UK: MP Visits Anti-Torture Exhibition to Show Support for China's Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners (Photos)


By a UK practitioner

(Clearwisdom.net) On the 18th of December, in the Peace Garden outside Manchester Town Hall, Falun Gong practitioners from the Manchester area displayed pictures of the torture happening to their fellow practitioners in China and talked to passersby about the Chinese communist regime's persecution of the practice.

MP Patsy Calton interviewed by a TV reporter

Signing a petition to call for an end to the persecution

After hearing about this event, Member of Parliament Patsy Calton and her assistant went to the town centre especially to express their support. Ms. Calton said to a TV reporter, "I think that bringing up the issue of human rights in China is extremely important. I am very concerned about the sufferings that Falun Gong practitioners have been going through in China in the last few years. What I want to say is, we are not against China and the Chinese Government, and we hope to see an increase in the flow of culture and trade with China. Nevertheless, in the meantime, we must also attach importance to human rights that everyone should have, which is to practise, at any time, this peaceful exercise that doesn't cause any threats to the government."

Ms. Calton signed a petition calling for the Chinese Government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. In order to help to stop the human rights violations against Falun Gong in China, Patsy Calton MP sponsored an Early Day Motion on the 14th of December to the UK Parliament. This proposal asks the parliament to call on China to immediately release all Falun Gong practitioners who have been detained for their peaceful beliefs, while calling for the parliament to urge China to grant an invitation to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and the Special Rapporteur on Religious Freedom after the last invitation was retracted. There are already forty two Members of Parliament who have signed Early Day Motion 389.

Source http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200412/23888.html


Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/12/20/91844.html

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