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Mr. Kevin M. Jackson, Mayor and the Governing Body of the City of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, Proclaimed April 11, 2007 as Falun Dafa Day in appreciation of the New Mexico practitioner’s commitment to community service and raising awareness of these atrocities that cannot be ignored.
American Transplant Congress 2007 is being held in San Francisco from May 5 to 9. Many attendees expressed that they learned about the CCP’s harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners from the organ transplant conference held in Boston. Many of them signed their names to call for the end of the organ harvesting in China.
Amnesty International released a document on April 30, 2007 titled “People’s Republic of China, The Olympics countdown — repression of activists overshadows death penalty and media reforms”. The report pointed out that the Chinese government uses detention and labor camp sat will to eliminate dissidents, including Falun Gong practitioners. The report updated the case of Bu Dongwei.
Falun Gong practitioners in the San Francisco Bay Area took the opportunity to tell the attendees the facts about Falun Gong, hoping that they would have an opportunity to learn about the persecution practitioners have been suffering, and the inhuman harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners in China. Many doctors signed the petition to condemn the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) crime of harvesting organs from living people.
Falun Dafa has been widespread in Taiwan nearly twelve years. Looking back at Falun Gong’s widespread history in Taiwan, practitioners’ peaceful and rational appeal on “April 25th,” 1999 was a division point, because Taiwan media gave wide coverage of “April 25th” event, making Falun Gong well-known.
The wife of a diplomat stationed in the Chinese Embassy in Canada has defected,
bringing with her documents and testimony said to expose illicit activities organized
by the Chinese Embassy against Falun Gong practitioners, democracy activists and
other critics of the Chinese regime.
The Chinese Cultural Freedom Movement held its “2007 Special Spiritual Faith Award” Ceremony on April 8, 2007 at the Aotea Center in Auckland.
On April 7, 2007, the New York Falun Dafa cultivation experience sharing conference was solemnly held in the Manhattan Sheraton Hotel. Approximately four thousand practitioners gathered to share cultivation experiences.
On March 28, 2007, Falun Gong practitioner Ma Hui and her 8-year-old daughter Ma Jingjing, who had earlier been granted UN Refugee Status in St. Petersburg, Russia, were taken away from their home by six officers from the Deportation Department of the Immigration Bureau in St. Petersburg, Russia. On the night of March 28, one Russian policewoman and several Chinese government officers forced Ma Hui and Ma Jingjing to board Flight FV-215 from St. Petersburg to Beijing, and deported them to China. The plane took off at 19:50 from St. Petersburg.
All eight were detained on 10 February by around 10 plainclothes police officers, for participating in an illegal gathering at the home of Liang Wenjian and Lin Zhiyong. The police also searched their home, and confiscated Falun Gong literature and their computer.
