United Kingdom: Practitioners Hold Anti-Torture Exhibitions in Edinburgh (Photos)
(Clearwisdom.net) On July 24-25,2004, British Falun
Gong practitioners again held a two-day live exhibition of simulated torture
scenes in Edinburgh following the same exhibition held on July 18-20 at the
Houses of Parliament in London. The anti-torture exhibition was to expose the
methods employed by the Jiang regime as they persecute Falun Gong practitioners
in China. Edinburgh people were shocked by the exhibition and the fact that what
they saw is really happening in China. They signed their names on a petition to
call for an end to the persecution.
On July 24, the weather was excessively
abnormal; there were gales first and then heavy showers. Falun
Gong practitioners unfolded a prelude to the anti-torture
exhibition during a chilly rainstorm. The gale blew the leaflets
and petition forms off the stand from time to time, and the
exhibition display boards were blowing around as well.
Practitioners encouraged and cooperated with each other
harmoniously with righteous thoughts. There were several instruments of torture such
as the "Tiger Bench," the "Big Hanging," the
"Iron Cage" etc. and Falun Gong practitioners wearing
bloody clothes with simulated scars, bruises and bloodstains on
their bodies. Several practitioners were demonstrating Falun Gong
exercises. There were also two practitioners sitting between the
petition desk and display boards sending righteous thoughts. There
were two big eye-catching banners worded, "Stop the five-year
persecution of Falun Gong immediately" and "These events
are happening in China...."A practitioner acted as a narrator
of the exhibition and continuously told the passers-by about the
injustice and illegal treatment received by Falun Gong
practitioners in Mainland China, and called for kind-hearted
people to support "Truth, Compassion and Tolerance" and
stand by us to stop the persecution together. Over the weekend, there were lots of people on
the streets of Edinburgh, but they were all in a hurry because of
the bad weather. However, many of them stopped to watch the
exhibition and Falun Gong exercise demonstrations. After listening
to practitioner's telling them about the five-year campaign of
genocide against Falun Gong in China, kind-hearted Scots were
shocked! They could not believe that this brutal persecution was
still happening in the 21st century. Lots of people quickly crowded in front of the
petition desk; there were students, clerks, social workers,
housewives and tourists signing their names on the petition forms.
There was a family with three generations signing the petition
form after finishing watching the exhibition, with tears in their
eyes. A group of secondary students from Spain signed the petition
forms one by one after reading the contents of the display boards. On July 25, the brilliant sunshine swept away
the dark clouds in the sky. The anti-torture exhibition held in
St. James Street located in the city centre drew big crowds. A
western man signed the petition after watching the exhibition and
said that he would like to learn the exercises. When he was
learning the first exercise, he could feel the energy flowing
around his body which excited him. After he finished learning the
five sets of exercises, he was happy to demonstrate Falun Gong
exercises with others. He told the practitioner who taught him the
exercises that he always went into the same dream for three months
that he dreamt that he was learning a kind of exercise with many
people in public. Today, what had happened made him believe that
his dream had become a reality. Three young guys from China were also shocked
by the exhibition. They read the display boards carefully and took
photos, and would not leave for a long time. When a practitioner
went to them for their signatures, they signed the petition
without hesitation to support justice. Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200408/21207.html
Reenactment of torture methods
Signing their names to support
Chinese version available at
http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/7/29/80592.html
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