Local Events

  • Czech Republic: The CCP's Persecution of Falun Gong Shocks Teachers and Students

    On April the 9th 2006, Czech Falun Gong practitioners were invited again by Balon Normal College to introduce the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners to students who are going to graduate soon. In this class, students understood that Falun Gong is an ancient cultivation method originating from China, based on the principles of “Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance”, and benefits people’s health in body and mind. As a result a great number of Chinese people practise Falun Gong. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has brutally persecuted Falun Gong since 1999 and over 2,800 practitioners have lost their lives.
  • Slovenia: Introducing Falun Dafa in the Capital City

    On World Falun Dafa Day, two practitioners from Austria travelled to Ljubljana to share the beauty of Falun Dafa with the Slovenian people and call on their support and concern for the Falun Gong practitioners who are being persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The practitioners set up a series of information poster boards in the main square in Ljubljana,
  • Greece: Exposing the CCP's Crimes at the European Social Forum in Athens

    Many people didn’t know what Falun Gong was and they hadn’t heard about the persecution in China. They were shocked to hear about the removal of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners whose bodies are then cremated to destroy any evidence. The Chinese Communist Party makes enormous profits from this illegal and immoral trade.
  • Switzerland: People Oppose CCP Organ Harvesting Crimes After Simulation in Lucerne

    Near the information table with leaflets on it was an operating table with two doctors busy “operating”. From an information board in front of the operating table, you could find out they were simulating the crime of the Chinese Communist Party removing organs from live Falun Gong practitioners for profit and then cremating their bodies to eliminate the evidence.
  • Switzerland: Falun Dafa Information Day in Zurich City Centre

    Even though it was drizzling on May 20th, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners from Switzerland held another Falun Gong information day in Parade Square, Zurich. Many people watched practitioners demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises, and reading the information on the display boards about the spread of Falun Gong around the world.
  • Germany: Global Democratic China Conference Urging Instant Investigation into the Facts of Organ Harvesting from Living People in China

    The Global democratic China and Asia Conference held in Berlin, Germany, passed a resolution urging the international community to instantly investigate organ harvesting on live people in China. In the meeting on Tuesday, Canadian representative Xue Sheng read the draft of this resolution. The draft appeals to all governments, parliaments and human rights organisations to pay instant attention to the severe human rights violation happening in China.
  • Switzerland: A Representative from Geneva City Council Condemns the CCP Crime of Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Gong Practitioners

    On May 9th, 2006, three representatives from the Swiss Falun Gong Association visited Geneva City Council. They were received by one of five city councilors, the Minster of the Department of Culture, Patrice Mugny and others. The Swiss Falun Gong Association representatives explained to them about the CCP's crimes of organ harvesting.
  • Finland: Protest Against the Inhuman Persecution of Falun Gong

    On April 22nd, 2006, Finnish Falun Gong practitioners displayed banners and photos depicting the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. They simply wanted to expose the Chinese Communist regime’s persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, who cultivate according to the principles of “Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance.”
  • Germany: Practitioners Rally in Munich to Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day

    In 1992, on May 13th, the founder of Falun Gong, Mr. Li Hongzhi, started to spread Falun Gong in Changchun. He unsealed people’s Buddha nature, which was hidden for a long time, with the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance, and pointed out a cultivation way to return to one’s original, true self.
  • Belgium: Falun Gong Practitioners Celebrate World Dafa Day in Ghent

    On May 13th, Falun Dafa practitioners held activities to celebrate World Falun Dafa Day. Practitioners demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises while children and parents queued for balloons with a message reading "Falun Dafa is good".
  • Germany: Telling the People of Leipzig about the Persecution of Falun Dafa

    On May 13th 2006, to celebrate Falun Dafa Day, German practitioners in Leipzig held an information day downtown to let the local people know about the persecution of Falun Gong. Many pedestrians happily took flyers and earnestly viewed photos. Some people requested to sign their names to support or enquired how to start to practise Falun Gong.
  • Austria: Exhibition of Practitioners' Paintings at Castle Schlaining

    The international “Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance” art exhibition can be viewed at Castle Schlaining. Arts and Culture Association “Ars Cara” organised an exhibition of twenty nine paintings and photographs. All artists are practitioners of the spiritual practice Falun Gong, which was banned in China in 1999.
  • Norway: Promoting Falun Gong on Norwegian National Day

    May 17th is Norway's National Day. In every Norwegian city and town, people hold grand celebrations and activities. On this day, Norwegians no matter male or female, no matter old or young dress in beautiful traditional costumes, wave national flags and take to the street to celebrate National Day. This year, practitioners took part too.
  • United Kingdom: Practitioners Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day in London

    For fourteen years Falun Gong has been spreading in China and abroad by word of mouth, purifying people’s minds and bodies. Now it has spread to nearly eighty countries and regions across the world. The first annual World Falun Dafa Day was held on May 13th, 2000, shortly after the CCP started persecuting Falun Gong.
  • Sweden: Celebrating World Falun Gong Day in Stockholm

    On Saturday May 13th, 2006, Swedish practitioners celebrated the 14th anniversary of Falun Gong’s introduction to the public. Practitioners held a four-hour celebration, with activities including dancing and singing, demonstrations of the Falun Gong exercises, a photo display, art exhibition and paper lotus flower making.