"This is outrageous," declared Helmut Pauli, Managing Director of the Tonicale Concert Agency in Munich, Germany. Since he agreed to book the Chinese Spectacular at Munich's famed Prinzregenten theater, he says, scarcely a day has gone by without him getting a phone call from the Chinese consul in Munich or her staff. "They are threatening me and my company!"

Recently the Divine Performing Arts (DPA)’s scheduled performances at Det Kongelige Theatre in Copenhagen were abruptly cancelled. In its place, a mysterious concert sponsored by the Chinese Embassy and attended by invitation only will be staged at the same theatre. Xie Hangsheng, the Chinese Ambassador to Denmark, personally invited the Danish officials to attend the Chinese New Year Concert.

The head of the Russian Falun Gong Association said, “The Security Bureau and the Police exceeded their jurisdiction. It was a violation of Falun Gong practitioners’ human rights. We are not interested in politics. We do not have any political ambitions. We want to meditate peacefully in parks. However, when our fellow practitioners in China are brutally persecuted, their organs are harvested while they are still alive for huge profits. We feel obligated to expose the crimes of the CCP and its overseas institutions, and to call upon kind people in the world to help stop the atrocities.”

Although the police has been advised in advance about this and the activities were approved by the organisers of the event, Falun Gong participants were informed, just before the parade neared the Chinese market, that they could not distribute flyers like other groups and two banners were confiscated, claiming that the information on the banners was politically motivated.

Recently former members of CSSA Chinese Students and Scholars Associations in North America, Australia, Europe and Asia revealed that the CSSAs in overseas universities are under the direction of Chinese Embassies or Consulates who rope in Chinese students and collect information about overseas Chinese students and incite students’ hatred against the Falun Gong spiritual group. The CSSA in Magdeburg University, Germany is in the same position.

The NTD International Chinese Classical Dance Competition 2007 will be held at the Skirball Centre for Performing Arts at New York University, the goal of which is to promote Chinese Classical Dance and revive the orthodox Chinese culture. A week ago, New York University Chinese Culture Club (NYUCCC) made an open statement to slander the NTD International Chinese Classical Dance Competition and planed to interfere with the competition.

My name is Liu Deqin. Since July, 2003, I have worked in Germany. On June 30th, 2003, I was granted a visa to Germany. As soon as I received the visa sent by the German Embassy, I found the envelope had been torn open. In July, staff of the “610” Office [known as the 'Chinese gestapo', the 610 Office was created specifically to persecute Falun Gong] came to have a talk with me. The subject was mainly that since I had been given an exit visa, I had to serve China by taking some photos in Germany for them.

On May 13th, 2007, Professor Gao Chunman, a Falun Gong practitioner with UN refugee status, was taken from his home by agents of the Russian Federal Immigration Service. He was taken to Moscow and deported back to China that same day. This was the second callous act by Russian authorities after Falun Gong practitioner Ma Hui and her eight-year-old daughter were deported to China.

Ma Hui’s husband, Mr. Chenguang Li, is living in St. Petersburg and holds a work permit in Russia. According to Chenguang Li, two CCP agents claimed that the Russian authorities detained Ma Hui and sent her back to China because she practises Falun Gong and participates in activities in Russia to raise awareness about the persecution. CCP agents made sure that Chenguang Li knew that ‘‘if he makes trouble, we will take him back to China as well’’. By ‘‘make trouble’’, they mean of he does anything to call for the freedom of his wife or denounce her kidnapping.

On March 24th and 25th, 2007, Russian Falun Gong practitioners held activities in front of the Chinese Embassy in Moscow to raise awareness about the CCP's trade in organs harvested from living Falun Gong practitioners. They called for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP. Under pressure from the Chinese regime, Russian police asked practitioners to leave, or they would be charged with “interfering with the Embassy work”.

"This cruel persecution is completely based on lies. In this persecution of innocent people, the lies have served as the worst, formless killer. The lies have incited this society's hatred and exclusion of the Falun Gong community. The lies have deceived the world's people into following the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong. Therefore, it is distressing to see that you are spreading lies and hatred in Finland and poisoning the public. What you have done is already beyond the limit of your duties as consulates. You have acted as accomplices to the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong."

"In April 2006, I went to the Chinese Embassy in Dublin to have my passport renewed. At that time one of staff in the Embassy first helped me go through some formalities, accepted my passport and then told me that I could come to collect my new passport in four weeks. On the 8th of May, I went to the Chinese Embassy for my new passport. When I went to the window to get my passport, I told one of staff the reason why I was there. She simply checked and then told me: “I haven’t got your passport."

