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  • Russia: Report on the Medical Effects of Falun Gong from Moscow City Business Committee

    A medical investigation and study on some Russian Falun Gong practitioners was conducted by an Investigation and Study Team, composed of Professor Guluoji (MD), a well known legal medical expert in the Legal and Medical Office of the Russian Federal Internal Affairs Department, and Mr. Simingtani, the Chief Examination Doctor in the Investigation Office of the Justice Department.
  • Apple Daily: Honesty and Credibility Go Bankrupt

    'The government of Hong Kong's Special Administrative Region ignores the objection of most of its citizens and insists on implementing Article 23 into the National Security Bill...this will cost the government the loss of its honesty, the bankruptcy of its credibility, and the loss of the public's trust in them.'
  • Switzerland: Practitioners Expose the Truth Behind the Persecution at the World Economic Forum in Davos

    A Swiss participant at the Forum said, “I have read all of your materials. What you’re doing is really important...It is incredible that Jiang Zemin is oppressing such kind-hearted people. I’ll bring up the issue of Falun Gong practitioners’ human rights to the Chinese delegation at the press conference later on.”
  • AFP (Agence France Presse): Free Press at Risk From Proposed Hong Kong Law, Journalists Warn

    'The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday warned that a proposed anti-subversion law poses a grave threat to freedom of expression in Hong Kong...Human rights and pro-democracy groups fear that China could use the new law to suppress freedoms including those of media, speech and religion, as well as to ban groups it considers a threat.'
  • UK: Falun Dafa at a University’s “Oneworld Week”

    On Friday, Falun Gong took centre stage at the “Peace and Tranquillity” event, which was a huge success. Many students watched and learnt the beautiful exercises and were amazed that no money was involved. One person commented that when she entered the room the Dafa music was incredibly powerful. The event organisers said that the atmosphere was so peaceful that they didn’t want to leave.
  • Citizens from the South of Sweden Appeal for the Release of Charles Li

    "[The] Chinese government simply ignores the truth and continues to persecute practitioners using beatings, torture, and even killing thousands of people, breaking up their families and rendering them homeless. Furthermore the persecution has spread overseas, with the illegal detention of a US practitioner. This is absolutely intolerable."
  • Letter from British Playwright to the BBC

    Tinch Minter is a Cambridge-based playwright. After learning about the Jiang regime’s brutal persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners, she chose to portray her sympathy and concern by composing a play for two relatives of UK Dafa practitioners who are currently being illegally detained in China.
  • The Washington Times: Proposed [anti-subversion] law sparks concern

    Many observers say they believe at the heart of this proposed legislation lies Beijing's continuing crackdown on the outlawed Falun Gong movement. [Falun Gong] is illegal on the mainland but under Hong Kong law members are free to practice. Falun Gong supporters and human rights activists fear the new laws will be used to shut down the movement in Hong Kong.
  • Ireland: Letter from a Practitioner to a Member of Parliament

    In this country I've heard people complain about our justice system. [...] But, at least we have a Justice System. In China, anyone who is a practitioner of Falun Dafa, or is suspected of being a practitioner, can be picked up from home, work, the street, at any time, with no warrant, no reason, no trial and no evidence, and simply disappear.
  • Letter from the Falun Dafa Association of Finland calling for the Release of Charles Li

    "Charles Li has a fiancée in the US and friends who are longing very much for his release, as are all Falun Gong practitioners around the world. US consular officials are allowed only one 30-minute meeting with Charles Li per month. He may be under serious risk of being tortured and ill-treated just like hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners in China."
  • Romanian Falun Dafa Association Officially Established

    "We are happy to announce that on the 18 February 2003, the Romanian Falun Dafa Association was officially established. It took the Romanian practitioners more than 1 year to overcome different forms of interferences to bring this process to its conclusion."
  • France: Telling People the Facts About Falun Dafa Outside the City Hall in Paris

  • Norway: Revealing the Facts of the Persecution to Chinese people at a New Year party in Oslo

    The practitioners hoped to give these people a chance to learn the truth and see that tens of millions of innocent Chinese people are being unjustly persecuted, slandered and suppressed. Nearly everybody took the materials, which included information about the Genocide lawsuit filed against Jiang in America, and also thanked us.
  • Cambridge Evening News: ‘Thanks to a kind stranger’

    "Though our practitioners have never accepted any donations from the public Dr Li told me she could not reject you at all, a beautiful girl with such a very kind heart. She and everyone who has heard this story are very touched by you and so am I. I have not been able to give Yongjie your teddy bear but as soon as she is released I would like to invite you to join me in giving it to her."
  • Ireland: Letter from an Irish Citizen Appealing for Justice for Falun Gong practitioners in China

    As both a human being and a Falun Gong practitioner, I feel I must ask you to condemn the murder, torture, and illegal imprisonment and persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China...I implore you to bring this to the attention of the Irish government and urge them to condemn the persecution.