Practitioners' Words, Peaceful Protests, Exhibitions and Cultural Events, Local Events, Press Conferences , Meeting VIPs & Officials

• Germany: Recalling Falun Gong Practitioners' Peaceful Protests During Hu Jintao’s Visit to Germany

  2005-12-14
  While looking at some photos taken of practitioners' protests during Hu Jintao's visit to Germany, it seemed as if their voices are still lingering in my ears. "Falun Gong is good!" "Stop the persecution of Falun Gong!" During the first ten days of November, Hu Jintao could hear such voices wherever he went in Germany. It gave me the feeling that I was there again.
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• France: On International Human Rights Day Falun Gong Practitioners are Invited to City Hall in Paris to Expose the Persecution

  2005-12-14
  On International Human Rights Day (December 10th) the French Falun Gong Association held an activity in front of City Hall in Paris at the invitation of the French branch of World Organisation Against the Death Penalty (ECPM France). The activity received strong support from the public, who gathered to watch Falun Gong exercise demonstrations.
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• Germany: Persecution Raises Concern on the Eve of International Human Rights Day

  2005-12-12
  IGFM and Falun Gong practitioners jointly held an event at the University of Regensburg to call for respecting human rights and ending human rights violations, especially the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party). There was also a signature collection drive to end human rights abuses.
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• Austria: Exposing the Persecution of Falun Gong to the People of Vienna and Linz

  2005-12-11
  We organised two Falun Gong information days in the Austrian cities of Vienna and Linz in the past two weeks. In Vienna we had the opportunity to speak with a former Federal Chancellor. Of most interest to passersby was our poster exhibition, which recounted the Falun Gong story and the persecution practitioners of Falun Gong suffer in China.
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• German MPs Back Calls For Wrongfully Deported Practitioners to Return to Germany

  2005-12-10
  Upon Jiang’s arrest, the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs had negotiated with China, demanding an explanation of Jiang’s case and an immediate release of Jiang. Two months later, China had given no response. On May the 30th 2005, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mr. Koenigs on behalf of the German government raised Jiang’s case during human rights talks between China and Germany. Not until that occasion did China admit that Jiang was under arrest, but China still refused to release Jiang.
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• Spain: Forum held in Madrid Exposes the True Nature of the Chinese Communist Party

  2005-12-10
  “…I have known the Falun Gong practitioners for three years. I feel privileged to know them, a group of people who believe in Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance; but I also feel sad at the same time for the Chinese practitioners who are being tortured. As a democracy, Spain even negotiates trade with a killer with blood on his hands.”
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• Norway: People Learn about Falun Gong on a Mountain Top in Stavanger

  2005-12-09
  On a Sunday at the beginning of October, we decided to go for a walk to Dalsnuten, a mountain in Stavanger. The purpose was to hike up the mountain and show hikers in the Stavanger area the five Falun Gong exercises. The feedback was positive and many people took the opportunity to study the posters we laid out closely.
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• United Kingdom: Falun Gong Practitioner Gives a Speech at a Seminar on Stop Violence to Women Hosted by Amnesty International

  2005-12-08
  On November 30th, Amnesty International hosted a seminar entitled ‘Stop Violence to Women’ at the London School of Oriental and African Studies. Falun Gong practitioner Mo Zhengfang was invited to give a speech about her own experience of the persecution by the Chinese Communist regime. Several related artworks were also displayed.
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• Germany: The People of Goettingen City have Learned that Falun Dafa is Good (2)

  2005-12-08
  Some young Falun Gong practitioners in Goettingen demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises and explained the facts about Falun Gong at the square in front of the old City Hall every day from 2001 to 2003. Their perseverance has resulted in a series of changes in Goettingen city. As an old saying goes, “Constant drips wear down the stone.”
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• Germany: Falun Gong has Taken Root in Goettingen City (1)

  2005-12-07
  Goettingen is a famous university town in Germany, home of one of Germany's top ten universities, which is also the one most steeped in history. From 2001 to 2003 several young Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the exercises in Goettingen's Old Town Hall Square every single day and told people about China's persecution of Falun Gong.
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• Czech Republic: Seminar Condemning the CCP’s Domination

  2005-12-07
  On the afternoon of October 3rd, 2005, a seminar entitled Without the World of Communism was held in the Parliament Mansion of the Czech Republic. Marek Benda, a member of the Czech Republic Party, presided over the seminar as host. Honoured guests, seven experts and well-known figures made speeches at the seminar.
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• Switzerland: International Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance Art Exhibition Goes on Show in Dulliken

  2005-12-06
  Some of the artists in the exhibition were victims of the persecution. The pieces they produced depicted some of their experiences. Although some of the art work depicted torture and brutalities, every one of the paintings contains a sincere hope for an end to the persecution and a message that Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance will survive.
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• Sweden: A Thousand Lotus Flowers

  2005-12-06
  The Thousand Lotus Flowers exhibition was inspired by a Swedish girl, Evelina’s dream. The exhibition introduced the persecution of Falun Gong in China. It included five children’s stories of the persecution. The children were little Yuanyuan, Rongrong, Fadu, Kaixin and thirteen year-old Li Ying. There were pictures of little practitioners doing the Falun Gong exercises and folding paper lotus flowers. Also displayed were texts of the children's stories.
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• Germany: Falun Gong Practitioner’s Speech during the 'Fields of Shame' Exhibition in Hamburg

  2005-12-06
  "I was imprisoned for two years in a slave labour camp because I refused to renounce Falun Gong...We were forced to work from 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily and received no payment. Bullying and torture are commonplace in forced labour camps and Falun Gong practitioners’ area treated worse than criminals...On April 15th 2003, I was cruelly tortured."
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• Scotland: Falun Gong Presentations in Two Scottish Schools

  2005-12-05
  At a Modern Studies Teachers’ Conference in Glasgow, practitioners set up a stall to raise awareness of the persecution of Falun Gong. Many of the teachers were keen to invite practitioners to come and talk to classes. Following on from this, two practitioners, one Western and the other Chinese, visited two schools to give a talk.
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