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Recently, under direct orders from Zhou Yongkang, secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the CCP continues to frame and slander Falun Gong in China and overseas by fabricating news to inspire hatred towards Falun Gong.
As part of its ongoing efforts to end the Chinese government’s brutal treatment of Falun Gong practitioners, the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) has begun a campaign to secure millions of signatures on a worldwide anti-persecution petition. The signatures will be gathered ahead of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and will be presented to the International Olympics Committee, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, international human rights organizations, and various governments and parliaments around the world.
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In order for the Chinese people to see a world with the same human rights, the Forum announced the launching of a plan to promote the Human Rights Torch Relay into China by the end of March, 2008 in response to the Chinese people’s call for human rights and against the Olympic Games.
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.”
