(Clearwisdom.net) On Saturday January 8, 2005, Russian practitioners
gathered in the plaza next to the ITAR-TASS building, the home of the largest
news agency in Moscow, to appeal to the public to help stop the persecution of
Falun Gong in China. They displayed banners reading "Truthfulness,
Compassion, Forbearance" and "Falun Dafa is Good" in both Chinese
and Russian, as well as some huge pictures about the spread of Falun Dafa in
more than sixty countries. At the same time, they also displayed pictures that
highlighted that 1,266 Falun Gong practitioners have been persecuted to death in
China and the hundreds of torture methods that are used to force practitioners
to give up their beliefs. The exhibit was meant to expose the Jiang regime's
crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity. Practitioners also used
microphones to introduce Falun Gong and the persecution in China to passers-by.
Practitioners in Russia rallied in downtown Moscow to urge China end the
persecution of Falun Gong
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Signing a petition to call for an end of the persecution
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Signing a petition to call for an end of the persecution
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Clarifying the truth to passersby
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Distributing fliers
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Clarifying the truth and collecting signatures
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Clarifying the truth and collecting signatures
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The activity was right next to the ITAR-TASS building, so one practitioner
decided to pass on some information on the persecution to the largest Russian
news agency. He began to clarify the truth to the entrance guard, gave him a
post card and a newspaper, and then asked whether it was okay to put some
newspapers on the desk inside the building. The entrance guard hesitated and
then said, "Well, okay go ahead." This way, dozens of truth-clarifying
newspapers would be circulated inside the ITAR-TASS building by Monday when
people come back to work.
When practitioners were distributing materials along the street, they met
groups of parents with their children, who were on the way to participate in the
holiday celebration. Practitioners gave greeting cards to each child and
newspapers to every parent. Some parents did not feel like taking the
newspapers, but their children took the newspaper and handed them to their
parents.
One mother who brought her daughter along carefully looked at each picture on
the display board. After she listened to the practitioners' explanations, she
and her daughter both signed a petition calling for an end to the persecution.
Signing a petition to call for an end to the persecution
A gentleman spent a long time in front of the display boards and
was about to walk across the street. However, he suddenly returned and kept
watching until a practitioner gave him a leaflet and talked with him. He signed
the petition before he left.
Signing a petition to call for an end to the persecution
There was interference from the Chinese Embassy during this activity. When
the activity was well underway, someone came and told the policeman on duty:
"There is no persecution in China. Falun Gong is totally free in
China." The practitioners told him the facts and spoke firmly out of a
sense of justice: "Look at all these pictures. Are they fake? How dare they
deny the fact that Falun Gong practitioners in many countries around the world
are suing Jiang Zemin and his accomplices in court?" The man was
speechless. He then said: "The killing in China has nothing to do with you.
Why don't you care the killing in Chechnya first?" The policeman replied to
the man: "Their activity is approved and completely legal. You are not
allowed to disturb them."
Source http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200501/24430p.html
