To mark International Day against Torture, Falun Gong practitioners held an activity in the centre of the Czech capital, Prague. Passers-by were reminded that the torture of innocent people is still taking place in many parts of today’s world. One facet of the activities was a demonstration of some of the the torture methods used in China on prisoners of conscience.

From July 6th, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners at the University of Augsburg in Southern Germany organised a two-week long activity, appealing for the urgent rescue of Falun Gong practitioner Wang Xiaoyan in China and for the immediate end to the Chinese Communist regime's evil trade in organs harvested from living people.

On July 9th, Falun Gong practitioners publicised the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s trade in organs harvested from living Falun Gong practitioners. Many local people and tourists told us they felt that in the 21st century, murdering people in order to trade in their harvested organs is a shame for humanity.

Falun Gong practitioners in the Czech Republic held an activity in Prague to let people know about the persecution against Falun Gong in China. They exposed how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) harvests organs from living Falun Gong practitioners and several banners described some methods of torture that the CCP uses.

“This kind of act is really ignominious. It totally violates belief in God”, said a mother with a child after seeing practitioners re-enact the CCP's removal of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. She signed the petition calling for an end to this atrocity. Many local people were shocked and couldn’t believe that the CCP would be so cruel to its own people.

June 26th, 2006, was “United Nations International Day In Support Of Victims of Torture”. Falun Gong practitioners assembled on the plaza in front of city hall in Pyatigorsk to expose the persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP. Practitioners displayed information and photo boards and re-enacted the torture that the CCP inflicts on Falun Gong practitioners.

During the 2006 Football World Cup, many media outlets and football fans from all over the world gathered in Nierenberg, because there would be four matches played in the city. German Falun Gong practitioners held an activity to reveal the CCP's trade in organs harvested from Falun Gong practitioners. The activity received a great deal of attention from the public.

On July 1st, 2006, the Global Service Centre for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party in Amsterdam, Holland, along with some Falun Gong practitioners, held activities in Chinatown to support eleven million brave people publicly announcing their renunciation of the Chinese Communist Party and revealing organ harvesting by the CCP

In order for the German people to have a deeper understanding of the cruel persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), in particular organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners, and urge the German government to make efforts in helping the investigation of the persecution, Falun Gong practitioners in Germany launched an activity to "collect a suggestion to the German Chancellor." The practitioners also mailed the suggestions collected to politicians and media in Germany.

On June 17th, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners held an information day in Augsburg in the south of Bayern, Germany, to reveal the Chinese Communist Party’s bloody crime of taking organs from live Falun Gong practitioners for profit and cremating their bodies to destroy the evidence. Several local people who had seen similar activities before came to talk with practitioners.

On Sunday June 24th, in a small scenic town called Policka, a festival of ethnic music and “Colour Meeting” took place. Its main goal was to foster mutual understanding and tolerance between people of different ethnic groups and cultures. Falun Gong practitioners took part in the event. They performed a demonstration of the Falun Gong exercises and distributed leaflets.

During the first conference of the UN Human Rights Council, a human rights seminar was held at the auditorium of the UN Office in Geneva on June 29th, organised by international non-government organisations and focusing on the illegal organ trade in China.

The second Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance International Art Exhibition was held in Galleria Oma Huone on Kalevankatu Street in the centre of Helsinki, capital of Finland. Near the gallery, practitioners distributed leaflets about the exhibition. In the gallery, practitioners guided people around conscientiously and patiently, explaining the background to the paintings.

While strolling along the pedestrian zones, festival goers had the opportunity to pass by a Falun Gong information booth, erected by the town’s practitioners. They could find out about the human rights situation in China. Many had the chance to talk with local practitioners about the suppression of the meditation practice and could form their own opinion.

During a demonstration on Heidelberg’s Main Street on June 18th, 2006, the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) China taskforce, and the Falun Dafa Association informd local people and tourists about the trade in organs harvested from living and deceased Falun Gong practitioners in Chinese concentration camps.

On June 26th, 2006, another group of practitioners went to a city in the Far Eastern area to introduce Falun Gong to local people and expose the persecution in China. Practitioners went to a building site where Chinese men were working to talk to them. The Chinese workers were very glad to meet practitioners and many of them accepted leaflets.

On Friday June 16th, Falun Gong practitioners went to the city of Usti nad Orlici, where a cultural activity called “City in Motion, Week of Good Vibrations” was being held. Falun Gong practitioners chose one of the streets leading to the main square to inform people about the persecution of Falun Gong which is still continuing in China after seven years. Many people were concerned about it and asked whether they could do more than sign the petition and how they could help. Some of them took leaflets for their friends.

