By Practitioners from UK

(Clearwisdom.net) July 20th 2002 saw the end of the third year of persecution against Falun Gong by Jiang Zemin's regime. Jiang uses his political power to carry out this persecution in a villainous fashion. Against public opinion and the will of the people, the persecution is also against human morality.

For the past three years, Falun Gong practitioners, with their indestructible will, have safeguarded their noble belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance" in a peaceful and firm way. For the past three years Falun Gong practitioners have deeply touched the kind and righteous people in the world. Today, Falun Dafa is practiced in almost sixty countries.

Today on July 20th, British practitioners held activities to clarify the truth and to spread Dafa around the UK, in London, the Midlands and the North.

Outside Chinese Embassy in London

In London, practitioners held a press conference outside of the Chinese Embassy featuring a statement calling for an immediate end to Jiang's reign of terror. The Vice Chairman of Friends of Falun Gong Europe, Mr. John Dee, also made a speech and practitioners read statements from Glenda Jackson MP and councillor Brian Coleman. In their statements, they condemned Jiang's persecution of Falun Gong. Later, a practitioner talked about his sister, subjected to brutal persecution just because of her belief in Falun Dafa, and who is still imprisoned in a labor camp.

Officials inside the Chinese Embassy did not dare to come out and listen. They set up an amplifier to play loud music and interfere with our speeches and statements. This kind of behavior made the passers-by recognize the spreading of Jiang's persecution outside of China.

Nearby residents were influenced by the noise from the amplifier, so the manager from an office building came to the Chinese Embassy to complain to the police officer on duty about the noise, asking them to turn off the amplifier. However, the Chinese Embassy just kept its doors shut as usual. Then, the angry manager came toward one practitioner, saying, "They [the Chinese officials] are rascals! You did a good job!"

When we were sending forth righteous thoughts, a British woman sat down near us, pressing her hands together in front of her chest and showing her support for us.

In the afternoon, some of the practitioners left the Chinese Embassy for Chinatown to tell the Chinese people the truth about Falun Gong and Jiang Zemin's persecution. This was different from our past experiences because many Chinese people came toward us to take information. Now the information in Chinese can be handed out very quickly. Many passersby were attracted to our display, reading the information carefully. Some of them asked us to teach them the exercises, so a Chinese and a westerner learned the five sets of exercises on a busy Chinatown street.

Posting date: 7/26/2002
Original article date: 7/26/2002
Category: Falun Dafa Worldwide
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2002/7/24/33797.html

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