Embassy

  2003-06-09
  Since the 7th of June, some Swedish Falun Gong practitioners in Stockholm have sent forth righteous thoughts every hour in front of the Chinese embassy in Stockholm. The appeal is to coincide with Fa-rectification activities happening around the world to support the lawsuit against Jiang Zemin.
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• Radio France Internationale (RFI): Falun Gong Practitioner Charles Li Suffers Force Feeding Through Tubes Whilst Imprisoned in China

  2003-06-09
  'On the phone, Charles Li said that he had been ill-treated and force-fed. According to the UN human rights annual report, force feeding is often used as a torture technique on detainees who are on hunger strike. The hunger striker severely suffers during the force-feeding procedure or even chokes to death.'
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• Swedish Ambassador in Thailand Escorts Mrs. Pirjo Svensson to Bangkok Airport

  2003-06-08
  Before boarding the plane, Mrs. Svensson read out a statement that she had written earlier that day. The Swedish Ambassador then made a statement to Pirjo’s friends, the reporters and the Thai police. In his statement, the Ambassador recognised the innocence of Pirjo and expressed his regret for the Thai government's ignorance of Pirjo’s rights as well as their failure to maintain the promise of protecting human rights.
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• Netherlands: Dutch and German Falun Gong Practitioners Participate in the Asian Festival in Mondo Verde Park

  2003-06-08
  On the day before the Mondo Verde Asian Festival, the organizer received a fax from the Chinese Consulate asking him to cancel the Falun Gong demonstration. He rejected this irrational request and this incident was extensively reported by Dutch media; it became a talking point throughout the whole of the southern part of the Netherlands.
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• Report from The Epoch Times: UK MP Patsy Calton Supports a Chinese Scholar in Rescuing His Fiancée

  2003-06-08
  On June 2nd 2003, UK Member of Parliament Mrs. Patsy Calton invited Mr. Weiguo Xie, a Chinese scholar who practises Falun Gong, to her office in the London’s Houses of Parliament, and offered her full support in his efforts to rescue his fiancée, Miss Yongjie Zhu, who is now suffering in a labour camp in China.
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