On April 25th eight years ago, over 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners peacefully appealed to the Chinese State Council’s Appeal Office in Beijing, requesting the Chinese Communist government to release the Falun Gong practitioners who had been illegally arrested in Tianjin and to allow Falun Gong practitioners to practice the Falun Gong exercises in public places.

On April 25th eight years ago, over ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners went to the State Council Appeals Office in Beijing, to appeal to the state leaders about interference and unfair treatment of practitioners by the Public Security Bureau in Tianjin.

On April 21st and 22nd, over ten human rights organizations including the Epoch Times and the Service Center for Quitting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) held large scale activities supporting the 20 million brave people who quit the CCP and its associated organizations. The theme of the event was "The evil CCP has been uprooted."

April 25th, 2007, is the eight anniversary of the April 25th Appeal in Beijing. UK Falun Gong practitioners held a protest activity at the Chinese Embassy in London and a candlelight vigil to mourn the mainland China practitioners who have been persecuted to death by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Practitioners called for an end to the persecution.

On April 25th, Italian Falun Gong practitioners gathered at the Chinese Consulate in Milan to protest against the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong and mark the special day “April 25th”. Over the past seven years there have always been Falun Gong practitioners here raising awareness of the persecution.

On April 25th, Falun Gong practitioners from Munich and surrounding areas held an activity at the Chinese Consulate to protest against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s persecution of Falun Gong and mark the 8th anniversary of the April 25th Appeal and inform people about the CCP’s brutal persecution of Falun Gong and the tide of withdrawals the CCP.

On the morning of April 17th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners filed a lawsuit against Wu Guanzheng for the crimes of genocide and torture. Wu, a member of the Standing Committee of China’s Communist Party Politburo and Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Chinese Communist Party, is currently visiting Spain. Wu Guanzheng was the Party Chief of Shandong Province between 1997 and November 2002. During this period, Wu was directly involved in carrying out Jiang Zemin’s order to persecute Falun Gong practitioners.

On April 25th, 2007, Austrian Falun Gong practitioners held a candlelight vigil at the Chinese Consulate in Vienna to commemorate the peaceful appeal by ten thousand people eight years ago in Beijing. They had come to request the release of arrested Falun Gong practitioners. At that time, the Chinese Premier had a conversation with representatives of the practitioners and the problem seemed resolved. Then Falun Gong practitioners dispersed peacefully and quietly.

In order for more Ukrainians to learn about Falun Gong and the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, practitioners in Ukraine hold activities almost every weekend in cities large and small throughout the country. On April 21st, 2007, they visited a small town in the eastern part of Ukraine, Severodonetsk.

On April 21st, 2007, the 60th 'Great Flower Vehicle Parade' was held in Holland, with this year's theme being ‘‘Joyful Celebration’’. The 'Celestial Band', a marching band consisting of European Falun Gong practitioners, walked at the front of the parade, leading the way with a piece of music specially composed by Falun Gong practitioners. Forty vehicles took part in the whole parade, and they proceeded slowly to warm applause from the gathered crowds.

The Chinese regime has officially denied the recent disclosure about organ harvesting and says that "nobody will believe this absurd lie". The Nazis also claimed the same about their camps. In 1943 a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in the US refused to believe information from a polish diplomat about the Holocaust, saying: "I did not say that the young man lies. I said I was unable to believe what he told. There is a difference."

When an international computer exhibition was held in Altstadt, Hannover, Falun Gong practitioners held activities to raise awareness about Falun Gong and the persecution taking place in China. Practitioners distributed materials in various languages to help people understand what Falun Gong is, and how it has spread all over the world.

Germany’s ruling Christian Democrats Union (CDU) called on the Chinese communist regime to allow independent international organisations to conduct an investigation into allegations of trading human organs. The statement pointed out that the Chinese Communist regime has long been criticised for harvesting organs from criminals awaiting execution without consent. What’s more, it even persecuted Falun Gong practitioners by means of harvesting their organs when they were still alive.

On March 10th, when I again went to the Embassy for my passport, the reply was, “According to the related regulation, we can not extend your passport, because your actions have endangered the safety of China". “Is it because I practice Falun Gong?” I asked. “Yes, that is right", he answered. I thought, “How can a group of people who cultivate according to the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance threaten others and their own country?”

Falun Gong practitioners held activities at the Russian Embassy to Belgium to protest against the Russian government’s illegal deportation of Falun Gong practitioner Ma Hui and her daughter, which has aided the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in its persecution of Falun Gong.

In a reply to Falun Gong practitioners’ letter, the German Christian Democratic Federation Parliament party and the corps of human rights issues spokesperson Ms. Steinbach mentioned that on March 29th, 2007, two Canadian independent investigators and a few members of the International Human Rights Committee held a hearing of witnesses in the German Parliament, the persons who are in charge of the German Parliament Human Rights Committee are very worried about the fact that living Falun Gong practitioners are selected for the removal of their organs.

