(Minghui.org) Dr. Gerhard Doujak, Head of the Human Rights Department in Austria’s Federal Ministry of European and International Affairs, met with representatives of the Society for Threatened Peoples International (STPI), the Falun Dafa Association, and Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) on July 20, 2015.

The three representatives had a discussion with Dr. Doujak about the persecution of Falun Gong and the state-sanctioned organ harvesting from unlawfully imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners in China.

Dr. Gerhard Doujak, Head of the Human Rights Department in Austria’s Federal Ministry of European and International Affairs, (right) learns about the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) organ harvesting crimes, from Nadine Papa, representative of STPI.

Katja Hausmann, representative of DAFOH, gives Dr. Doujak a copy of a petition with more than 2 million signatures calling for an end to forced organ harvesting in China.

Nadine Papa, representative of STPI (left), gives Dr. Doujak (right) a copy of signatures collected condemning organ harvesting in the past year.

Nadine Papa from STPI, Katja Hausmann from DAFOH, and Wang Yong from the Austrian Falun Dafa Association (left to right)

Mr. Wang Yong, Chairman of the Austrian Falun Dafa Association, gave Dr. Doujak an update on the recent wave of lawsuits against Jiang Zemin, the former head of the CCP who is responsible for the persecution of Falun Gong. Dr. Doujak expressed his concern over the persecution and said he would do his best to help stop it through diplomatic channels.