Human Rights Torch Relay Receives Wide Coverage in the French Media


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In the Press

On August 22, 2007, the newspaper Libération, one of the three main national newspapers in France, which is widely distributed in other French-speaking countries around the world, published a three-quarter page article on the Human Rights Torch Relay that was launched in Athens on August 8 and reached Germany on August 18.

The article reveals the attempt by the Chinese regime to extinguish the Human Rights Flame in Athens and made it clear that the Greek police did not yield to the Chinese authorities' pressure.

The journalist explained that to prepare for the Olympic Games in Beijing, the regime wants to "present a glossy picture" of the situation in China, and in the process persecutes the Chinese even more, especially the Falun Gong practitioners.

Also, the article denounced the harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners.

National Television

On Saturday August 18, on the evening news bulletin, French-German television ARTE, the cultural public channel, devoted ten minutes to the Human Rights Torch Relay ceremony in Berlin.

On August 10, I-TELE, the information channel of the national TV group CANAL +, broadcast a report on the Human Rights Torch Relay, and rebroadcast it every 15 minutes that day.

On August 20 at 1:50 p.m., Radio France International broadcast an interview on the Human Rights Torch Relay.

Another national public radio station, France Culture, covered the event on its live 6:00 p.m. show on August 16.

RMC, another national radio station, also covered the event in positive terms.

On August 8 National Radio Europe 1 covered the Human Rights Torch Relay in a special edition on the Olympic Games that lasted all day.

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