“After over 20 months of detention, both of my sisters were each sentenced to a prison term of seven years. This is wrong because they are innocent and should be free,” said Ms. Wei Zaiqun at a March 1 gathering in front of the Chinese Embassy at Copenhagen, Denmark.

The annual life quality and healthcare expo was held in Gothenburg, Sweden on February 17 and 18, 2017. Local Falun Gong practitioners were invited to participate.

During the recent Diversity Week at Birmingham Metropolitan College between February 13 and 17, many students and faculty members were excited to learn about the ancient meditation system of Falun Dafa from China.

Falun Gong practitioners in Sweden held Information Day activities in the downtown area, at the public library, and in local communities and schools around Stockholm during the Chinese New Year.

The German language learning section of the Deutsche Welle (DW) website recently featured a Falun Gong practitioner from China who has learned German and spoke about what his life was like before relocating to Germany.

Around the time of Chinese New Year, Falun Gong practitioners around the world set up information desks and posters at tourist destinations to raise the awareness of the ongoing persecution of the spiritual discipline in China.

Falun Gong practitioners held an information day in Duesseldorf on February 4, 2017, to introduce Falun Gong and expose the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) brutal persecution of the practice.

For over a decade, Falun Gong practitioners have set up posters near the Eiffel Tower to raise awareness of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of the spiritual practice.

Falun Gong practitioners held an event in Hötorget, a busy downtown area in Stockholm, Sweden on January 28 to spread the graceful effects of Falun Gong and raise public awareness of the CCP's persecution.

Former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific David Kilgour and human rights attorney David Matas hosted a series of events on January 11-15, 2017 in Latvia’s capital, Riga.

Falun Gong practitioners raised awareness about the persecution of the practice in China at the Wielka Orkiestra Świątecznej Pomocy (the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity) in Lodz on January 14 and 15, 2017.

On the eve of Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Switzerland, Falun Gong practitioners gathered on Waisenhausplatz in the capital city of Bern on January 14, 2017 to call for an end to the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution.

Annual Winter Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conferences were held in cities throughout Russia from January 1 to January 6, 2017, including St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk, Abakan, Tomsk, Cheremkhovo, Angarsk, Ulan-Ude and others.

Braving the cold and snow, Falun Gong practitioners in Bulgaria's capital of Sofia talked to the public at the central metro station near Sofia University to inform them of the persecution of Falun Gong in China.

The annual German Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference was held on January 8, 2017 in Kassel.