Mexico City: Hu Jintao Sees Falun Gong Banners Up Close (Photo)

(Clearwisdom.net) During Hu Jintao's visit to Mexico from Sep. 11 to Sep. 13, 2005, Chinese Communist Party officials made every attempt to have Hu's view blocked so that he wouldn't see Falun Gong banners. However, Falun Gong practitioners successfully broke through to have Hu and his companions see Falun Gong banners up close.

Largest newspaper in Mexico, "El Universal", reports on the Falun Gong practitioners' appeal. Hu's motorcade passes Falun Gong banners.

When Hu's motorcade arrived at the hotel on the afternoon of Sep. 11, CCP supporters with colorful flags in hand swarmed to form a wall between the road and Falun Gong banners. Reporters struggled to take pictures for this rare occasion. It was a moment of tension and disorder. Two Falun Gong practitioners withdrew from the crowd, went around it and in front of the hired "greeting team". They were only a few feet away from Hu's motorcade. The "greeting team" was shocked and didn't know what to do for a while.

According to local police, reporters and government officials, Hu happened to turn his head to look out the window. He saw the banner of the two Falun Gong practitioners. The lower portion of the banner contained six pictures of torture victims.

When Hu was leaving the Anthropology Museum in the evening, a woman Falun Gong practitioner went to the museum exit and unfurled a banner in front of Hu's motorcade. On the banner were a picture of a peacefully meditating western lady and a picture of a Chinese practitioner being tortured. At that point, two men tried to snatch her banner but the practitioner stopped them with stern words. A Mexican practitioner took off his yellow Falun Gong jacket, showed it to Hu's motorcade and shouted in Chinese, "Falun Dafa is good!"

Falun Gong practitioners unfold banners at the entrance of Mexican Congress Building.

Before Hu's visit to the Mexican Congress, police set up guardrails. The Falun Gong practitioners unfurled large banners stating, "Stop the persecution of Falun Gong in China." "Bring Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Liu Jing and Zhou Yongkang to justice." "Bring the wicked policemen to justice." "Falun Dafa, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance"

Hu didn't show up for a long time. Everyone was told later that he had entered the building from a side door. Two Mexican Falun Gong practitioners waited at the side of the building. When Hu was leaving, a large banner stating "Bring Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Liu Jing and Zhou Yongkang to justice" in both English and Chinese was unfurled. Hu and his companions walked by the banner one by one.

Some other practitioners waiting on the other side of the building shouted, "Hu Jintao, stop the persecution of Falun Gong!" "Falun Dafa is good!" The Chinese security guards were flabbergasted and at a loss for what to do.

Among the CCP supporters were some of Hu's escorts, including a man specializing in the persecution of Falun Gong in China. He claimed that he had written many Falun Gong-slandering articles. There were also some Chinese living in Canada and Mexico. They tried in vain to block the voice of appeal. A couple of men said that they had been exhausted trying to block Falun Gong for days. Some complained, "It is the consulate's arrangement! We have been worked to death!" "I don't think it is right (to block Falun Gong). Everyone should just take care of his own business." One of the men expressed to us that freedom of belief is a basic human right, and the Chinese people should have that right.

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