On July 21st, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners organised an event at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to expose the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. Practitioners were kept busy chatting to people throughout the day. The persecution began on July 20th 1999 and Falun Gong was officially banned in China on July 22nd, 1999.

Falun Gong practitioners took part in the Asian Festival held in Bern, Switzerland. They set up an information booth in Thun Square and demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises on the stage. They raised awareness about the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners both inside and outside China.

On July 20th, 2007, practitioners from Hamburg held a rally at the Chinese Consulate to protest against the eight year persecution of Falun Gong in China. Practitioners called upon the international community to pay attention to the persecution and help to stop it. Practitioners distributed leaflets and to passersby and discussed the persecution with them.

Falun Gong practitioners from Ireland held a Falun Gong 'Information Day' in Dublin to protest against the persecution. Many local people learned the truth of the persecution and signed their names to support the practitioners. A forty year old lady learned the truth. She said that she knew that the CCP is evil so she has no doubt about what she learned today.

Teachers from a government nursery school in Ankara invited Falun Gong practitioners to introduce Falun Gong and teach the Falun Gong exercises to them. After spending the day with practitioners, the general consensus was that the feeling after doing the exercises was very good. Others said that their minds and bodies were relaxed and felt extremely comfortable.

From July 9th - 14th, Falun Gong practitioners toured the cities of western and middle Slovakia to inform the public about the persecution of Falun Gong in China. They gathered signatures on a petition condemning the persecution of Falun Gong addressed to state officials, requesting they open up this issue during bilateral talks with China.

On July 21st, 2007, a few non governmental organisations, including the Epoch Times newspaper, Sound of Hope radio station and “Save our Loved Ones” organisation held activities at Dam Square in Amsterdam to support the twenty-four million brave Chinese people who quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organisations.

From July 18th to the 22nd, Finnish Falun Gong practitioners raised awareness about the persecution of Falun Gong at Kotka Ocean Festival and were invited to take part in the festival parade for the first time. Many onlookers expressed praise for Falun Gong practitioners' peaceful aspect as well as their beautiful costumes and performances.

On July 20th, 2007, in order to protest against the Chinese Communist Party's inhuman persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and appeal to the world’s people to help to end this catastrophe, Falun Gong practitioners from Helsinki gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy. They displayed banners and demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises.

On July 7th and 8th, Falun Gong practitioners from Kramatorsk, Kiev, and Dnepropertrovsk, with local practitioners from the Crimean Peninsula, held activities in Simferopol, the capital of Crimea, Sevastpol and Alushta to raise awareness among local people about Falun Gong and the CCP’s persecution of the practice in China.

This summer the nursery decided to try something new. Two months before the celebration activities they held a meeting with a few parents of foreign nationalities to discuss their plans. They hoped that we could put on a few shows which represent our own cultures. I decided to bring the beauty of Falun Gong to these lovely children and their parents.

Falun Gong practitioners from Belgium gathered at the Chinese Embassy in Brussels to protest against the CCP’s brutal persecution of Falun Gong, which has lasted for over eight years.

On the morning of the July 20th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners in Hungary held activities at the Chinese Embassy to support the twenty four million withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and to protest against the eight long years of persecution suffered by Falun Gong in China. Practitioners demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises in front of the Embassy and talked to passers-by about what was happening. Having learned the truth, people expressed a great deal of sympathy towards the Chinese practitioners who are persecuted by the CCP.

On July 20th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners in Russia held events in many cities, protesting against the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong, which has lasted for eight years, and calling on kind people to show their support for an end to the persecution. In Nizhny Novgorod, children learned how to fold paper lotus flowers as they learned the truth about Falun Gong.

On July 14th, 2007, Austrian Falun Gong practitioners gathered at Vienna’s Heldenplatz Square to mark the eighth year since the Chinese regime banned the practice and the beginning of Falun Gong practitioners' peaceful efforts to end the persecution and to expose the Chinese Communist regime’s atrocities to all the people around the world.

On July 20th, 2007, Dutch Falun Gong practitioners gathered at the Chinese Embassy to protest against the Chinese Communist Party's eight year persecution of Falun Gong. Practitioners set up banners and display boards with pictures and photos reflecting the journey of Falun Gong across the world during the past decade.

On July 7th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners were invited to participate in the 4th Multicultural Festival in Augsburg. The festival's theme was “peace, freedom and respect for beliefs” and it was well attended by local residents and people from neighbouring cities. It was the third time that Falun Gong practitioners have demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises at the festival.

