On August 26th, a Chinese lady Luyi Schwab held a Falun Gong information day in Herrenberg to raise public awareness of the persecution of Falun Gong in her homeland. Local newspaper Gäubote published an article on her event beforehand. The article said that the information day will touch upon the Chinese Communist regime's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Luyi Schwab stated that these practitioners' organs were removed by the Chinese Communist regime for sale.

The European Parliament adopted a resolution expressing alarm over a range of Chinese economic, foreign policy, environmental and human rights issues, including the forced removal of organs from imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners. The resolution was passed ahead of the summit in Helsinki between the European Union's executive body and China.

“This cheque has particular symbolic value,” said Erich Bachmann. He received the cheque worth 2,200 Swiss Francs from Hong Kong’s Ministry of Justice, “after we were acquitted by the highest Court of Appeal, which is comparable to our Federal Court.” What happened? In March 2002, Erich Bachmann and fifteen other Falun Gong practitioners held a protest against the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China in a public area in Hong Kong. In 1999, the former President of China ordered this movement to be banned.

Helsinki (EFGIC) - Two months ago, an investigative report was published by David Kilgour, former Canadian Secretary of State, and David Matas, a renowned international human rights lawyer. This report concludes that organ harvesting is widespread on live Falun Gong practitioners in China. In the wake of the EU-China Summit in Helsinki, MEP's such as Simon Coveney, Charles Tannock, and Edward McMillan-Scott have co-signed a letter to the European Commission, expressing their concerns on this serious human rights violation. They urge the EU Commission to look into this matter and raise the issue during the Summit.

The 66- year- old claims she’s been beaten, force fed and suffered electro-shock therapy at the hands of the Chinese police – all because of her beliefs. Zhen is one of the lucky ones, though, she’s alive ... more than 2300 have been tortured to death.

It is unbelievable and horrific that in this day and age such atrocities are happening in China. I’m talking about the killing and organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience – transplantation of their corneas, kidneys, liver and hearts. It’s like the holocaust all over again, only in China there is big money in the killings with a booming trade in transplants.

Beijing: The official news agency Xinhua reported that the arrest of forty two year old Gao Zhisheng was announced in a brief statement by police in Beijing. “Suspicion of entanglement with criminal activities” was cited as a reason for the arrest. In the past, Gao had been involved in the defence of Christians and Internet dissidents. In addition, he complained about the torture of Falun Gong practitioners, a movement that is prohibited in the People's Republic. He was disbarred last November and placed under police surveillance.

The French Falun Gong Association, on behalf of the three Falun Gong practitioners as the plaintiffs, filed a complaint with the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris to sue Zhou Yongkang, the CCP Minister of Public Security and State Council Member of China and the former CCP General Secretary of Sichuan Province. The complaint alleges that Zhou Yongkang bears direct responsibility for the crimes of torture against Falun Gong practitioners in China.

On the 23rd of July, Finland’s main newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet published an article about Finland’s Falun Gong practitioners in Helsinki protesting against the Chinese Communist Party’s seven year long persecution of Falun Gong entitled: “Falun Gong Practitioners Protest against the Persecution”. Finnish Falun Gong practitioners are worried about people not paying enough attention to the illegal organs trade in China. Falun Gong practitioner Sinikka Sutakan says: “People find it very difficult to believe that such cruel things are still going on”.

A report in the “European Voice” said that the excessively weak stand of the European Union in free trade against China is very disappointing. The report also pointed out that the same situation happened in the human rights issues too. Not only is the dialogue between China and the European Union weak, but so is it between China and the fifteen European countries (including Norway and Switzerland). China has greatly enhanced its defense ability in international negotiation; however, in fact its human right situation has not truly improved. The recent incident of a large number of Falun Gong practitioners being forced to “donate” organs is an obvious example.

On “Alfa Radio”, the practitioners talked about the persecution in China, the imprisonment of practitioners in labour camps, mental institutions and prisons and the evidences for organ harvesting for profit by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The practitioners told the listeners about the good physical health that Falun Gong brings.

"According to the investigation report recently published by a Canadian former MP and a human rights lawyer, sixty thousand organs have been harvested between the year 2000 and 2005 and 41500 organs cannot be traced to their sources. The living prisoners of conscience have become merchandise for making profit. Their organs were harvested when they were lucid ... "

"Falun Gong practitioners are not only ruthlessly persecuted in China. According to an international investigation, they are also forcefully taken as stock for organ transplant, and are being killed for this purpose. Last week the Canadian David Kilgour, former public prosecutor, State Secretary and Member of Parliament, introduced a report in Brussels. He led his investigation together with attorney David Matas, a famous advocate for human rights and defender of torture victims."

