Bulgaria: Hundreds of People Sign Petition Calling for an End to the Persecution of Falun Gong before the Beijing Olympics

(Clearwisdom.net) Hundreds Bulgarian and foreign citizens supported the international "Millions of Signatures" campaign initiated by the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG). The event was held on roadways in front of the National Palace of Culture on April 19, 2008. Similar events will be held every week in the capital of Sofia and in other cities until August, when the Summer Olympic Games are scheduled to start in Beijing.

Many people expressed their indignation with the fact that the government of the host country of the Games is famous for trampling on the basic human rights of its own citizens. They wished success for the campaign and expressed hope that the atrocities committed by this regime will come to an end.

The goal of the campaign is to gather one million signatures from all over the world. These signatures will be handed to the International Olympic Committee. The Chinese government will be urged to immediately stop killing innocent Falun Gong practitioners in China. Until April 7 the total of signatures gathered all over the world was 205,462. Now Bulgaria has added 329 more signatures.

In 2006 two members of the CIPFG - David Kilgour (former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia and Pacific) and the international human rights lawyer David Matas - published a report which concludes that claims of the CCP's organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners in China were true.

On August 9, 2007, in Athens the Human Rights Torch was lit, again upon the initiative of the CIPFG. The Torch has passed through more than 20 countries on four continents and recently has entered China. The initiative stands against the atrocities committed by the CCP regime despite its promise to improve its human rights situation as a host of the Olympic Games in 2008.