Practitioners' Words, Peaceful Protests, Exhibitions and Cultural Events, Local Events, Press Conferences , Meeting VIPs & Officials
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Russia: Falun Gong is Popular at the Health City Expo in Moscow
2005-05-11Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the five sets of exercises and performed traditional Chinese dancing. The organiser and audience gave the thumbs up sign to our performances. When the expo was closing, the Moscow City Administration awarded a proclamation to the Moscow Falun Gong Association, praising its active participation. -
Germany: Despite Terrible Weather, People Support Practitioners
2005-05-11Practitioners in Northern Germany organised an information day in downtown Hamburg to help local people understand the truth of Falun Gong and the persecution in China. Practitioners had painted and framed some pictures that were on display, depicting real torture scenes. Many passersby stopped at our stall, signed the petition and asked how they could help. -
Czech Republic: Touring Six Cities in Northern Moravia
2005-05-10From the 25th to the 30th of April, a group of practitioners from the Czech Republic toured six Moravian cities. They introduced Falun Gong and told the public about the vicious on-going persecution against the practice in China. Close to six hundred petition signatures were collected and around 30.000 leaflets were handed out. -
Lawyer Defending Falun Gong Practitioners’ Rights Falls Victim to the Persecution in China
2005-05-10It is indeed surprising that a Chinese lawyer would even accept the defence of Falun Gong practitioners, thus challenging the party, the government, the judicial courts and the police of a country that routinely violates the human rights of its citizens. On February 23rd 2005, several cadres of the Shanghai Justice Ministry broke into the lawyer’s office and confiscated his computer and all of the files of his twenty year practice. Police officers are monitoring his home around the clock and his home phone is being answered by an answering machine; the Shanghai Justice Ministry has taken away his license and neither his family nor his friends have been able to contact him since March 10th. -
Germany: “Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance” Art Exhibition Held for the First Time
2005-05-10Although the members of the International Human Rights Association are familiar with the atrocities committed by the Chinese Communist Party, they found the shameless means used to suppress Falun Gong, the rampant persecution and the degree of brutality beyond their imagination, while seeing the twenty five paintings created to exposing the cruel persecution of Falun Gong. -
Holland: Practitioners Call for the Singapore Government to Stop Participating in the Persecution Against Falun Gong
2005-05-09Dutch Falun Gong practitioners went to the Singapore Consulate and peacefully appealed against the Singapore court’s unjust action towards Falun Gong. Practitioners demonstrated the exercises, talked to the staff of the Consulate and gave them information about Falun Dafa and the human rights abuses happening in China. -
Hungary: Appeal in Front of Singapore Embassy Calls for Unjust Conviction of Two Practitioners to be Reversed
2005-05-09Practitioners held a peaceful appeal in front of the Singapore Embassy in Hungary and called for the Singapore Government to reverse the unjust convictions of two practitioners. They also called on the Singapore Government to stop participating in persecution against Falun Gong in exchange for a little economic benefit from the Chinese Communist regime. -
Germany: To Commemorate the "4.25" Appeal, Practitioners Held an Anti-Torture Exhibition in Munich
2005-05-09On the 30th of April 2005, Falun Gong practitioners from various cities in south Germany, including Passau, Augsburg, Ulm and Munich, gathered at Karlsplatz in Munich. They organised an anti-torture exhibition to commemorate the 6th anniversary of the peaceful appeal by ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners on 25th April 1999. -
Austria: Appealing at the Singapore Consulate in Vienna
2005-05-08On May the 4th, Austrian practitioners appealed at the Singapore Consulate in Vienna after the unjust verdict issued by a Singapore court against two practitioners. The Singaporeans practised Falun Gong exercises in a park and distributed material regarding the facts of the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners in China. -
Norwegian Practitioners Support Practitioners in Singapore who were Jailed for Spreading Information about the Persecution
2005-05-08When news reached Norway that two female practitioners in Singapore had been jailed for spreading information about the six-year brutal persecution of Falun Gong in China, local practitioners wanted to help. So far, the Nordic Association has sent a letter to the Singapore Consulate in Oslo. Two practitioners went to the office of the consulate to express their concern and to deliver a letter from the Norwegian Association, together with information about Falun Gong and the persecution, information of the same kind that the accused women had spread in Singapore. They had a good conversation with a representative of the consulate who stayed after working hours to be informed. -
Germany: Xiong Wei made a Speech at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Human Rights to Disclose the Tricks the CCP Adopted to Dupe Western Media Reporters
2005-05-08Xiong Wei called for support for Jiang Renzheng, who was deported to China by Germany and sentenced to a forced labour camp. The assembly passed a decision to demand the Chinese Government to immediately release Jiang Renzheng and urged the German Chancellor and Foreign Minister to guarantee Jiang and his family's safety through all kinds of diplomatic means. -
Turkey: Stories of New Practitioners
2005-05-08The largest Turkish TV station SHOW TV interviewed practitioners who were doing the Falun Gong exercises in an Ankara park and videotaped the group practice. On the same night, the station broadcasted the interview nationwide in its news hour. Through practitioners’ persistent efforts in the last several years, the Turkish people are gradually learning about Falun Gong. -
Germany: Commemorating the April 25th 1999 Appeal Outside the Chinese Consulate in Hamburg
2005-05-08Six years have passed since the peaceful appeal in Beijing. Therefore, Falun Dafa practitioners gathered outside the Chinese Consulate in Hamburg’s Elbchaussee. To call attention to the unending persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China, we sent righteous thoughts and practised the five sets of Falun Gong exercises. -
Spain: Introducing Falun Gong at Tacoronte City in the Canary Islands
2005-05-07Most of the people who practised the five exercises looked radiant afterwards. One lady said that her whole body felt easy and free. Another said that she would tell her husband to practise Falun Gong and would share this good thing she had found. A young girl said that this was the third time she had done the exercises and she felt great. -
France: Falun Gong Association Representative Invited to Armenian Rally
2005-05-07Chairman of the French Falun Gong Association was invited to a rally and press conference. Organised by the General Association of Armenian Descendants in France, the activities were entitled “Celebrate the 60th anniversary of the liberation from Nazi concentration camps and commensurate the 90th anniversary of the holocaust of Armenians in Turkey.”