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Germany: Exposing the CCP’s Crimes of Organ Harvesting during the Richard Wagner Festival (Photos)

August 11, 2006 |   By Guangdu

(Clearwisdom.net) Every year, between July 25 and August 28, the month-long Richard Wagner Festival is held in Bayreuth, where Richard Wagner lived from 1872 until his death in 1883. Wagner, a renowned opera composer, has had his works called the "Spirit of Germany." Every summer, the German government sponsors the month-long Richard Wagner Festival, to which leaders from other countries are often invited.

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Activities to expose the CCP’s (Chinese Communist Party) crimes of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners
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Passers-by signed the petition for the urgent rescue of Wang Xiaoyan

On the first day of the festival, most of the audience werethe audience included many well-known politicians and artists. As a result, reporters arrived five hours earlier to occupy the best position for photography. During the long wait, many of the reporters came to understand the CCP’s crimes of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. Reporters were given copies of the leaflet with the title "Exposure of the Crimes of Harvesting Living Organs for Profit and Urgent Rescue of Wang Xiaoyan" Wang Xiaoyan, wife of Zhang Zhentong, a Falun Gong practitioner who currently lives in Germany, is illegally imprisoned in a Chinese labor camp because she practices Falun Gong.

One of the reporters present told the practitioners that he was very interested in this and would call them for an interview after he finished the business at hand. Many reporters who stayed in their live broadcasting cars also got the truth clarification leaflets.

By 6:00 p.m., almost all of the audience who entered the opera house were given a copy of the leaflet. Many of them appeared to be shocked by what was revealed, and they encouraged us to persist in our efforts.

At night some celebrities signed our petition for the urgent rescue of Wang Xiaoyan. Many ministers accepted the leaflet which called for the urgent rescue of Wang Xiaoyan.

One attendee read the leaflet during the banquet held by the city government for celebrities. After the banquet ended, he came to tell the practitioners, "I have read it. Thank you. It’s a pity that we did not know this earlier. Thank you!"

An artist practitionersoffered to donate money to help stop the persecution, but the practitioners politely refused her donation, informing her that Falun Gong cannot accept donations. urgent rescue

The practitioners also handed a letter and leaflets to Governor Stoiber of Bavaria and the Interior Minister of Bavaria.

Some ministers were shocked upon being informed that the military hospitals in China are harvesting live organs for big profits. They promised to attentively read the leaflets.