Local Events

  • Finland: Vigil in Helsinki to Mourn the Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners

    During the Firework Festival in Helsinki, when the city was filled with visitors, Falun Gong practitioners held a candlelight vigil on the lawn in front of the parliament building to mourn their fellow 3,080 practitioners who have been persecuted to death in China since Jiang Zemin’s evil group instigated the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999.
  • Norway: Falun Gong Practitioners Hold Parade in Oslo to Support the 25 Million Withdrawals from CCP

    On September 1st, 2007 Falun Gong practitioners held a grand parade in the Norwegian capital city of Oslo to celebrate the 25 million withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its associated organizations. Many onlookers and passers-by were greatly shocked to learn about the CCP's organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners.
  • Ireland: Falun Gong Practitioners Introduce Falun Gong at the Festival of World Cultures

    In August, Irish Falun Gong practitioners attended the 2007 Festival of World Cultures in Dun Laoghaire and celebrated the ancient Chinese tradition of cultivation in various forms. They demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises and performed traditional Chinese dances.
  • Russia: Falun Gong Practitioners Raise Awareness about Falun Gong on the Streets of Moscow

    Falun Gong practitioners held activities at the Moscow business centre to expose the Chinese communist regime’s persecution against Falun Gong practitioners during the past eight years. Some practitioners also distributed material on Kutuzov Avenue nearby where a lot more tourists and cars were encountered. Most people accepted the material happily.
  • Germany: Exposing the Harrowing Truth about the Secret Death Camps in China

    We set up our booth in the centre of Düsseldorf, hoping to tell the locals all that goes on in China’s labour camps. We wanted people to know how people in China were persecuted and tortured. Many people stopped in front of the large banners that told of the secret death camps in China and appeared to be deeply shaken by the pictures.
  • Holland: Raising Awareness about Falun Gong in Rotterdam

    On August 25th and 26th,, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners in Holland used display boards to introduce Falun Gong and expose the Chinese communist regime’s persecution, including organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, in Rotterdam's central square. They set up information boards depicting the persecution of Falun Gong
  • Sweden: "You Must Help More People Learn the Facts"

    On August 25th and 26th, 2007, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Falun Gong practitioners in Sweden made use of the two day holiday to demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises at the famous Vasa Museum in Stockholm. In the meantime, they also set up display boards to let tourists from various places around the world learn the facts about Falun Gong.
  • Russia: Practitioners Raise Awareness about Falun Gong in the Parks of St. Petersburg During the Summer

    Russian Falun Gong practitioners' activities in St. Petersburg every Saturday have been ongoing for several years. On three consecutive Saturdays, practitioners hosted a series of activities in several municipal parks to introduce Falun Gong and expose the Chinese communist regime’s brutal persecution against practitioners in China to local residents.
  • Sweden: Raising Awareness about Falun Gong at Popular Tourist Spots

    On August 18th and 19th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners used their weekend to raise awareness about Falun Gong and the persecution to tourists from all over the world. They disclosed the CCP's atrocity of removing organs from living Falun Gong practitioners and exposed the cruel persecution of Falun Gong which has lasted for over eight years.
  • Turkey: Turkish People Express Support for Falun Gong.

    From July 20th to the 25th, 2007, Turkish Falun Gong practitioners visited Selcuk in North Eastern Turkey, to raise awareness about Falun Gong and the Chinese communist regime’s persecution. They talked to people in many different sections of society, including journalists, local businessmen and government workers.
  • Letter from CIPFG to the German Chancellor Urging an Immediate End to the CCP's Persecution of Falun Gong

    On August 24th, 2007, German members of the CIPFG (Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China) wrote a letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel, who will visit China soon. In the letter, they urged Mrs. Merkel to help to end the persecution of the Chinese communist regime against Falun Gong and pass along the CIPFG’s letters to China’s president Hu Jintao and the premier Wen Jiabao. Their letter to Merkel is translated here.
  • Switzerland: Exposing the CCP's Atrocity of Organ Harvesting

    Falun Gong practitioners in Switzerland returned to a busy shopping street in Zurich to spend a day exposing to local people the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist regime, which has lasted over eight years.Tourists from all over the world could also find leaflets in their own native languages at the information stand.
  • Sweden: Falun Gong at the Swedish Cultural Festival in Gothenburg

    On August 14th, 2007, a one-week Cultural Festival was held in Gothenburg, the second biggest city in Sweden. The centre of the Cultural Festival was held in a park. Practitioners took part and the demonstration of Falun Gong exercises and instruction of the exercises interested many adults and children.
  • Finland: Supporting an End to the Persecution of Falun Gong

    On August 18th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners and volunteers from the 'Quitting the CCP Service Centre' in Finland held an activity at Esplanadi Park in the centre of Helsinki to expose the evil nature of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and protest against the CCP's eight year long persecution of Falun Gong in China, as well as support the 25 million wihdrawals from the CCP.
  • Ireland: Falun Gong is Popular During the Irish Rose Festival

    The annual Irish Rose Festival is held in Tralee, an important town in the Southwest of Ireland, in late August every year. Irish Falun Gong practitioners took advantage of this opportunity to help more people know the fact about the magnificence of Falun Gong and the Chinese Communist regime’s persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.