Publications
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German Newspaper: Unfounded Inspection Is Illegal
2006-02-22German newspaper “Dresdner Neuesten Nachrichten” published an article on February 1st 2006 entitled “Unfounded Inspection is Illegal”. The article reports that Falun Gong practitioners’ lawsuit against German policemen’s violation of their human rights under the Chinese Communist Party’s pressure, which was handed in and dealt with by the Dresden City Administrative Court, was successful. The report says that the Dresden Administrative Court decided in their judgement that the police have no right at all to order an individual of any nationality belonging to any religious group to depart from a certain place. -
French Newspaper: Lawyer who Defends Human Rights for Falun Gong Holds Hunger Strike
2006-02-21France’s largest newspaper Le monde published reports on 12th and 13th February 2006 entitled “Human Rights Activist in China Initiates Relay Hunger Strike”. The articles point out that China’s declining human rights situation and the Chinese Communist authorities’ escalating violence and persecution triggered off a relay hunger strike for human rights, with lawyers, journalists, law scholars and people of all levels of society taking part. -
Newspaper Welt am Sonntag Interviews a German Falun Gong Practitioner
2006-02-17"Jing Wang is a follower of the Falun Gong movement that has been persecuted since 1999 in China and she is well informed about human rights violations including abductions, torture, forced labour camps and the death penalty. The penal code allows for arbitrary arrest and sentencing of unwanted individuals under the pretext that they are endangering public security or that they are counterrevolutionary or subversive. Ms. Wang said that the communists feel especially threatened by groups like Falun Gong that have a spiritual orientation and have been extremely popular during the last few years." -
The Torniojokilaakso Newspaper (Lapland): Falun Gong Exhibition in the Pello Library
2006-02-13"Falun Gong practitioners Anja and Veijo Pekkarinen have found a new lifestyle in this practice, which balances the energies of mind and body. Practising is not easy as one tries to live as a good unselfish person who treats other people with compassion ... " -
Article from Main Post Newspaper in Germany: Deportation Topic Discussed in Berlin
2006-02-10"The Würzburg Administrative Court rejected Jiang’s asylum request in March 2005. The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees reversed its decision in November — only after he was persecuted and sentenced in China — and approved Jiang’s asylum request retroactively. However, this delayed recognition of the family’s plight does not do that family any good. Jiang’s passport was confiscated and he cannot leave China." -
The Epoch Times: Detained Thailand Falun Gong Refugees Find Freedom in Norway
2006-02-02Four Falun Gong refugees incarcerated by Thai authorities for the past month for protesting the persecution of their peers in China took an early morning flight to Norway on Tuesday, January 24. Wang Yajun, Liu Ying, Li Jianhui, and Miao Miao, accompanied by four family members including two children, flew to freedom and permanent asylum in the Scandinavian country. -
The Epoch Times: Council of Europe Parliament Condemns Human Rights Violations by Communist Regimes
2006-01-27LONDON—The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) condemned on Wednesday the human rights violations committed by totalitarian communist regimes and expressed sympathy, understanding and recognition for the victims of these crimes. The Assembly passed a resolution, which censured violations such as executions, deaths in concentration camps, torture, slave labour, and starvation committed by communist regimes..."Totalitarian communist regimes are still active in some countries of the world and crimes continue to be committed," the resolution said. "The Assembly strongly condemns all those violations of human rights." -
Epoch Times Ireland: Spanish National Court to Investigate Genocide Crimes
2006-01-18Last week Spain’s National Court announced to the media that Spain will begin the investigation of the crime of genocide against the Tibetan people by the Chinese Communist Party from the 1980s to 1990s. Reuters released the news saying that Comite de Apoyo Del Tibet (CAT) made an appeal to the secondary court against the crime of genocide committed by seven high-ranking officials of the CCP, including its former president Jiang Zemin. -
Iceland Review: Refusal of Falun Gong [practitioners] deemed unlawful
2006-01-05Representatives of the Falun Gong movement welcomed the decision, and requested that the government pay compensation to those banned from entering Iceland, as well as handing over the list of undesirable people so it could be destroyed. They said that the government had attempted to stifle the voice of justice and bow to the wishes of a foreign dictator. They had gone against the wishes of the Icelandic people and had set a dangerous precedent to other democratic countries in their actions against Falun Gong. -
German Taz Newspaper: Letter to the editor
2005-12-30"Many people from this area think that China is far away. Yet, they seek economic and political contacts with China. But, most of the time they have no idea what they are getting into. No one dares to bring up the subject of human rights during contacts with high-level political policy makers ... People practise Falun Gong throughout the world. No other country has banned Falun Gong, just the opposite, everywhere where Falun Gong comes to the public it is recognised favourably and receives support." -
Germany's Chamer Newspaper: Silent protest against torture and the persecution
2005-12-28“Truthfulness – Compassion – Tolerance:” These three words were written on the t-shirt worn by Falkensteiner’s Utz-Reiner Römer during his three-week travels through China. This may sound perfectly harmless to a European, while it gives a political message in China. In China, the words Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance are considered the pillars of the Falun Gong movement. -
Falun Gong Practitioner's Painting "Homeless" Draws Attention from German Newspaper
2005-12-23The theme of the most recent edition of the “Donau Strudl”, a street magazine from Regensburg, was “Homelessness”. The chief editor adopted Falun Gong practitioner’s painting “Homeless” from the International Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance Fine Art Exhibition and expressed sympathy and concern towards the innocent Falun Gong practitioners and their relatives who have been made homeless by the persecution. -
Italian Monthly Magazine: Millennium China: "The path of Falun Gong cultivation"
2005-12-15An Italian monthly magazine called “Viaggiand” took “Millennium China” as a topic and published a series of articles about China's five-thousand-year old culture in the November 2005 issue. In a special column entitled “The Spirit and the Rule”, Falun Gong is introduced under the title “Falun Gong, a path of cultivation” The article explains that Falun Gong is a cultivation practice to help people obtain intrinsic improvements. -
Report in Finnish Newspaper: Peaceful Mind with Falun Gong
2005-12-13Instead of morning coffee the Pekkarinen family in Oulu begin their day with meditation. Without it, the Falun Gong practitioners, Anja and Veijo Pekkarinen don’t feel properly awakened. "The exercise makes you wake up, it cleans the mind and make you alert", says Anja. The Pekkarinen family learned it four years ago."Since then I don't suffer from insomnia...The practise does lot of good things." -
Spanish newspaper La Voz de Almeria publishes article about the lawsuit against the Chinese Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai
2005-11-27"Bo Xilai, who will likely accompany the Chinese President during his trip to Spain from the 13th to the 15th of November, has been subjected to criminal lawsuits in various countries around the world, including England, Germany, Poland, the United States, Chile and Peru, accused of grave crimes against humanity, genocide and torture against Chinese citizens for their spiritual beliefs, where hundreds have died through cruel torture."