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  • Austrian Falun Gong Practitioners: "My experience applying for refugee status in Austria"

    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?”
  • Belgium: Protest against the Russian Government for Deporting Ma Hui and her Daughter to China

    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.
  • Germany: German Parliament Human Rights Committee Holds a Hearing of Witnesses’ Accusations

    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.
  • Italy: Falun Gong Practitioners Protest against the Russian Authorities’ Deportation of Ma Hui

    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.
  • Germany: People of Munich Support the Withdrawals from the CCP

    "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.
  • Russia: Falun Gong Practitioners Rally in Saint Petersburg

    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?
  • United Kingdom: VIPs and Media Call for Wenjian Liang to be Released

    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.
  • France: Supporting 20 Million Withdrawals from the CCP and Calling for the Release of Ma Jian and Ma Hui in Front of the Chinese Embassy

    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.
  • Finland: Falun Gong Practitioners Raise Awareness of the Persecution of Falun Gong at the Central Railway Station

    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.
  • France: Exposing CCP Organ Harvesting on Human Rights Square

    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.
  • Wiesbadener Kurier (Germany): Living people selected for their organs and their bodies burned to destroy the evidence

    The seminar mentioned that the Olympics will be held in Beijing in 2008. It is written in the article: ‘‘Peter Kutilek who comes from the German Czech Olympic watch stressed that the principle of the Olympics can not be separated from human rights issues. So officials of the international and national Olympic committee have the responsibility of urging China to respect human dignity and to honour freedom of speech and freedom of the press. But the appeal of the Olympic committee has been ignored. He was not positive about China’s situation.
  • United Kingdom: London Rally Supporting Twenty Million Withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party

    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.
  • Germany: Falun Gong "Information Day" in Hanover

    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.
  • Denmark: The Twinning of Aarhus in Denmark and Harbin in China - Chinese Ambassador Intervenes

    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.
  • Germany: Large-Scale Media Coverage of CCP's Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Gong Practitioners

    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.