Local Events
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Ireland: Practitioners Hold a Two-Day National Fa Study
2003-06-04County Laois is situated in the heart of rural Ireland and here Irish practitioners held their 2003 national spring Fa study. Most of the practitioners arrived on Sunday June 1st. Soon after arriving, practitioners participated in the 11am global sending forth righteous thoughts, which lasted for five extra minutes as part of the worldwide efforts to assist the lawsuit against Jiang launched in Chicago, after which the Fa study began. -
Sweden: Practitioners Clarify the Facts and Collect Signatures for the Release of Pirjo Svensson (Part 6)
2003-06-03One passer-by asked about Pirjos detention, signed his name on a petition to call for her release and expressed a wish to help. He returned later with family members and a schoolmate, who also signed the petition. Practitioners upright words and righteous actions are touching more and more people. -
Germany: Practitioners Hold Activities to Free Xiong Wei and Rescue Friends and Family Members in China
2003-06-03Many people expressed their desire to support Falun Gong after viewing the photo exhibition and relevant information. Some said, We must help this matter. A teacher from a language school said she would discuss Falun Gong with the Chinese students in her class. Freiburg practitioners will deliver the petition signatures to the International Human Rights Organization in Germany. -
Sweden: Practitioners Collect Signatures to Appeal for the Release of Pirjo Svensson (Part 5)
2003-06-03Swedish practitioners have called on people from all walks of life to show concern for Pirjos situation. Through this activity, practitioners have exposed the crimes committed by the Jiang regime in brutally persecuting Falun Gong and have also let people know more about the genocide lawsuit against Jiang that has been launched in Chicago. -
Swedish Government Plans to Adopt a Stronger Stance Regarding the Swedish Falun Gong Practitioner Detained in Thailand
2003-06-02Swedish officials sent a note about this incident to the Thailand officials, filing an official Swedish protest, requesting the release of Mrs. Pirjo Svensson from detention in Thailand, and demanding an immediate explanation. Several major Swedish media outlets reported immediately on the incident and emphasised Mrs. Svenssons innocence. Members of the European Parliament, Human Rights organisations in different countries and Swedish citizens wrote letters to the King of Thailand and the Thai Premier to appeal for the immediate release Mrs. Svensson. -
Belgium: Spreading Falun Gong at the Himalayan Culture Expo
2003-06-02Amnesty employees stated that the Internet in China is being strictly controlled and monitored and this has led to the internet police in China brutally persecuting people who express their opinions online. The basic human rights of freedom of speech and freedom of information are being trampled on. They said that this is no different from what is happening to Falun Gong practitioners who are still being cruelly persecuted. Amnesty are also doing their best to appeal for Falun Gong practitioners and to provide help to them. -
Sweden: Clarifying the Facts and Collecting Signatures to Appeal for the Rescue of Pirjo Svensson (Part V)
2003-06-02Practitioners set up a stall so that people could come and learn the facts of the persecution and sign their names to appeal for Mrs. Svenssons release. Practitioners also distributed materials about SARS and the genocide lawsuit against Jiang Zemin. All of the practitioners were surrounded by people who were listening to the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong in China. -
Croatia: Practitioners Present Falun Gong at a Congress Sponsored by the Ministry of Health in Zagreb
2003-06-01We had 15 minutes to briefly introduce Falun Gong and demonstrate the exercises. At the end, we told the audience about the brutal persecution in China and the peaceful activities of practitioners around the world who are kindly appealing for help to stop the persecution. The audience responded with warm. A detailed article describing Falun Gong also appeared in the official congress book. -
Germany: The People of Siegen City Learn the Truth about Dafa
2003-06-01Dafa practitioners held activities in Siegen to help people learn more about Falun Gong and the brutal persecution in China. A lot of passers-by signed their names to help rescue Xiong Wei, a Falun Gong practitioner who was living in Germany but is currently illegally imprisoned in China. Many people showed an interest in learning the exercises. -
UK: Strong Support for the Human Rights of Dafa Practitioners Suffering in China at the Kingston Spring Fair
2003-05-31A group of practitioners set up an information table to let people know more about the persecution in China and about Falun Gong. The public offered a lot of strong support for the worldwide efforts to bring the persecution and human rights abuses against Falun Gong practitioners in China to an end and many people signed a petition. -
Germany: Introducing Falun Dafa and Explaining the Facts at Augsburg
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France: Widespread Call for and End to the Persecution at a Human Rights Seminar (pictures)
2003-05-30Practitioners exposed the schemes adopted by Jiangs regime to force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their belief, including murder, inhuman torture, forced brainwashing and sexual abuse. As this persecution involves tens of millions of Falun Gong practitioners and hundreds of millions of their relatives and friends, it has actually endangered the entire Chinese society. The practitioners' speeches aroused widespread concern. -
Germany: Falun Dafa Information Day in Nuremberg
2003-05-30The practitioners explained to the people of Nuremberg how tens of millions of Chinese Falun Gong practitioners have had their homes, jobs, families and livelihoods destroyed simply because they wanted to improve their health and moral standards through practising Falun Gong. Practitioners expressed hope that people would offer their support to stop this persecution. -
Sweden: Collecting Signatures and Clarifying the Facts During the Annual Gothenburg Marathon
2003-05-29On the 17th of May, during the annual Gothenburg Marathon, Falun Gong practitioners collected signatures to rescue Pirjo, a Swedish practitioner detained in Thailand without reason. After learning the facts, passers-by, spectators and runners were shocked by the brutal persecution, and many of them signed the petition for Pirjos release. -
Belgium: Telling the Thai Embassy about the Illegal Imprisonment of Pirjo Svensson
2003-05-29The Embassy secretary said that she had asked for an explanation behind Mrs. Svenssons arrest and detention, but the government had not replied. She was very helpful, and it was obvious that she knew the arrest of Pirjo Svensson is not right by moral laws, Thailands laws, or by the laws of the rest of the world.