Falun Gong practitioners in France conducted a sit-in protest in front of the Chinese Embassy in
France. The media, international human rights groups and student organizations came to interview and
witness the event. Falun Gong practitioners talked to the media in detail about the facts that Falun
Gong is based on the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance," that it teaches
people to be good, and that Jiang Zemin launched the persecution against Falun Gong out of jealousy
over its popularity. Mr. Zhang Jianping, the spokesperson of the Falun Gong Association, pointed out that today, with
more and more people knowing the truth, the persecution is difficult to sustain. He said that the
Falun Gong Association in France is going to bring a lawsuit against Jiang for his crimes against
humanity, genocide and torture. Falun Gong practitioner Chi Jian, who lives in Grenoble, was illegally detained for a month by
the Chinese Public Safety Department when he went back to China to visit his family two years ago.
Today, his wife, Mrs. Sun Fenglong and daughter came to join the sit-in protest. Falun Gong
practitioners held a march during the past weekend, which set off from the Concorde Square (Place de
la Concorde), took Concord Avenue and arrived at Place de la Bastille. Along the road, practitioners
handed out materials to protest the Jiang regime's persecution against freedom of belief. In
addition, Falun Gong practitioners and supporters also conducted a similar march in the 13th
district of Paris where a lot of Chinese live, and this attracted many people's attention.
(Clearwisdom.net) (Central News Agency, July 22) Falun Gong
practitioners from Marseilles and Grenoble France as well as Israel and Sweden have held a series of
rational and peaceful sit-ins to express their mourning for the deceased practitioners in the
four-year persecution of Falun Gong in China. They also called upon the international community to
bring Jiang, the chief culprit in the persecution of Falun Gong, to justice.
Chinese version available at
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