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  • Germany: Falun Gong Practitioners at Dresden City Festival

    On August 20th and 21st, 2005, Falun Gong practitioners were again invited to participate in the Dresden City Festival. During the two days, Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the five Falun Gong exercises; some distributed leaflets to passers-by; and others gave away hand-made paper Lotus Flowers. Lots of people stopped to watch and chat.
  • Germany: First Falun Gong Anti-Torture Exhibition Held in Frankfurt

    “It is time to give people a wake-up call!” This a remark a visitor wrote in the guest-book during Frankfurt's first outdoor anti-torture exhibition, held in Römerberg Square. The author called the attention-grabbing exhibition run by the Frankfurt-based Falun Gong group a very meaningful action and encouraged them to publicise the persecution in China.
  • Finland: Falun Gong Practitioners Invited to Attend an Exhibition in Tornio

    Practitioners in Finland took part in an exhibition in Tornio, a city in the north of Finland on the border with Sweden. There were around 170 exhibitors, and Falun Gong was invited to be one of them. At our booth people could learn that Falun Gong is about the ongoing persecution in China and we had a petition where people could sign their names.
  • United Kingdom: Invitation to Introduce “Rescue the Falun Gong Orphans” In a Summer Camp in Huddersfield

    After watching the video “Rescue Falun Gong Orphans”, youngsters in the summer camp couldn’t help crying. Deeply moved, the principal said: “I cry every time I see the video, I am going to copy your petition and give them to every pupil and his or her parents, and ask them to help rescue these innocent children together.”
  • Russia: Introducing Falun Dafa and Exposing the Persecution in Pskov City

    A woman said, “I dreamt that I wore a Lotus Flower on my head last night. Today I finally know the Lotus Flower I dreamt of is here.” The policeman who was on duty had an alert and indifferent expression when the activity started, but at the end, he smiled to us and said that he understood that Falun Gong was a very good cultivation practice.
  • Sweden: Paper Lotus Flowers Convey the Message of the Suffering of Falun Gong Practitioners' Children

    It was the start of the Swedish Malmo Festival on August 21st 2005. Many tourists went to the National Park to watch different activities. On the lawn of the northeastern part of the park, Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the practice's exercises, waist-drumming performances, dancing, exhibitions and folded paper Lotus Flowers.
  • Russia: An Elderly Russian Exclaims "How Similar!"

    Practitioners from Moscow went to the city centre, to let people know about the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong, calling for the citizens of Moscow to help stop this inhumane persecution. After learning about the situation, people signed the anti-persecution petitions.
  • United Kingdom: Rescuing the Orphans on London's Trafalgar Square

    The usual influx of tourists and Londoners to Trafalgar Square was greeted with something special on bank holiday Monday. Falun Gong practitioners were showcasing traditional Chinese dancing, music and culture as they appealed for children suffering in China. The focus of the event in Trafalgar Square was part of a global effort to raise awareness of the plight of these children, who have not only lost their parents and other loved ones, but often go without many basic needs.
  • Finland: Parliament’s Human Rights Commission Appeals to the People to Pay Attention to Human Rights in China

    A parade supporting 3.6 million people who withdrew their membership from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was held in Helsinki. Some local Falun Gong practitioners chose to take part in and support these activities due to the controlling role that the Chinese Communist Party has taken in the six-year genocide against Falun Gong practitioners.
  • German Practitioners Appeal to Rescue Jiang Renzheng: Little Benny Wants His Dad Back

    In March this year, Benny and his brother left Germany with their parents for his father’s hometown, Benxi City in Liaoning Province. Their bad luck followed hard at heel ever since. On April 8th when Benny and his brother were playing at their grandparents’ house in Shenyang, seven people suddenly came to take his father away. When Benny saw his Dad taken away, he ran after them to the front door. He was frightened and cried out.
  • Switzerland: People Have a Knowing Side

    While collecting signatures to rescue fellow practitioners persecuted in China, we usually have some interesting encounters. This article contains a few examples. Experiencing the things described above made practitioners who have held signature collection activities further understand the lesson Master Li has taught us that society's people have a knowing side.
  • Sweden: Falun Gong Practitioners Illuminate the Culture Festival of Malmo City with their Brilliant Display

    Malmo began this year's culture festival on August 20th, 2005. This is the first time that Falun Gong practitioners have joined the parade team as waist-drummers, fan dancers, lotus flower dancers and so on. Passersby happily accepted leaflets.
  • Finland: Children Show their Compassionate Side

    On August 12th, 2005, a group of European practitioners gathered in a park in central Helsinki to introduce Falun Gong to tourists from various countries, and expose the persecution taking place in China with a torture-exhibition. In the crowd, our reporter took some pictures of children looking attentively at the information posters.
  • Holland: Exposing the Truth about the Persecution of Falun Gong to People in Deventer City

    When a crowd came over to watch a demonstration of the Falun Gong exercises, our practitioner said, “In China, people are persecuted because they practise Falun Gong. Tens of thousands of people are sent to prison and more than two thousand people have been persecuted to death. We came here today to let the public know the truth. We hope to have your support”
  • Germany: Anti-Torture Exhibition in Frankfurt

    On August 13th, 2005, tourists from all over the world were stunned by the anti-torture exhibition on Frankfurt’s Roman Square exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Since the CCP’s crackdown of Falun Gong began, 2799 Falun Gong practitioners have been verified as having been persecuted to death.