On June 26th, practitioners in Krasnoyarsk held an event in Chinatown to expose the brutal seven year persecution of Falun Gong and tell the public about the spread of Falun Dafa to more than eighty countries. At the site, as well as distributing leaflets and other material, practitioners displayed photos and talked with passersby about the persecution.

On the 11th and 18th of June, 2006, in the Place du Trocadero (Human Rights Plaza) in Paris, French Falun Gong practitioners exposed the CCP's trade in organs harvested from Falun Gong practitioners to tourists from every corner of the world and appealed for an end to the persecution. The many banners and photos depicting the persecution attracted many people to come to sign the petition and to inquire about information.

On Saturday, June 17th, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners exposed the crimes committed by the Chinese Communist Party to passersby in Saarbrücken. Shoppers in the busy shopping centre learned about the CCP's illegal trade in organs harvested from live Falun Gong practitioners taking place in China’s secret concentration camps.

On June 25th, 2006, practitioners from Germany, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, as well as Hungarian practitioners introduced Falun Dafa and exposed the persecution in the centre of Budapest. Practitioners displayed pictures showing how Falun Gong practitioners are being persecuted by the CCP in China.

On June 24th and 25th, 2006, both new and veteran practitioners from Turkey took part in activities in Ankara Park together. Practitioners worked as one body, making their best efforts. Some were responsible for location arrangements, others demonstrated the exercises and some volunteered to teach people the exercises.

On Friday June 2nd, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners from Belgium were invited to KTA Senior High School of Technology to introduce Falun Dafa to students in grades three and five as part of a project the children are doing on different cultures. Afterwards, the teachers said that the activity was very successful and that the students all paid much attention to it.

Following the “Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance International Art Exhibition” held in Finland from May 30th to June 5th, 2006, the “Second Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance International Art Exhibition Helsinki” was held from June 20th to July 1st, 2006, at Galleria Oma Huone on Kalevankatu Street in downtown Helsinki.

Falun Gong practitioners met in Jihlava to inform the public about the inhumane persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. They informed the passers-by with leaflets and banners about Falun Gong and its main principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance and also about the secret concentration camps where organs are being harvested from live practitioners.

On the 24th and 25th of June in Budapest, Falun Gong practitioners held an activity to expose the CCP's (Chinese Communist Party) practice of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. The CCP then sell the organs and cremate the practitioners' bodies. The re-enactment got an enthusiastic response and man people stopped to take a leaflet and find out more.

"Facing such atrocities, no words can express my feelings. I can sign the petition in the hope of bringing a prompt end to this situation," a German woman told the reporter after viewing the photos depicting the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) atrocities against its people and the vivid reenactment of the CCP’s live organ removal from Falun Gong practitioners.

On June 26th, practitioners in Krasnoyarsk held an event in the largest Chinatown in the central Russian city to expose facts of the 7-year brutal persecution of Falun Gong and to tell the public of the grand spread of Falun Dafa to more than 80 countries. The event received support from a lot of citizens. Many of them signed the practitioners’ petition to condemn the persecution

Falun Gong practitioners held activities in downtown Moscow to expose the Chinese Communist regime’s trade in organs harvested from living Falun Gong practitioners. In addition to a display of posters and banners, practitioners re-enacted the Chinese Communist regime’s atrocities of harvesting organs from living humans.

A week after the practitioners arrived, a few people in charge of the station came out to ask practitioners to take the sign away. Apparently the Chinese side applied pressure ... Practitioners went along with station managers to the police station. After reading the materials, the police said, “What’s the problem with that? Wasn’t this copied from newspapers? After all, Russia is a democratic country.”

Falun Gong practitioners in Scotland held various activities in Inverness to explain the facts about Falun Gong, expose the Chinese Communist regime’s genocidal persecution of Falun Gong and call on the general public to pay attention to the situation so as to help put an end to the Chinese regime’s atrocities.

On May the 27th and June the 17th 2006, Dutch Falun Gong practitioners held anti-torture photo exhibitions in the university town of Leiden and the northern metropolis of Groningen respectively. They particularly drew people’s attention to the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners in China.

In the second half of June 2006, a piece of serene exercise music could be heard playing in the gymnasium of Bjerregrev School in the Danish town of Viborg. Teachers and parents watched in amazement as the usually noisy children sat quietly and practised the fifth Falun Gong exercise, a sitting meditation.