Matas and Kilgour wrote in this report: “According to what we have found out so far, we come to the tragic conclusions that the allegations are true. We believe there is organ harvesting on a large scale and that huge numbers of Falun Gong practitioners have had their organs removed without their consent.” During a press conference on July 6th in Ottawa, while announcing the publication of his report, David Matas said: “This is a new kind of evil that has never been seen on this Earth.”

On July 24th, when the Tenth Australia-China Human Rights Dialogue convened in Australia, Falun Gong practitioners launched a protest in front of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and held a press conference to call on the Australian government to raise the subject of the Chinese Communist regime’s harvest of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit at the bilateral dialogue. They also urged the Australian government to ask the Chinese regime to stop the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners immediately.

Prague Daily Monitor reported on July 20th that about twenty Falun Gong practitioners from Czechoslovakia and other countries gathered at the Chinese Embassy in Prague to protest against the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong. On Thursday night, supporters of Falun Gong lit candles to mourn the Falun Gong practitioners who have been persecuted to death by the CCP. Protesters also simulated the organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners in Chinese prisons.

A human rights association published that thousands of Falun Gong members were without legal cause detained in slave labour camps. Two human rights activists who researched the matter discovered this hot news. From listening to a number of different phone conversations, it was found that a government representative promised fast delivery of organs at a hospital. The former wife of a surgeon said that her former husband had removed 2,000 corneas over a period of 2 years.

Zhou Yongkang, the head of Chinese Public Security is visiting France this week and has been the guest of Sarkozy, the French Home Secretary ... On Friday July 21st, news was heard that three Falun Gong practitioners were planning to sue Zhou Yongkang in the French courts. On this occasion we interviewed the French Falun Dafa organisation’s spokesman Mr. Zhang Jianping about this incident, who told us some relevant information.

Prague Daily Monitor reported on July 20th that about twenty Falun Gong practitioners from Czechoslovakia and other countries gathered at the Chinese Embassy in Prague to protest against the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong. The article reported that the CCP began its persecution of Falun Gong on the same day seven years ago. The protest lasted for twenty-four hours. Protesters first read a letter which protested against the CCP’s violation of human rights. Afterwards, they intended to hand the letter in to the Chinese Embassy but did not succeed.

The two human rights activists put together their findings after a two-month investigation. The former state secretary, responsible for Asia and the Pacific, David Kilgour, and the attorney David Matas based their results on telephone conversations with prison camps and hospitals that performed transplants. The official representatives for these institutions promised a speedy delivery of organs. Besides that, the former wife of a Chinese surgeon said that her former husband had removed over 2,000 corneas from human eyes over a period of two years".

'During Thursday’s press conference, McMillan-Scott urged the United Nations to investigate into this issue. He thought that China’s right to host 2008 Olympic Games should be abolished. Kilgour suggested that westerners who had organ transplant operations in China should at least pay tax for buying an organ. Falun Gong is an exercise like Yoga with millions of people practicing it. This spiritual movement does not get involved in any political affairs. However since 1999, the Chinese government regarded it as a threat'.

On July 14th, Holland TV Channel 2 broadcast a programme about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) atrocities of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong Practitioners. The programme stated that a report from Canada has confirmed that large-scale organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners and induced death are happening in China.

That the Falun Gong movement, under persecution in China since July 1999, is subject to virulent repression is nothing new. Hundreds of thousands of people have disappeared within the past few years for a long time, thrown into labour camps, in many cases without any form of trial, but via the convenience of ‘administrative detention’, which approves this kind of deprivation of freedom ... The allegations the two Canadians have formulated in their new report even goes a step further. According to them, Falun Gong followers are being killed only for their organs, and are then being cremated.

"The condition of prisoners in China is increasingly well known but it is only in recent months that a particular mistreatment of Falun Gong practitioners has come to light, namely the selection of prisoners for 'reverse-match' organ and tissue transplants, leading to their deaths. This is genocide, as defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide".

"She also tells of her mother, who introduced her daughter to Falun Gong and who is detained in a Chinese prison for one and a half years. Falun Gong has been banned in China since 1999. She has not heard anything from her mother since that year. She has fought for her release with signature campaigns. Xiaoyang Wang explained that her father had warned her not to return to China. At the same time, he asked her to also watch out for herself in Switzerland. The arm of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has a long reach".

The report includes translations of phone calls with staff members in prisons and clinics, who admit that Falun Gong members are used as a living organ bank. The report also disclosed that there are no surviving victims who can expose the truth. The “scene of the crime” leaves no trace, because the victims are cremated. China has not opened its doors for an inspection to put the accusation to rest. The Canadian regime will investigate the accusations.

