By invitation of Zaragoza University, at the end of May Spanish Falun Gong practitioners came to hold two days of seminars for graduates on the topic of Falun Dafa, as well as to teach the five sets of Falun Gong exercises.Every single one of the students, teachers and staff present signed their names on the petition to “support Falun Gong and to stop the CCP’s atrocities”.

On May 30th, 2006, a press conference on the global view of religious freedom in China was held at the European Parliament. The organisers called on the Chinese government to evaluate China’s religious freedom and allow U.N. Special Rapporteur to investigate into forced labour camps.

From the 20th to the 25th of May, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners from the Czech Republic staged a tour of north Moravia and Silesia to inform the Czech people about the continuous persecution of their fellow practitioners in China and about the atrocities in which the CCP harvests organs from living people in labour camps for profit.

On May 27th, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners in Pyaqigorsk exposed the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s monstrous crime of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. As well as distributing leaflets and chatting with passersby, practitioners also displayed information boards and performed a re-enactment of organ-harvesting.

The exhibition grandly opened in Helsinki on May the 30th. Parliament member and former MEP Ms. Heidi Hautala said in her opening speech that she hoped the exhibition will help people see the human rights situation in China. The exhibition was later visited by Vice-President of the European Parliament Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott.

The 2006 Ukraine Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference was held on May 28th. A practitioner read a congratulation message from the Founder of Falun Dafa, Master Li Hongzhi. Practitioners met this with warm applause and once again felt what great responsibilities they shoulder. Many practitioners took the chance to share their experiences.

Whenever there were Chinese people, practitioners approached to greet them and passed materials such as a copy of the Epoch Times and "Nine Commentaries." Most people would accept, some tour guides even encouraged people to take the materials. When some tour guides restrained people from taking the materials, Dafa practitioners told them the truth. A lot of people liked to listen to it and the majority would accept a copy of the "Nine Commentaries" and said thanks.

On May 28-29, Falun Gong practitioners held a Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference. Over a dozen practitioners shared their experiences and understandings. There was also a parade and candlelight vigil in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. Falun Dafa practitioners from Germany, Poland, Russia and other major cities also came to participate.

On May 29th, 2006 UK Falun Gong practitioners participated in the Lord Mayor’s Parade in Oxford. This is the fourth time that Falun Gong took part in the parade, which was mainly made up of local charities. The Lord Mayor of Oxford expressed his gratitude for Falun Gong practitioners’ participation which greatly enriched the city.

On May 15th, 2006, German practitioners appealed outside the office of the Chancellor, who was going to visit China. They called on Chancellor Merkel to pay attention to the harvesting of living Falun Gong practitioners' organs by the CCP, and to help to urge the Chinese Communist regime to stop persecuting Falun Gong.

Swiss Falun Gong practitioners held a live anti-torture exhibition at a famous tourist spot in the city of Lucerne in Switzerland. There were also display boards and petitions to be signed to support an end to the persecution. Many people were shocked to see a live performance in which “doctors” harvested fake organs from “patients”.

Many people surrounded the small table on which practitioners folded paper lotus flowers. Practitioners folded lotus flowers as they explained how innocent Falun Gong practitioners in China were persecuted. A little girl would not leave until her mother signed the petition supporting an end to the persecution of Falun Gong.

“You don’t know the facts that prevail now inside China; corruption is all over the whole country, from top to bottom, without even one word of truth. Nowadays, the CCP does not care about serious matters; it wholeheartedly persecutes innocent common people. No matter whoever has a different voice, will be labelled by CCP as creating public disorder, subverting the country, and revealing national secrets and so on ... The common Chinese people have no satisfactory things in his or her life, how can they be in a good mood."

Since 1999, people practising Falun Gong have been detained in forced labour camps and concentration camps where they are inhumanly tortured. According to witnesses who decided to talk openly to the public and gave interviews to the Epoch Times newspaper, in these camps, the organs from living practitioners are being harvested for transplants. Practitioners are then thrown directly into the incinerator to cover all the evidence. All the detained people are marked with numbers, just as the Jews in the Nazi concentration camps.

In the noisy crowd, our stand was a peaceful area; practitioners demonstrated the five exercises to people. Many people stopped and watched, and asked for information about exercise classes. When some people received flyers about the persecution of the practitioners in China, they said they would like do their best to help stop this persecution.

On May 13th, to celebrate Falun Dafa Day, disciples from Gothenburg and peripheral cities held a series of activities in a beautiful park, to let people know about the wonderful benefits from practising Falun Gong and to expose the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the CCP. They exhibited paintings created by practitioners.

French Falun Gong practitioners went to Convention metro station in Paris and revealed the evil deeds taking place in Chinese Communist Party labour camps. Many French citizens signed the petition to the French president, urging the French government to make an effort to rescue those Falun Gong practitioners who are being persecuted.

