Local Events
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Czech Republic: Falun Gong at Ethnic Gathering and Policka Festival
2006-07-12On Sunday June 24th, in a small scenic town called Policka, a festival of ethnic music and “Colour Meeting” took place. Its main goal was to foster mutual understanding and tolerance between people of different ethnic groups and cultures. Falun Gong practitioners took part in the event. They performed a demonstration of the Falun Gong exercises and distributed leaflets. -
Switzerland: A Health, Ethics and Human Rights Seminar Focuses on the Trade in Organs Taking Place in China.
2006-07-10During the first conference of the UN Human Rights Council, a human rights seminar was held at the auditorium of the UN Office in Geneva on June 29th, organised by international non-government organisations and focusing on the illegal organ trade in China. -
Finland: International Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance Art Exhibition Held in Helsinki
2006-07-10The second Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance International Art Exhibition was held in Galleria Oma Huone on Kalevankatu Street in the centre of Helsinki, capital of Finland. Near the gallery, practitioners distributed leaflets about the exhibition. In the gallery, practitioners guided people around conscientiously and patiently, explaining the background to the paintings. -
Germany: Cultural Carnival Day in Bielefeld
2006-07-10While strolling along the pedestrian zones, festival goers had the opportunity to pass by a Falun Gong information booth, erected by the town’s practitioners. They could find out about the human rights situation in China. Many had the chance to talk with local practitioners about the suppression of the meditation practice and could form their own opinion. -
Germany: ISHR China Task Force Exposes Crimes Committed by the Chinese Communist Party
2006-07-09During a demonstration on Heidelberg’s Main Street on June 18th, 2006, the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) China taskforce, and the Falun Dafa Association informd local people and tourists about the trade in organs harvested from living and deceased Falun Gong practitioners in Chinese concentration camps. -
Russia: Introducing Falun Gong to the People of the Far East
2006-07-09On June 26th, 2006, another group of practitioners went to a city in the Far Eastern area to introduce Falun Gong to local people and expose the persecution in China. Practitioners went to a building site where Chinese men were working to talk to them. The Chinese workers were very glad to meet practitioners and many of them accepted leaflets. -
Czech Republic: Introducing Falun Gong in Usti nad Orlic
2006-07-09On Friday June 16th, Falun Gong practitioners went to the city of Usti nad Orlici, where a cultural activity called “City in Motion, Week of Good Vibrations” was being held. Falun Gong practitioners chose one of the streets leading to the main square to inform people about the persecution of Falun Gong which is still continuing in China after seven years. Many people were concerned about it and asked whether they could do more than sign the petition and how they could help. Some of them took leaflets for their friends. -
Russia: Introducing Falun Dafa and Exposing the Persecution to the People of Krasnoyarsk
2006-07-08On June 26th, practitioners in Krasnoyarsk held an event in Chinatown to expose the brutal seven year persecution of Falun Gong and tell the public about the spread of Falun Dafa to more than eighty countries. At the site, as well as distributing leaflets and other material, practitioners displayed photos and talked with passersby about the persecution. -
France: Having Committed Such Terrible Crimes against Innocent People, the CCP Will Not Escape Justice
2006-07-08On the 11th and 18th of June, 2006, in the Place du Trocadero (Human Rights Plaza) in Paris, French Falun Gong practitioners exposed the CCP's trade in organs harvested from Falun Gong practitioners to tourists from every corner of the world and appealed for an end to the persecution. The many banners and photos depicting the persecution attracted many people to come to sign the petition and to inquire about information. -
Germany: Passersby in Saarbrücken Condemn Organ Harvesting by the Chinese Communist Regime
2006-07-08On Saturday, June 17th, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners exposed the crimes committed by the Chinese Communist Party to passersby in Saarbrücken. Shoppers in the busy shopping centre learned about the CCP's illegal trade in organs harvested from live Falun Gong practitioners taking place in China’s secret concentration camps. -
Hungary: Letting Hungarian People Know about Falun Dafa and the Persecution
2006-07-06On June 25th, 2006, practitioners from Germany, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, as well as Hungarian practitioners introduced Falun Dafa and exposed the persecution in the centre of Budapest. Practitioners displayed pictures showing how Falun Gong practitioners are being persecuted by the CCP in China. -
Turkey: "Such a good thing, I will let all Turkish people know about it"
2006-07-06On June 24th and 25th, 2006, both new and veteran practitioners from Turkey took part in activities in Ankara Park together. Practitioners worked as one body, making their best efforts. Some were responsible for location arrangements, others demonstrated the exercises and some volunteered to teach people the exercises. -
Belgium: Introducing Falun Gong to Teachers and Students and Exposing the Persecution in China
2006-07-05On Friday June 2nd, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners from Belgium were invited to KTA Senior High School of Technology to introduce Falun Dafa to students in grades three and five as part of a project the children are doing on different cultures. Afterwards, the teachers said that the activity was very successful and that the students all paid much attention to it. -
Finland: “Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance International Art Exhibition” Held in Helsinki
2006-07-05Following the “Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance International Art Exhibition” held in Finland from May 30th to June 5th, 2006, the “Second Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance International Art Exhibition Helsinki” was held from June 20th to July 1st, 2006, at Galleria Oma Huone on Kalevankatu Street in downtown Helsinki. -
Czech Republic: Protest Against Trade in Organs Harvested from Live Falun Gong Practitioners in Chinese Concentration Camps
2006-07-05Falun Gong practitioners met in Jihlava to inform the public about the inhumane persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. They informed the passers-by with leaflets and banners about Falun Gong and its main principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance and also about the secret concentration camps where organs are being harvested from live practitioners.