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Latvia: Falun Gong Wins an Award at the "Healthy Mind - Healthy Body" Sport Festival
2005-06-26
On June the 17th, 2005, Latvian Falun Gong practitioners attended the "Healthy Mind - Healthy Body" Sport Festival in Vingrotajiem and was awarded the “positive participation” prize. The practitioners introduced Falun Gong to those who joined the festival and demonstrated the exercises. They also displayed photos depicting the practise of Falun Gong across the world and provided accounts and experiences of cultivating in Falun Gong by practitioners for people to read. -
Russia: Exposing the Persecution on Arbat Square in Moscow
2005-06-25
Russian practitioners held an activity on Arbat Square in Moscow city centre to call for an end to the brutal persecution of Falun Gong in China. Many people approached practitioners to find out more about the human rights abuses happening to Falun Gong in China and signed the petition calling for an end to the persecution. -
First Swedish Performance of “The European Coming For You Choir”
2005-06-23
On the 11th of June 2005, the “European Coming For You” Choir made its first-ever performance in Sweden, performing at the concert “Coming for You Where East Meets West” at Berwaldshallen in Stockholm. The concert was sponsored by New Tang Dynasty TV and Kulturföreningen Främja Traditionell Kultur & Konst (The Culture Association to Promote Traditional Culture & Art). -
Germany: Promoting Falun Gong in Frankfurt
2005-06-23
On the 4th of June 2005, in the busiest street in Frankfurt town centre, Falun Gong practitioners held an anti-torture exhibition to expose the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) brutal persecution of Falun Gong and an activity with the theme of promoting the beauty of Falun Gong and “Truthfulness Compassion Tolerance”. -
Romania: Promoting Falun Gong and Exposing the Persecution in Brasov City
2005-06-22
Practitioners distributed Falun Gong leaflets to tourists and revealed the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal persecution against those who practise Falun Gong. Passers-by stopped to view a picture exhibition exposing the CCP’s crimes in their 6-year suppression of Falun Gong before signing a petition calling for an end to the persecution. -
Ireland: Cork City Councillors Protest Against Proclaiming Shanghai a "Sister City"
2005-06-19On May 19th 2005, several members of the Cork City Council in Ireland took a stance against proclaiming Shanghai a sister city. Chris O'Leary, a Green Party member, thought that this might send the wrong message to China. To date, twelve Falun Gong practitioners have been persecuted to death in Shanghai. The Irish Times reported that four of the city councillors from Cork protested outside City Hall against the Mayor's forming an alliance with Shanghai and ignoring China's poor human rights record. Local Falun Gong practitioners also participated in the protest. -
Russia: St. Petersburg Practitioners Raise Awareness at Lomonosov Tube Station
2005-06-19
Five huge posters displayed information, letting people know about Falun Gong's spread to over 60 countries. They stopped to look closely at the posters and ask questions. After seeing the brutal scenes of persecution, people’s compassionate sides were clear that it must be stopped. Many of them asked, “Why are such things happening in the world today?” -
France: Appealing in Paris for Public Awareness of Persecution against Falun Gong
2005-06-14
Practitioners in France decided to promote Falun Gong on various streets in Paris. Though there were not many practitioners to take part, our banners were so eye-catching that many passers-by stopped to read the captions that went with photos about the persecution. Some were shocked and took the initiative to sign the petition. -
Ukraine: Exposing the Persecution during a Mythology Drama Presentation
2005-06-12
On May the 28th and 29th, Ukrainian practitioners took part in a mythology drama held by Dnepropetrovsk City Council in a local park. During the gathering, people viewed a display of pictures exposing the human rights abuses against Falun Gong practitioners in China. Many people were attracted by the paper lotus flowers made by practitioners. -
Sweden: Falun Gong Practitioners Participate in an Alternative Health Fair in Uddevalla
2005-06-11
On the 28th and 29th of May, Falun Gong practitioners took part in an alternative health fair in Uddevalla. They performed the five sets of Falun Gong exercises and informed the participants about Falun Gong and the ongoing persecution occurring in China. They also set up an exhibition of posters and photos, accompanied by an information table. -
Germany: People and Officials of Wuerzburg City Appeal to the German Government to Rescue Jiang Renzheng
2005-06-09Since Jiang Renzheng was sentenced to three years in a forced labour camp in China, shortly after his whole family was deported from the German city of Wuerzburg, Falun Gong practitioners in that city have organised five events in the city centre to call for Jiang’s release. Most members of the public said they already had some knowledge of Jiang’s arrest from the city’s media. People deplored the German government’s bad decision while gaining a lot better understanding of the persecution Falun Gong practitioners are suffering in China. -
Norway: Folding Paper Lotus Flowers at a Children’s Festival in Oslo
2005-06-09
A children's festival was arranged during the last weekend in May at the Medieval Park in Oslo, the capital of Norway. During this annual weekend activity, children and their parents experience different exciting things such as song and dance, cooking and a lot more. This year, the children could also learn how to fold paper lotus flowers. -
Romania: “The Evil CCP is the Same as Ceausescu!”
2005-06-08
Romanian Falun Gong practitioners went to Suceava city to promote Falun Gong and raise awareness of the human rights abuses influicted on practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party. They handed out leaflets about Falun Gong to tourists in the park and allowed more people to get to know that the world needs “Truthfulness Compassion and Forbearance”. -
Slovakia: People in Povazska Bystrica Help to Raise Awareness of the Persecution Against Falun Gong
2005-06-07
Povazska Bystrica is a city with about 40.000 inhabitants in western Slovakia. Practitioners demonstrated the five sets of Falun Gong exercises and exposed the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights crimes against Falun Gong on large poster boards. People who passed by stopped to sign a petition calling for an end to this persecution. -
Finland: Falun Gong Warmly Welcomed at the World Village Event
2005-06-06
On May 28th and 29th 2005, a two day “World Village” celebration was held in a park in the Finnish capital Helsinki. When people got to know that such a wonderful practice, which has brought benefits to 100 million people all over the world, is facing brutal persecution in China, they all signed the petition to show their sympathy and support.
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