From May 4th - 6th, 2006, an international liver transplant technology exchange meeting was held in Milan. The participants were famous surgeons and professors from countries all over the world. Falun Gong practitioners in Italy revealed to the participants the Chinese Communist Party's act of stealing and selling Falun Gong practitioners' organs.

Falun Gong practitioners in Germany’s Bayern State took advantage of warm weather to expose the inside stories of the Chinese Communist regime’s persecution against Falun Gong and the atrocities of harvesting living Falun Gong practitioners’ organs.

On May 18th, an Agriculture and Livestock Fair was held in Mersin, in the south of Turkey, which was organised by the Turkish Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Nearly a hundred companies and enterprises from all over the country attended this fair. At the fair, Falun Gong practitioners visited each participating unit and gave them leaflets.

Those present at the news conference included St. Petersburg human rights activists, representatives of the city government, historians, and representatives of social groups. Reporters of Summit Hours, a well-known newspaper in Russia, and a local newspaper also attended the news conference.

Falun Gong practitioners held an activity in downtown Ulm to expose the CCP's harvesting organs from live Falun Gong practitioners. It was a weekend, so a lot of citizens and tourists passed by. Practitioners displayed banners and photos, which exposed the truth of the CCP's persecution.

On April the 9th 2006, Czech Falun Gong practitioners were invited again by Balon Normal College to introduce the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners to students who are going to graduate soon. In this class, students understood that Falun Gong is an ancient cultivation method originating from China, based on the principles of “Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance”, and benefits people’s health in body and mind. As a result a great number of Chinese people practise Falun Gong. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has brutally persecuted Falun Gong since 1999 and over 2,800 practitioners have lost their lives.

On World Falun Dafa Day, two practitioners from Austria travelled to Ljubljana to share the beauty of Falun Dafa with the Slovenian people and call on their support and concern for the Falun Gong practitioners who are being persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The practitioners set up a series of information poster boards in the main square in Ljubljana,

The Mayor's speech praised China's traditional culture, respected the moral values of "truthfulness, compassion, forbearance" advocated by Falun Gong, and condemned the persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He also hoped that the photo exhibition would bring the truth to more people. After the speeches, Falun Gong practitioners candidly exchanged views with the Mayor and reporters.

Many people didn’t know what Falun Gong was and they hadn’t heard about the persecution in China. They were shocked to hear about the removal of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners whose bodies are then cremated to destroy any evidence. The Chinese Communist Party makes enormous profits from this illegal and immoral trade.

On May 23rd 2006, the Danish version of Zhuan Falun was officially published, and will soon be on sale in local bookstores. Zhuan Falun is the primary text among the thirty plus books published by Mr. Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Dafa. In this book Zhuan Falun, Mr. Li Hongzi imparted the fundamental characteristics of the universe, Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance, to people for the first time.

Near the information table with leaflets on it was an operating table with two doctors busy “operating”. From an information board in front of the operating table, you could find out they were simulating the crime of the Chinese Communist Party removing organs from live Falun Gong practitioners for profit and then cremating their bodies to eliminate the evidence.

Throughout the two weeks exhibition, many local residents went to the event. Among them were the students from Nizhegorodskaya Oblast Music School and the members of a youth football team, who exclusively organised a group to view the exhibition. Over one hundred young students learned about Falun Dafa through viewing the photos on display.

Ten years ago, in 1996, the EU appointed Mr Edward McMillan as a Foreign Affair Committee special investigator, McMillan prepared the report on the EU-China strategic relations and so he studied a lot about China at that time. He said, ten years later, he was sad to report that the Chinese regime is still a brutal, arbitrary, paranoid system in which free speech does not exist and people’s religious freedom is severely stripped.

Even though it was drizzling on May 20th, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners from Switzerland held another Falun Gong information day in Parade Square, Zurich. Many people watched practitioners demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises, and reading the information on the display boards about the spread of Falun Gong around the world.

The Global democratic China and Asia Conference held in Berlin, Germany, passed a resolution urging the international community to instantly investigate organ harvesting on live people in China. In the meeting on Tuesday, Canadian representative Xue Sheng read the draft of this resolution. The draft appeals to all governments, parliaments and human rights organisations to pay instant attention to the severe human rights violation happening in China.

The Swedish people have learned Falun Dafa since 1995. Mr. Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Dafa, taught the practice personally in Sweden in April, 1995. To help more people understand Falun Gong, Mr. Li made five speeches, about three hours each, including three in Gothenburg, one in Stockholm and one in Uddevalla.

