World Falun Dafa Day, Worldwide News
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Japan: Falun Gong Practitioners Participate in Hiroshima Flower Festival Parade
2004-05-11Sixty-nine groups-- about 6200 people-- participated in the first day's parade on Peace Boulevard. It rained in the afternoon, but about 350,000 spectators were still in high spirits. In order to let more people know the wonderfulness of Falun Dafa, Japan Falun Gong practitioners participated in the festival for the third time. -
Additional Group of Macau Practitioners Denied Entry to Hong Kong
2004-05-10On May the 1st, a Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference was held in Hong Kong. A group of practitioners from Macau travelled to Hong Kong by boat. Some of them were denied entry, including three ladies (Ms. Chen Jinshao, 41, Ms. Cai Ruirong, 54, and Ms. Cai Xiaohui, 52) and one gentleman, Mr. Yu, who is 38 years old. The previous day, practitioner Lin Yiming was also denied entry. -
Falun Gong Practitioners Clarify the Truth with Street Performance in Hong Kong
2004-05-10On May the 2nd 2004, a unique performance was held on one of the busiest streets of Hong Kong. On the second day of the Hong Kong Falun Gong Experience Sharing Conference, practitioners from around the world held a small-scale recreational show on Mongkok Street. -
Canada: Mayor of the City of Port Moody Proclaims Falun Dafa Month Honouring Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance [April 27, 2004]
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The Chinese Media in Canada Pays Attention to "April 25th Appeal" Activities Held by Falun Gong Practitioners
2004-05-07On the fifth anniversary of the "April 25th Appeal" event, Falun Gong practitioners in Toronto, Canada held a series of activities themed ""Revealing the Truth Behind April 25th, Bring Jiang Zemin to Justice." The local Chinese media reported on the activities. The practitioners held a candlelight vigil in front of the Chinese consulate in Toronto on April 24, and on April 25 they had a car parade and other activities. -
The Book Falun Gong Is Published in Hindi
2004-05-06Falun Gong is the introductory book to the principles and practice of Falun Gong. The publication of Falun Gong in Hindi is a wonderful opportunity to enable the Indian people to understand the beauty and wonderfulness of this practice that has touched the hearts of more than100 million people around the world. -
United States: Practitioners Participate in New York's Asian Pacific American Heritage Cultural Festival
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Hong Kong: Falun Dafa Practitioners Hold Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference and Grand Parade against the Persecution
2004-05-05On May 1, the 2004 Hong Kong Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference was solemnly held at Ming'ai Service Centre in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Nearly 700 Falun Gong practitioners from Taiwan, Canada, Australia, the United States, Malaysia, Thailand, Macao and Hong Kong attended this conference. -
Friends of Falun Gong USA Recommends that WPA Fact-Finding Mission Resume
2004-05-05Friends of Falun Gong USA Recommends that WPA Fact-Finding Mission Resume Work The World Psychiatric Association (WPA)'s fact-finding mission to China has been postponed indefinitely due to Chinese authorities' refusal to abide by the conditions agreed to by them in January. FoFG recommends that this mission resume at the earliest possible date. Otherwise, we recommend that the Chinese Society of Psychiatrists be expelled from the WPA. -
Tracing the Principal Criminal of Inciting Hate Propaganda, Wang Yusheng
2004-05-04In April 2004, at the 60th session of UNHRC in Geneva, a Falun Gong practitioner, Yoko Kaneko, who was released from a Chinese labour camp not long ago and invited to give a special speech at the UNHRC, recognised a Chinese official who was attending the UNHRC under the guise of an NGO called “Chinese UN Association”. This delegate had instigated the cruel torture and brainwashing of Falun Gong practitioners in China. -
Macao: Falun Gong Practitioners Commemorate the Fifth Anniversary of April 25 Appeal
2004-05-01In order to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the April 25, 1999 in China, Falun Gong practitioners distributed materials pertaining to commemorating April 25 Peaceful Appeal and flyers informing the public of the global lawsuits against Jiang Zemin in front of the Government Information Bureau. -
Rocky Mountain News Exposes How Chinese Security Agents Tried to Coerce An American Citizen to Be Their Spy
2004-05-01'Importer Leejun Ivie had looked forward to celebrating her 41st birthday with her family in Beijing this year. Instead, she said, she was kidnapped by Chinese authorities and interrogated for 10 hours about her Falun Gong activities in the United States.' -
United States: On the Fifth Anniversary of April 25 Appeal Eyewitnesses Hold an Outdoor Symposium to Clarify the Truth
2004-04-30This was the fifth anniversary of the April 25 Appeal by 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners in 1999 in Beijing. Many people still have many questions about why Falun Gong practitioners went to appeal. In order to let people learn about the the historic appeal, Bay Area Falun Gong practitioners held an Outdoor Symposium. -
Taiwanese Citizen is Detained for 96 Hours in China's Jiangxi Province - Authorities Try to Recruit Her as a Spy
2004-04-29On January the 29th 2004, Taiwan resident Ms. Li Xinju went to her original hometown in Jiangxi Province to celebrate her mother's birthday. As soon as she stepped off the airplane, she was abducted and taken to a clandestine location. During her 96-hour detention, she was subjected to search and interrogation. -
Indonesia: Practitioners Commemorate the Fifth Anniversary of the April 25th Peaceful Appeal
2004-04-29At 11 a.m. on April the 23rd 2004, more than 10 Indonesia Falun Gong practitioners held a sit-in appeal in front of the Chinese Embassy for about two and a half hours. On the street opposite to the Chinese Embassy building, practitioners sent forth righteous thoughts once an hour.