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  • Turkey: Falun Gong Practitioners Hold a Mini Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference

    On October 21st, Turkish Falun Gong practitioners held a mini cultivation experience sharing conference. Thirty plus practitioners from Andaka (the capital) and Istanbul arrived at Moexun shi to attend the conference. Practitioners from Sweden and Denmark were also in attendance, and a local reporter also covered the story and filmed the event.
  • Finland: Exposing the Persecution of Falun Gong During the European Union Meeting

    On October 20th, leaders from the 25 member countries of the European Union held an informal meeting in Lahti. In the evening, Russian President Putin joined the other leaders. Taking this opportunity, some Helsinki practitioners came to the city to expose the persecution of Falun Gong and the CCP's atrocities of organ harvesting to the general public.
  • United Kingdom: Telling Members of the Scottish National Party about the Persecution of Falun Gong

    On October 13th and 14th, 2006, Scottish Falun Gong practitioners came to Purse during an SNP congress to expose the Chinese Communist Party's trade in organs harvested from living Falun Gong practitioners. Practitioners hung up banners reading "Stop organ harvesting in Chinese concentration camps", and distributed leaflets beside the main entrance to the congress hall. Many congress participants said they learnt about the issue from BBC news a few weeks ago.
  • Letter to French President Jacques Chirac from the French Falun Dafa Association

    "For seven years now, over 3.000 practitioners of Falun Gong have been identified as being tortured to death by the notorious “610 office” which commits crime with impunity. Thousands are still detained in psychiatric hospitals where they are tortured, hundred of thousands are still in forced labour camps where they are used as free labour while being tortured. Innumerable practitioners, men, women and children, are in miserable conditions avoiding the persecution. The very last revelation is even more horrifying and unbearable: it is the massive traffic of organs taken from living Falun Gong practitioners."
  • United Kingdom: Exposing the Persecution in Glasgow University

    Falun Gong practitioners visit Amnesty International student society every year. At the beginning of October 2006, Falun Gong practitioners held a seminar, at which they gave a presentation to the students regarding an independent investigation report of live organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
  • Germany: Introducing Falun Dafa and Exposing the Persecution to the People of Münster

    On Saturday October 21st, much interest was shown in what goes on in China’s slave labour camps, concentration camps and hospitals, along the long pedestrian zone in Münster. Passersby watched the torture re-enactments and accepted our flyers. We were so busy that the day passed quickly. Many people thanked us for the information we gave them.
  • Russia: Special Musical Performance at Nishne Novgorod City Music College

    One special thing about the State Language University Choir is that they sing in many languages. Musical works by many composers were played, but the focus of this concert was a Chinese song entitled Coming for You, which was composed by a Falun Gong practitioner. One member of the choir is a Falun Gong practitioner and all the other members of the choir know about Falun Gong and the ruthless persecution of the practice in China.
  • Holland: After Learning the Truth, People in Heerlen Condemn the CCP's Atrocities

    On October 21st, 2006, in Heerlen in Holland, Falun Gong practitioners held a demonstration disclosing the CCP's trade in organs harvested from live Falun Gong practitioners. They set up a picture exhibition exposing how the CCP persecutes Falun Gong practitioners by torturing them. One after another, shoppers and passersby signed practitioners' petition calling on the Dutch government to help stop the persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP.
  • UK Human Rights Report 2006 Critical of Regime in China

    “The Chinese authorities continue to violate a range of basic human rights. The use of the death penalty remains extensive and non-transparent; torture is widespread; there is a lack of judicial independence; obstacles to fair trials include administrative detention and re-education through labour (RTL); prison conditions are poor and prisoners are treated badly; human rights defenders, worshippers and Falun Gong adherents face harassment and detention ... "
  • Denmark: A Human Rights Organisation Expresses Concern about Organ Harvesting in China's Labour Camps

    On September 8th, 2006, David Matas, the prestigious Canadian lawyer who co-authored the Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China arrived in Denmark for a visit. A press conference was hosted in the parliament building to expose organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners in China.
  • Slovakia: Series of Activities against the Persecution of Falun Gong in China

    From October 19th until the end of the week, in a few cities in Eastern Slovakia there took place a series of activities to support the human rights of people who are persecuted in China because they practise Falun Gong. During these few days more then six hundred signatures were collected and in Presov some young children wanted to help distribute flyers.
  • Sweden: Introducing Falun Gong and Informing People about the Persecution at a Health Expo

    Falun Gong practitioners were invited to take part in “Wellbeing Day” held by the Hallunda community in Stockholm. People crowded the booth. Practitioners demonstrating the exercises and explained to people outside the hall that Falun Gong is a genuine path of self-cultivation and benevolence. The person in charge of the exposition appreciated our presence.
  • Switzerland: A Voice for Justice in Zurich

    An information day like this one is held on Paradepaltz in Zurich at least once a month. Each time, Falun Gong practitioners demonstrate the five sets of exercises to beautiful and peaceful music, attracting many passers-by. One after another they stop and enjoy the demonstration and want to know why people are practising the exercises here.
  • Spain: Interview with Practitioners on Primetime National TV

    The presenter said that before the former head of the Chinese Communist Party Jiang Zemin initiated the nationwide persecution campaign in July 1999, Falun Gong practitioners had been supported and acclaimed by various government organisations. Thousands of Falun Gong practitioners have been persecuted to death. Mr Carlos, a practitioner, said that this persecution is one of the largest genocidal campaigns in history.
  • Finland: Exposing the CCP's Crimes to the Finnish People and Government

    The human rights dialogue between the EU and China will take place in Beijing soon. On October 14th, 2006, practitioners in Finland gathered again at Helsinki train station in order to expose the truth about the cruel persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist regime, especially the atrocity of illegal organ harvesting from living practitioners.