“The means of brainwashing in Shanghai labour camp is very sly. They don’t beat people. The guards are kind and friendly to Falun Gong practitioners on the surface. But every Falun Gong practitioner is arranged to stay alone in a squadron of prisoners. A dozen prisoners watch one practitioner day and night. They never punish Falun Gong practitioners but punish the watchers. If practitioners do not give up their belief, the labour camp does not let them do their chores of daily life, but let the watchers do it for them".

"(BELGA) Since 1999, the Chinese government has executed an unknown number of adherents of the spiritual movement Falun Gong in various places in the country, especially in hospitals, forced labour camps and prisons. Without any written consent, their vital organs are also sold for high prices to foreigners. This is claimed by David Kilgour, former Canadian MP, and David Matas, international human rights lawyer. In Brussels today, thursday, Kilgour presented an independent investigation report, in which they claim to reveal indisputable evidence about the illegal organ trade."

Kilgour and Matas point to the difficulty trying to prove the allegations, as a result of them being denied permission to travel to China to do this research. However "everything seems to point to the fact that thousands of prisoners are having their organs removed forcefully without consent, to become items for transplantations. Thereafter the prisoner dies, are cremated and all evidence is removed" according to NRK. According to NRK, the report further says that, "many arrested Falun Gong-practitioners are missing, and nobody knows what happened to them. It is likely that many of these have had their organs removed".

On July 2nd, German newspaper Buersche Zeitun published an article entitled “Falun Gong protest to call for attention to human rights in China.” The article reported on a Falun Gong parade held in Gelsenkirchen where a World Cup quarter final game was held. The report said that Falun Gong has become well-known worldwide since the persecution started in China and more and more people have come to practice the exercises. The report said that near 100 supporters of Falun Gong participated in this activity in order to let more people know about the persecution.

NEW YORK (Falun Dafa Information Centre) - A 45-page investigative report was released on Thursday that addresses allegations of organ harvesting from Falun Gong detainees; the Falun Dafa Information Centre is calling the report, "vitally important". Coauthored by former Canadian Secretary of State (Asia-Pacific) David Kilgour and human rights attorney David Matas, the report draws "the regrettable conclusion that the allegations are true." Speaking with the press, Kilgour said on Wednesday that, "I don't think anyone can have any doubt that this unbelievable practice is continuing... They take both kidneys, then the heart and the skin and the corneas and the liver, and your body is then thrown in the incinerator."

On June 21st, 2006, the Belgian National TV station, VRT, introduced Falun Gong in an evening programme, Ter Zake, emphasising the Chinese Communist Party crime of harvesting organs from live Falun Gong practitioners. The Ter Zake programme with daily news and special reports on hot topics attracts very high ratings.

During a traditional Monday religious service, the ex-East German Peace Revolution that lead to the demolition of the Berlin Wall appealed to the German public to be concerned about Wang Xiaoyan and the Falun Gong situation in China. Wang Xiaoyan, the wife of Chinese student Zhang Zhentong, is a Falun Gong practitioner who is being persecuted in China. A report from Radio Free Asia reporter Tian Yi in Germany is reproduced here.

Following a meeting last month with two Falun Gong practitioners in Beijing (one of them was subsequently held under house arrest, the other hasn't been heard from since), Edward McMillan-Scott, a European Parliament Vice- President, revealed: "The practitioners I met in Beijing told me of their imprisonment and that of their wives, of the specially harsh treatment they suffered, including sleep deprivation, degrading and humiliating punishments and beatings. One said he knew 30 fellow practitioners who had been beaten to death. They were aware of organ harvesting — one had seen the cadaver of his friend and fellow practitioner after body parts had been removed."

Leipzig City, a famous old town in Germany, is the major city for matches during this World Cup. The match between South Korea and France on Sunday once again attracted tens of thousands of fans from various places in Europe. However, while people are immersed in the fervent atmosphere of the World Cup, Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Zhentong’s wife Ms. Wang Xiaoyan, is persecuted relentlessly in China’s Dalian City. The case has caused a lot of concern to the people of Leipzig at all levels. When interviewed last Sunday, Mr. Zhang Zhentong said that the support is not only from the University, but also from the entire society.

Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on the 20th of June that Falun Gong practitioner Wang Xiaoyan, wife of a student who studies Computer Science at the University of Leipzig in Germany, is being persecuted in Dalian City, China. RFA reported that two big newspapers in Leipzig have published their interviews with Zhang. They appealed to Dalian City, China, for an end of the persecution and to release Ms. Wang to Germany. The appeal is extended from Leipzig to all places in Germany, especially Dalian’s sister city Bremen.

