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• AP: (Associated Press): Report on European Union Criticising China over Human Rights

  2003-03-19
  The EU foreign ministers issued a declaration expressing concern about "the lack of respect for human rights" in China, citing use of the death penalty, torture and arbitrary detention.
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• One Thousand Practitioners Take Part in Parade in Geneva

  2003-03-18
  On Monday, 2003 the 17th of March, to coincide with the start of the 59th annual session of UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Falun Dafa practitioners from around the world held a parade across the city. The parade went from Place Neuve in the heart of the city centre to the Place Des Nations, a large square outside of the United Nations building. Over one thousands practitioners took part.
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• Opening Statement of Press Conference Outside UN by the European Falun Dafa Association

  2003-03-18
  Faced with the urgency of the situation, we Falun Gong practitioners, on this symbolic day of the opening of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, appeal to the hearts and actions of every individual so that the voices of millions of innocent persons who are persecuted can be heard and so that in China and elsewhere freedom of conscience and fundamental human rights will prevail.
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• AP: Photo Report on Practitioners Outside United Nations

  2003-03-18
  Swiss followers of Falun Gong, a spiritual movement banned in mainland China, in front of the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, March 17, 2003, prior to the opening of the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Commission.
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• France: People From all Walks of Society Join New Year Celebration Dinner Party (Photos)

  2003-03-18
  These magnificent performances, and the peaceful and harmonious atmosphere, touched the hearts of the audience. They have understood the deeper meaning of “Truthfulness, Benevolence, Forbearance” from another perspective, and what realms these principles may enable human beings to achieve. They have also understood that only evil would persecute Falun Gong.
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• Germany: Collecting Signatures Near the Federal Parliament Building

  2003-03-18
  The site of the signature collecting is where all parliament members' cars had to pass by. Many people not only signed their names but also requested an additional petition form to take back home. Few of those who listened seriously to the truth refused to sign their names. They also promised to spread the facts of the persecution to all their friends and contacts.
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• Dafa Practitioners Meet with the Swedish Foreign Ministry

  2003-03-18
  The Association told the Foreign Ministry how China is irrationally persecuting and killed Falun Gong practitioners, even kidnapping overseas Chinese who have foreign passports whilst they return to China to visit their relatives. They also talked about the Hong Kong anti-subversion law and the lawsuit Falun Gong practitioners have filed against Jiang Zemin and his accomplices.
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• Fifth European Falun Dafa Experience-Sharing Conference Successfully Held in Geneva (photos)

  2003-03-17
  The fifth European Falun Dafa Experience-Sharing Conference was successfully held on the 16th of March 2003. Hundreds of practitioners from over 40 countries around the world attended the conference. Of the twelve speakers from ten different countries, those from Spain, Israel and Romania were the first from their countries to speak at an international Falun Dafa conference.
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• Epoch Times: Chinese Government Interference Leads to Challenges for New Tang Dynasty TV's Press Permit Application For Geneva Human Rights Conference (photo)

  2003-03-17
  The reason given was that NTD TV is a non-profit organization. A spokeswoman said, "This reason cannot be accepted, as AP and VOA are also non-profit organizations. Both of them have obtained permission. Based on our investigation, some UN officials disclosed that the Chinese Government had exerted pressure and is not happy with the New Tang Dynasty TV's reports on Falun Gong."
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• Sweden: Letter from the Dafa Association to the Foreign Minister Regarding the UN Human Rights Commission

  2003-03-17
  The United Nations Human Rights Commission is about to be held in Geneva. We hope that Sweden can take the initiative to nominate a resolution condemning China for its serious violation of human rights as well as the brutal persecution of Falun Gong.
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• More Details of MEP Marco Pannella`s Question to the European Commission on the Persecution against Falun Gong in China

  2003-03-17
  "Considering that since 1999: - according to public and well-known information provided by the Falun Dafa Information Centre, Amnesty International and other major international and national NGOs, Mr. Jiang Zemin, the leader of China, has begun the persecution of the more than 100 million people Falun Gong practitioners..."
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• Opening speech of the European Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience-Sharing Conference, Geneva, 2003

  2003-03-16
  Today we are here together with fellow practitioners from more than forty countries. We have, this time, received numerous experience sharing reports. So many that the limited conference duration will leave many speeches unheard. This Fa-conference will also be unique in that many speakers are coming from countries from which no speech has ever been given before.
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• Germany: Letter from the Chairman of Duisburg City Committee to the Mayor of Wuhan City, Calling for the Release of Lin Wenrong

  2003-03-16
  After talking with the practitioners, the Chairman of the City Committee wrote a letter to the Mayor of Wuhan City, telling him about Lin’s arrest. He voiced his sympathy and concern for Lin who might easily be suffering from torture and ill-treatment. In his letter, he also mentioned how worried Lin’s friends are about her detention, and that he would try every possible means to help her return to Dusseldorf as soon as possible.
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• Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor Press Release: An Assessment of Article 23

  2003-03-16
  'We remain of the view that the Bill is not needed to catch any genuinely criminal organisation or activities, as these are amply catered for under existing law, and that some of its provisions are still open to misuse in future to persecute those who are unpopular with the Mainland authorities but are merely exercising their rights of free speech, freedom of association and freedom of assembly in Hong Kong.'
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• Italy: Practitioners File Lawsuit Against Those Responsible for Slandering Falun Gong

  2003-03-15
  In order to uphold justice and to warn those who were slandering Dafa that there actions would not be accepted, practitioners filed a lawsuit against the people responsible for the slanderous exhibitions and newspaper articles, including Shu Maogao, the Consul General of the Chinese Consulate in Milan who published defamatory articles in a Chinese newspaper called “European Chinese Newspaper”. This article incited hatred and threatened Falun Gong practitioners.
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