Their intention is very clear: to force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their belief in Truth-Compassion-Tolerance. Practitioners shared prison cells with criminals charged with legitimate and serious offences, and the guards encouraged the criminals to persecute the practitioners further, telling them that their prison sentence would be reduced if they cooperated. In the case of practitioners being tortured to death, they would simply say it was suicide. The real killer would not suffer any consequences.

In Italy, reports have given indication that Chinese consulate officials have been instigating public hatred towards Falun Gong practitioners. Practitioners are being threatened and harassed. As overseas nationals and residents, practitioners legal activities have also been interfered with by the Chinese consulate. Apart from this, the Chinese consulate has imposed pressure on foreign organisations and communities. The following are some cases in this regards.

On November the 5th,2003, the Primary Court in Moscow once again looked into the case of two Chinese Falun Gong practitioners who have stayed in Russia longer than their visa permit. On November the 6th, the court announced that the two Chinese Falun Gong practitioners would be entitled to file for asylum. This case proves that as long as people understand the truth, their innate kindness will help them to make the right decision.

On October the 27th, practitioners from Great Britain, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece and Australia filed a joint lawsuit at a Cypriot court against Wu Guanzheng, who was visiting Cyprus at the time. The indictment was submitted to the court on the same day as Wu arrived in Cyprus. A press conference was then held to publicise the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong to the people of Cyprus via the media.

As far as I am concerned, Falun Gong is the best thing that I have ever encountered in my life and I refuse to deny that I practise Falun Gong. No matter what happens, I was determined to leave a country full of violence, where my fellow practitioners and I have been persecuted. If I continued to run my business in China because of personal interest during this persecution, I would be betraying my conscience.

Zhao Liping is a doctor of Chinese medicine and a Falun Gong practitioner. Because the clinic she is working at is under pressure from the Chinese Consulate in Edinburgh, she was forced to resign on October the 4th 2003. Miss Zhao concluded, “It is shameless for the Chinese consulate to extend the Jiang regime’s persecution of Falun Gong overseas.” She hopes that more people around the world understand the facts of the persecution of Falun Gong, stand up to support the victims and call for an end to the persecution.

'The hostess of the Falun Gong programme Yvonne Kleberg said, “We think that this act ignores Swedish law. China has neither the right to influence the Swedish media nor the right to invade our freedom of expression.” She has already reported the case to the police. The reporter had tried many times to contact the Chinese consulate in Gothenburg, but in vain.'

"In a state where one person can rule everything, it was no use that others in the government were against the ban. Few dare to risk their lives for the truth. Yet this is the choice millions of Falun Gong practitioners face every day, when they, with a knife at their throat, are forced to choose between their faith in Truth, Compassion and Tolerance or captivity, torture and death."

Zhu´s private properties in China were at that time valued at about ten million Danish Crowns (about £1 million/1.35 million Euros). In 2002, all his business activities in China were seized and closed down by the National Security Bureau. Without any judicial documentation the authorities entered his premises and confiscated his business licences and all documents relating to his accounts. All his employees were dismissed and questioned about whether they practise Falun Gong...Closing down his three companies was a cause of great economical pressure for Xuezhi Zhu. And at the same time all his personal belongings, including his house, his car and his savings were confiscated.

“I appreciate greatly the help that the UK government has offered us. I would also like to sincerely call for the UK government to express its concern for Falun Gong practitioners, who are still suffering inhuman persecution in Mainland China. I hope that the suppression of “Truthfulness, Kindness, Tolerance” will end soon.”

Did they not know that every person with a sense of justice can see right through their pathetic lies? They stated clearly that unless I signed a letter guaranteeing to give up Falun Gong, there was no way I could get my passport back. They wanted to make it difficult for me to stay in Hungary by withholding my passport; they wanted to force me to give up my pursuit of “Truth, Kindness, Tolerance” by means of disrupting my work and my kid’s education.

The clerk said: “We cannot grant your application”, and then returned my old passport and application form. When I asked him why this was so, he said that it was because I practise Falun Gong, which is illegal in China. He also mentioned that it is China’s policy not to process passport applications that are filed by Falun Gong practitioners. When I asked him to give me a written explanation, he said: “Apart from an oral notification, I cannot provide you with any document.”

Mrs. Svensson from Sweden doing the Falun Gong exercises at Suan Pluh Immigration Detention Centre in Bangkok, Thailand. She has now been detained for more than three weeks, without being given a reason for her detention.

In an effort to obtain “an immediate explanation” for her arrested and the cancellation of her Visa, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Sweden and the Swedish Embassy in Bangkok have formally contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Thailand. TV, radio and some major newspapers in Sweden have also reported the incident, and have emphasized that Ms Svensson is innocent. At present, the Swedish government is actively negotiating with the Thai government to help Ms Svensson regain her freedom.

"My nationality is being taken away from me by the Chinese embassy. The reason for this is simply because of my belief in Falun Gong...However, the violations to my human rights are trivial when compared to what had happened in China. You may have heard already heard of how an eight-month-old baby was tortured to death together with his 30-year-old mother because his mother practised Falun Gong. Brutal persecution against this group of peaceful and kind-hearted people is happening every day, every hour and every minute. I also fear that I will be subjected to similar persecution should I be forced to return to China."

