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On February 18, 2008, the “Human Rights Torch Relay” initiated by the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) arrived in Israel, and a torch relay ceremony was held in downtown Tel Aviv.
US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher pointed out that while the Chinese Communist Party persecutes peaceful Falun Gong practitioners, the United States should not participate in an Olympics hosted by such a criminal government.
On the morning of October 10, 2007, before the Europe-China human rights dialogue and the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Seventeenth Conference, the European Parliament held a press conference on China’s human rights and freedom of belief.
On September 28, dozens of human rights and religious groups rallied outside the United Nations Headquarters urging world leaders attending the 62nd Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, and all people of conscience, to take joint action to end the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong and other religious groups.
More than 26 million people have quit the Chinese Communist Party, the Communist Youth League and the Young Pioneers. The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party is attracting an ever-increasing readership and is having a huge impact. More than 80,000 copies of the Nine Commentaries were distributed in one city in Shandong Province alone.
The 65th Annual International Council of Psychologists Conference was held at the Westgate Hotel in San Diego from August 11 to 14, 2007. Psychologists from around the world shared their results probing the relationship between mental health and environment. The scope of research is to promote multi-cultural relations and peace between ethnic groups, as well as hope and health.
Global Human Rights Torch Relay will travel through 100 cities around the world. Its purpose is to call on the international community to focus on brutal violations of human rights and the Olympics spirit by the Chinese Communist regime, in order to stop such crimes and not let the 2008 Olympic Games that symbolizes peace and freedom of humanity become the “Bloody Harvest Games.”
Falun Dafa Associations from twenty-two countries joined forces to send a joint statement condemning Hong Kong’s refusal of entry and forced deportation of hundreds of Falun Dafa practitioners, most of whom were from Taiwan. Practitioners were traveling to Hong Kong to participate in demonstrations marking the tenth anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China.
On June 26, 2007 Falun Gong practitioners in Hong Kong gathered at Charter Gardens to strongly protest the Hong Kong authorities’ use of a blacklist provided by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), to refuse entrance of Taiwanese human rights lawyer Theresa Chu and other Falun Gong practitioners. The practitioners were also treated with violence during the repatriation.
New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV), with its headquarters in New York City (NYC), will host the International Chinese Classical Dance Competition at New York University from July 6 to 8 in 2007. Due to the independent and outspoken nature of NTDTV, as well as its long-term focus on human rights issues in China, including the persecution of Falun Gong, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has spared no effort to interfere with NTDTV’s events.
