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Bulgaria: Practitioners Commemorate Six Years of Persecution with an Open Air Exhibition
2005-07-26On 23rd and 24th July 2005, Bulgarian Falun Dafa practitioners organized an open air exhibition in Boris Garden – the central park of the capital city Sofia. The exhibition commemorated six years since the persecution against Falun Dafa was launched by former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin and enforced by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). -
Sweden: Peacefully Appealing outside the Chinese Consulate on July 20th
2005-07-26On the 20th of July, Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside the Chinese Consulate General in Gothenburg. The gathering was held because July 20th was the day that the Chinese Communist Party, under the leadership of the previous president Jiang Zemin, began a brutal persecution against Falun Gong. Falun Gong practitioners will continue to hold peaceful appeals outside the Chinese consulate until this brutal persecution stops. -
France: The People of Rouen were Touched by an Anti-torture Exhibition
2005-07-26On July 8th, Falun Gong practitioners visited Rouen. They set up a stall in the city centre opposite various elegantly designed buildings and held an anti-torture exhibition where they simulated a few of the many torture methods that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses in its attempts to force Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their beliefs. -
The Call of People in Europe: Saluting a New China Without the Rule of the CCP
2005-07-26Local people who were warm-hearted had made many colourful, big banners and slogans such as “Support the Million People who have Withdrawn from the CCP”, “Saluting a New China Without the Rule of the CCP” and “It is High Time We said Goodbye to the CCP”. The parade was about two hundred metres long and was very eye-catching. -
Czech Republic and Slovakia: Exposing the Persecution and Promoting Falun Gong (II)
2005-07-26On Saturday 18th of June, the largest TV station in the Czech Republic, Cesha Televize 1, interviewed Xiong Wei at a memorial where victims of the Communist Party used to be tortured. She spent two years in a Chinese forced labour camp, imprisoned for handing out leaflets exposing the human rights abuses against Falun Gong. -
Belgium: Falun Gong Practitioners Filed a Lawsuit Against CCP Officials for Telephone Harassment
2005-07-25On Tuesday July 19th 2005, Mr. Georges-Henri Beauthier, a prestigious human rights lawyer, filed a lawsuit on behalf of two Falun Gong practitioners in Brussels. The lawsuit was for the crime of harassment and was filed against China’s “6-10 Office” and the responsible Chinese officials. The lawsuit was filed on the eve of the 6th anniversary since Falun Gong was banned in China on July 20th 1999. -
Germany: Appealing at the Chinese Consulate in Munich after Six Years of Persecution
2005-07-25According to the statistics from ClearWisdom.Net, to date there have been 2,646 practitioners who have been killed in this persecution, but these are only the documented death cases. Nearly one hundred million Falun Gong practitioners have been deprived of the right to believe in “Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance”, and countless families have been broken up. -
Czech Republic and Slovakia: Exposing the Persecution and Promoting Falun Gong (I)
2005-07-24Between the 16th and 22nd of June, for the first time Falun Gong practitioners in the Czech Republic and Slovakia received mainstream media attention on a large scale. While exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal persecution of Falun Gong, the practitioners held activities to introduce the exercises and principles of the practice. -
France: People in Le Havre Sympathise with China’s Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners
2005-07-24Practitioners demonstrated Falun Gong’s five sets of beautiful and simple exercises and this attracted both attention and admiration from tourists. People naturally came over to find out more and saw the posters exposing the persecution against practitioners in China at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). -
Denmark: Anti-Torture Exhibition in Copenhagen to Commemorate Six Years of Persecution
2005-07-23On July 20th six years ago, the former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Jiang Zemin initiated a brutal campaign of persecution against Falun Gong. On the 16th of July, Falun Gong practitioners from Denmark and Sweden went to the largest square in Copenhagen, Kongens Nytorv, to expose the on-going campaign of genocide against Falun Gong in China. -
United Kingdom: Practitioners in Manchester Commemorated Six Years of Persecution with an Appeal at the Chinese Consulate
2005-07-23In remembrance of more than 2,700 fellow Falun Gong practitioners who have lost their lives in the CCP’s human rights abuses, practitioners from Manchester and surrounding cities gathered at the Chinese Consulate on this anniversary to hold a press conference, to appeal for the public’s concern and to urge the CCP to stop the persecution of Falun Gong immediately. -
Sweden: Appealing for an End to the Persecution of Falun Gong at the Chinese Embassy on July 20th
2005-07-22Practitioners in Stockholm gathered at the Chinese Embassy on July 20th, six years since the official launch of the persecution, to appeal for an end to the ruthless violence against Falun Gong practitioners. They demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises, held up a big banner reading “Stop Persecuting Falun Gong” and distributed flyers. -
United Kingdom: Practitioners in Edinburgh Commemorate Six Years of Persecution
2005-07-22On July 20th 2005, the official starting date for the Chinese Communist Party’s campaign of terror and persecution against Falun Gong, practitioners in Edinburgh held an all-day appeal outside the Chinese Consulate. All over the world, commemorative activities called for an end to the torture that has taken the lives of over 2,600 innocent practitioners. -
Germany: Paper Lotus Flowers Send a Profound Meaning at the Munich International Multicultural Festival
2005-07-22Having learned about the persecution, people were shocked and wanted to know more about Falun Gong. Some asked for leaflets, some learned the exercises from practitioners and others learned how to make the paper lotus flowers. Many people were interested in the lotus flowers, admiring the care and attention that had gone into making them. -
Russia: Promoting Falun Gong in Stavropol City
2005-07-21Practitioners practised the exercises in a local park. People who were interested in learning were taught on the spot. Many of them were young people. At the beginning, they were a little hesitant. But they all joined the exercise group later on. Some of them even learned how to do the meditation with their legs crossed in the double lotus position.