Some Italian Falun Gong practitioners held a protest at the Russian Embassy in Rome and Russian Consulate in Milan on the 3rd and 5th of April, in protest against the Russian authorities’ deportation of Falun Gong practitioner Ma Hui and her daughter. They urged the Russian authorities to urgently take action to correct their mistake.

"Withdraw from the CCP! Quickly withdraw from the CCP! Quickly withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party Youth League! Withdraw from the Red Guard!" Calls to “Withdraw from the CCP” echoed through St. Maria Square in Munich on April 14th. Chinese and Western tourists alike were attracted by the sound.

Recently, bowing to the Chinese Communist regime’s pressure and temptation, the Russian government has repeatedly did something wrong in dealing with Falun Gong issues. Russia is a country that has just got out of the Communist Party’s rule. However, at this historic juncture, the head of the government has sought immediate interest at the expense of justice and conscience. They were even led by nose by the evil spectre of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Which direction is Russia heading for? What kind of future will the Russian nation have?

Wenjian Liang and her husband Zhiyong Lin were taken from their home in February together with six other Falun Gong practitioners. They were sentenced to two years in a labour camp without trial in March. Amnesty International issued an urgent action call about their case on March 20th. In the UK, the Liberal Democrat Party Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Shadow Foreign Secretary gave his moral and active support to the free Wenjian campaign.

On April 4th, 2007, the Falun Dafa Association of France, the French Service Center for Quitting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), and Chinese people living in Paris held a rally in front of the Chinese Embassy in Paris to "Support 20 Million Withdrawals from the CCP." During the rally, participants used an amplifier to broadcast their prepared statements and speeches to the embassy staff, telling them that doomsday has come for the CCP.

On April 14th, 2007, a group of Finnish practitioners went to the central railway station to tell people that the CCP has never stopped the horrible persecution of Falun Gong. They appealed to the Finnish government and people to give a helping hand, to stop this eight year cruel persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in mainland China.

On April 8th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners held an activity in Paris' Human Rights Square to protest against the Chinese Communist Party's atrocity of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners. As they protested they demonstrated Falun Gong exercises, which attracted tourists from all over the world to stop to watch and enjoy the peaceful scene.

On April 6th, many groups and organisations held a grand rally and parade in London supporting the twenty million brave Chinese people who have quit the CCP and its associated organisations, as well as Falun Gong practitioners in China who have been persecuted to death by the CCP and eighty million Chinese people who have been killed since the CCP came to power.

A huge trade show was held in Hanover from March 15th until 21st, 2007. Falun Gong practitioners took advantage of the large numbers of visitors to their city to raise awareness about the crimes committed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), who persecute Falun Gong and trade in organs harvested from live Falun Gong practitioners.

Heilongjiang is the province with the second highest death toll among thirty provinces. One third of the deaths took place in the provincial capital, Harbin. There are large quantities of concrete testimonies from the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong with specific dates, times and locations in which the persecution was perpetrated, as well as names of perpetrators and witnesses. 500 pages of testimonies tell of atrocities, which include shocking Falun Gong practitioners with electric batons, force-feeding them with human excrement and various other cruel torture methods. The brutality is beyond imagination.

During a seminar on March 30th, Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas and former MP David Kilgour's report on CCP's live organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners became the focus of the forum. Matas and Kilgour told more than a hundred attendees and representatives from several media about the findings from their investigation.

On April 1st, an activity to support twenty million people quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was held on Town Hall Square in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. Lots of people passing by stopped to look, converse and discuss. On the central square of the oldest city in northern Europe, banners and signs caught people’s eye.

On March 31st, 2007, the French Branch of the Global Service Centre for Withdrawing from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held activities in Chinatown in the thirteenth District of Paris marking twenty million Chinese people withdrawing from the CCP and its affiliated organisations. They called on the Chinese people to recognise the evil nature of the CCP.

Falun Gong practitioners in Ukraine held activities in Slavjansk, introducing Falun Gong to local residents and exposing the truth about the brutal persecution of practitioners in China. Practitioners displayed photos and information posters and demonstrated the five simple Falun Gong exercises.

People asked if it was really true as they simply could not believe that such things could be happening these days. Some people also expressed their support for us. A few footballers stopped by and very happily imitated the movements of practitioners along to the calm music. Although expecting it to be a kind of martial srts, after telling them that for doing these exercises people are being killed in China, each young footballer took a flyer before they went to watch the Woking football team conference match.

On March 13th, a Falun Gong practitioner arrived in Bradford to share her experiences of the persecution of Falun Gong in China and to draw attention to recent allegations of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners. The event was held at Bradford University and was made possible with the assistance of staff from the Peace Studies Department.

