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Sweden: Teachers and Students Learn Falun Dafa Together
2003-04-20'During the Open Day, I held two introductory exercise-teaching classes: one in the morning and the other in the afternoon. As well as teaching the exercises I explained that Falun Dafa improves the mind as well as the body, and this improvement is based on improving ones moral standards in everyday life by assimilating to the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.' -
UK: Falun Gong Practitioners Send Forth Righteous Thoughts Outside Chinese Embassy to Support the Lawsuit Against Dictator Jiang Zemin
2003-04-20Upon seeing our flyers and posters regarding the lawsuit against Jiang, many kind-hearted people said that this is really an effective way to solve the problem of the Jiang regime's persecution. They also expressed their understanding and support for our persistent peaceful appeal and sincerely wished us great success! -
Radio Free Asia Reports on Appeals in Support of Lawsuit Against Dictator Jiang Zemin
2003-04-20Radio Free Asia broadcast a report about Falun Gong practitioners in Germany and Europe holding peaceful appeals in front of the Chinese embassies to support the lawsuit against Jiang Zemin. Practitioners are successively filing lawsuits in the courts of European countries, charging Jiang with genocide and anti-humanitarian acts through his persecution of Falun Gong. -
Central News Agency (Taiwan): SARS Strikes Beijing, Citizens Are In a Panic
2003-04-20"The Beijing Travel Bureau recently conducted an investigation of local hotels, and discovered that since March, hotel occupancy rates have seriously declined. A large number of tour groups have canceled their trips to Beijing. SARS has caused the country to "to stop all foreign contact" and people are in a panic. Both international conferences and general mass activities had to be canceled, causing a severe blow to the general development of the Chinese economy." -
EFGIC: Brother and Sister Hung by Their Wrists and Beaten - Brother Dies from Torture
2003-04-19'The police took the siblings to an outdoor yard. The police hung them both up by their wrists and then proceeded to beat them severely. These sources say that Mr. Chen was beaten until he spat up blood; his entire body was black and blue, and both his legs were broken. After the beatings, the police sent Mr. Chen to the Huailai Detention Centre.' -
Pohjolan Sanomat (Finland): Cultivation of Mind and Body
2003-04-19'Falun Dafa is an ancient Chinese qigong practice, which has been founded by Mr. Li Hongzhi. He brought his practice to the public in 1992 and ever since it has attracted millions of practitioners worldwide.' -
EFGIC: Lawyer for U.S. Rights Org Takes Aim at Overseas Assets of Chinese Officials Persecuting Falun Gong
2003-04-19'The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong recently launched an initiative targeting assets and properties of Chinese government officials who have participated in the persecution of Falun Gong in China.' -
The Swedish and Persian Versions of "Master Lis Lectures in Guangzhou" are Now Available
2003-04-19The Swedish Video-CD of Master Lis Lectures in Guangzhou and the simultaneously translated Persian video cassette version of Master Lis Lectures in Guangzhou are now available. -
Looking at the Credibility of China's Official Propaganda in Light of the SARS Outbreak
2003-04-19If the media had been allowed to cover the issue openly at the beginning of the outbreak, reveal the reality of the situation and the risk to the public and to people's lives, it would have resulted in the necessary precautions being instituted earlier. How many lives could have been saved in China and elsewhere? -
Ming Bao (Hong Kong Chinese Newspaper): Falun Gong Sues Immigration for Discrimination
2003-04-19'In total more than eighty Taiwan Falun Gong practitioners were refused entry to Hong Kong including the four plaintiffs. They had planned to attend the "World Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference" on February 22 2003. When they arrived at Hong Kong on February 21, the Immigration Office rejected their entry without reasonable explanation and expelled them...Two of the plaintiffs were violently expelled, though they offered no resistance.' -
Irish Practitioners Start Letter Writing Campaign to Rescue 2 Dublin Students Detained in China
2003-04-18Irish Falun Dafa Practitioners are appealing to all kind-hearted people to help their fellow practitioners who have been detained in China, by asking them to sign a petition letter and send it to the Chinese Embassy and the Irish Government. Here are some background details on their cases, and the petition letter. -
Ireland: Activities to Rescue Students Liu Feng and Yang Fang at Dublin Morning Practice
2003-04-18TV stations, radio stations and newspapers all turned their attention to the practitioners who were meditating in the middle of Dublins busiest street. The news of the persecution spread once again to every corner of Ireland. The principles Truth, Compassion and Forbearance rang throughout the airwaves and newspapers. -
Norway: Falun Gong at a Health Fair in the City of Tonsberg
2003-04-18The first thing that most people saw when they came into the exhibition hall was the practitioners exercise demonstration. This made them feel relaxed and at ease, and they were glad to receive information about Falun Gong. Most people took our flyers, and many asked questions. We told them more about Falun Dafa and also about the inhuman and evil persecution against Falun Gong in China and abroad. -
Denmark: Falun Dafa Practitioners Send Forth Righteous Thoughts Outside the Chinese Embassy to Support the Just Lawsuit Against Dictator Jiang
2003-04-18On April 14 2003, the plaintiffs' attorney provided the US district court in Illinois with documents citing evidence of crimes committed by Jiang and the 610 Office and for the legal procedure of the lawsuit. At this important historical moment, practitioners from Denmark continued their activity of sending forth righteous thoughts at set hours outside the Chinese Embassy. -
Ireland: Practitioners Send Forth Righteous Thoughts Hourly in Support of the Lawsuit Against Jiang
2003-04-18On Sunday, we sent forth righteous thoughts every hour during our group Fa study in support of the lawsuit against the dictator Jiang Zemin in America. Jiang is guilty of the most heinous crimes, and is now becoming utterly isolated. His own followers and the people who are being forced to listen to his evils commands should immediately stop doing evil deeds.