Publications, Press Releases
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Local Media in Germany Spread the Facts about Falun Gong
2011-02-13Cham is the east gate of the Bavarian Forest in southern Germany, and the locals are very sincere and honest. Falun Gong practitioners often visited local newspaper offices to clarify the facts about Falun Gong. The newspapers who learned about the true situation made efforts to spread the facts about Falun Gong. -
Persecution of Falun Gong Exposed In Depth Over the Years by Dutch Media
2010-12-12In 1999 the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Falun Gong, following which Falun Gong practitioners began to disseminate the facts and oppose the persecution. In Holland, after many of the media realized the true situation, they began to to expose the crimes of the CCP and its lies, and to make the truth of how Falun Gong has been persecuted known to many. -
The Media in Poland Focus on the Lawsuit against Jia Qinglin
2010-11-14Jia Qinglin, one of the active participants in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s persecution of Falun Gong, was sued by Falun Gong practitioners from Poland during his visit to Warsaw. Many Polish mainstream media covered the story. -
FDIC: Internal Communist Party Documents Disclose New Campaign to Forcibly "Transform" Millions of Falun Gong Practitioners in China
2010-10-27A series of internal Communist Party documents, some of them posted online, reveal the details of a new three-year, multi-billion dollar campaign targeting Falun Gong practitioners across China. The campaign's stated goal is to "transform" 75 per cent of all known practitioners, who number in the tens of millions despite eleven years of brutal suppression. Specifically, the campaign calls upon security forces to go into "villages and households" to "educate and conquer" Falun Gong practitioners. -
Falun Gong Rally to Stop the Chinese Regime's Biggest Human Rights Violations
2010-10-06On the occasion of the ASEM 8 meeting (4/5 Oct) and EU-China summit (6 Oct) in Brussels, the European Falun Dafa Association calls on participating heads of state and the EU to take this opportunity to ask the Chinese authorities: Free all Falun Gong prisoners of conscience, and end the systematic campaign of vilification, arbitrary detention and torture against them by the Chinese communist regime. -
United Kingdom: Falun Gong Practitioners "Add a Vibrant Touch" to the Edinburgh Arts Festival Parade
2010-08-30"Chinese light up Calvalcade". This, along with a large photo of Falun Dafa practitioners performing a fan dance was on the cover of Scotland's biggest newspaper The Scotsman on August 9, 2010. The lead story described the Falun Gong contingent in the Edinburgh arts festival parade. -
Iceland: Raising Awareness about the Persecution of Falun Gong
2010-07-25Icelandic Falun Gong practitioners gathered together outside the Chinese embassy on the morning of July 20, 2010 to peacefully raise awareness about the persecution in China. The purpose was to remind the representatives of the Chinese government in Iceland that 11 years have passed since China's communist regime started to persecute Falun Gong. -
FDIC: Eleven Years of Persecution and Peaceful Activism
2010-07-24Eleven years ago this week, the Chinese Communist Party launched a campaign to eradicate Falun Gong--a peaceful and popular spiritual practice embraced by tens of millions of Chinese citizens. But the practitioners of Falun Gong are not the only victims, and the lives destroyed and lost are not the only costs. Falun Gong practitioners today represent the largest group of prisoners of conscience in the world, with hundreds of thousands extra-judicially imprisoned at any given time. Tens of thousands have been tortured in custody as prison guards attempt to force them to recant their beliefs. -
The Epoch Times: Chinese Regime Pressures Moldovan Theater to Close Doors to Shen Yun
2010-05-31CHISINAU, Republic of Moldova--The National Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Moldova closed its doors to a Shen Yun Performing Arts performance scheduled at the venue this Tuesday, reneging on a contract it had with the show presenter. During the ongoing Shen Yun Performing Arts world tour, following shows in more than 20 countries, the dance company was denied access to the theatre building May 25, the very day the show was to first premiere in The Republic of Moldova. -
Belgian Media Interviews Shen Yun Musician Who Suffered Persecution
2010-03-20On March 10, 2010, De Standaard, the newspaper with the largest circulation in Belgium, published an article titled "Abused in China's Prisons" on the second day that Shen Yun performed in Belgium. It was an exclusive interview with Mei Xuan, Erhu virtuoso with Shen Yun Performing Arts. -
Swiss Media Interview: Live Organ Harvesting Again in the Spotlight
2010-03-01"Events indicated that Ms. Liu Wei nearly became a victim of live organ harvesting. It was just like what David Kilgour, Canada's former Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific, described in his book that affirms that the Chinese Communist regime killed a large number of detainees in the past few years and took their hearts, kidneys, and lungs." -
Shen Yun forced to cancel Hong Kong shows, interference from Chinese regime in Europe
2010-01-26"According to the presenting organisations, tickets for all seven shows were sold out within the first two weeks of sales. Though the visa requests for the travelling group were already made in October, on January 22, the Hong Kong Immigration Department has denied entry visas of seven of the company's core production team members, leaving the organizers with no choice but to cancel the shows in Hong Kong." -
Article from Scotland on Sunday Newspaper: Visa Protest Targets Chinese Consulate
2010-01-25'Six key production staff of Shen Yun Performing Arts were denied entry visas into Hong Kong six days before their show is scheduled to debut in the Chinese autonomous region on 27 January. Organisers of the performance are demanding the visa refusals should be reconsidered by the immigration department of the government of Hong Kong special administrative region.' -
German Newspaper: A Chinese Man's Happy Time in Dortmund
2010-01-17Before Christmas, Ruhr Nachrichten, a local newspaper in Dortmund, published a story about a Chinese family, titled "A Chinese Man's Happy Time in Dortmund". The Guo family, of Chinese origin, lived 5000 miles apart. They were recently reunited in the German city of Dortmund. The family just celebrated their first Christmas together. -
FDI: Spanish Court Indicts Top Communist Party Officials for Torture, Genocide of Falun Gong
2009-11-21"In an unprecedented decision, a Spanish judge has indicted five high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials for their role in crimes of torture and genocide committed against Falun Gong practitioners. Among the defendants is former CCP head Jiang Zemin, widely acknowledged as the chief instigator of the campaign to “eradicate” the spiritual practice."