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Norway: Falun Gong Practitioners Participate in a Health Fair in Bergen
2006-01-07Some people at the fair had heard about the persecution of Falun Gong in China, but many knew nothing about it. An important reason for us to attend the health fair was to expose the persecution in China. The more people that get to know the truth about the persecution, the sooner it will end. That is why practitioners are trying to expose the persecution. -
Radio Free Asia: A Falun Gong Practitioner Condemns the Cruel Persecution by the CCP Using his Personal Experience
2006-01-07Heping Li from Zejiang Province of China recalled how he was locked up in a forced labour camp because he refused to renounce his belief in Falun Gong. He saw with his own eyes and experienced the cruel persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the CCP authorities. Heping Li said, “I was released in 2003 and put under detention for two years. As I practice Falun Gong, I used to write letters to the government (the CCP regime) and told friends of mine the truth about Falun Gong and the lies told on TV. For that reason, I was taken to a forced labour camp. -
Italy: Falun Gong Practitioners call on the Thai Government to Resist the CCP's Export of the Persecution Overseas
2006-01-06On New Year’s Day 2006, Falun Gong practitioners in Rome headed for the Thai Embassy to protest and submit an open letter to call on the Thai government to boycott the CCP’s exportation of the persecution and to insist on justice in the hope that a bright future would be chosen by the Thai government. -
Holland: People of Amsterdam Impressed by the International Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance Art Exhibition
2006-01-06The International Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance Art Exhibition, sponsored by the Dutch Falun Gong Association, was held in city hall Amsterdam from November 2nd to November 15th, 2005. The spirit of Falun Gong practitioners' perseverance in the face of inhuman persecution by the Chinese Communist regime made an unforgettable impression upon the government officials, city hall staff members and the general public who visited the exhibition. -
Finland: Introducing Falun Gong at a Fair in Jyväskylä
2006-01-06At Jyväskylä Country Fair on September 17th, practitioners demonstrated the five Falun Gong exercises to traditional-style Chinese music, which attracted a great deal of attention. Some people knew already a little about the persecution of Falun Gong in China, but they wanted to learn more about how and why this is still continuing. -
Italy: Anti-Torture Exhibition in Florence during the Christmas Holidays
2006-01-05Many tourists from various countries accepted leaflets. After hearing the facts about Falun Gong, they came to sign the petition one after another to show their support for Falun Dafa and the persecuted practitioners. People were outraged by the fact that such a peaceful cultivation practice is oppressed by the Chinese dictatorial regime. -
Iceland Review: Refusal of Falun Gong [practitioners] deemed unlawful
2006-01-05Representatives of the Falun Gong movement welcomed the decision, and requested that the government pay compensation to those banned from entering Iceland, as well as handing over the list of undesirable people so it could be destroyed. They said that the government had attempted to stifle the voice of justice and bow to the wishes of a foreign dictator. They had gone against the wishes of the Icelandic people and had set a dangerous precedent to other democratic countries in their actions against Falun Gong. -
United Kingdom: Falun Gong Practitioners held a New Year’s Eve Parade in Central London
2006-01-04The parade underpinned the profoundness of traditional Chinese culture while exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s six years’ of brutal persecution against Falun Gong. Wherever the parade went, people stopped to watch the exercise demonstrations, read leaflets and find out more about both Falun Gong practice and the persecution. -
German Practitioner Calls on the Thai Authorities Not to Continue Bowing to CCP Pressure
2006-01-04The letter pointed out that the reason for Falun Gong practitioners to stage a protest at the Chinese Embassy was that a Chinese policeman in Hebei province raped two female Falun Gong practitioners in front of his co-workers. However, something unbelievable happened in Thailand on December the 6th and the 15th, that is, under official instruction from the Chinese Embassy, the Thai police and plainclothes agents forcibly ransacked Falun Gong practitioners’ bags, arrested them and confiscated their banners, resulting in physical injuries to practitioners and damage top their possessions. -
All Practitioners in Ireland Respectfully wish our Great and Merciful Master a Happy New Year
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Germany: Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference Is Held on New Year’s Eve in Erbach
2006-01-03On December 30th, 2005, two hundred Falun Gong practitioners attended the annual German cultivation experience sharing conference. The experience sharing conference has become a focal point of the annual four-day New Year gathering. Practitioners talked about their experiences and understandings gained through self-cultivation. -
Denmark: Receiving Intimidating Phone calls Before Christmas, an Orphaned Falun Gong Practitioner Faces Persecution
2006-01-03Before Christmas, Xiaotian Liu, a practitioner whose parents were tortured to death by the Chinese Communist Regime for their persistence in practising Falun Gong, remembered the difficult days when his parents were unlawfully abducted and he went underground for eighteen months to evade police capture. -
Norway: On International Human Rights Day, Falun Gong Practitioners Expose the Chinese Communist Regime's Atrocities
2006-01-03In spite of snow and sleet, Falun Gong practitioners from Norway and Sweden held an activity at Karl Johan Street, the main street in Oslo on December 10th, International Human Rights Day. The purpose of the activity was to expose the Chinese Communist regime's terrible crimes against Falun Gong practitioners in China -
United Kingdom: Crowds Applaud for Falun Gong Performance in London New Year's Day Parade
2006-01-02UK Falun Gong practitioners were back by invitation this year. Their performance was praised as beautiful and peaceful and received applause from the spectators as they passed. The group showed the beauty of Falun Dafa through traditional Chinese music, costume, dance and theatre as well as demonstrating the five sets of graceful Falun Dafa exercises. -
Turkey: New Practitioners in the Second Group Fa-Study Class at Ankara
2006-01-02On December 21st, 2005, veteran and new Falun Gong practitioners in Ankara celebrated the second group Fa study class. Among the fourteen participants, many have just began cultivating, some began only two weeks before. Practitioners veteran or new shared their own experiences at various levels.