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Falun Gong Was the Main Topic During Discussions About China’s Human Rights Situation in the Finnish Parliament and Foreign Ministry
2004-06-05
The seminar tour of Scandinavia regarding the current human rights situation in China was in Finland, on Thursday May the 13th 2004. Separate hearings organised by the Finnish Parliament's human rights group and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were held successfully in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. A news briefing for the media was also held. Speakers included Falun Gong practitioner Ms Jane Dai from Australia and the executive director of the Association for Asian Research, Mr. Erping Zhang, -
Letter to the Editor: My Beloved Motherland, When Can We Have True Freedom?
2004-06-05I called my classmate in China just now, and was told that one of my best friends was imprisoned and eventually tortured to death simply because of practicing Falun Gong. I am not a Falun Gong practitioner, and don't have much knowledge of Falun Gong. But I do know my best friend very well, he was a truly righteous and honest person. I really cannot understand and rationalise why China would even regard having a belief as illegal. I feel really very sorry about it. My beloved motherland, when can we have true freedom? -
United Kingdom: Final Day of the 2004 Scotland Car Tour
2004-06-05On the final day of the 2004 Scotland Car Tour, the four Falun Dafa practitioners taking part in the tour visited one of Scotland’s best-known cities: Glasgow. The practitioners handed out leaflets in the city centre. Many people were interested in finding out more about Falun Gong and were keen to learn the exercises. One old Chinese man told the practitioners that he had the Falun Gong books at home and that he already knew about the lawsuits against Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin. -
Report from German Newspaper Rheinpfalz: A Lady Who Upholds Compassion and Truthfulness
2004-06-05While Mrs. Wang was practicing the sitting meditation on campus at Germersheim, she was afraid that few of her classmates could imagine the situation of practitioners after Falun Gong was announced to be illegal on July 22nd, 1999. Although Falun Gong has no political objectives, practitioners were still arrested and detained in Labour Re-education Camps, prisons, and psychiatric hospitals, where they were shocked by electric batons, brainwashed, raped and abused by torture. -
EFGIC: United Nations’ Rapporteur on Torture Highlights China, Falun Gong Ahead of Planned Visit
2004-06-04'LONDON (EFGIC) – With a visit to China planned at the end of June, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture’s latest report highlights the torturing of Falun Gong practitioners there. Of the 115 countries covered, China received by far the most ink in the 420-page report. Of over 130 cases of reported torture and abuse in China, approximately 100 of them were perpetrated against Falun Gong practitioners.' -
United Kingdom: 2004 Scotland Car Tour continues to Meet Many Supportive People
2004-06-04
Four UK Falun Gong practitioners have been on a week long car tour of Scottish cities since Sunday to raise awareness of the persecution of Falun Gong. On Wednesday the 2nd of June, the car tour reached the city of Dundee. People were very supportive of practitioners who are suffering in China. Dundee’s local newspaper published a supportive article. -
Radio France Internationale: Falun Gong Accuses Jiang Zemin and the 610 Office of Crimes of Torture and Genocide.
2004-06-04'According to a report by the Falun Dafa Information Centre, the Chicago Superior Court is to decide whether Jiang Zemin, the ex-chairman of China, is exempt from the charges against him. Groups such as Falun Dafa have charged Jiang Zemin with crimes of cruel torture, genocide, and crimes against humanity. The Falun Dafa Information Centre appealed to Falun Gong practitioners worldwide to go to every Chinese Embassy on this day.' -
UK: Promoting Falun Gong and Clarifying the Truth in Swansea
2004-06-03
A student from China asked some questions which practitioners answered one by one. She was curious that there were Western people practicing Falun Gong too and was also astonished to learn that Falun Gong practitioners do not receive any monetary reward for promoting Dafa outside. It is done voluntarily and free of charge. -
Sweden: Practitioners Celebrate the 9th Anniversary of the Introduction of Falun Dafa to Sweden
2004-06-03
On April 22nd,1995, Master Li Hongzhi came to Sweden in person and taught the Fa to Swedish practitioners. Since then, Falun Dafa has spread widely in Sweden. Swedish Dafa disciples gathered at the Stockholm Wasa Museum to celebrate the introduction of Falun Dafa to Sweden nine years ago and they showed many tourists the beauty of Falun Dafa. -
Radio Free Asia: A German Human Rights Lawyer Says that the Chicago Trial has Laid the Legal Foundation for Future Trials
2004-06-03'On June the 4th 1989, on TV screens all over the world, the Chinese Government arbitrarily slaughtered college students who called for democracy and had no weapons. After ten years, the leadership of the Chinese government again launched a brutal campaign of persecution against Falun Gong practitioners who adhere to their belief in Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance.' -
Scotland: Promoting Falun Gong and Revealing the Truth about the Persecution in Aberdeen
2004-06-03
A number of Falun Gong practitioners from all over the UK, travelled to Aberdeen in Scotland to let people know about the persecution of Falun Gong. Practitioners were demonstrating Falun Gong exercises, handing out leaflets and collecting petition signatures from the public. -
Amnesty International Annual Report Exposes China’s Suppression of Falun Gong
2004-06-02Amnesty International released its annual report on human rights status across the world on May the 26th 2004. This report outlines the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China, including the rising death toll. It also portrays details of the death of a practitioner from Jilin Province who was beaten to death by prison inmates who were instructed to do so by the prison officials. -
Austrian Falun Dafa Information Centre Holds a Press Conference in Vienna
2004-06-02
The Austrian Falun Dafa Information Center held a press conference in Vienna on June 17th 2004. The press conference unveiled a series of activities with the theme of “jointly putting to a stop to China’s persecution of Falun Gong practitioners”. At the press conference, Mr. Zhao Ming, a Falun Gong practitioner from Ireland, gave an account of the miserable and cruel torture he had experienced while imprisoned in a Chinese labour education camp for almost two years. -
Sweden: Many People at Hammarkullen Carnival had the Good Fortune to Learn the Truth About Falun Dafa
2004-06-02
On May the 30th 2004, Swedish practitioners let people know the facts about Falun Dafa and the persecution in China at Hammarkullen Carnival by demonstrating the five sets of exercises, a photo exhibition, performing some musical pieces, flyer distribution and talking with people. -
UK: Some Stories from the Twenty-Four Hour Appeal at the Chinese Embassy in London
2004-06-02The twenty-four hour peaceful appeal at the Chinese Embassy in London by UK Dafa practitioners has lasted more than seven hundred days now. During these trying days, we have personally experienced the change in the surrounding environment as our cultivation progresses. The following stories tell the change in people’s hearts after they learnt the facts about Falun Gong and continue to remind us of our honour and responsibility as Dafa practitioners.
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