Some German people left, yet they came back again to write messages, after they had thought about the organ harvesting situation. An elderly German gentleman came back and left such words to the German Chancellor: "If what the leaflet says is true, I can't imagine people can live safely there. If you do not mention this while visiting China, I really feel ashamed for our leader." A professor came back after to ask for more leaflets for other associates after understanding the situation of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the CCP. A female doctor wrote after seeing the exhibition board: "Investigate independently, rescue the victims through the Red Cross immediately."

On June 17th 2006, in Zurich’s town centre Parade Square, Falun Gong practitioners held an information day. Demonstrations of he five sets of gentle and peaceful exercises attracted many people to stop and look. Along with the exercise demonstration, persecution pictures were displayed and a striking banner read: “CCP harvests living Falun Gong Practitioners’ Organs”.

Falun Gong practitioners in Hamburg held a “Journey of Falun Dafa” Photo Exhibition in the city’s festival. They explained to people what Falun Gong is and told them about the persecution. People were concerned when they heard how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has waged a campaign of unprecedented brutality resulting in the deaths of nearly 3,000 innocent practitioners.

In order to urge the international community to help stop the cruel persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), on the 21st of June 2006 Falun Gong practitioners in Latvia held an activity in the centre of Riga. The practitioners simulated the CCP's harvesting of organs from live Falun Gong practitioners in Chinese labour camps.

Practitioners have held a number of activities in Florence, Italy this year to expose the brutal persecution of Falun Gong and the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP’s) harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. Some practitioners passed out leaflets downtown, and some went to the City Council to let people know the truth.

In the second half of June, 2006, serene traditional-style Chinese music could be heard playing in the gymnasium of Bjerregrev School in the Danish town of Viborg. Teachers and parents watched with amazement as their usually noisy children sat quietly and did the fifth exercise of Falun Gong, which is a sitting meditation, as part of a project on Chinese culture.

On May 27th, 2006, German Falun Gong practitioners held activities in the “Porta Nigra" (Big Black Gate) neighbourhood in Trier, the oldest German city. After looking at the information boards and banners, passers-by were astonished by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s trade in organs harvested from Falun Gong practitioners.

Falun Gong practitioners set up an information desk on the left side of Neuer Market in the city, banners were hung up on both sides of the information desk, the pictures on the banners depict something of the atrocities currently happening in China: the brutal persecution of the Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Pictures of Falun Gong practitioners imprisoned in cages, being subjected to torture and beaten to death, and pictures of live organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners were shown.

On Friday May 26th, we went to Braunschweig to let local people know about how the Communist Party persecutes Falun Gong practitioners. To this end, we re-enacted scenes of torture and organ harvesting. One young lady said, “Nowadays you really have to do something drastic in order to get people to stop and take notice, don't you?”

On June 18th, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners in Cambridge took part in a local charity event, during which they had the opportunity to expose the CCP's illegal trade in organs harvested from murdered Falun Gong practitioners. The bodies were subsequently cremated to destroy the evidence. Local people signed petitions to support an independent investigation into these atrocities.

“What is this?” In the midst of the pedestrian zone, a man in a surgical gown stood behind a bloody operating table. Next to him was a cage, in which a Chinese person was imprisoned. Surrounding it were posters and boards with words of explanation. Pedestrians saw such a scene on May 27th in Hannover. Many came to a standstill, watched and asked questions.

Practitioners from Arkhangelsk Oblast attended a local town festival entitled "Dream of Paper" and set up a stand at an exhibition displaying colourful paper lotus flowers hand-made by them. It was a great opportunity to introduce the practice to the local people. The practitioners' beautiful hand-made paper lotus flowers were praised and won an award.

When people learned about the shocking news that the CCP harvests organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, they condemned the barbaric atrocities. Some people told the reporter that they signed the petition to stop the evil deeds and remind Western society to not ignore human rights in the face of economic interest.

Falun Gong practitioners in Finland held activities from June 6th to June 8th in the pedestrian zone of central Kouvola, a city located in eastern Finland. They displayed information boards and distributed flyers, exposing the facts of the persecution that the Chinese communist regime has been inflicting upon Falun Gong.

On the 13th of May 2006 Mersin city government held a seminar entitled Local Agenda 21 - National Solidarity Group, with the main focus on ways to strengthen the solidarity and communication amongst various nationalities. Representatives from nearly all the local organisations around Mersin area attended the seminar.

Switzerland's beautiful scenery attracts tourists from all parts of the world. Lucerne, Switzerland's most famous tourist attraction is the place a lot of tourists must visit, among them many from China. Falun Gong practitioners regarded it as a good place to expose the truth to Chinese people, many of whom have been deceived by communist propaganda. At the travel peak time, practitioners could be seen everywhere chatting to people and distributing leaflets.