Publications
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The Times (United Kingdom): Child Slave Labour Revelation CCP Officials Involved
2007-06-29"More than 1,000 children may have been kidnapped and sold into slave labour in a brutal human trafficking ring that has shocked and outraged China. The children, some as young as eight, worked in brick kilns for sixteen hours a day with meagre food rations. They were guarded by fierce dogs and thugs who beat their prisoners at will. Many were abducted right off the streets of cities in the region and sold to factories and mines for as little as 400 Yuan (£27). The unfolding scandal, involving negligent law enforcement and even collusion between government officials and slave masters, burst into the open this week". -
Dnevni Avaz (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Newspaper Reports on the Activities in Sarajevo for World Falun Dafa Day
2007-06-08"The practitioners of this discipline claim that by practising the Falun Gong exercises one can achieve improvement to one's health, reduce stress and that one can also gain inner peace and harmony. It also allows the practitioner to obtain better concentration and increases mental capacity ... The demonstration of the exercises actually represented a peaceful appeal and to publicise the brutal persecution suffered by Falun Gong practitioners in China." -
Nexus (Croatia): Genocide under the Olympic Flag
2007-05-30Nexus, a Croatian magazine for alternative medicine and spirituality, in its issue, no. 18, April - May 2007, published an article entitled "Genocide under the Olympic Flag: Horrible Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in China." The author of the article asks why China's government started the persecution against Falun Gong in 1999 and why are practitioners today subjected to arrests and torture, despite the fact that many practitioners have been cured of chronic sicknesses, became healthy and have raised their spirituality according to principles of Truth, Compassion and Tolerance. -
Turkish Magazine Interviews Practitioner About Falun Gong and the Persecution in China
2007-05-24"Today in China, people who practise Falun Gong are not accepted to schools and universities, they are fired from their jobs, and their houses are ransacked and phones tapped. Women and men are kidnapped, given electric shocks and are not allowed to sleep, and they are exposed to all kinds of torture methods and persecution. Over three thousand have been confirmed tortured to death, but it is believed that the real number is more than ten thousand. There are also hundreds of thousands of people in jail and prison camps, and most of these people are innocent Falun Gong practitioners." -
Falun Dafa News (Austria): A country choked by propaganda
2007-05-23The board of the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced at the end of last year that it had issued nine new digital channels to TV stations of the People’s Republic of China. Some of the Canadian media, along with various members of Parliament openly disagreed with the CRTC’s decision because the same stations, which are controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), are known to spread slander and hate propaganda against Falun Gong as well as other groups persecuted by the regime. -
Die Welt (Germany): Two Canadians Accuse China of murder and illegal organ harvesting
2007-05-08Canadians David Matas and David Kilgour do not look like two men who would pose a threat to any state, let alone one as powerful as China. The tall and slender Kilgour (64) smiles a lot and his bright blue eyes sparkle. Matas (66) who is smaller in stature, talks softly and quietly. He regards everyone seriously through his metal-rimmed glasses. They look like an unequal pair. -
Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (Germany): “Unfortunately the conclusion indicates that the allegations are true”
2007-04-30On April 5th, the daily newspaper “Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung” in northern Baden Württemberg carried a special report on the Chinese Communist regime’s systematic harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, with the headline “Harvesting Organs is Lucrative in China.” -
Wiesbadener Kurier (Germany): Living people selected for their organs and their bodies burned to destroy the evidence
2007-04-17The seminar mentioned that the Olympics will be held in Beijing in 2008. It is written in the article: ‘‘Peter Kutilek who comes from the German Czech Olympic watch stressed that the principle of the Olympics can not be separated from human rights issues. So officials of the international and national Olympic committee have the responsibility of urging China to respect human dignity and to honour freedom of speech and freedom of the press. But the appeal of the Olympic committee has been ignored. He was not positive about China’s situation. -
Austrian and Hungarian Media Reports on New Evidence Regarding the CCP's Trade in Organs Harvested from Living People
2007-04-14On April 2nd, 2007, by invitation from Austria’s International Society for Human Rights and the Hungarian Amnesty International, Canadian human rights lawyer Mr. David Matas attended a press conference at the Hungarian Reporters Association in Budapest to disclose new-found evidence in the report written together with co-investigator Mr. David Kilgour about the Chinese Communist Party’s harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. Many media from Austria and Hungary wrote reports on this afterwards. -
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany): Organs from executed prisoners are not sufficient for transplants
2007-04-13While patients in other countries have to wait for up to ten years, the waiting time to obtain an organ in China is unusually short because a large number of human organ banks exist, which makes the supply possible. "[Kilgour and Matas] said: Only those who have a greater and stable source of organ supply without depending on organ donations can do this.” -
Sunday Herald (Scotland): Pressure on UK government to act over Chinese organ harvesting?
2007-04-03A SENIOR EXPERT on Asia has demanded Britain "take action now" against China, which he says is continuing to harvest organs "� la carte" from practitioners of the suppressed Falun Gong movement who are executed in prison. David Kilgour, Canada's former secretary of state for Asia-Pacific, who will visit the Houses of Parliament this week, told the Sunday Herald that Britain is leaving the issue of organ harvesting unchecked and allowing Chinese officials to kill prisoners for their organs with impunity. -
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (United Kingdom): The Falun Gong, organ transplantation, the holocaust and ourselves
2007-03-15"As the allegation unfolds, the story seems horrific to the point of being beyond belief. So alarmed was I on learning of this allegation that I struggled to make sense of it. The element of the story that horrifies me most, if it is true, is that it is my medical colleagues, the doctors, who perpetrate these acts. This is the only element that I have the capacity to address. While I cannot get more evidence than has already been offered I can at least test this allegation for credibility." -
Danish Newspaper Publishes Statement from an NGO Condemning the Brutal Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Harbin
2007-03-08"On January 23rd of this year, we in the Network for Human Rights in China sent a letter to the Lord Mayor of Aarhus, Nicolai Wammen, urging him to freeze the cultural exchanges with Harbin, Aarhus’ chinese twinned city, until the Harbin authorities stop the torture and killings of Falun Gong practitioners held in the city’s many labour camps and detention centres. We are happy to see that Lord Mayor Wammen has taken the case seriously and asked the Foreign Ministry to investigate the matter. It is also encouraging to see that many of the City Council’s members are taking the case seriously." -
Article from the Irish Medical Times: Prisoners Executed for Organs Claim
2007-03-06"Western countries are beginning to pay high-level attention to accusations that Chinese authorities are killing jailed members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement in order to sell their body parts for organ transplants, reports suggest. A subcommittee of the US House of Representatives held a hearing on the accusations on 29th September while the issue was also raised at foreign minister level at the China-European Union summit meeting on 9th September in Helsinki." -
Austrian Newspaper Niederos Terreichische Nachrichten Reports on Touching Art Exhibition
2007-03-03“Please let the pictures talk to you, even though many are quite shocking", Mrs. Ulrike Konigsberger-Ludwig, the council woman for culture in Amstetten, said in her opening speech for the art exhibition at the city hall. This art exhibition was sponsored by The Austrian Association for Art and Cultural Exchanges (Ars Cara). The majority of artists from mainland China had their own experiences of human rights persecution by the CCP. They are Falun Gong practitioners and are following the principle of Truthfulness Compassion Forbearance. This is the reason why they are persecuted by the CCP in China.