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  • Sweden: Exhibition of a Thousand Lotus Flowers

    An exhibition entitled “A Thousand Lotus Flowers” was held in a public library in Stockholm, Sweden for the first time between August 20th and August 30th. In the exhibition, practitioners related a twelve year-old girl called Evelina’s dream of making a thousand paper Lotus Flowers to end the persecution in China during last Easter.
  • European Friends of Falun Gong Writes to the UK Prime Minister

    "In view of your forthcoming visit to China to hold talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao next week, we wish to draw to your attention the plight of the millions of Falun Gong practitioners who have suffered at the hands of the Chinese authorities since the practice of Falun Gong was outlawed by former President Jiang Zemin in July 1999. Since then nearly 3,000 practitioners have died in custody as the result of torture by a leadership which is inextricably linked to the Chinese Communist Party."
  • Copenhagen Post: Chinese Procurator-General Risks Investigation (Excerpt)

    On Sunday August 28th 2005, renowned Denmark lawyer Tyge Trier filed a lawsuit on behalf of Falun Gong practitioners against Jia Chunwang, procurator general of CCP Supreme People's Procuratorate and one of the central figures in China's Gestapo-like 610 Office -- for crimes contravening the UN Convention Against Torture. Jia Chunwang was sued the same day he arrived in Denmark to partake in an international conference for prosecutors being held in Copenhagen.
  • Estonia: Falun Gong Practitioners Invited to Participate in the Health Expo at Saue City

    Estonian Falun Gong practitioners were invited to participate in a Health Expo in Saue City on August 27th. Practitioners demonstrated the five Falun Gong exercises. While discussing Falun Gong, practitioners also informed the public of the brutal persecution initiated by Jiang Zemin and carried out by the Chinese Communist Party over the past six years.
  • Spain: Practitioners Study the Principles of Falun Dafa and Expose the Persecution Together

    From August 13th to August 16th, Falun Gong practitioners from Spain gathered in Barcelona to hold four days of activities including group study of Falun Gong's principles, sharing and exchanging opinions and understandings, and exposing the persecution. To begin with, practitioners held an anti-persecution photo exhibition and signature collection.
  • Germany: Falun Gong Practitioners at Dresden City Festival

    On August 20th and 21st, 2005, Falun Gong practitioners were again invited to participate in the Dresden City Festival. During the two days, Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the five Falun Gong exercises; some distributed leaflets to passers-by; and others gave away hand-made paper Lotus Flowers. Lots of people stopped to watch and chat.
  • Germany: First Falun Gong Anti-Torture Exhibition Held in Frankfurt

    “It is time to give people a wake-up call!” This a remark a visitor wrote in the guest-book during Frankfurt's first outdoor anti-torture exhibition, held in Römerberg Square. The author called the attention-grabbing exhibition run by the Frankfurt-based Falun Gong group a very meaningful action and encouraged them to publicise the persecution in China.
  • Finland: Falun Gong Practitioners Invited to Attend an Exhibition in Tornio

    Practitioners in Finland took part in an exhibition in Tornio, a city in the north of Finland on the border with Sweden. There were around 170 exhibitors, and Falun Gong was invited to be one of them. At our booth people could learn that Falun Gong is about the ongoing persecution in China and we had a petition where people could sign their names.
  • A Danish Citizen Writes a Letter to Benxi Labour Camp Calling for the Release of Jiang Renzheng

    "Based on China’s high-ranking officials who have defected, the facts of the persecution detailed by Falun Gong practitioners in the past few years are undeniable. The Chinese defectors further exposed the persecution inflicted on Falun Gong practitioners inside and outside of China. The day when the Communist regime will dissolve is coming. The evil doers who committed crimes against good people will be punished. Good is met with good and evil with evil. Here I am telling you: Falun Gong is good."
  • State TV-channel DR (Denmark): Falun Gong Practitioners' Lawsuit Filed Against Jia Chunwang

    The Procurator General of the Chinese communist regime, head of the 610 Office, Jia Chunwang is being sued in Denmark for committing crimes of torture. The lawsuit brought broad attention from media. Major newspapers, radio stations and television media reported it in a timely manner. Denmark State TV-channel DR also ran a report on this lawsuit. The following is the content of the report.
  • United Kingdom: Invitation to Introduce “Rescue the Falun Gong Orphans” In a Summer Camp in Huddersfield

    After watching the video “Rescue Falun Gong Orphans”, youngsters in the summer camp couldn’t help crying. Deeply moved, the principal said: “I cry every time I see the video, I am going to copy your petition and give them to every pupil and his or her parents, and ask them to help rescue these innocent children together.”
  • Article from Danish Newspaper Politiken: Lawsuit to be Filed Against Chinese Procurator General

    Spokesperson Marco Hsu from the Danish Falun Gong Association says, that he will file a complaint against Jia Chunwang to the State Prosecutor for Special International Crime-cases. Chunwang has, according to Falun Gong, among other things been a leader of a special office which has lead the Chinese government’s campaign against the movement since 1999. ”Since Jia Chunwang has been minister of public security and one of the leaders of the special office, he has had influence on what all the sub-departments of that office have done of persecution and torture”, says Marco Hsu.
  • Russia: Introducing Falun Dafa and Exposing the Persecution in Pskov City

    A woman said, “I dreamt that I wore a Lotus Flower on my head last night. Today I finally know the Lotus Flower I dreamt of is here.” The policeman who was on duty had an alert and indifferent expression when the activity started, but at the end, he smiled to us and said that he understood that Falun Gong was a very good cultivation practice.
  • Article in Deutsche Presse-Agentur: Jiang Renzheng Imprisoned in a Chinese Labour Camp.

    Jiang Renzheng, twenty nine years old, is being persecuted. On March 7th, Mr. Jiang, his wife and their two children were deported from the Bavarian State Germany to China because they were not granted asylum. Shortly after his arrival in China, the staff from the State Security Bureau accosted him. One month later he was sent to a labour camp. Mr. Jiang is a Falun Gong practitioner, while at present the Falun Gong movement is being persecuted in China.
  • Sweden: Paper Lotus Flowers Convey the Message of the Suffering of Falun Gong Practitioners' Children

    It was the start of the Swedish Malmo Festival on August 21st 2005. Many tourists went to the National Park to watch different activities. On the lawn of the northeastern part of the park, Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the practice's exercises, waist-drumming performances, dancing, exhibitions and folded paper Lotus Flowers.