Local Events
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United Kingdom: Falun Gong Practitioners Take Part in New Year’s Day Parade in London
2007-01-10This year was the 21st New Year’s Day Parade in London and Falun Gong practitioners were invited to participate in the festivities. Along the way of the parade, practitioners gave the spectators a New Year’s gift, an exquisite folded paper lotus flower. Introductory information about Falun Gong was printed on bookmarks attached to every flower. -
Hungary: Raising Awareness about the Persecution of Falun Gong During the New Year Festivities
2007-01-09Practitioners from Hungary and Slovakia decided to spend the first of January, 2007, in Budapest’s Blaha Lujza Square, conducting an activity to expose the persecution of Falun Gong. They erected ifnormation boards with information about Falun Gong, the persecution and the Kilgour-Matas report on China’s harvesting of Falun Gong practitioner’s organs. Although the weather was rainy, many people came to read the information boards and happily took a flyer. -
France: The 'Divine Land Marching Band' Performs in Paris
2007-01-08On the last day of 2006 and the first day of 2007, the European Divine Land Marching Band, consisting of one hundred and sixty Falun Gong practitioners, performed in Paris. In four parades, the band's performance helped to raise awareness about the persecution of Falun Gong in China and was met with a warm welcome wherever it went. -
Ukraine: Falun Gong Practitioners Call for an End to the Persecution on Human Rights Day in Duonietsk
2007-01-07On December 10th, 2006, International Human Rights Day, Ukrainian practitioners held activities to expose the Chinese Communist regime’s persecution of Falun Gong. They talked with the local people about Falun Gong and the CCP human rights abuses, and also collected petition signatures for two Chinese practitioners in Ukraine who were seeking asylum. -
Hungary: Raising Awareness about the Persecution of Falun Gong During the Christmas Holidays
2007-01-06Between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve, Hungarian Falun Dafa practitioners held activities in Budapest’s Blaha Lujza Square to raise awareness about the persecution of Falun Gong. Practitioners took turns in demonstrating the five sets of Falun Gong exercises, which contrasted well with the scenes of persecution depcited on the information boards. -
France: The European 'Divine Land Marching Band' Makes Its Debut in Paris
2007-01-04On December 31st, 2006, the French Falun Gong Association held two grand parades. Through the performances of the Divine Land Marching Band and traditional-style Chinese dancers and drummers, Falun Gong practitioners not only showed local residents the magnificence of Falun Gong, but they also brought a happy surprise to them during the festival. -
Austria: Falun Gong Practitioners Raise Awareness about the Crimes of the CCP on World Human Rights Day
2007-01-03On December 10th, 2006, Austrian Falun Gong practitioners organised an activity in the famous tourist city of Salzburg to raise awareness about the horrible seven year persecution of Falun Gong practitioner by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Many passersby signed the petition condemning the persecution. -
United Kingdom: Practitioners Again Invited to London New Year’s Day Parade
2007-01-02On January 1st 2007, UK Falun Gong Practitioners were again invited to take part in London’s New Year’s Day Parade. This year, for a change, the weather was gloriously sunny and as a result, the streets from Whitehall to Mayfair were thronged with onlookers from all over the world. As usual, the reaction of the crowd was warm. Many people got to learn about Falun Gong and witnessed the beauty of the practice through this parade. -
Austria: Exposing Organ Harvesting from Falun Gong Practitioners in China During a Press Conference in Vienna
2007-01-02David Kilgour spoke during a November the 21st 2006 press conference on human rights, arranged by the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR-IgfM) in Vienna, about the unimaginable human rights violations happening in China. Kilgour presented an investigative report that details organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China. -
Russia: Raising Awareness about the Persecution of Falun Gong to the People of St. Petersburg before Christmas
2007-01-01On December 23rd, 2006, before Christmas, Falun Gong practitioners held an activity near the Saint-Petersburg State University in Island Vasil’evskiy to expose the persecution of Falun Gong. -
France: Exposing the Chinese Communist Regime’s Organ Harvesting in Guadeloupe
2006-12-30On December 9th 2006, Falun Gong practitioners in Guadeloupe, an archipelago located in the eastern Caribbean Sea that is part of France, held activities in downtown Pointe-à-Pitre to expose the Chinese communist regime’s harvesting of organs from live Falun Gong practitioners and the subsequent sales of these organs for profit. -
Germany: University Students Call for an End to the Persecution Against Falun Gong
2006-12-29On December 10th, practitioners from Regensburg and surrounding cities went to a university to let the students know about Falun Gong, the seven years of persecution against the practice by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the peaceful forms of protest that practitioners have used to raise awareness about these human rights abuses. -
Germany: A Christmas Gift with Best Wishes to the People of Augsburg
2006-12-28On December 16th, it was very crowded in Augsburg. While they passed by King Square, many people were attracted by the elegant music and peaceful exercise movements displayed by Falun Gong practitioners. After learning about Falun Gong’s peaceful resistance to over seven years of persecution, people condemned the brutal Chinese Communist regime. -
Ukraine: Calling for an End to the Persecution on Human Rights Day
2006-12-28On the 10th of December 2006, International Human Rights Day, Ukrainian practitioners held activities to reveal the Chinese Communist regime’s persecution of Falun Gong. Over the past seven years, the Chinese Communist Party has not only persecuted its own citizens – 100 million Falun Gong practitioners – with brutal and inhumane torture, but has also given orders through its Embassies to defame Falun Gong and to buy over other countries with financial interests so that these countries would keep silent over the issue of Falun Gong. -
Norway: Rally in Oslo on World Human Rights Day to Support the Sixteen Million Withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party
2006-12-26On December 9th, the Norwegian China Human Rights Society organised a rally in Oslo to support the sixteen million withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and also to mark World Human Rights Day. When the parade passed through the high street, passers-by all stopped to watch.