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  • Finland: Supporting an End to the Persecution of Falun Gong

    On August 18th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners and volunteers from the 'Quitting the CCP Service Centre' in Finland held an activity at Esplanadi Park in the centre of Helsinki to expose the evil nature of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and protest against the CCP's eight year long persecution of Falun Gong in China, as well as support the 25 million wihdrawals from the CCP.
  • Ireland: Falun Gong is Popular During the Irish Rose Festival

    The annual Irish Rose Festival is held in Tralee, an important town in the Southwest of Ireland, in late August every year. Irish Falun Gong practitioners took advantage of this opportunity to help more people know the fact about the magnificence of Falun Gong and the Chinese Communist regime’s persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
  • Germany: German Practitioners Expose the Chinese Regime's Persecution of Falun Gong in China

    In the weeks before the 131st Richard Wagner Festival, visitors from around the world were able to practitioners' photo exhibition on the “Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party” and on the Chinese Communist regime's crimes involving harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. Many signed the petition condemning the persecution as a result.
  • France: The People in Guadeloupe Express Their Concern about the Persecution of Falun Gong

    “Sandstorm,” a movie that exposes the Chinese Communist regime’s persecution against Falun Gong was played at the media centre in Gosier, the cultural centre in Saint Rose and the technology centre in Douville, Guadeloupe on May 25th, June 8th, and June 22nd, 2007. Among others, it was due to the support from the cultural service department of the city government which made it possible for the shows in Gosier and Saint-Rose to be played in such good venues. In addition, the invitations were sent by these departments.
  • Sweden: Demonstrating Falun Gong Exercises during the Gothenburg Culture Festival

    On August 14th 2007, the week-long Cultural Festival began in Sweden’s second largest city, Gothenburg. Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the five sets of exercises and taught them for free in the Botanical Gardens, where most of the celebration activities were held. The exercise teachings attracted a lot of adults and children alike.
  • Shocked at the CCP's Atrocities, a German Man Writes to the International Olympic Committee

    On August 25th 2007, a German couple, the Nehrings, travelled from Ruhrgebiet to Munich to attend the Human Rights Torch Relay ceremony. Mr. Nehring had written to the International Olympic Committee prior to this event, expressing his indignation about the human rights violations happening in China, particularly the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
  • Finland: Falun Dafa Introduced at the "Night of Art" in Helsinki

    On the evening of August 24th 2007, invited by the organizers of the "Night of Art" in Helsinki, Falun Gong practitioners participated in an activity held in the Kannelmakeen Library. Practitioners demonstrated the five sets of Falun Gong exercises, performed a dance called "Lotus Flower" and distributed Falun Gong materials and beautiful paper lotus flowers to the audience.
  • Germany: People of Freiburg Condemn the Vicious Persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party

    In order to let more people learn about the beauty of Falun Gong and the brutality of the persecution happening in China, Falun Gong practitioners held an activity in Freiburg. After they found out how innocent Falun Gong practitioners are cruelly persecuted, many people signed the petition to condemn the atrocities.
  • Bulgaria: Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance International Art Exhibition Opens in Sofia

    All who saw the exhibition shared the same feelings: they were strongly impressed by the beautiful art and condemned the persecution. Many people signed the petition calling for end to the persecution in China and thanked the practitioners for having the courage to organise such a remarkable exhibition. They said they would recommend it to their friends.
  • Hungary: Exposing the Persecution during a Chinese Dance Performance

    Practitioners handed out fliers and newspapers to on-lookers. People were very keen to read the information. Because it happened during the performance, they looked at the performers with a great sense of pity when they learnt about the Chinese communist regime’s inhumane torture and organ harvesting against their fellow Chinese people, practitioners of Falun Gong.
  • Speech by David Kilgour at the Human Rights Torch Lighting Ceremony in Athens

    "David Matas and I completed the revised edition of an independent study earlier this year, which concluded to our horror that since 1999 the government of China and its agencies in numerous regions of the country have put to death a large but unknown number of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience (The investigation report is available in seventeen languages at organharvestinvestigation.net). Their vital organs, including kidneys, livers and corneas, were seized involuntarily for sale at high prices and to foreigners, who normally face long waits for voluntary donations of such organs in their home countries. This is absolutely not what we expect from any government hosting the Olympics."
  • United Kingdom: 2007 Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference Successfully Held

    On August 26th 2007, the UK Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference was held in London. Practitioners from all parts of the country attended the meeting. Heartfelt words of self criticism were well received. Many shed tears and applauded enthusiastically. The atmosphere of the conference was solemn and peaceful.
  • Austria: Exposing the Persecution of Falun Dafa during the Salzburg Art Festival

    In August every year, Austrians celebrate the Salzburg Festival, which is the most famous artistic festival in Europe. Practitioners held a Falun Dafa Information Day activity to expose the Chinese Communist regime's persecution of practitioners over the past eight years and introduce the magnificence of Falun Dafa.
  • Russia: Many Chinese People Are Quitting the CCP

    Russian Falun Gong practitioners distributed the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and the blank form for the Chinese people to declare their withdrawal from the CCP and its affiliated organizations to almost every Chinese person in the urban areas and farm villages as well as those in tourist attractions and paddy fields.
  • Italy: Exposing the Persecution to the People of Florence

    Every Saturday during July and August, practitioners in Florence gathered at the Piazza S. Croce and Piazza Repubblica to tell local people and tourists about Falun Gong and the brutal organ harvesting campaign being waged against practitioners by the Chinese communist regime.