Local Events

  • Turkey: Practitioners in Ankara Invited to Introduce Falun Gong

    Practitioners in Ankara were invited by the Artists Association to host a Falun Gong introductory forum on September 30th, 2006. The participants were from various backgrounds, including artists, writers, teachers, anchors of radio stations, businessmen, government officials, retirees and homemakers. Falun Gong exercise instruction was offered to the participants
  • Germany: Participating in a Studio Discussion and Exposing the Truth of the Persecution on TV

    In the middle of September, “BR-Untervegs” from the TV Station of Bavaria in Germany came to Cham city, face to face, listening to evaluation, suggestions and comments about the TV Station from their audience. Representatives of the Falun Gong Human Rights Work Group from Cham city were invited to express their thinking to the media people face to face.
  • Germany: Introducing Falun Gong During German National Day

    During German National Day, on October 3rd, 2006, in downtown Düsseldorf (the capital of the state of the North Rhine-Westphalia), German Falun Gong practitioners took to the busy streets to demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises and expose the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.
  • A French Mayor: "What you are defending is also what we are safeguarding"

    Falun Gong practitioners held a Truth Compassion and Tolerance Art Exhibition in Ceyrat, near Clermont-Ferrand, a town of military importance in central France. Alain Brochet, the Mayor of Ceyrat, watched a performance by the 'Heavenly Maidens dancing group' during the unveiling ceremony of this art exhibition, and also made a speech.
  • Germany: "It's too terrible; this kind of thing must not be allowed to continue"

    On Spitaler Strasse, practitioners laid out a table with exhibits and hung banners, calling on local people to condemn the crimes of the Chinese Communist Party, including removing organs from live Falun Gong practitioners, and to pay attention to the case of human rights lawyer, Gao Zhicheng who has been illegally detained by the CCP.
  • Germany: Brutality of the Persecution Shocks the People of Trier

    On September 30th, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners came to the German city of Trier and exposed the torture of Falun Gong practitioners and the CCP’s crimes of harvesting organs from living practitioners. A practitioner who was persecuted in a women’s forced labor camp in China talked about her own experience.
  • Famous French singer: "I support you with all my heart"

    A sturdy gentleman stood out in the crowd. Having read the exhibits, he solemnly walked to the front of the stand and signed his name on the petition form without a word. Some practitioners recognised him as the famous French singer, M. Renaud. After talking with several practitioners, he was deeply moved. He said, “I support you. I will ask people around me to help stop this terrible persecution. I will tell people around me. That is the least I could do.”
  • Russia: Introducing Falun Dafa and Exposing the Persecution in New Siberia

    The population of New Siberia city numbers in the millions, there are also many Chinese people, but lots of them have not heard about the Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party (an editorial published by The Epoch Times newspaper) and Three withdrawals (from CCP related organisations). In order to help these Chinese people to understand about Falun Gong and the big wave of withdrawals from CCP, practitioners from neighbouring city Tomsk drove to different Chinese markets in New Siberia city to spread information materials and CDs in the early morning of 1st October 2006.
  • Germany: Practitioners Held Activities in Munich to Support the Campaign to Quit the CCP

    On September 30th, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners from Germany’s Munich held activities in Marienplatz Square to support the fourteen million people who have quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. Not only was people’s attention attracted by the peaceful Falun Gong exercises, but they were also shocked by the Chinese Communist regime’s atrocities.
  • Ukraine: Falun Gong Practitioners in Kramatorsk are Invited to Participate in the City Festival

    On September 24th, Kramatorsk once again held its annual City Festival. This year, a person in charge of the festival took the initiative to specifically invite Falun Dafa practitioners to participate, saying, "We ejoy your programs very much. Why don't you submit your application as soon as possible? I look forward to seeing you during the festival."
  • Austria: “It is so awful”

    On Saturday, September 16th, 2006, practitioners of the meditation practice Falun Gong organised an information day in Stephan’s Square, Vienna, to inform local people about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) violations of human rights. Emphasis was put on the brutal practise of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners while still alive.
  • Germany: Three Day “Cultural Carnival” in Hamburg

    After we had set up the booth, practitioners began to demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises. Many visitors became curious and stopped to watch the practitioners sitting upright in the double lotus position, meditating despite all the noise and loud music. We established a harmonious environment, which was a centre of attention at the festival.
  • Germany: Exposing CCP Crimes during the Munich Beer Festival

    German Falun Gong practitioners joined an activity to support the thirteen million withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party in Munich’s Karlsplatz square. It was at the time of the Beer Festival and the city was bustling with tourists from around the world. Many German people and people from other places were shocked by the CCP’s human rights abuses.
  • Finland: School Students Show Concern About the Persecution of Falun Gong

    Students were very active, and there were many questions to deal with. The practitioners explained about the persecution and the practice while answering questions. The allotted class time had soon passed, but the teacher knew students still had questions to ask the practitioners and promised to arrange such a discussion in the future.
  • United Kingdom: Car Tour in Southern England to Raise Awareness about the Persecution

    In mid-September, UK practitioners started a five-day car tour in southern England to spread the truth of Falun Gong and to urge the British people, the media and VIPs to pay attention to the inhuman crime of organ harvesting on live Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The second stop of the car tour was Exeter. ITV, one of the UK's main television channels, came to video the activity. The biggest local newspaper also sent a reporter to take some photos. A local MP came to welcome the car tour participants. The practitioners divided into two groups. One group were in a shopping centre to giving out leaflets. Another group went to the city council and the university newspaper to deliver information about the organ harvesting issue to them.