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• EFGIC: Seven Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured to Death for Exposing Persecution in China

  2003-05-29
  'The circumstances of their deaths were recently uncovered and reported to the European Falun Gong Information Centre despite the Chinese government’s control of information about Falun Gong-related cases. This same control of media and information was exactly what these seven men and woman risked their lives to break through in order to raise awareness about the plight of Falun Gong practitioners in China.'
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• World Psychiatric Association Members Strongly Condemn China's Abuses of Psychiatry to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners

  2003-05-29
  "Despite the resolution of the WPA at the 12th WPA conference in Yokohama Japan...there have been new cases of abuse and torture of Falun Gong practitioners in mental hospitals, some concluded in death, after almost four years of persecution the torture and killing of the practitioners continue. Over 1000 practitioners have been involuntarily detained in mental hospitals at least 91 hospitals have been identified for being engaged in this psychiatric abuse of the practise. Today the number of normal healthy Falun Gong practitioners incarcerated and abused in mental hospitals way way way exceeds one thousand."
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• Photo Report: European Practitioners Reveal the Facts about Dafa During EU Meeting in Salzburg

  2003-05-28
  
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• Sweden: Gothenburg Practitioners Hold Activities to Rescue Pirjo Svensson

  2003-05-28
  Sweden’s media has continued to report on Mrs. Svensson’s situation and media coverage has increased after the recent press conference staged by Swedish practitioners. This has allowed more people in Gothenburg to learn about the violations of human rights that Pirjo is suffering and many people are very concerned for her. With the facts revealed, more and more people have signed the petition form.
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• Letter from Finnish Falun Dafa Association to the King of Thailand

  2003-05-28
  "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Sweden and the Swedish Embassy in Bangkok has formally contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Thailand. TV, radio, and some major newspapers in Sweden have also reported the incident, and have emphasised that Mrs. Svensson is innocent. At present, the Swedish government is actively negotiating with the Thai government to help Mrs. Svensson regain her freedom."
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• Greek Falun Dafa Association Sends Best Wishes on the Establishment of the Bulgarian Falun Dafa Association

  2003-05-28
  The Greek Association of Falun Dafa congratulates the Bulgarian practitioners on the establishment of the Bulgarian Falun Dafa Association.
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• Swedish Falun Dafa Association Congratulates the Establishment of the Bulgarian Falun Dafa Association

  2003-05-28
  We share the joy with you and look forward to receiving further good news. Let us jointly progress in Europe and manifest the greatness of Dafa as one body.
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• South China Morning Post (SCMP): Law and Disorder

  2003-05-28
  'Cases of police brutality and corruption occur so frequently on the mainland that many rights activists are convinced such behaviour is favoured by government and party authorities. In any given week, startling cases abound...There is widespread acceptance that sectors of the police force are violent and venal, and form alliances with elements of the Communist Party, the judiciary and criminal gangs.'
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• Bulgarian Falun Dafa Association Officially Established

  2003-05-27
  We would like to announce the establishment of the Bulgarian Falun Dafa Association. We, Bulgarian Dafa practitioners will do our best to fulfil our duty in the current process of Fa-rectification.Thank you, Master! Thank you, fellow practitioners!
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• Estonia: Falun Gong at the Mother Earth Fair in Tallinn

  2003-05-27
  Many wanted to talk with practitioners, wanted to have more materials and were also interested in reading the book Falun Gong, the introductory text of Falun Gong. People from the adjoining stalls came to thank practitioners and told them that they were very moved by seeing the exercises.
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• Sweden: Collecting Signatures and Clarifying the Facts in Gothenburg.

  2003-05-27
  To appeal for the release of Ms. Pirjo Svennson, a Swedish practitioner detained in Thailand, Falun Gong practitioners collected signatures in Gothenburg for her release. Many people signed the petition after learning about her arrest and detention and also when they learned that the government of Thailand has still not given a reason for her arrest.
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• Finland: Letter from the Finnish Falun Dafa Association to the Prime Minister of Thailand

  2003-05-27
  For the past four years under Jiang Zemin, the Chinese regime has used every possible means to ‘eliminate’ Falun Gong both inside and outside China and has then proceeded to cover up the situation with fabricated stories. Jiang and other top officials in China are now facing lawsuits in the US and Europe for committing crimes against humanity, genocide and torture. It is not good for the future of any country to succumb to pressure from a government whose top leaders are committing genocide against their own people.
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• Press Release from International Association for Human Rights: Thailand holds Swedish Falun Gong Practitioner Prisoner

  2003-05-27
  “We are quite worried that so far, Mrs. Svensson is being held without having been formally charged. No charge has been brought against this Swedish citizen. She did, however, receive a covert signal that an unobtrusive leave from Thailand could be arranged. Mrs. Svensson has visited Thailand regularly for the past 3 years and had spent much time there, but never in those 3 years, during her previous Thai visits nor during her visit in April of this year has she ever been in conflict with the law. Now, she wants public acknowledgement of her innocence.”
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• Sweden: Practitioners Clarify the Facts about Dafa at a Chinese Public Speaking Contest

  2003-05-27
  After hearing their speeches, many of their classmates praised their courage. The Chinese Embassy officials seemed surprised at Dafa’s popularity in Sweden. It was unexpected for two Falun Gong practitioners, among the more than twenty students, to say that Dafa is good and to appeal to stop the persecution. They brought a sense of goodness to the contest. The speeches made people wonder: what brings so many people around the worldto practice Falun Gong?
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• English Petition to release Ms. Pirjo Svennson from Detention in Thailand Available

  2003-05-27
  Mrs. Svensson from Sweden doing the Falun Gong exercises at Suan Pluh Immigration Detention Centre in Bangkok, Thailand. She has now been detained for more than three weeks, without being given a reason for her detention.
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