Today, in order to force me to give up practising Falun Gong, the Chinese Embassy confiscated my passport. The Embassy's actions are inhumane. Looking at it from another angle, Chinese citizens have the freedom of belief, which is guaranteed by the Chinese Basic Law. What is the Chinese Embassy’s excuse for interfering with citizens’ right to believe, particularly when they are outside of China?

The police tried to intimidate Mr. O’Connor by shouting at him in Chinese and English. They also attempted to take a photograph of him after an officer kneed him in the stomach and twisted his finger’s away from in front of his face.

Mrs. Zimmermann at the Embassy informed Mr. Ulrich that he could not enter Hong Kong and asked if he was a practitioner of Falun Gong...After 3 hours, he was escorted by five armed police officer and five other police officers to the next flight and expelled from Hong Kong.

This is the story of a Chinese couple who were denied a passport for their new daughter. The Embassy staff refused to give this baby girl her basic human rights to a nationality because her parents practise Falun Gong. However, after their actions were exposed on a Falun Gong website, the Chinese authorities were frightened that the world could see their irrational and wicked actions and they quickly awarded the girl a passport.

During November 2001, 36 western Falun Gong practitioners travelled to Beijing to appeal to the Chinese government to end the persecution of Falun Gong. They also wanted to appeal to the Chinese people for justice. They were arrested, beaten and detained.

“It became quickly apparent to me that the Chinese Secret Service blacklist was behind all this. How else could it be that of the eight people in the car with me, only three were singled out, those names on the blacklist, known to the Chinese Secret Service from our visit to China.”

They started to pull Rosemary out of the room after she sat on the bed saying that she was not going anywhere as she had done nothing wrong. Two policemen dragged her out of the room and pushed her down the stairs of the hostel...At the police minivan Earl and Robert were roughly pushed into the bus Rosemary was dragged into the van by her hair.

On the 9 July 2001, a group of police officers burst into Liu Shan’s dormitory and kidnapped him without explanation. Since this time, his whereabouts are unknown and knowledge about his wellbeing is also unknown.

Mr. Aurnhammer commented “It is this blacklist the Chinese authorities are using to exert pressure on the Lithuanian government.”

He was transferred to another police station and was interrogated for several hours and kept in custody for an entire night with at least 15 other Falun Dafa practitioners. The following day he was deported and told that he was forbidden to enter China again.

Mr. Hamrle refused to go with them, and the three men then forced him to go by beating and kicking him outside the police station. He was also handcuffed. Mr. Hamrle recalled that he is still “not able to feel with four fingers of [his] left hand now, three months later”.

After the birth of his daughter in Denmark, Mr. Zhu applied, on her behalf, for a Chinese passport and citizenship. The Chinese embassy staff however has been using various excuses to delay, or prevent his daughter from obtaining Chinese citizenship. They have also declined to give Mr. Zhu a reason for the delay. To date, his daughter is stateless.

While testing his computer system after a hacking attack, Mr Gottschalg discovered that his telephone was tapped and was being listened to. The local telephone provider has verified that strange noises, which can be heard, are not supposed to be there. To double check, fake information was sent to a friend and this test confirmed that the phone was tapped.

Recently, Mr. Fava has twice applied to the Chinese consulate to renew his Visa. On both occasions he has been turned down. The Chinese general consul in Milan, Gao Shumao, has declared that he considers him a dangerous person. Gao Shumao, the consul general is well known for declaring in a Chinese newspaper: “...for some obstinate Falun Gong members, ...(in Milan), we must give them severe punishment.”

The consulate phone the practitioners and said that they could collect their passports. However, after going to the consulate, the passports were not renewed...The practitioners then asked to have a written statement about why they had refused to renew the passport. This was denied and the consulate called the police to have them removed from the premises.

This is part 6 of a series of reports on how the Jiang regime has exported its persecution against Falun Gong to Europe.

Ying told the Chinese embassy representative that this was blackmail, and he was trampling their rights granted by the Chinese constitution, let alone their rights as German citizens. Both Ying and her mother said that they do not agree with the defamatory propaganda against Falun Gong. The embassy representative then quickly ended the conversation.

Mr. Hongxia Wu worked in a Chinese restaurant in the City of Freiburg. He returned to China when his work permit expired. Presently he is in the Huangjiawan Forced Labour Camp in Hengyiang City. He has been threatened with three years of incarceration if he refuses to give up Falun Dafa.

The Chinese embassy called and said that her son’s name could not be added to her passport, since they did not accept her marriage. After investigating Chinese marriage law and civil law, Ms. Wu found that although they may not accept her marriage, the relationship between her and her son could not be denied...When Ms. Wu presented this information to the embassy, they sneered “What is marriage law!” and stated that they have their own regulations.

“I was subjected to a very severe beating during the first month in the labour camp by 10 inmates, who later told me they had done this on the instructions of the guards. I was kicked and punched on my thighs and body. My thighs were afterwards black with bruises and I was unable to walk for 2 weeks..." - Zhao Ming (Ireland)

In December 2001, my passport expired so I went to a Chinese Consulate to apply for an extension. However, so far the Embassy has refused to extend my passport, saying that it must be referred to the Public Security Department in Beijing.

Testimonies and reports of how the persecution of Falun Gong has extended to Europeans and Chinese people living in Europe