Danish broadsheet newspaper Morgenavisen Jyllands Posten published an article on the 16th of May entitled “Organ Harvesting in China”. It was written by Christoffer Brekne, the spokesman of a Danish NGO called “China Human Rights Network”. The article says that the organ removals happening in the Chinese Communist Party’s concentration camps is the most evil thing in the world today.

The People newspaper of Leipzig carried an article reporting the news that the wife of a Chinese student abroad has been kidnapped because she practises Falun Gong. Zhentong Zhang is calling on all kind people in Germany to help and make great efforts so that his wife and eight year old daughter can re-unite with him.

"The special commissioner of the Parliament deemed illegal Iceland officials’ treatment of Falun Gong practitioners during Jiang Zemin’s visit to Iceland in the summer of 2002. Four years have gone by. Yet it is still critical for the Iceland authorities to correct the mistake made, for example, by adopting a clear stance on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) recent atrocities of human rights persecution. The CCP regime, which has claimed sixty or eighty million lives during peacetime, is allegedly profiting from organs harvested from living people".

"... a high-ranking official in China officially admitted that most of the organs were harvested from the executed prisoners. The current law in China regulated that organ donation must be proved by the agreement of the prisoner himself. But it has been little known whether the regulation was enforced".

Two hosts and two practitioners from Berlin using a question and answer format introduced Falun Gong, the persecution against Falun Gong in China, the Chinese Communist regime's harvesting organs from living practitioners, practitioners' protest in front of the Berlin Chinese Embassy during the past few years, as well as practitioners' appeal in front of the Federal Chancellor's office shortly before her visit to China in May. Footage of earlier interviews with practitioners during protests was played between the talks. Footage of practitioners re-enacting the CCP's live organ removal was also shown.

Denmark's Berlingske Tidende published an article on June 17th 2006 entitled "Strongly Condemning CCP's Organ Trade". The article stated that the vice president of the European Parliament, Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott, met two Falun Gong practitioners during his trip to China and learned about the CCP's crime of live organ removal. He strongly condemns the CCP's systemic crimes. Mr. McMillan-Scott pointed out that the CCP regime is tyrannical and very brutal. It is important for Europe to recognize the true nature of the regime.

Vice-President of the European Parliament, Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott, visited China last month and has declared that, if what he was told there is true, "the civilized world should shun China." In an official statement to The Epoch Times, Mr. McMillan-Scott said he visited Beijing to investigate allegations that Falun Gong practitioners were being used as live donors to service China's massive organ trade.

Associated Press reported on Thursday June 15th, that outside the European Commission building in Brussels, Falun Gong practitioners called on heads of the EU member states attending the Commission meetings to help put an end to the Chinese Communist regime’s atrocities of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners.

Croatian newspaper Novi List published a large article entitled "Concentration death camps spread across China: Chinese harvesting of human organs". In the subtitle, Novi List states: "Flourishing trade with human organs is the most profitable business in China and witnesses speak about extremely non-human treatment of the prisoners (mostly Falun Gong practitioners), whose organs are taken while they are still alive, with only minimal use of anaesthetics."

On April 26, in solidarity with her fellow practitioners, she told the members of the Chinese Embassy in France about her experiences practicing Falun Gong in an effort to show them that the practice is a good one..."Everyone in the Ministry of Education and Chinese embassies came to know my name because of this incident, and it earned me the hatred of the education minister Chen Zhili. It was she who had my passport and French resident permit revoked."

Spain's Supreme Court said today a lawsuit brought by the Chinese spiritual movement Falun gong accusing a top Chinese official of genocide could go ahead. That means Falun gong can now appeal against an earlier rejection of the lawsuit by the Audencia Nacional, Spain's highest criminal court...The spiritual movement, which is banned in China, accuses Jia of committing genocide when he was secretary of the Chinese Communist Party's local committee in Beijing between 1999 and 2002.

The 98.0FM Radio Station of France broadcasts to the major areas of France 24 hours a day. In the one-hour live programme "Just talking”, Falun Gong practitioners Manjing Chen, Candice and Ying Chen discussed the crimes of the CCP having removed organs from live Falun Gong practitioners for profit and then cremating their bodies to eliminate the evidence.

On May 10th, local media in Furth im Wald, a small city in Bavaria, reported a photographic exhibition depicting the phenomenon of Falun Gong.Koetzting Daily published a story entitled "Pictures make people think about the dark side of China. Falun Gong photo exhibition at municipal hall touches the people; Go see it."