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  • Turkish Practitioners Invited to Introduce Falun Gong on TV Morning News

    On February 15th, practitioners from Ankara were invited by KANAL-D, one of the largest of Turkey’s private TV stations. The host told his audience: “I hope every Turkish will practise Falun Gong and have a healthy body.” Immediately after the news, the TV station received many phone inquiries about Falun Gong.
  • Norway: Introducing Falun Dafa and Exposing the Persecution to the People of Bodo

    Bodo is a beautiful seaside city in the north of Norway with a population of nearly 50 thousand. On Saturday February 11th, 11 Falun Gong practitioners altogether, including 3 little practitioners, came to the busiest part of Bodo city centre to introduce Falun Dafa to local people and tell them about the persecution of practitioners taking place in China.
  • Germany: Representatives from the World Organisation to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong Attend a Seminar on Human Rights in China

    It has been a tradition of Germany’s Free Democratic Party’s (FDP) Upper Bavarian Division to hold monthly seminars to discuss issues such as foreign politics, economy, and human rights. On February 7th 2006, the seminar held in Munich had China’s Human Rights as its theme. Mr. Kritzler, representing the World Organisation to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), and Mr. Thierack, representing the International Human Rights Organisation in Munich, were invited to give speeches.
  • Belgian Parliamentarian Calls for International Condemnation of the Crimes of Totalitarian Communist Regimes

    A resolution was passed by the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly on January 25th 2006. The chairman of the Christian Democrats, the chairman of the political division of general affairs committee in the Council of Europe and a Belgian parliamentarian Mr. Luc Van den Grande underlined the significance of this resolution but concluded, "To pass this resolution is just a beginning."
  • Germany: Protesting Against CCP Violence and Supporting the Global Hunger Strike Campaign for Human Rights

    On February 11th in Munich city centre, Mr. Solomon and Mr. Yuan Zhang carried out a 24-hour hunger strike to strongly condemn the CCP’s gangster violence in attacking Falun Gong practitioners Dr. Yuan Li, and also to support the renowned Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng’s hunger strike to protest against CCP human rights abuses.
  • Russia: Journey of Fa-Rectification Photo Exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod

    The Journey of Fa-Rectification Photo Exhibition was held in Nizhny Novgorod from February 3rd to 13th. More than forty photos introduced the story of Falun Gong. A stream of people went to visit the exhibition and learned about Falun Gong’s history as it spread to over seventy countries. People also learned how to fold paper lotus flowers.
  • During Chinese New Year, One Thousand People Sign a Spanish Petition in Support of 7.5 Million People Quitting the CCP

    On January 28th, the Spain branch of the “Global Service Centre for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party” (CCP) launched a petition-signing campaign in Madrid to expose the CCP’s brutal violence and to support 7.5 million people quitting the CCP. A 3-hour rally was held, during which almost one thousand people signed a petition to condemn the CCP
  • Holland: Falun Gong Practitioners Protest Atrocity Perpetrated by Chinese Communist Regime's Hoodlum Agents

    Falun Gong practitioners in Holland, together with people from The Epoch Times newspaper and supporters protested in front of the Chinese Embassy in The Hague. They strongly condemned the Chinese Communist regime's hoodlum agents for assaulting Falun Gong practitioner and chief technical officer of The Epoch Times Dr. Peter Yuan Li in the USA.
  • Germany: A Singer’s Story of Practising Falun Gong

    “In 2002 when I read the book Zhuan Falun, I felt that the principle of “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance” on which Falun Gong is based are very good. I hoped that I could be a person who lives my life by those principles. After practising Falun Gong exercises, my back pain was miraculously healed."
  • Newspaper Welt am Sonntag Interviews a German Falun Gong Practitioner

    "Jing Wang is a follower of the Falun Gong movement that has been persecuted since 1999 in China and she is well informed about human rights violations including abductions, torture, forced labour camps and the death penalty. The penal code allows for arbitrary arrest and sentencing of unwanted individuals under the pretext that they are endangering public security or that they are counterrevolutionary or subversive. Ms. Wang said that the communists feel especially threatened by groups like Falun Gong that have a spiritual orientation and have been extremely popular during the last few years."
  • Denmark: Falun Gong Practitioners Protest the CCP's Violence in Front of the Chinese Embassy

    "We strongly condemn the violent crimes committed by the Chinese Communist regime in overseas countries , and will expose its crimes in front of the people of the world. We appeal that the evil backstage manipulators of these kinds of incidents be brought to justice, and also appeal to the international society to together boycott the CCP..."
  • Germany: Falun Gong Practitioner Refused a Passport Extension Because her Name is on a Blacklist

    On the 10th of February, staff from The Epoch Times newspaper came to the Chinese Embassy in Berlin to protest against the violence of the CCP and demand justice for Dr. Li Yuan, who was beaten by CCP henchmen. At the same time, Zheng Zhihong, a Falun Gong practitioner from Berlin had been asked to come to the Embassy to “have a talk”.
  • Norway: A Practitioner's Painting Touches School Children's Hearts

    In early 2006, a practitioner made a presentation to several classes at an elementary school to tell the children about the persecution and the torture of Falun Gong practitioners that is taking place in China. The pupils also got to know the story of a little Chinese girl through a painting entitled "Homeless" by Daci Shen, a Chinese artist who lives in New York. The children hoped that everything would turn out fine for the little girl in the end.
  • Germany: Practitioners Protest Against CCP Violence

    In the morning of February 10th, despite the freezing cold, Falun Gong practitioners and staff members of The Epoch Times rallied in front of the Chinese Embassy in Berlin to protest the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for assaulting the Chief Technical Officer of the Epoch Times, Dr. Yuan Li, at his home in Atlanta, U.S.
  • Slovakia: “The things you're doing are very good. Please continue”

    On the morning of Saturday 11th February, Slovakian Falun Gong practitioners visited Piestany in the middle of western Slovakia. They went there to let local residents know about Falun Gong and the cruel campaign of human rights abuses that has been waged against the practice by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for almost seven years.