On September 26th 2006, Russian customs officials denied entry to seven Falun Gong practitioners who took a train from Kiev to Moscow. From the officials, the practitioners did not get any concrete reasons for the denied entry. It was the third instance of Russian customs denying entry to Ukrainian Falun Gong practitioners. Someone told the practitioners that the order was from the Russian Border Administration Bureau, which received a telegram with "confidential" notice from higher level administration. Thus the Border Administration Bureau had no power to give out any information or explain the reasons.

Currently many people in government departments have learned about Falun Gong and the persecution it suffers in China.On the other hand, under the pressure of the CCP and the direction of the Foreign Ministry, the police and the public security departments have been turning down practitioners' requests to hold protests in front of the Chinese Embassy.

Jiang Zemin used China's governmental system to bribe Russia with economic interests. Particularly, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, embassies and consulates often used Article 8 to force the Russian government and its Ministry of Foreign Affairs to suppress Falun Gong. On one hand, the Chinese Communist Party's secret agents spread flyers on various occasions to defame and slander Falun Gong. On the other hand, the CCP embassies and consulates kept using diplomatic measures to influence the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

According to a Radio France International (RFI) June 12th report, the Spanish Ministry of Home Affairs granted two Falun Gong practitioners the right of political asylum. Their Chinese passports were expired, but the Chinese Embassy in Spain refused to renew their passports, and asked them to go back to China to renew. Considering that two practitioners risk the danger of being persecuted in China, the Spanish government granted them political asylum.

On the 10th of February, staff from The Epoch Times newspaper came to the Chinese Embassy in Berlin to protest against the violence of the CCP and demand justice for Dr. Li Yuan, who was beaten by CCP henchmen. At the same time, Zheng Zhihong, a Falun Gong practitioner from Berlin had been asked to come to the Embassy to “have a talk”.

Before Christmas, Xiaotian Liu, a practitioner whose parents were tortured to death by the Chinese Communist Regime for their persistence in practising Falun Gong, remembered the difficult days when his parents were unlawfully abducted and he went underground for eighteen months to evade police capture.

Recently Falun Gong practitioners filed a criminal suit against the CCP Procurator General Jia Chunwang during his visit to Denmark, for the crimes against human rights he committed to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. This matter became hot news with various media in Denmark. The lawsuit made people in Denmark pay attention to the tragedy caused by the persecution. They felt deeply shocked. A great number of people wrote letters to the media one after another to express their anger and condemnation.

A Falun Gong practitioner from Germany called Mrs. Li said in an interview a couple of days ago that she was happy to see Chen Yonglin stand out courageously, proving that the CCP has a spy network overseas targeting Falun Gong and those with dissenting opinions. She felt gratified that Chen Yonglin received a protection visa from the Australian Government. Mrs. Li said that her personal experience demonstrated the existence of a CCP spy network in Germany targeting Falun Gong. Chen Yonglin proves Mrs. Li’s statement from another perspective.

Some Falun Gong practitioners in Germany have been monitored and harassed to such an extent that they felt quite shocked, despite knowing the awful state of the persecution that is taking place in China. Once, a German practitioner was standing in a public place and had the feeling that he was being filmed by someone, when suddenly a text message appeared on his mobile telephone reading: “We know wherever you are at any time but you can’t see us and we can kill you at any time.”

Since Falun Gong practitioner Jiang Renzheng was deported from Germany and subsequently sentenced to a forced labour camp in China, the German Falun Dafa Association, along with practitioners in Germany and around the globe, have been calling for the German Government to rescue Jiang Renzheng. Their petitions were echoed by many international organisations including the International Human Rights Organisation, Amnesty International and the United Nations Refugee Council.

They asked me many questions. I did not mind telling them my good experiences of practising Falun Gong. I told them all about it. But when they asked me specific things like the names of people, certain events or things I felt that could harm other people, I was not willing to tell them. They were not satisfied with my answers and they told me that I was not cooperating well.

Peter Valk, a 28-year-old Dutch man from Woerden, was kidnapped from his hotel room by 15 Chinese secret agents in the night of the 24th to the 25th of May. He was forced into a car with his head between his knees under a blanket and taken to the local ‘6-10 Office’. After two and a half days of detention, he was put on a plane to Thailand on the 28th of May and told he is prohibited from entering China for the next five years. The only reason for his arrest is that Peter practises Falun Gong, a meditation practice for mind and body.

