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Finland: Introducing Falun Gong to the Finnish People at the 'World Village'

2007-06-01

The World Village, which is held once a year in Helsinki, was held in Kaisaniemi Park near the central railway station. On May 26th and 27th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners took the opportunity to let the Finnish people know about Falun Gong. Though it was raining heavily on the morning of the 26th and the ground was muddy, people still came with huge interest.

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Bosnia-Herzegovina: Practitioners Celebrate World Falun Gong Day in Sarajevo and Inform the Public about the Falun Gong Genocide in China

2007-06-01

Practitioners from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia organised two events to inform the public on May 12th and 13th, 2007, in the centre of Sarajevo. The people of Sarajevo were given the opportunity to learn the Falun Gong exercises, to talk to practitioners and to read Falun Gong flyers and posters. Moreover, the people of Sarajevo learned about the genocide committed over the last eight years against Falun Gong practitioners in China as well as about the systematic organ removals from living Falun Gong practitioners in labour camps and prisons.

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Russia: Raising Awareness about Falun Gong in Vladivostok

2007-05-31

Vladivostok is a big city in Russia close to the border with China. There are many Chinese tourists in Vladivostok. To raise awareness about the persecution of Falun Gong to the Chinese people, Falun Gong practitioners have been passing out leaflets at tourist spots for several years.

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Germany: German Federal President Requested to Lodge a Complaint Concerning the Labour Camp System During his Visit to China

2007-05-31

German President Horst Koehler was asked to lodge confidently and publicly a complaint concerning human rights during his May 23rd to 26th state visit to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The International Society for Human Rights (ISHR), encouraged him to include this subject on his agenda, as well as lodge a complaint regarding China's labour camp system.

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Slovakia: Introducing Falun Gong to the People of Banovce nad Bebravou

2007-05-31

On Saturday May 26th, 2007, Slovakian practitioners of Falun Gong visited the city of Banovce nad Bebravou in western Slovakia. They set up a petition table with information material and started to demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises, attracting a lot of attention. About fifty people signed the petition against the persecution of Falun Gong in China.

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Poland: Falun Gong Practitioners Invited to Protest in Front of the Parliament During Wu Bangguo's Visit to Warsaw

2007-05-30

During the visit of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Politburo Standing Committee Member Wu Bangguo and his party in Warsaw on May 24th, 2007, members of the Polish Parliament invited Falun Gong practitioners to demonstrate when the CCP delegation arrived. Their presence sent an effective message to the CCP officials.

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Germany: Falun Gong Practitioners from the Ex-Soviet Union Protest against Russia’s Illegal Deportation of a UN Refugee

2007-05-30

Large numbers of people living in Germany are from the ex-Soviet Union. With Falun Gong spreading, some of them have also started to practise Falun Gong. On May 15th, a group of German Falun Gong practitioners from the ex-Soviet Union submitted a letter of protest to the Russian Consulate in Berlin condemning the second case of forcibly deporting a Falun Gong practitioner with UN refugee status to China. They called on the Russian government not to submit to both economic and political pressure from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and not to serve as an accessory in persecuting Falun Gong.

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Belgium: Falun Gong Practitioners Expose the CCP’s Brutal Persecution

2007-05-29

On May 19th, Falun Gong practitioners held activities in the centre of Brussels, the capital of Belgium, to expose the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) brutal persecution of Falun Gong and its corruption of morality. The event called for an end to the persecution. Exhibits in this event included graphics of persecuted practitioners as well as a full length French version of the Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China, a report published by independent investigators David Kilgour, Canadian MP and former Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific, and David Matas, international human rights lawyer.

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Germany: Falun Gong Practitioners Gather in Berlin to Request a Public EU-China Human Rights Dialog, Vice President of the European Parliament Shows Support

2007-05-28

On May 14th, 2007, one day before the European Union and Chinese Communist Party opened their human rights dialog, European Falun Gong practitioners assembled at Pariser Platz, in front of Brandenburger Tor in Berlin to request that the dialog should involve everyone's human rights in China.

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Germany: Raising Awareness in Leipzig about the Persecution of Falun Gong

2007-05-27

On May 19th, Falun Gong practitioners from Leipzig, Sachsen-Anhalt, and Niedersachsen raised awareness about Falun Gong in Leipzig city centre.When people learned that human organs are being harvested from live Falun Gong practitioners, they were shocked. The kind-hearted citizens of Leipzig said it was intolerable that human rights abuse nowadays is more brutal than that perpetrated by the Nazis.

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Germany: Support for Falun Gong During Berlin Parade

2007-05-26

Falun Gong paraded during the EU-China human rights dialogue and found the approval of Berlin’s citizens. “I wish Falun Gong success, I support them”. A Berlin resident, who mentioned that she had never heard of Falun Gong before, became very sad when looking at the posters depicting murdered Falun Gong practitioners.

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Norway: Raising Awareness about the Persecution of Falun Gong

2007-05-26

There was more than just shopping on the menu during 'no-car-day' in Oslo on May 5th, 2007. Falun Gong practitioners in Norway took to the streets to distribute information about organs being removed from living Falun Gong practitioners in death camps in China, their bodies cremated to remove all evidence and the organs sold for large profits.

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Hungary: Raising Awareness about Falun Dafa in Margate Park

2007-05-26

On May 13th, Falun Gong practitioners in Hungary introduced and promoted Falun Gong in Margate Park. When people heard that Falun Gong has spread to over eighty countries and is persecuted only in China, some of the local people said that they knew that similar persecution occurred when Hungary was ruled by the Communist Party.

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Germany: Human Rights Organisation Debates the Human Rights Situation in China

2007-05-25

On May 14th, 2007, the day before the human rights talks between the EU and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were held, many human rights organisations gathered in Berlin, Germany, condemning the CCP's violations of human rights. The Asian affairs director of the “Organisation supporting threatened groups” (which is an organisation based in Goettingen, Germany), Ulrich Delius, could not attend the gathering and sent a letter of support instead. In his letter, Delius said that since the human rights talks between EU and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began in 1996, the state of human rights in China has not improved in eleven years.

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Holland: Falun Gong Marching Band Defies Chinese Regime at a Parade

2007-05-25

On the flyers distributed by practitioners supporting the European Celestial Band is an internet link, which reveals the band's background and the name of one of the songs in its repertoire: Falun Dafa is Good. Falun Dafa is another word for Falun Gong, the spiritual movement forbidden in China and persecuted so brutally. One mouse click and we know how harshly: a colour photo shows a dead Falun Gong practitioner who, according to the caption, has been killed for his organs (organ harvesting). Realistic drawings show the torture techniques that China uses against Falun Gong adherents.

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