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  • Germany: Arte TV Provides Coverage of "Human Rights Torch Relay" Activity in Berlin

    German's Arte TV provided news coverage on August 18th, 2007 about the activities of the "Human Rights Torch Relay" in Berlin. The TV channel also interviewed Ms. Dai Zhizhen, an Australian Falun Gong practitioner, in front of the Chinese Embassy in Berlin where Falun Gong practitioners held the activities. Ms. Dai's husband was persecuted to death in China by the Chinese communist regime for practicing Falun Gong.
  • Switzerland: The Mayor of Geneva Takes Over the Human Rights Relay Torch in Molard Square

    The ceremony to pass on the Human Rights Torch was held in Molard Square. Geneva is the ninth stop of the Human Rights Torch Relay. Today’s host was Dr. Charles Grace, the Vice President of the European chapter of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) and the Secretary of an international multi-religious organisation.
  • Denmark: We can’t allow the persecution to go on any longer”

    Falun Gong practitioners from Copenhagen went to the new square in the city centre to raise awareness about Falun Gong and the Chinese Communist Party's eight years of evil persecution of the practice. They displayed pictures depicting Falun Gong's growing popularity around the world and how practitioners are being tortured in China.
  • SUOMEN KUVALEHTI (Finnish Magazine) Reports on the Activities of Falun Gong Practitioners

    "She said she has never protest before, until seven years ago when she started to know Falun Gong ... After coming to Helsinki, she came out to protest more often, every week at the railway station and also the Chinese Embassy. Falun Gong does not regard themselves as active members, but as long as the persecution does not stop, they will not stop protesting".
  • Vice President of the European Parliament Speaks at a Bangkok Conference

    "I met two men at a secret site in Beijing ... [one] man I met was Cao Dong, who was imprisoned and tortured for four years because of practising Falun Gong. Mr. Cao told me that one day his friend disappeared and when he showed up again, he was a dead body with a big cut. Apparently, his organs had been taken".
  • Sweden: Raising Awareness about Falun Gong in the Small Town of Gråbo

    Falun Gong practitioners from Lerum and Gothenburg held an activity on the central square in the small town of Gråbo in the southwest of Sweden on Saturday September 1st, to introduce Falun Gong to local people. Practitioners demonstrated Falun Gong's five exercises and distributed information about the brutal persecution of Falun Gong.
  • Falun Gong is Becoming Popular in Belgium

    In July 2007, the “Wonderful Life,” a best-selling magazine in Belgium, carried a article entitled “Banned in China, but Falun Gong is Popular in Belgium,” which employed a contrasting approach to report about Falun Gong’s popularity in Belgium and the persecution of the practice perpetrated by the Chinese Communist regime in China.
  • Finland: Raising Awareness about the Persecution of Falun Gong with an 'Anti-Torture Exhibition' in Helsinki

    On September 8th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners from Helsinki gathered beside the railway station to hold an anti-torture exhibition, exposing the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong and the atrocity of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners.
  • Ukraine: Raising Awareness about Falun Gong During a Town Festival

    The town of Krasniy Liman celebrated the 340th anniversary of its establishment. Local residents gathered in a downtown park where groups offered various cultural and artistic festivities. Ukrainian Falun Gong practitioners made use of the opportunity and exposed to festival goers the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese communist regime
  • Russia: Paper Lotus Flowers Raise Awareness about Falun Gong

    On the 1st and 2nd of September 2007, Falun Gong practitioners in Russia held two consecutive days of Folding Paper Lotus Flowers to Convey the Truth in the Square at Lenexpo Exhibition Centre, the largest of its kind in St. Petersburg. The place was packed with people and practitioners could hardly cope with the number of onlookers.
  • Finland: 'Anti-Torture Exhibition' Depicts Hidden Brutality of the Chinese Communist Party

    On September 8th, 2007, Finnish Falun Gong practitioners gathered in Helsinki city centre to conduct a reenactment of torture methods used to persecute Falun Gong practitioners in Chinese labour camps and prisons. They also exposed the atrocity of organ harvesting from living victims, appealing to local people for support to bring the persecution to an end.
  • United Kingdom: Showing the Beauty of Falun Dafa in Truro Carnival

    Practitioners from Cornwall in England, supported by practitioners from London and Brighton, took part in Truro carnival for the first time on 8th September 2007. The Falun Dafa float, decorated with beautiful pink lotus flowers, Falun symbols and heavenly clouds, carried practitioners demonstrating the peaceful Falun Gong exercises.
  • Radio France International: CCP Continues Crackdown on Press Freedom Ahead of Olympic Games

    On the 8th of September 2007, Radio France International reported that Human Rights Observer, an organisation headquartered in the US, published a report condemning the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for not making good its promise to the International Olympics Committee (IOC) on granting press freedom to the greatest extent possible.
  • United Kingdom: Practitioners Raise Awareness about Falun Gong During the Conference Weekend

    On the weekend of August 25th, the "UK Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference 2007” was held. The day before the conference, many Falun Gong practitioners living outside London went to one of the capital's parks to demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises and raise awareness about the persecution. Many people were attracted by the peaceful exercise music.
  • Italy: Essuno Tocchi Caino: Annual Report Discloses the CCP's Persecution of Falun Gong

    The Italian NGO Nessuno Tocchi Caino (Hands off Cain) pointed out in its report of investigation into the frequency of world death penalties published on August 30th 2007: Dictatorship destroys its enemies by using the death penalty. The report gave coverage to the persecution of religions and groups of spiritual movement, such as the persecution of Falun Gong happening in China, the CCP organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners, and the CCP persecution of Buddhists, Christians and Catholics.