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  • Ruhr News (Germany) Reports on CCP Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Gong Practitioners

    "A large ‘medical operation’ took place on Kortumstraße Street on Monday at noon: a man wore a surgeon's gown and mask and a mannequin 'patient' lay on the surgical table in front of him whose body had been opened, and the ‘doctor’ was taking out the patient’s organs which were still bleeding. The Falun Gong practitioners in Bochum protested the atrocity of harvesting the organs from living people, which is happening in China, through this shocking scene on Falun Dafa Information Day."
  • Germany: Informing the Public about the Persecution of Falun Gong in China

    We were positioned in the major shopping district of Stuttgart and thousands of passersby were able to see our display. We got the impression that people lingered longer than usual to get more information. People came from all age groups and backgrounds came to ask questions, receive fliers and support us by signing our petition.
  • A Turkish Falun Gong Practitioner in London Exposes the CCP Atrocities

    On July 20th, AVRUPA, the best-selling newspaper in Turkey published an article with the title: A Turkish Falun Gong practitioner exposes the CCP atrocities in London. The article explains that Falun Dafa (also called Falun Gong) is an ancient way of cultivation improving both one’s mind and body based on the principle of Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance. The practice of Falun Gong is simple, powerful, gentle and easy to learn.
  • England: The People of Leeds Stop to Find Out About the Persecution

    On October 14th, Falun Gong practitioners from various places in the north of England gathered at Dortmund Square in Leeds to spend the day introducing Falun Gong to local people and informing them about the persecution of practitioners taking place in China. Falun Gong practitioners practised the exercises while others collected signatures, handed out leaflets and told people about the brutal nature of the persecution.
  • Turkey: Stories of Western Practitioners in Mersin

    In the last two years, many locals in Mersin City have begun to practise Falun Gong. They try to live their lives by the principles of “Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance.” Many of the practitioners have undergone great physical and mental changes since beginning their cultivation.
  • Germany: The world’s people awaken

    On October 7th, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners from Leipzig, Berlin, and Dresden held an Information Day in Railway Square, the busiest place in Leipzig. It had the theme, “Stop the Persecution, Stop Organ Harvesting”. Many shoppers stopped in their tracks to read the information boards and the leaflets being handed out.
  • Blick (Switzerland): Horrible organ trade

    ZÜRICH – A flyer is making the rounds in the country. Whoever accepts this flyer reads about organ harvesting in China. This is an accusation that was confirmed by international experts. One first reads in this flyer, found on Switzerland’s trains, the story of Wang Yuzhi. This forty five year old lady was imprisoned in a Chinese labour camp from 2000 to 2002. The Falun Gong member was force fed after going on a hunger strike. She suffered from being force fed through an oversized tube that was forced through the nose to the stomach. She was fed with her feces and urine.
  • Finland: Supporting the Fourteen Million Withdrawals from the CCP

    Finnish Falun Gong practitioners and volunteers from the Service Centre for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as well as The Epoch Times newspaper held activities in front of the Central Train Station in Helsinki to support the fourteen million withdrawals from the CCP and its affiliated organisations and to expose the persecution of Falun Gong in China.
  • Coburger Tagesblatt Daily Paper (Germany): Meditation to combat crime in China

    COBURG. The passers-by in the Spitalgasse saw yesterday an unusual picture - close to a dozen members of the dangerously suppressed Falun Gong movement in China sending righteous thoughts towards China. They wanted to call attention to the fact that the Peoples Republic sells “human body organs for profit,” said the co-organiser Yuan Zhang.
  • Germany: The Path of Falun Dafa at the Carnival of the Cultures in Hamburg

  • Turkey: Introducing Falun Gong at the State Father Commemoration in Mersin

    Falun Gong practitioners were invited to introduce Falun Dafa before the opening of the State Father Commemoration. The city council officials said, "Falun Dafa is based on Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance, this is just what we should spread and follow, so today we are inviting Falun Gong cultivators to introduce this beneficial practice.
  • The Standard (Austria): UNO-Consultant Nowak investigates the organ trade

    Geneva: Against China’s wishes, the United Nations Organization’s (“UNO”) Human Rights Counsel in Geneva is looking into the alleged organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners. The UNO rapporteur for torture, the Austrian Manfred Nowak, will investigate the grave accusations. “The responses by the Chinese authorities to our inquiries are disappointing,” said the Canadian Human Rights lawyer David Mata on Tuesday in Geneva. “They insult us instead of disproving the accusations.”
  • Germany: People in Stuttgart Appalled by the Brutal Persecution of Falun Gong in China

    Falun Gong practitioners in Germany went to Stuttgart’s main shopping street to hold an exhibition to expose the persecution of Falun Gong. Many people expressed their indignation when they learned about the brutal nature of the persecution and asked how they could help to change the situation. Many signed a petition condemning the persecution.
  • UK Independence Party and Liberal Democrat Groups’ Response to “Organ Harvesting” in China

    The UK Independence Party wrote to the European Friends of Falun Gong to express their concern “about the practice of ‘organ harvesting’ from prisoners of conscience in China. MEP Graham said he and “his UKIP MEP colleagues all abhor the disgraceful practices and will do all they can to try and prevent it. “ He continues to say that they will give their support to “try and bring these horrific practices to an end.”
  • Turkey: Practitioners in Ankara Invited to Introduce Falun Gong

    Practitioners in Ankara were invited by the Artists Association to host a Falun Gong introductory forum on September 30th, 2006. The participants were from various backgrounds, including artists, writers, teachers, anchors of radio stations, businessmen, government officials, retirees and homemakers. Falun Gong exercise instruction was offered to the participants