Local Events
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Germany: Practitioners Raise Awareness about the Persecution of Falun Gong during the Free Democratic Party Conference
2007-07-18During the Free Democratic (FDP) Conference in Stuttgart, Falun Gong practitioners handed leaflets to the party representatives at the main entrance to the arena, exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution and organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners in China. Some of the representatives have already had a clear understanding of the persecution. On May 10th 2007, Florian Toncar, spokesman for the FDP and member of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid Committee had pushed German MPs to jointly submit a resolution condemning the CCP system of forced labour education. -
Turkey: Raising Awareness in Ankara about the Bestial Crime of Organ Harvesting
2007-07-17On July 7th and 8th, 2007, in the busy city centre of Ankara, Falun Gong practitioners distributed leaflets, talked with passersby and collected signatures to raise awareness about the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong in China, including the removal of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. They called on local people to support an end to the persecution. -
New Falun Gong Practice Site Established in a Remote Part of Russia
2007-07-16Buryat Republic is a vast but thinly populated area in Russian Siberia. A villager has a relative who is a Falun Gong practitioner in Irkutsk. One year ago, the villager was lucky enough to learn Falun Gong and started cultivation. -
Denmark: Copenhagen Rally Supporting Twenty-Three Million Withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party
2007-07-15The Danish branch of the Global Service Centre for Quitting the CCP and the Danish China Human Rights Internet Organisation held a joint rally and parade in the Danish capital Copenhagen, supporting over twenty three million brave Chinese people who have quit the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organisations. -
Czech Republic: Falun Gong practitioners visit Rock for People Summer Festival
2007-07-15Despite unpleasant weather, thousands of people gathered at the Rock for People summer festival in Eastern Bohemia. Falun Gong practitioners were warmly received at the festival. They exhibited several banners informing festival goers about the atrocities their fellow practitioners are subject to in Chinese prisons and labour camps. -
Denmark: Parade Supporting Twenty-Three Million Withdrawals from the CCP During the International Bop Festival in Copenhagen
2007-07-14The first time the Divine Marching Band made an appearance in Denmark was noteworthy for the crowd of people that followed the band as it made its way through town. Musicians playing on street corners stopped and listened while shoppers carefully read the leaflets practitioners distributed. -
Czech Republic: Practitioners Speak to Participants of the Jagr Team Event in Chotebor
2007-07-14On a sunny Sunday, July 7th, several Falun Gong practitioners raised awareness about the inhuman persecution of their counterparts in China during the Summer Fest against Drugs where an exhibition football match with famous Czech NHL hockey star Jaromir Jagr took place. Probably all the visitors received information from practitioners about the cruel persecution in China. -
Germany: “I am awed by your courage.”
2007-07-13The fifth Frankfurt Culture Festival was held in downtown Frankfurt. There were over sixty groups from different countries in their tribal costumes together with their ornate floats. The Falun Gong group has taken part in this activity since the first year of the parade. This year, over 180 Falun Gong practitioners paraded through the streets. -
Turkey: Introducing Falun Dafa at the National Education Bureau of Mersin Municipality
2007-07-13On June 21st, 2007, Turkish Falun Gong practitioners were invited to hold an introduction forum at the National Education Bureau of Mersin Municipality. More than twenty teacher representatives from different types of school took part. When the introduction finished, participants didn’t want to leave until very late. -
Germany: Frankfurt Bathed in Sunshine
2007-07-12A performer in the Celestial Band works for a company in Frankfurt. When her colleagues saw her performing music in the parade, they greeted her merrily. Ever since the parade at the culture festival some time ago, in which Falun Gong took part, their attitude toward Falun Gong has changed. They were greatly impressed by the European Celestial Band. -
Sweden: Falun Gong Practitioners Support the Campaign to Quit the CCP and Protest against the Hong Kong Forced Deportation
2007-07-12On July 5th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners from Stockholm and the Service Centre for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rallied at the Chinese Embassy to voice their support for the lawsuit brought by Hong Kong practitioners against China's former President Jiang Zemin, who is the leading culprit in the persecution of Falun Gong. -
Denmark: Danish Falun Gong Practitioners Protest against the CCP’s Illegal Abduction of Zhang Weijie and Chen Man
2007-07-11On July 6th, 2007, some Falun Gong practitioners from Copenhagen, regardless of the rain, went to the Chinese Embassy in Denmark to protest against the Wuhan 610-Office’s atrocity of abducting Wuhan Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Weijie and his wife Chen Man, and called on the Chinese authorities to release them immediately. -
United Kingdom: Press Conference Held in London to Announce the Launch of the Human Rights Torch Relay
2007-07-10On July 3rd 2007, the branch of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) in Europe held a press conference in London, announcing the launch of the Human Right Torch Relay. The purpose of the relay is to expose the brutality and crimes of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and call upon the international community to prevent the Olympic Games, which is the symbol of peace, from becoming a Bloody Harvest Games. -
Austria: Falun Gong Exercises Generate a Strong Energy Field in Vienna’s Chinatown
2007-07-10On Saturday, June 16th, 2007, Austrian Falun Gong practitioners organised an information day in Vienna. For about six months, this information day has been organised once a month at the U4 Metro Station Kettenbrueckengasse. This is the location where Vienna’s unofficial Chinatown is located. In addition, this time practitioners also demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises. -
Germany: The Crimes Committed by the Chinese Communist Party Must be Stopped
2007-07-09The nine meter long poster that we laid on the ground attracted many people. It tells the history of the crimes committed by the CCP from the time of the student massacre in 1989 [on Tiananmen Square] to the most recent discoveries, the organ theft on thousands of living Falun Gong practitioners and their subsequent murder.