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  • Swedish Newspaper highlights the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners and Human Rights Abuses in China

    Örebro in Sweden and Yantai in Shandong, China are sister cities. The article stated that Member of Swedish Parliament Mr. Sten Tolgfor demanded that the local government of Örebro County clarify how the human rights issues are being handled during their meetings with representatives from their sister city, Yantai. Mr. Tolgfor stressed that it is inexcusable to just honour the economic prospects of China and neglect the human rights abuses.
  • United Kingdom: Promoting Falun Gong in England’s Biggest Town

    When being informed that over 1000 Falun Gong practitioners have been tortured to death in China, passers-by signed the petition without hesitation. During the petition-signing, practitioners met two local residents to whom we had introduced the truth of Falun Gong. Eager to learn the exercises, they had already attempted to contact local Falun Gong practitioners to find out about the local practice site. During today’s activities, they met us again and were informed of the location of the local practice site.
  • United Kingdom: Candlelit Vigil to Call for the Chief Persecutors to be brought to Justice

    On 6th of November 2044, Dafa practitioners from London and other areas held a candlelit vigil to appeal to bring Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Zhou Yongkong and Liu Jing to justice. These are the four main criminals responsible for the five years of persecution against Falun Gong in China.
  • United Kingdom: Seven Days of Successful Activities during Cambridge Falun Dafa Week

    During the Falun Dafa week, practitioners gave out more than fifteen thousand leaflets explaining Falun Gong in detail and exposing the persecution. Over a thousand petition signatures were collected calling for the instigator of the persecution against Falun Gong, Jiang Zemin, to be brought to justice. Many others found out about Falun Gong from reading the posters or talking with practitioners.
  • France: People of All Ages Support Falun Gong during the Haute Savoie Autumn Fair

    Members of the public were immediately drawn by the photos of the methods of torture used by the Jiang Regime to attempt to force Falun Gong practitioners in China to betray their beliefs. Many came to look for a long time, listened attentively to the practitioners’ explanations and were truly very touched. They asked what they could do to help as they signed the petition.
  • Russia: Promoting Falun Gong and Exposing the Persecution to Young People in Community Activities

    Dafa practitioners from Pyatigorsk city were invited to take part in a community activity where the participants were mainly young people. Practitioners took this opportunity to demonstrate the five sets of Falun Gong exercises and tell people about the campaign of genocide that is being waged against people who practise Falun Gong in China.
  • Germany: Successful Falun Dafa Information Day was held in Düsseldorf

    When practitioners were demonstrating the five sets of Falun Gong exercises, a reporter from one of the local news papers appeared, he was passing by chance with his camera and attracted by the exercise demonstrations. He thus approached the information desk and took shots of the demonstration and information desk for over ten minutes before he left.
  • Finland: Promoting Falun Gong at the Train Station in Helsinki

    At lunchtime on the 30th of October 2004, Falun Dafa practitioners again visited the train station in Helsinki city in Finland. It is over two years since we first started our Saturday Dafa activities there in 2002. The people who see us and receive Dafa materials are countless and they are not just from Helsinki but from different cities in Finland and different countries.
  • Germany: Successful Anti-Torture Exhibition held near the Famous Church of Ulm

    When the exhibition started, the crimes of the Jiang regime were exposed to local residents and tourists as practitioners re-enacted the vicious methods of torture used to attempt to force people to give up their belief in Falun Gong in China. After hearing the truth, people signed a petition to call for Jiang Zemin to be brought to justice in a court of law.
  • Denmark : Introducing Falun Gong and Exposing the Persecution at a High School

    Throughout the talk all the pupils were quiet and attentive, which surprised the teachers. At the end they had many questions and found it shocking that Jiang and his regime could act so outrageously. The teachers also asked questions and were surprised that they had not heard about the persecution before. Finally, we had some time to teach them the first of the five sets of Falun Gong exercises.
  • France: Promoting Falun Gong and Exposing the Persecution in the City Centre of Toulouse

    We left Paris and travelled several hundred miles to the city of Toulouse to tell local people about Falun Gong. Our activities, including exercise demonstrations and an anti-torture exhibition, were held in the city centre. After hearing the facts about Falun Gong and the brutal persecution being inflicted on the Chinese Falun Gong practitioners, people looked dumbfounded.
  • Germany: Falun Gong Information Day held in Bad Homburg

    Many people asked whether there is a practice site where they can learn the Falun Gong exercises in Bad Homburg. Most people signed the petition form calling for an end to the persecution even before listening to our explanations since they felt sympathy for Dafa practitioners being persecuted in China and contempt for the evil people who use torture and maltreatment to try to force innocent people to betray their beliefs.
  • Sweden: Many People Want to Find Out More about Falun Gong at Karlstad Health Expo

    Many people stayed at the big stage to watch and listen to the Falun Gong exercise demonstration. Every time the demonstration ended, people came to talk to the practitioners and wanted to learn more. When they found out that there would be a free class in Karlstad on the coming weekend, they all wanted to know the details.
  • France: Anti-Torture Exhibition held in Baie-Mahault City in Guadeloupe

    On Saturday the 13th of October 2004, Falun Gong practitioners from Baie-Mahault city in Guadeloupe organised an anti-torture poster exhibition to expose the serious and violent human rights violations against Falun Gong in China and to show people the barbarity of the various torture methods used to try and force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their beliefs.
  • Switzerland: Falun Gong Practitioners hold an Anti-Torture Exhibition in Baden City

    People found it hard to believe that former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin would order China’s policemen to carry out such barbaric crimes against people who just want to practise their qigong exercises in peace and live by the principles of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. They signed the petition calling for an end to the suppression of Falun Gong.