For two of three years in Ankang Hospital, Wang Wanxing was looked after by a male nurse working there. He was also a policeman as well as a Falun Gong practitioner. Because of the growing internal pressure from the police system, he was forced to resign. Wang Wanxing once promised this Falun Gong practitioner that, if one day he could leave the hospital, he would tell the whole world about this Falun Gong practitioner’s story. He also met two other Falun Gong practitioners being detained in Ankang Hospital.

On Monday, May 15th, 2006, in the local library in Vyskov a preview of the international Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance exhibition took place.Visitors could learn the truth about Falun Gong and the seven year long persecution waged by the Chinese Communist Party against practitioners.

The mayor said, "I know all about Falun Gong. He looked at me, probably not expecting anyone in his city to practise Falun Gong. I showed him some materials about the Chinese Communist Party taking organs from living victims, including Falun Gong practitioners. He looked for a moment and said, "Too terrible, too terrible. These people are too bad; I will read this material carefully." I also told him some experiences of mine; he listened with attention. I finally said that just because of this, I have not seen my daughter for seven years. The Mayor's wife said: "This is one of the most intolerable things. Thank you for telling us your story."

At the beginning of May, Falun Gong practitioners held the Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance International Art Exhibition in Vytautas University, Kaunas city. Several Lithuanian political heavyweights attended the art exhibition and condemned the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for its persecution of Falun Gong.

The mayor said, "I know all about Falun Gong. He looked at me, probably did not expect anyone in his city to practise Falun Gong. I showed him some materials about the taking of organs from living victims, including Falun Gong practitioners. He looked for a moment and said, "Too terrible, too terrible. These people are too bad; I will read this material carefully."

On May 13th 2006, to celebrate Falun Dafa Day, German practitioners in Leipzig held an event downtown to tell local people about the persecution of Falun Gong. Many pedestrians happily received flyers and earnestly viewed the photos. Some people requested to sign their names to support or enquired how to start to practise Falun Gong.

On May 9th, 2006, three representatives from the Swiss Falun Gong Association visited Geneva City Council. They were received by one of five city councilors, the Minster of the Department of Culture, Patrice Mugny and others. The Swiss Falun Gong Association representatives explained to them about the CCP's crimes of organ harvesting.

The sound of waist-drums and Chinese music echoed on the lakeside. The first thing to greet people's eyes eyes were three huge gold Chinese characters reading ‘Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance’ and a gold banner reading ‘Falun Dafa is good’. Then came the waist-drummers in yellow uniforms.

On April 22nd, 2006, Finnish Falun Gong practitioners displayed banners and photos depicting the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. They simply wanted to expose the Chinese Communist regime’s persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, who cultivate according to the principles of “Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance.”

In 1992, on May 13th, the founder of Falun Gong, Mr. Li Hongzhi, started to spread Falun Gong in Changchun. He unsealed people’s Buddha nature, which was hidden for a long time, with the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance, and pointed out a cultivation way to return to one’s original, true self.

On May 13th, Falun Dafa practitioners held activities to celebrate World Falun Dafa Day. Practitioners demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises while children and parents queued for balloons with a message reading "Falun Dafa is good".

On April the 20th and April 21st, Falun Gong practitioners protested in Ostrava and Frydek-Mistek against the CCP removing live Falun Gong practitioners’ organs.We prepared petitions to urge the President of the Czech Republic to ask the CCP to immediately release all Falun Gong practitioners who are imprisoned in the secret concentration camps.

On May 13th 2006, to celebrate Falun Dafa Day, German practitioners in Leipzig held an information day downtown to let the local people know about the persecution of Falun Gong. Many pedestrians happily took flyers and earnestly viewed photos. Some people requested to sign their names to support or enquired how to start to practise Falun Gong.

The international “Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance” art exhibition can be viewed at Castle Schlaining. Arts and Culture Association “Ars Cara” organised an exhibition of twenty nine paintings and photographs. All artists are practitioners of the spiritual practice Falun Gong, which was banned in China in 1999.

May 17th is Norway's National Day. In every Norwegian city and town, people hold grand celebrations and activities. On this day, Norwegians no matter male or female, no matter old or young dress in beautiful traditional costumes, wave national flags and take to the street to celebrate National Day. This year, practitioners took part too.

On May 15th, 2006, a week before the German Chancellor Merkel’s visit to China, an asian specialist in the Chancellor’s Office received representatives of Falun Gong practitioners, China Democratic League and a German human right organisation. At the same time, practitioners rallied in front of the Chancellor’s Office.

For fourteen years Falun Gong has been spreading in China and abroad by word of mouth, purifying people’s minds and bodies. Now it has spread to nearly eighty countries and regions across the world. The first annual World Falun Dafa Day was held on May 13th, 2000, shortly after the CCP started persecuting Falun Gong.