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

  • Italy: Practitioners Participated in the Virgin Mary Ascension Day and the City Mayor Personally Expressed Thanks

    When practitioners were setting up display boards exposing the persecution and cruel torture happening in China, owners of the stores in the neighbourhood could not wait to ask questions. They were all shocked to believe that such things still happen in the world today. A great number of people signed their names on the petition.
  • Switzerland: Appealing for Support from United Nations Participants to Rescue my Auntie

    My auntie, Ms. Qiu Minghua, is being persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party because she refuses to give up practising Falun Gong. She has been illegally imprisoned since November 25th 2004. In order to appeal for her rescue, during the period of the UN Human Rights Committee from the end of July 2005 to the beginning of August I talked to about one hundred officials from different countries in the United Nations and to members of NGOs (non-governmental organisations). I appealed to them to support the rescue of Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted in Mainland China. The effect was good.
  • Sweden: Practitioners Invited to Demonstrate the Exercises at a Health Seminar in Lerum

    There were about three hundred and fifty people attending the seminar. Almost everybody was given a pamphlet introducing the practice of Falun Gong and explaining why this peaceful method is so brutally persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party. There were many people who stopped to watch when Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the exercises.
  • United Kingdom: Falun Gong Practitioners submit a petition and signatures to the British Prime Minister's Office

    In order to urgently seek the rescue of Falun Gong practitioners taken into custody and persecuted illegally in China, several British practitioners went to London to the British Prime Minister's office at 10 Downing Street on September 1st. They submitted a petition of more than eight thousand signatures to the British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
  • Sweden: Thoughts on Malmo Festival

    Malmo is the third biggest city in the south of Sweden, elegant and beautiful. The grand Malmo Festival was held from the 20th to the 27th of August. I took part activities to promote Falun Gong that took place over two days during the Festival.
  • United Kingdom: Moving Performances to Rescue the Orphaned Children of Murdered Falun Gong Practitioners

    On August 29th, UK Falun Gong practitioners held a performance in London's famous Trafalgar Square to rescue the orphans of Falun Gong practitioners. Daily sightseeing tourists came and went in a continuous stream and practitioners’ performance attracted much attention. People stood in a circle and watched with great interest.
  • Latvia: Introducing Falun Dafa and Exposing the Persecution in Auce City

    On August 20th, 2005, invited by the Chairman of Congress, Latvian Falun Gong practitioners came to Auce City. A great number of passers-by gathered in front of the display boards that practitioners had set up. Two practitioners demonstrated the five Falun Gong exercises, some distributed leaflets and others talked to interested people.
  • Finland: Holding an Anti-torture Exhibition to Let More People Know the Facts of the Persecution

    On August 14th, some Falun Gong practitioners from North Europe and Latvia gathered at the busiest business centre in Helsinki to let people know about Falun Gong and the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. They demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises and held an anti-torture exhibition. Tourists from various countries signed the petition one after another.
  • Finland: Falun Gong Practitioners Invited to Koli to Introduce the Practice

    Practitioners introduced the practice at a health fare in Pyhä-Koli, and a teacher from Joensuu learned the exercises. She wanted to learn more about the persecution and about the practice of Falun Gong. A few months later she made a call and asked if we could come to Koli and introduce the practice to her students at the college in North-Karelia.
  • Sweden: Exhibition of a Thousand Lotus Flowers

    An exhibition entitled “A Thousand Lotus Flowers” was held in a public library in Stockholm, Sweden for the first time between August 20th and August 30th. In the exhibition, practitioners related a twelve year-old girl called Evelina’s dream of making a thousand paper Lotus Flowers to end the persecution in China during last Easter.
  • Estonia: Falun Gong Practitioners Invited to Participate in the Health Expo at Saue City

    Estonian Falun Gong practitioners were invited to participate in a Health Expo in Saue City on August 27th. Practitioners demonstrated the five Falun Gong exercises. While discussing Falun Gong, practitioners also informed the public of the brutal persecution initiated by Jiang Zemin and carried out by the Chinese Communist Party over the past six years.
  • Germany: Falun Gong Practitioners at Dresden City Festival

    On August 20th and 21st, 2005, Falun Gong practitioners were again invited to participate in the Dresden City Festival. During the two days, Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the five Falun Gong exercises; some distributed leaflets to passers-by; and others gave away hand-made paper Lotus Flowers. Lots of people stopped to watch and chat.
  • Germany: First Falun Gong Anti-Torture Exhibition Held in Frankfurt

    “It is time to give people a wake-up call!” This a remark a visitor wrote in the guest-book during Frankfurt's first outdoor anti-torture exhibition, held in Römerberg Square. The author called the attention-grabbing exhibition run by the Frankfurt-based Falun Gong group a very meaningful action and encouraged them to publicise the persecution in China.
  • Finland: Falun Gong Practitioners Invited to Attend an Exhibition in Tornio

    Practitioners in Finland took part in an exhibition in Tornio, a city in the north of Finland on the border with Sweden. There were around 170 exhibitors, and Falun Gong was invited to be one of them. At our booth people could learn that Falun Gong is about the ongoing persecution in China and we had a petition where people could sign their names.
  • United Kingdom: Invitation to Introduce “Rescue the Falun Gong Orphans” In a Summer Camp in Huddersfield

    After watching the video “Rescue Falun Gong Orphans”, youngsters in the summer camp couldn’t help crying. Deeply moved, the principal said: “I cry every time I see the video, I am going to copy your petition and give them to every pupil and his or her parents, and ask them to help rescue these innocent children together.”