On 10 July 2016, locals gave a big welcome to Falun Dafa at the Pacific Pines Winterfest on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. The festival is a major community event in the Gold Coast hinterland, attracting up to thousands of locals from both near and afar. Falun Dafa has attended for the past four …
Six U.S. Congress Members from the State of Washington wrote to Chinese President Xi Jinping on June 20, calling for the release of imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners whose family members are residents of Washington State. The bi-partisan letter was drafted by Congressman Dave Reichert (R), and co-signed by two Republican and three Democratic representatives. The …
Australians are paying close attention to the human rights violations taking place in China, the largest of its Asian neighbours. After the SBS World News aired the documentary Human Harvest: China’s Organ Trafficking on its Dateline program in April 2015, the website www.news.com.au published an in-depth report on forced organ harvesting. Titled “‘A bloody harvest’: …
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The documentary Hard To Believe, which was screened at the Vero Beach Wine & Film Festival in Vero Beach, Florida on June 10, 2016, had a profound impact on the packed house at Vero Beach Museum of Art. The event was standing room only. Immediately after the screening, two local Falun Gong practitioners answered questions …
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Recently, at the age of 63, I began to practice Falun Gong, which turned out to be a life changing experience. I was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2013 and had surgery. I relapsed three years later. After six rounds of chemotherapy and radiation, there was not much improvement. I was hoarse, could barely talk, …
The Falun Gong group participated in America’s National Independence Day Parade in Washington DC on July 4, 2016 for the 14th consecutive year. Hundreds of thousands of spectators lined Constitution Avenue to watch the parade of over 100 groups from 50 states representing different geographical, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds. Director of the Falun …
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Three independent investigators from Canada and the United States testified at a hearing on the state-sanctioned organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience in China, held by the European Parliament on June 29, 2016. Canadian human right lawyer David Matas, Canadian former diplomat David Kilgour, and American reporter Ethan Gutmann presented the results from the latest …
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Falun Gong practitioners in Saint Petersburg, Russia set up an information booth on the Field of Mars on June 22-25, 2016. They introduced Falun Gong, exposed the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) organ harvesting from living practitioners, and collected signatures calling for an end to the persecution. Many people carefully read the display boards …
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Local Falun Gong practitioners arranged a series of events in Honolulu’s Chinatown on June 18 and 19. The goal was to raise awareness about the persecution of Falun Gong in China, that has now gone on for 17 years. They also talked to people about US Congressional House Resolution 343. The resolution was …
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A torture re-enactment in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, on World Anti-Torture Day caught people’s attention. Falun Gong practitioners held activities on Aotea Square on June 26, 2016, appealing to the public to help end the 17-year-long persecution of Falun Gong in China. The “anti-torture demonstration” was made up of two distinct parts. One part featured …
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