On April the 25th 2005, Munich Falun Dafa practitioners appealed outside the Chinese Consulate to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the April 25th peaceful appeal. The Chinese Consulate attempted to get police to force the practitioners to remove a banner calling for Jiang Zemin to be brought to justice for his crimes against Falun Gong.

UK practitioner Jin Hua, who has already suffered violence at the hands of the Chinese communist regime, is scheduled for deportation today. We sincerely ask the world’s people to speak out against the UK Government’s plan to deport Jin Hua to China for certain persecution. Please fax or e-mail your support letter to Jin Hua’s lawyer and the UK Home Office. The contact details are in this article.

Annie Yang is a 42-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from China. Agnes Wilton, a resident of London, has known Annie (Feng) Yang for 10 years. They are not only business partners but also very close friends. Mrs. Wilton treats Annie as her own daughter. Annie was arrested at a friend’s house in Beijing between 10:00 and 10.30pm (local time) on 1st March 2005 after she went there to give them some Falun Gong materials. After the arrest, Ms Yang’s family members requested to visit her but were refused. No one knows where she is. UK Falun Gong practitioners are calling for the world’s support in finding and rescuing Feng Yang from illegal imprisonment in China.

Police in Beijing kidnapped Chinese businesswoman Ms. Feng Yang on the 1st of March. Police kidnapped her in the evening of the 1st of March. She was first brought to the local Shuang Yu Shu Police Station and was subsequently moved to the Hai Dian District Public Security Sub-Bureau. Feng Yang used to study in the UK and has close business links there. Yang’s friends in the UK are making an urgent appeal and calling for her immediate release.

TV channel “Nelonen” extensively reported on the second wave of harassment in its evening news on February 25th. A practitioner from the city of Oulu was interviewed in the report and suggested that the reason for this persecution campaign happening in western countries is that Falun Gong practitioners are exposing the CCP’s crimes against human rights to the world. The interviewee also stated that Falun Gong is a righteous practice encouraging high moral standards and the communist officials fear this due to the endemic corruption in China’s official state organs.

On the afternoon of the 11th of February 2005, on behalf of Falun Gong practitioners, Lawyer Fabrice Orlandi filed a legal petition to the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris. The petition requested a comprehensive investigation into the incident on January 2004, in which, bowing to the pressure from the Chinese communist regime, French police harassed Falun Gong practitioners.

On the 6th and 7th of February 2005, from about 12 noon to ten o’clock at night, Falun Dafa practitioners in Holland were severely harassed by the Chinese Communist Party. Every two minutes they received a recorded message on both landlines and mobiles, consisting of propaganda. The calls were recordings from the Chinese Communist Party’s mouthpiece - the China News Agency - that slandered Falun Gong by spreading lies and hatred against the practice. This is a serious act of harassing Dutch citizens’ basic rights and is a severe attack on freedom of belief.

The spokesperson for Falun Gong in Iceland, has contacted the police and intends to press charges after repeated calls to her phone repeating taped propaganda against Falun Gong. Thordis says this propaganda, in English and Chinese, aims to spread hate against the peaceful practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime for the last five years. “These phone calls are unacceptable and spoil the sanctity of one’s private life. Iceland is a free democratic country and to me it is not acceptable to be prone to such attacks from a foreign oppressing power,” said Thordis, who intends to request a police investigation.

Between February 6th and 8th, Finnish Falun Gong practitioners received numerous offensive phone calls, which most likely originated from the Chinese Government. Two Falun Gong practitioners revealed how they received over 400 calls that slandered Falun Gong and spread lies about the peaceful qigong exercise practice. In total, practitioners in Finland received close to 1500 calls. This is an alarming example of how the persecution campaign started by Jiang Zemin extends over Chinese borders.

During the time of the 2005 Chinese New Year, many Falun Gong practitioners in Asia, Europe, the United States, Australia and other parts of the world received anonymous phone calls. Most of the phone calls could not be traced, but some practitioners' caller ID programs showed the calls originating in Mainland China. At present, police authorities in many countries have commenced an investigation.

Falun Gong practitioners in Germany received pre-recorded phone calls in Chinese and English on February 6th 2005. The content was fake news concocted by the Chinese Communist Government about the Tiananmen self-immolation intending to spread propaganda about Falun Gong. Both German and Chinese practitioners have received the phone calls and others of a similar nature.

LONDON [EFGIC] – Scores of individuals in the U.S., Canada and at least a dozen countries throughout Europe including the U.K., reported receiving phone calls yesterday with recorded messages unmistakably from China’s Communist regime. The messages contained propaganda demonizing Falun Gong and claiming the Chinese Government is defending “human rights” by “saving” people from the traditional Chinese practice.