On July 20th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners held a candlelight vigil, mourning Falun Gong practitioners who have been persecuted to death by the CCP since July 20th, 1999, and disclosing the CCP’s crimes. The weather was bad and it rained. On seeing that Falun Gong practitioners were still protesting in such weather, a young man was so moved that he wanted to take a photo.

In order to support the twenty four million people who have withdrawn from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the European Divine Marching Band came to Copenhagen in Denmark, to join a parade held on July 7th and 8th. It took place at the same time as an annual Jazz music festival and the entire city was filled with people.

On July 20th, 2007, Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of Falun Gong will have lasted eight years. In order to reveal the unprecedented cruel persecution of Falun Gong launched by the Chinese Communist Party and to bring the persecution to end as early as possible, on the evening of July 22nd, some Danish Falun Gong practitioners held an activity on the busiest street in the capital city of Copenhagen.

On July 14th, 2007, a “Truthfulness Compassion Forbearance” International Art Exhibition was successfully concluded at the city library in Gothenburg. During the week-long exhibition, the artworks, created by Falun Gong practitioners who are artists, attracted many people’s attention, including artists, politicians, tourists and local people.

On July 21st, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners held a rally and parade in Dublin supporting the twenty four million brave people who have withdrawn from the CCP and calling on all circles of society to together end the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong which has now lasted eight years. Practitioners distributed leaflets and collected petition signatures.

After July 2007 was designated as the month of global withdrawal from the Chinese Communist Party, volunteers at Finland's Centre for Withdrawal from the Chinese Communist Party and some Falun Gong practitioners held activities at the beginning of the month to reveal the brutal persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party.

On July 20th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners from all over Sweden gathered in Kalmar, a small city in south east Sweden where local practitioners have, for several years, let the media and the public know about the persecution in China. The response has been very positive and practitioners have been supported by local newspapers.

To remember the 3066 Falun Gong practitioners who were killed because they refused to give up their faith in the principles of Truth, Compassion and Forbearance, Italian Falun Gong practitioners held peaceful protests in front of the Chinese Embassy in Rome and the Chinese Consulate in Milan on the morning of July 20th.

On May 19th, 2007, practitioners of Falun Gong gathered in the city of Brušperku to let local people know about Falun Gong, which is a peaceful spiritual practice which cultivates mind and body. They also raised awareness about the practice's persecution by the Chinese government, which banned Falun Gong in 1999 largely due to the fact that the then Chinese leader, Jiang Zemin, was jealous of Falun Gong's popularity.

On the 7th and 8th of July 2007, the Global Service Centre for Quitting the CCP and the Danish China Human Rights Internet Organisation held a joint rally and parade at the largest square in Copenhagen, supporting over twenty three million brave Chinese people who quit the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organisations. European member of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China Leif Bork Hansen made a speech.

Luzerne is a famous tourist spot in Switzerland. Many visitors, including more and more tourists from mainland China, are attracted here by its fame. Falun Gong practitioners from Switzerland think that this is a good place to tell Chinese people about the persecution of Falun Gong face to face, distribute the Epoch Times newspaper's editorial “The Nine Commentaries of the Communist Party” and inform people how to quit the CCP. For this reason, Swiss practitioners come here in turns five days a week. When meeting tourists from mainland China, there were many touching stories.

During the Free Democratic (FDP) Conference in Stuttgart, Falun Gong practitioners handed leaflets to the party representatives at the main entrance to the arena, exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution and organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners in China. Some of the representatives have already had a clear understanding of the persecution. On May 10th 2007, Florian Toncar, spokesman for the FDP and member of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid Committee had pushed German MPs to jointly submit a resolution condemning the CCP system of forced labour education.

On July 7th and 8th, 2007, in the busy city centre of Ankara, Falun Gong practitioners distributed leaflets, talked with passersby and collected signatures to raise awareness about the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong in China, including the removal of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. They called on local people to support an end to the persecution.

Buryat Republic is a vast but thinly populated area in Russian Siberia. A villager has a relative who is a Falun Gong practitioner in Irkutsk. One year ago, the villager was lucky enough to learn Falun Gong and started cultivation.

The Danish branch of the Global Service Centre for Quitting the CCP and the Danish China Human Rights Internet Organisation held a joint rally and parade in the Danish capital Copenhagen, supporting over twenty three million brave Chinese people who have quit the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organisations.

Despite unpleasant weather, thousands of people gathered at the Rock for People summer festival in Eastern Bohemia. Falun Gong practitioners were warmly received at the festival. They exhibited several banners informing festival goers about the atrocities their fellow practitioners are subject to in Chinese prisons and labour camps.

