Each year around July 20, practitioners around the world hold special events to draw increased awareness of what is happening in China. Here we report on events throughout Europe.

Each year around July 20, practitioners around the world hold special events to draw increased awareness of what is happening in China. Here we report on events throughout Europe.

Falun Gong practitioners in Europe held a rally in front of the European Parliament as part of three days of activities to expose the persecution and organ harvesting atrocities perpetrated against the practice in China.

Falun Gong practitioners from Austria and other European countries had a rally and march on Stephansplatz, a landmark at centre of Vienna, on August 23 to protest the Chinese Communist Party's brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and killing of practitioners for their organs.

The Mayor of Szeged invited the Tian Guo Marching Band to perform in the annual National Day Parade on August 21 and in the Equestrian Theatre that afternoon.

The Bulgarian Falun Dafa Association sent a press release to the Bulgarian media on August 14, 2016, regarding the Chinese communist regime’s refusal to allow Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Zhiwen to travel abroad.

The Art of Zhen Shan Ren (Truth, Compassion, Tolerance) International Exhibition was held in the art gallery at Gamla Stan in Stockholm, Sweden from July 18 to August 7, 2016.

The European Tian Guo Marching Band was invited by the Mayor of Eger, the second largest city in Northern Hungary, to take part in the local National Day celebration activities on August 20, 2016.

For six days in August, Falun Gong practitioners in Sweden participated in the annual Gothenburg Culture Festival, one of Sweden's largest and most popular city festivals.

Practitioners from Croatia and Slovenia held an event on July 23, 2016 in the Croatian town of Opatija to inform the public about Falun Gong and the persecution. Located on the Adriatic coast, Opatija attracts many tourists during the summer months.

Falun Gong practitioners in Germany held activities in Straubing, Cologne, and Hamburg, telling the public what Falun Gong really is and exposing the brutal persecution in China.

Falun Gong practitioners in Northern Ireland went to Londonderry to visit the European Constituency Office of the Sinn Fein Party, to raise awareness about the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong.

In a park in the city of Corfu, people stopped to watch the Falun Dafa exercises and read the banner telling them about the persecution of the practice in China, which has lasted 17 years and is still ongoing.

They introduced Falun Gong, exposed the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) organ harvesting from living practitioners, and collected signatures calling for an end to the persecution.

German Falun Gong practitioners held a rally and march near Frankfurt's Plausplatz on June 24, 2016, to raise awareness about the persecution in China, especially the forced organ harvesting from living practitioners.