With these activities, the bleak square seemed to come to life. The hustling people started to slow their pace and came in groups to view the display boards exposing the Chinese Communist regime’s atrocities. From time to time, we could hear people condemning the atrocities and expressing their support for the campaign against the persecution.

On March 24th and 25th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners attended Skvde's annual health exhibition and set up an information booth in the city’s election hall. Reporters from local newspapers came to interview practitioners. They wanted to know the benefits that Falun Gong had brought to practitioners as well as Swedish citizens.

On the night of March 29th, 2007, the seminar hall inside the Victims of Stalinism Memorial Library in Berlin was fully seated, and some attendees even went to find chairs elsewhere. The topic which kindled so much interest from the German attendees is "The Chinese Communist Party's Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Gong Practitioners".

On March 31st, 2007, Chinese people living in Sweden held a rally in front of the Chinese Embassy in Stockholm to support the 20 million Chinese who have withdrawn from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). They made speeches and read out their messages to the Chinese Embassy with a loudspeaker, urging staff to quit the CCP.

When practitioners informed people that two days earlier, due to pressure from the CCP, the Russian authorities deported a Chinese Falun Gong practitioner and her eight-year-old daughter to China, even though they held the status of international refugees, they were indignant. After hearing about this injustice, many of them signed a petition calling for the mother and daughter to be rescued from China as soon as possible.

Just as they had in previous cities, many people in Vsetín rushed to sign the practitioners' petition calling for an end to the persecution after hearing about the suffering inflicted on Falun Gong practitioners in China by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). After practitioners thanked them for signing the petition, a lot of people replied something along the lines of: “Do not thank me. Signing this petition should be everyone’s duty“.

In the early spring, Salzburg is especially beautiful. Tourists are attracted from all over the world. The peaceful demonstration of the Falun Gong exercises and the beauty of the city formed a sharp contrast with the pictures exposing the CCP’s atrocities. Many tourists and local people signed the petition to express their support for Falun Gong practitioners.

The Irish Branch of the Global Quitting the CCP Service Centre and several other organisations held a march and rally in Dublin to support the 20 million Chinese people who have withdrawn from the CCP. At the activity, some Chinese students quit the Communist Youth League and Young Pioneers on the spot.

Many people expressed their worries about innocent practitioners having their internal organs harvested and sold to transplant seekers before the practitioners’ bodies are cremated. One lady took a handful of leaflets and placed them in a City Information Centre. Lots of people signed the petition calling for an end to the organ harvesting.

“This is horrific and beyond human imagination! Where can I sign?” A woman asked, after a practitioner recounted a testimony of a Chinese surgeon's ex-wife in which her husband was ordered to remove more than 2,000 corneas from innocent Falun Gong practitioners in two years and the bodies were cremated after other organs were also removed. The woman's face showed fear and agony. After she signed the petition, her two boys said that they wanted to sign. Before they left, they expressed their best wishes: “We wish you success! Thank you!”

Matas and Kilgour told more than a hundred attendees and representatives from several media about their main findings from the investigation. All evidence points to one conclusion: Falun Gong practitioners detained in China are being systematically murdered for their organs, which are sold to desperate transplant seekers.

On March 31st 2007, volunteers from the Belgium “Quitting the CCP Service Centre” along with Falun Gong practitioners, held an activity at the city centre of Brussels in support of the 20 million Chinese people who have withdrawn from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). People were shocked upon learning about the CCP’s crimes of brutal persecution of the Chinese people.

On the fourth day of their Moravian tour, the practitioners arrived in Zlín and told local people about crimes against humanity happening in China. Many people were not aware that over 3,000 innocent people have lost their lives just because they practise this peaceful meditative system and live by the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance.

Practitioners in Lille told several library staff members about the brutal persecution of Falun Gong in China and the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) organ harvesting atrocities. The person in charge was shocked and decided to offer some help. The library decided to make available Falun Gong materials so that more people can read them.

“Human dignity cannot be divided on our small planet. Different religious communities and members of democratic societies have to get together to protect those who are oppressed like Falun Gong, otherwise numerous existing dictatorships will continue to oppress people around the world,” said Mr. David Kilgour in his speech in Sofia.

After visiting Přerov and Kroměříž, practitioners visited the city of Olomouc. As well as talking about the practice of Falun Gong, they told people about the 8 years of persecution inflicted on the practice by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). They talked about the CCP’s atrocities of harvesting organs from healthy Falun Gong practitioners.

Falun Gong practitioners from Irkutsk City, with volunteers supporting withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), together held a rally to support the 20 million withdrawals from the CCP. When volunteers set up banners and display boards, many people from the Chinese community and passersby were attracted by the display, and carefully read all the content.

"It is our obligation to condemn these crimes," said Mr. Saman from India. After seeing the photos exposing the CCP's crimes of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, he signed his name on the petition form without any hesitation. He also told the reporter that people should not ignore these crimes and that it is everyone's obligation to condemn the CCP.