The first time the Divine Marching Band made an appearance in Denmark was noteworthy for the crowd of people that followed the band as it made its way through town. Musicians playing on street corners stopped and listened while shoppers carefully read the leaflets practitioners distributed.

On a sunny Sunday, July 7th, several Falun Gong practitioners raised awareness about the inhuman persecution of their counterparts in China during the Summer Fest against Drugs where an exhibition football match with famous Czech NHL hockey star Jaromir Jagr took place. Probably all the visitors received information from practitioners about the cruel persecution in China.

The fifth Frankfurt Culture Festival was held in downtown Frankfurt. There were over sixty groups from different countries in their tribal costumes together with their ornate floats. The Falun Gong group has taken part in this activity since the first year of the parade. This year, over 180 Falun Gong practitioners paraded through the streets.

On June 21st, 2007, Turkish Falun Gong practitioners were invited to hold an introduction forum at the National Education Bureau of Mersin Municipality. More than twenty teacher representatives from different types of school took part. When the introduction finished, participants didn’t want to leave until very late.

A performer in the Celestial Band works for a company in Frankfurt. When her colleagues saw her performing music in the parade, they greeted her merrily. Ever since the parade at the culture festival some time ago, in which Falun Gong took part, their attitude toward Falun Gong has changed. They were greatly impressed by the European Celestial Band.

On July 5th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners from Stockholm and the Service Centre for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rallied at the Chinese Embassy to voice their support for the lawsuit brought by Hong Kong practitioners against China's former President Jiang Zemin, who is the leading culprit in the persecution of Falun Gong.

On July 6th, 2007, some Falun Gong practitioners from Copenhagen, regardless of the rain, went to the Chinese Embassy in Denmark to protest against the Wuhan 610-Office’s atrocity of abducting Wuhan Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Weijie and his wife Chen Man, and called on the Chinese authorities to release them immediately.

On July 3rd 2007, the branch of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) in Europe held a press conference in London, announcing the launch of the Human Right Torch Relay. The purpose of the relay is to expose the brutality and crimes of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and call upon the international community to prevent the Olympic Games, which is the symbol of peace, from becoming a Bloody Harvest Games.

On Saturday, June 16th, 2007, Austrian Falun Gong practitioners organised an information day in Vienna. For about six months, this information day has been organised once a month at the U4 Metro Station Kettenbrueckengasse. This is the location where Vienna’s unofficial Chinatown is located. In addition, this time practitioners also demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises.

The nine meter long poster that we laid on the ground attracted many people. It tells the history of the crimes committed by the CCP from the time of the student massacre in 1989 [on Tiananmen Square] to the most recent discoveries, the organ theft on thousands of living Falun Gong practitioners and their subsequent murder.

On Ukraine Anti-Torture Day, Falun Gong practitioners in Kiev held an event on Independent Square in the city centre disclosing the CCP's eight year cruel persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. They re-enacted some of the types of torture Falun Gong practitioners experience in forced labour camps in China.

It was a beautiful sunny day in Athens for the celebration of World Falun Dafa Day on May 13th, 2007. Practitioners travelled to Thiseio to celebrate the benefits of Falun Gong and to allow people to see the Falun Gong exercises. Passersby on their afternoon stroll through the historic ruins and cafes stopped and admired the exercise demonstration.

Lausanne is a renowned tourist site in Switzerland. There are always many tourists visiting its famous attractions, including more and more tourists from Mainland China. It is an excellent place for Falun Gong practitioners in Switzerland to talk to Chinese people face-to-face, distribute the “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party,” encourage withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party and let the precious Chinese people know the truth.

Many hold hope for an improvement in China's human rights situation with the promise of the Olympic Games. However, a black list has been distributed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), in which forty-three different categories of undesirable people that should not be allowed to come to China for the Olympics are listed, among them Falun Gong practitioners.

With the theme “The Path of Falun Gong” we organised a photo exhibition in two pavilions. There were photos depicting the dissemination of Falun Gong, photos about the persecution that began in July of 1999, as well as photos about the peaceful protests that call for an end to the torture and murder of Falun Gong practitioners in China.

Regensburg is an ancient city in south Germany with a history of 2,000 years. The Citizen Festival is held in this city every two years and attracts thousands of tourists from all the corners of the world. The Citizens’ Festival 2007 was held on 23rd and 24th of June. German Falun Gong practitioners took part in the festival again and they found the difference between this year and last year was that tourists came up to seek the truth rather than waiting to be approached.

In Inverness, known as the capital of the Scottish highlands, on Sunday June 23rd, 2007, UK practitioners held various activities at a street market. At last year’s successful event, the organiser told practitioners, “You created a wonderful environment with our peaceful practice perhaps you’d like to come along next year”.