On November 7 2009, Falun Gong practitioners from Newcastle and other cities went to downtown Newcastle to introduce Falun Gong. They set up an information booth to inform people about the practice, expose China's inhuman persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, and support 63 million Chinese people who have quit the CCP.

The International Book Fair and Reading Festival was held at Messe Wien, Vienna on November 12-15, 2009. The Falun Dafa Association of Austria set up a Falun Gong book display booth to introduce Falun Gong. Practitioners demonstrated the five Falun Gong exercises and introduced the principles of the practice during the book fair.

On the 1st of August 2009, Falun Gong practitioners from Augsburg in Southern Germany held an information day called “Protect peace for humanity, stop the persecution of Falun Gong, bring an end to the CCP’s savagery”. Many people expressed great interest when they heard how Falun Gong practitioners are being persecuted by the CCP.

Falun Gong practitioners in Augsburg hold an "Information Day" every month. On November 7, 2009, at a busy street corner in Augsburg, they set up a table with informational materials on the practice. They demonstrated the five exercises and told people about the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong that has lasted ten years in China.

People were shocked when hearing about the CCP's brutal persecution of Falun Gong, and signed the petition to stop the persecution. There was a publisher's booth nearby. After having learned the facts about Falun Gong, the owner led all the people in his booth to come over to sign the petition. He said that he would like to introduce Falun Dafa on their website.

On Saturday, November 7, 2009, practitioners from Germany and Switzerland organised a Falun Dafa Information Day event in the German tourist city of Freiburg amBreisgau. People who learned the truth, signed their names to support the petition to end the persecution. Some had heard about Falun Gong before and wrote down the phone number to find out about free classes.

On October 31, 2009, Falun Dafa practitioners from Germany and Switzerland went to Lindau, a beautiful town sitting next to Lake Bodensee. The practitioners were there to tell the local residents about the beauty of Falun Dafa and the brutal persecution taking place in China. Several practitioners went to the centre of Lindau to pass out fliers.

Monika learned at the information booth that the persecution of the Falun Gong practitioners had lasted for more than ten years. She expressed sadness for the ongoing persecution. She said, "I think the persecution is very cruel and breaks my heart." She signed the petition in support of stopping the persecution immediately and expressed her wishes that the practitioners in China regain the freedom to practise.

Falun Dafa practitioners organised two activities in Larnaca on 11th and 13th October 2009 in order to introduce the practice to the native people and the city visitors. They displayed banners with information about Falun Dafa and the persecution, which the practitioners in China have experienced for more than a decade.

On October 17, 2009, Falun Dafa practitioners in Sachsen-Anhalt in Halle, Germany held an information day to raise awareness of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) brutal persecution of practitioners in China. In a light rain, several practitioners demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises while others distributed fliers to every visitor.

This was the first time that practitioners participated in this event. They set up a booth to introduce Falun Gong and expose Chinese Communist Party's inhumane persecution of the practice. They also offered free Falun Gong classes. Many people who learned the facts signed a petition calling for an end to the persecution.

On October 31, Ms. Ren, a Chinese lady living in Munich, Germany, happened upon Falun Gong practitioners' peaceful demonstration against the persecution and encouraging Chinese people to quit the Chinese Communist Party activity. She expressed her support and asked what she could do for them.

On August 15, 2009, Falun Gong practitioners in Switzerland held a Falun Gong Information Day in Bern, the capital, exposing the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) brutal persecution of Falun Gong. At the same time, they called for an immediate end to the persecution. People signed the petition to express their support.

Munich is a well-known historical city. It attracts many tourists from around the world. The Marien Platz in the city centre is especially crowded. On August 9, 2009, Falun Gong practitioners from the German State of Bavaria held an activity at the Marien Platz, exposing the Chinese Communist regime's persecution of Falun Gong.

It is already chilly in October in Denmark. From October 15 to 17, Falun Gong practitioners in Denmark held three days of activities in five cities on the Island of Fyn to raise awareness about the human rights abuses against the practice in China. Many people learned about Falun Gong by talking to practitioners or reading the posters and information material they displayed.

The twenty-seventh annual Spirit and Knowledge Expo was held in Helsinki, Finland in October 2009. More than two hundred groups participated in the Expo. Finland Falun Gong practitioners took part in the Expo by introducing Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong) and its principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.

From October 1 to 4 2009, Falun Gong practitioners held activities to support the movement to withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organisations on the square in front of the Cologne Cathedral. After finding out the facts, many people signed their names to support stopping the persecution of Falun Gong and to support those who have withdrawn from the CCP.

