Letters from Dafa Associations, Local Events, Press Conferences , Meeting VIPs & Officials

  • Sweden: Celebrating World Falun Gong Day in Stockholm

    On Saturday May 13th, 2006, Swedish practitioners celebrated the 14th anniversary of Falun Gong’s introduction to the public. Practitioners held a four-hour celebration, with activities including dancing and singing, demonstrations of the Falun Gong exercises, a photo display, art exhibition and paper lotus flower making.
  • Finland: Falun Gong Practitioners Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day

    On World Falun Dafa Day, Finnish Falun practitioners celebrated in a park in Helsinki city centre and respectfully expressed good wishes for Master’s fifty-fifth birthday. A banner reading “Falun Gong is good” was hung on one side of the park. In front of the banner, practitioners played waist-drums and demonstrated the five Falun Gong exercises.
  • Holland: Expressing Support for the Ten Million Withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party

    Falun Gong practitioners gathered in Dam Square in Amsterdam. Along with the service centre for withdrawing from the Chinese Communist Party in the Netherlands and the volunteers from the Epoch Times, they expressed support for the ten million brave people who withdrew from the CCP and exposed the CCP crime of taking organ from live people.
  • Germany: Mannheim is Shocked by the Organ Harvesting from Live Falun Gong Practitioners in China

    Practitioners organised an information day in Mannheim. They informed passers-by of the gruesome harvesting of organs from live Falun Gong practitioners in China’s hidden concentration camps, which was perpetrated for economic profit. They told the listeners how the bodies are cremated after the organs are removed so as to destroy all the evidence.
  • Czech Republic: People Call for an End to the Persecution at a Non-Profit Organisation Exhibition

    Falun Gong practitioners took part in a non-profit organisation exhibition held in Prague, the capital of Czech republic. There were leaflets in Czech and English and various kinds of pictures at the Falun Gong exhibition booth. Those leaflets and pictures told people that Falun Gong practitioners are suffering the persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). There are even concentration camps in China where Falun Gong practitioner’s organs are removed while they are still alive.
  • Spain: World Falun Dafa Day Touches the Hearts of People in Victoria

    Practitioners from Madrid went to the ancient city of Victoria, A local told them: “This day is the most significant day in my life, because I found out about Falun Gong. When I knew that Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance are the principles of Falun Gong, I was so excited. I knew this was the truth I have been looking for all my life.”
  • Holland: Practitioners Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day in Heerlen City

    13th May 2006 was the seventh World Falun Dafa Day and the fourteenth year since the practice was introduced to the public. A set of photo display boards detailed the remarkable history of Falun Dafa and the mercy and compassion of Master Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Dafa. People who saw these photos could feel the beauty of Falun Gong.
  • Russia: Celebrating World Falun Dafa Day in St. Petersburg

    Practitioners set up picture exhibition boards and banners that attracted many tourists. People listened to practitioners tell them about the persecution and signed their names on the petition to support the campaign calling for an end to the persecution . Two young men who were not Falun Gong practitioners also helped to hold the banners.
  • France: People Condemn the CCP Crimes of Organ Harvesting from Live Persons

    On seeing the pictures of the CCP's campaign of torture and repression against Falun Gong, a lady expressed that it was too cruel for her to accept. She said: “I really don’t understand why the Chinese Government persecutes these practitioners. They just believe in Buddha without doing anything wrong. I can’t accept the fact that good people are being persecuted.”
  • Germany: People of Stuttgart Visibly Shocked by Live Organ Harvesting from Falun Gong Practitioners in China

    On April 29th, in collaboration with the International Society for Human Rights, Falun Gong practitioners organised activities to inform the citizens of Stuttgart about the harvesting of organs from live Falun Gong practitioners in China. Large banners and poster boards depicted the repulsive crimes that are committed in secret concentration camps in China.
  • Czech Republic: The Czech People Appeal to the Government to Urge the Chinese Regime to Release Falun Gong Practitioners

    On April 20th and April 21st, Falun Gong practitioners in Ostrava and Frydek-Mistek in the Czech Republic held an activity to tell people about the incident of harvesting organs in China, which has been disclosed recently. Falun Gong practitioners’ organs were forcibly removed while they were still alive and traded on the black market; they were mainly sold to rich foreigners.
  • Holland: Practitioners Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day

    On May 13th, Dutch practitioners gathered in Amsterdam's Chinatown to demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises and hold an exhibition photographs of depicting the spread of Falun Gong around the world. Passersby felt the goodness of Falun Gong and understood the truth about the brutal persecution of the Chinese Communist Party.
  • Germany: Information Day in Berlin Raises Support and Awareness

    The information day was a success with many flyers distributed and petition signatures collected, which will be presented to the German government. One German woman said about Germany's business relationship with the Chinese Communist Party: “These are all criminals. It is hard to believe that we have business relationships with such criminals.”
  • France: Falun Gong Practitioners Mark Ten Million People Quitting the CCP

    April 25th, 2006 was the seventh anniversary of the incident in which over ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners peacefully appealed at the Chinese central government compound. Falun Gong practitioners in Paris rallied in the La Bourse Square to expose the Chinese Communist regime’s cruel persecution against Falun Gong.
  • Austria: Falun Gong Practitioners Explain the Facts about the Persecution During an Informal Meeting of E.U. Health Ministers.

    On April 26th, 2006, an Informal Meeting of E.U. Health Ministers was held in Vienna, and the Chinese Health Minister and some other officials were invited to attend the meeting. Practitioners call for an end to harvesting practitioners’ organs.