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FDIC: Worldwide Activities Mark April 25th, Call for End to Half-decade of Persecution
2004-04-25
Practitioners of Falun Gong will mark April 25 this Sunday with activities around the world, renewing the call for Beijing to end a five-year campaign of suppression that legal experts have come to term genocide. -
UK: Symbolic Trial of Jiang Held Outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London
2004-04-25
On April the 24th 2004, UK Falun Gong practitioners held a Symbolic Public Trial of Jiang in front of the Royal Courts of Justice in London. The purpose was to demonstrate the reality of bringing Jiang to justice through legal means, to add weight to the lawsuits already in process around the world and to gain momentum in the preparations of a lawsuit in the UK. -
Finland: Telling People the Facts about the April 25th Incident
2004-04-25
Falun Gong practitioners held activities in the central Helsinki for the 5th anniversary of the April 25th incident. Finnish practitioners made a special flyer about the incident. People in Helsinki have become more clear about the evil and brutal nature of Jiang Zemin’s campaign against innocent Falun Gong practitioners, and they condemn the persecutors. -
UK: Falun Gong Practitioners Perform at the Fact Art Centre in Liverpool
2004-04-25
On April the 17th 2004, the Fact Art Centre in Liverpool organised a show with the theme “A little peace in this changing world”. Falun Gong practitioners were invited to join the show and used this opportunity to tell the audience about Falun Gong and the persecution in China. -
Swedish Daily: “People Who are Locked up in Labour Camps in China are Suffering”
2004-04-25
On April 16th 2004, the Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs visited Sweden. An article written by two Swedish citizens was published in the “Swedish Daily” in which the current conditions and forced illegal enslavement of people in labour camps in China is exposed. -
EFGIC: Legal Action in UK against Chinese Officials for Torture of Falun Gong Practitioners in China, Genocide and Crimes against Humanity
2004-04-24
LONDON (EFGIC) – Falun Gong practitioners in the UK are initiating a criminal action against Jiang Zemin, former president of China, for his personal responsibility, from 1999 onwards, in the persecution of the 100 million adherents of the ancient Chinese system of moral discipline, Falun Gong, which is centred on Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. The action concerns the torture of a male UK resident, who has now been granted asylum here. -
Reply From German MP: "We Will Urge China to Honour Human Rights after the 60th Session of UNHRC Meeting"
2004-04-24A German MP, Mr. Hermann Groehe, who is also the president of the Christian Democratic Party’s branch of the Government’s Human Rights Association, wrote a letter in reply to German Falun Gong practitioners on the 6th of April, stating that he agreed with the EU’s decision of supporting the U.S resolution on condemning China for its human rights performance. -
Press Release: Dictator Jiang Zemin on Trial in London
2004-04-24On Saturday 24th April, a symbolic trial of Jiang Zemin will be held outside the Royal Courts of Justice in The Strand and on Sunday 25th at the Chinese Embassy in Portland Place, London. The 25th of April has a special significance, as it is the 5th Anniversary of the original peaceful appeal to the Chinese Government in 1999 by Falun Gong practitioners. This symbolic trial exposes the crimes committed by Jiang, and demonstrates the reality of using legal means to bring him to justice. -
Austria: Clarifying the Truth at a Falun Dafa Information Day in Salzburg
2004-04-24
As Spring arrives, many tourists are coming to Salzburg, the home town of Mozart. This provides a good opportunity to clarify the truth to people from all over the world. Although the weather was cold and windy, many people from Austria, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic and the United Kingdom learned about the Jiang regime's cruel persecution of Falun Gong. -
Swedish Media Report: Chinese Foreign Minister Defends the Death Penalty
2004-04-24On April 16th, 2004, an article was published by a Swedish Daily newspaper regarding the meeting between the Chinese and Swedish Foreign Ministers. It states that at the meeting between the Chinese foreign Minister Mr. Zhaoxing Li and the Swedish foreign Minister Mrs Laila Freivalds in Stockholm, they failed to reach unanimity on the issue of the death penalty. -
Human Rights Are Not Negotiable
2004-04-24Due to the pressure from the Chinese Consulate in Toronto, the Toronto city council recently rejected a motion to declare May 13 as Falun Dafa Day. According to a report in the Toronto Star, Councilor Michael Walker said after the vote: "In this case, human rights was susceptible to lobbying by the government of China, which said we might hurt our economic activities with the country of China. I don't think human rights are negotiable." -
EFGIC: Chinese Official Served With Lawsuit While Visiting United States
2004-04-24LONDON (EFGIC) – Bo Xilai, the Minister of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China, was served with a lawsuit today during his visit to the United States. The complaint, brought by Li Weixun and others, alleges such serious human rights abuses as torture, genocide and other crimes against humanity carried out while persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in China. -
"Zhuan Falun" Published in Albanian
2004-04-23Since its publication in 1995, Zhuan Falun has since been translated into more than twenty European languages, with several other translations forthcoming. -
French National Assembly Member Alain Marleix Calls for Investigation into the Paris Incident
2004-04-23From the 24th to the 28th of January, 2004, during the time of the China-France cultural parade and Hu Jintao's visit to France, several Falun Gong practitioners were arbitrarily arrested and mistreated in Paris because of pressure from the Chinese regime. Falun Gong practitioners wrote to National Assembly Members, pointing out the unfair treatment Falun Gong practitioners received in Paris at the end of January. -
EFGIC: Deaths of 25 Falun Gong Practitioners Verified in March
2004-04-22
LONDON (EFGIC) – The deaths of 25 more Falun Gong practitioners in China as a result of state-run persecution were verified in March, according to reliable sources. One of those killed in March was Daqing City-resident Mr. Li Yuanguang, 34. He died weighing less than one hundred pounds after prolonged torture, leaving behind his wife and a family bankrupted by police extortions.
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