October 1, 2009, was the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) rise to power in China. The Service Centre for Quitting the CCP in London held activities in London's Chinatown to give out copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, to urge people to quit the CCP and its affiliated organisations, and to support the 61 million Chinese people that had already renounced the CCP.

Sweden's largest health expo was held on October 10 and 11, 2009 in Solna, to the north of Stockholm. With miraculous healing power that improves mind and body, Falun Gong is very popular with the Swedish public. Each year the group is invited to demonstrate the exercises.

On Saturday, October 17, 2009, Falun Gong practitioners from northern England went to St. Anne's Square in Manchester to raise awareness about the persecution of Falun Gong in China by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Many signed the petition supporting Falun Gong practitioners and wished that the persecution would end as soon as possible. Showing their support, some offered to buy hot tea for the practitioners.

On Saturday October 10th 2009, several Falun Gong practitioners from the north of England went to the city centre of Sheffield to tell passersby about Falun Gong and how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecutes Falun Gong practitioners in China.

A few tourists pointed at the leaflets exposing the CCP's live organ harvesting, saying that such important information should be passed to people all over the world as soon as possible. Someone pointed at the pictures exposing the persecution and asked, "Is this real?" After finding out that all of these were not only real, but also still happening and supported by the CCP, many people voiced their anger.

Several new participants arrived at the Regent's Park Falun Gong exercise site on a weekend in September. They had learned about the practice when practitioners held an informational activity and were so interested that they came to learn the exercises. When one lady was asked how she felt after trying Falun Gong for the first time she said emotionally, "Very good. I felt very good, very happy. It's very easy to learn and I believe it's very good for me."

Falun Gong practitioner Yuyu Williamson made use of her holiday with her family in Shetland at the northernmost end of the UK to tell the people there about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and that Falun Gong practitioners are being persecuted for following the principles of “Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance”.


On September 5, 2009, Falun Gong practitioners from the renowned city of Cologne, Germany and surrounding areas held an activity in front of the Cologne Cathedral. The practitioners displayed banners supporting the withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party and exposing the persecution of Falun Gong.

September 12, 2009 was a Saturday, so Falun Gong practitioners once again went to St. Martin's Place in the centre of London to hold an activity, hand out leaflets about the goodness of Falun Dafa and exposing the CCP's brutal persecution. Many people condemned the CCP's brutality, and supported Falun Gong's opposition to the persecution.

From September 9 to 13, 2009, Lunen, a small northern town in Nodrhein-Westfalen, Germany, celebrated its 30th anniversary. The anniversary celebration drew around 100,000 people from the town and surrounding cities. This was the fourth time that practitioners from the nearby city of Dortmund took part in the festival to introduce Falun Gong to the people there.

On September 20, 2009, the annual Oktoberfest began in Munich. At the famous Marlin Square, Falun Dafa practitioners from Bayern Province hosted an information day to introduce Falun Dafa, demonstrate the exercises, and expose the persecution. People asked many questions, from what Falun Gong is, why and how Chinese Communist Party persecutes Falun Gong, to how Chinese people work to stop the persecution.

On Saturday, September 19, 2009, Falun Gong practitioners from West Yorkshire in the UK went to the busy Leeds city centre to expose the persecution of Falun Gong happening in China, and at the same time, offer help to Chinese people who wanted to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organisations.

September 20, 2009 is World Children's Day in Germany. On September 19, Falun Gong practitioners held an information day on Kropke Square in Hannover. The theme of the activity was "World Children's Day, Pay Attention to Falun Gong Orphans in China". Dortmund football fans came to the information desk to read posters and sign the petition in support of Falun Gong.

By noontime the streets were milling with people who were curious to see what was displayed in each stand. Among those who came to the festival, many had the opportunity to see the stall about Falun Gong. They saw the gentle exercises, and were very interested to come to the free weekly session held in the local gardens.

On September 20, 2009, the annual Skive Lobet was held in Slive, which is in Jutland in northwest Denmark. Several thousand people took part in the many different programmes. Denmark Falun Gong practitioners came to introduce people to Falun Gong. The sun shone as practitioners demonstrated the five exercises to music.

Political candidate and TV station reporter Astrid Freudenstein said that when she taught at a university, she heard of serious human rights abuses by the CCP and its persecution of people with religious belief. She was shocked to know this time that the Chinese Communist regime even harvested organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for lucrative profits. She said she would take a copy of all the information materials home and read them carefully.