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  • Czech Republic: Touring the Cities of Moravia (part 1)

    Czech Falun Dafa practitioners organized a week-long tour around the cities of central Moravia so that the people there could learn more about the ongoing persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners in China. The persecution has already lasted 8 years and over 3,000 practitioners have had their livbes taken by the Chinese communist regime.
  • Speech by Vice Chairman of CIPFG-Europe: "The CCP is Clearly Doomed"

    "We already have numerous documented first-hand experiences of the persecution, but we believe that in time the case against the CCP will be overwhelming. We must strive to reach the point where its evil leaders and their intricate web of subordinates can no longer withstand the weight of international pressure to end the persecution, and to allow Falun Gong practitioners and all other citizens of China to lead peaceful lives under democracy, free from all fear of persecution for their beliefs. China and Chinese people can only have future without CCP and this day is not far away."
  • German Student Who Does Not Practise Falun Gong Makes a Video to Exposé the Persecution

    Recently, a teenage student called Steffi gave me a call and asked me to help produce a two-minute film about the persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). I was a little bit surprised because Steffi doesn’t actually practise Falun Gong. But she is concerned about the human rights abuses against practitioners in China and wanted to do something to make a difference so I was very happy to help her.
  • Finland: People Gather in Helsinki to Express Support for 20 Million Chinese Quitting the CCP

    When resignations from the CCP exceeded 20 million, people who support human rights in China, the Service Centre for Quitting the CCP, and Falun Gong practitioners collected petition signatures and displayed pictures to show the CCP’s crimes of persecution of innocent Chinese people since it took power in China, especially its cruel persecution of Falun Gong.
  • UK Parliament Seminar Speech: “Bloody Harvest: Some Unpalatable Truths as the 2008 China Olympics Approach”

    "The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) in China now has hundreds of legislators, lawyers, doctors, academics, religious and spiritual leaders in more than twenty countries who are ready to go to China to investigate our report findings. They should be allowed to do so. The Olympic Games and organ snatching cannot occur at the same time in China. The Olympic Charter and movement, including its respect for human dignity and national Olympic committees in seventy countries, require better. I invite the participants in this seminar to examine ways you can help to end this terrible practice. Murdering innocent people for their organs is a new form of evil on this planet."
  • French MP Appeals to Foreign Minister to Rescue Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Ma Jian

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Ma Jian, general manager of the French PCM Pump Company for China and the northern Asian region, was arrested in his Beijing office by Chinese police on February 28th 2007. It was reported that police took Ma Jian to a brainwashing centre. This serious incident is a gross abuse of citizen’s rights and severely affected the operation of the French Company. The French people and political circles are very concerned.
  • Finland: A Chinese Lady Takes a Copy of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party

    On March 24th, 2007, the sun shone brightly and it felt like spring had arrived at last. People shed their winter clothes. Falun Gong practitioners went to Helsinki Central Railway Station at noon as they had before. They hung a striking banner reading, “Falun Dafa is Good,” and demonstrated the exercises to show the peace and grace of Falun Dafa.
  • Germany: New Evidence of the Chinese Communist Regime's Organ-Harvesting Shocks the People of Munich

    "The atrocities of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit do exist in China. China's military is extensively involved in the crimes to make exorbitant profit," said Mr. David Matas, as he announced these conclusions at a seminar held at Munich University.
  • Sunday Herald (Scotland): Pressure on UK government to act over Chinese organ harvesting?

    A SENIOR EXPERT on Asia has demanded Britain "take action now" against China, which he says is continuing to harvest organs "� la carte" from practitioners of the suppressed Falun Gong movement who are executed in prison. David Kilgour, Canada's former secretary of state for Asia-Pacific, who will visit the Houses of Parliament this week, told the Sunday Herald that Britain is leaving the issue of organ harvesting unchecked and allowing Chinese officials to kill prisoners for their organs with impunity.
  • United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) News Brief: Chinese Asylum Seeker and Her 8-Year-Old Daughter forcibly Deported From Russia

    According to credible information received by UNHCR, a Chinese asylum seeker and her 8 year-old daughter were taken by the Russian authorities from their St. Petersburg residence last Wednesday (March 28th) and put on a plane departing to China via Novosibirsk. The woman and her daughter had submitted a claim for asylum in accordance with the Russian Federation Law on Refugees. Their appeal against a first negative decision was scheduled to be considered by the Dzerzhinky District court in St. Petersburg yesterday afternoon.
  • France: Support for the Twenty Million Withdrawals from the CCP

    After the Epoch Times newspaper's editorial, the “Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party” was published, the momentum of the Chinese people’s withdrawal from the CCP and its affiliated organisations has continued unabated. On March 24th and 25th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners rallied at several locations in Paris to support the twenty million withdrawals from the CCP and raise awareness about the persecution of Falun Gong.
  • Russia: Chinese Communist Party Threatens Another Country

    On March 24th and 25th, 2007, Russian Falun Gong practitioners held activities in front of the Chinese Embassy in Moscow to raise awareness about the CCP's trade in organs harvested from living Falun Gong practitioners. They called for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP. Under pressure from the Chinese regime, Russian police asked practitioners to leave, or they would be charged with “interfering with the Embassy work”.
  • Belgium: People Genuinely Concerned about the Persecution of Falun Gong in China

    Falun Gong practitioners attended the Eco-Therapeutica Beurs Expo in the city of Leuven. While folding paper lotus flowers at the Falun Gong stand, visitors also listened to practitioners talk about the ongoing brutal persecution of Falun Gong in China. Many people asked what they could do to help. It was a regular occurrence see tears in people’s eyes.
  • Sweden: ”Behind the Scenes in China” Seminar Held in Kalmar

    Supporting Human Rights In China (SHRIC) and the International Society For Human Rights (ISHR), together with Epoch Times Sweden, aorganised the seminar “Behind the scenes in China”. One subject discussed was how tyrannically the Chinese communist party rules China and how important it is to consider the CCP seperately from the Chinese people.
  • Belgium: Lotus Flowers Blossom at a Secondary School in Limburg

    On March 7th, 2007, practitioners were invited to introduce Falun Gong to thirty 13 to14 year old pupils at a secondary school in Lommel. A practitioner gave a presentation about the cultivation practice of Falun Gong, the persecution of Falun Gong in China and the actions practitioners take to raise awareness about the unlawful persecution.