A Report on Falun Gong from the Finnish Newspaper "Länsi-Suomi" (Photo)
9th August 2003 "One of my friends was imprisoned three times because she practices
Falun Gong. In March she disappeared and I don't know where she is now",
says Chinese Falun Gong practitioner Jiang Hong, who now lives in Finland. "My friends have warned me not to go back to China, and my mother
repeatedly says that I cannot speak about Falun Gong on the phone or write about
it in letters." Falun Gong has been in the news for years now. People have been practicing
Falun Gong for three years in Jyv skyl city. Falun Gong consists of five sets of exercises, which have highly positive
effects on health. Whoever wants to practice can do so, and one does not need to
join any association or group. There is also profound knowledge about life
included in Falun Gong. In China, Falun Gong has a tradition of hundreds of years. Mr. Li Hongzhi
brought it to the public in 1992. Falun Gong is based on books that are compiled
from Mr. Li's lectures. The books have been translated into Finnish and they are
available from the Internet. Falun Gong is practiced in more than sixty countries. It has no
organizational system. Falun Gong was banned in China by the former president Jiang Zemin in 1999.
Practicing or spreading information about Falun Gong is forbidden at the cost of
severe punishment. Hong doesn't want to quit practicing Falun Gong because it is very good for
her health. In her heart she wants to spread information about Falun Gong. Many
people in China refuse to quit practicing and are tortured for doing so.
Falun
Gong, a practice of mind and body, appeared at Rauma market place on Tuesday.
Two Finnish and two Chinese practitioners were there to tell people about the
brutal persecution that practitioners in China are suffering.
Chinese Embassies around the world are also monitoring Falun Gong, a
practitioner explains. If Hong goes back to China, she believes she will be
arrested at the airport.
Practitioners are persecuted in China
The former President thought that too many people were practicing Falun Gong,
and he wanted everybody to quit. Those who do not agree are sent to prison.
People are being forcefully brainwashed into thinking that Falun Gong is not
good.
Numerous governments and human rights organizations from different countries
have appealed to the Chinese government to end this persecution. Hundreds of
people are known to have been killed. Thousands have been arrested and tortured.
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