Moldova: The Moldovan government has banned Falun Gong outright. Falun Gong was introduced to Moldova in 2003, with the Public Association Falun Dafa and the Falun Gong Qigong Association of Moldova registered in September 2009 and September 2011 respectively in Chișinău, the capital, and with the Ministry of Justice. In July 2013, the Chișinău city government issued a decree banning the Falun Gong Public Association’s registration in the city. On January 27, 2015 and February 11, 2015, Moldova’s Supreme Court of Justice ruled that the insignia used by Falun Gong constitutes extremist symbolism and ordered the dissolution of the Falun Gong organization. On December 31, 2016, Moldova’s Supreme Court of Justice made a final ruling dissolving the country’s Falun Gong organization.
In March 2013, the Kyrgyz National Commission on Religious Affairs announced the cancellation of the legal registration of Falun Gong in the country.
On January 10, 2011, according to Jakarta Globe, an English-language newspaper in Indonesia, Indonesia’s Administrative Court dismissed Falun Gong’s administrative lawsuit against the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Ministry had issued an administrative order on June 17, 2010, refusing Falun Gong’s application to be recognized as a lawful organization, and Falun Gong pursued the case but was rejected.
On August 26, 2008, the Krasnoyarsk City Five District Court in Russia, acting on a prosecutor’s indictment, ruled that Li Hongzhi’s Falun Dafa, and the reports by Canadian authors David Kilgour and David Matas on organ harvesting from Falun Gong followers, among four Falun Gong promotional materials, constitute “extremist propaganda.” Rostrud (the Russian Ministry of Justice) subsequently added these materials to the Federal List of Extremist Materials, with publication on the ministry’s website. Falun Gong in Russia sued the Ministry of Justice. On December 14, 2009, the Moscow Tverskoy Court rejected the center for Falun Dafa’s lawsuit against the Ministry of Justice. Unhappy with the ruling, the Falun Gong organization appealed to the Moscow City Court, and on February 16, 2010, the Moscow City Court again dismissed the case.
