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Malaysia: Chinese Embassy Interferes with Practitioners' Candlelight Vigil (Photos)
By a Falun Dafa practitioner in Malaysia
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioners in Malaysia gathered outside
the Chinese Embassy on April 8, 2006 to hold a candlelight vigil for fellow
practitioners who have died as a result of the persecution at Sujiatun and other
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) secret concentration camps. The Chinese Embassy
staff came out to interfere with the practitioners and with the media that
conducted interviews on the scene. Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Xufeng started a 72-hour hunger strike on April
7, 2006, to protest the CCP's mass killing of fellow practitioners in Mainland
China. At 6:00 p.m. on April 8, he went to the Chinese Embassy in Malaysia to
hold a candlelight vigil for fellow practitioners persecuted to death in China.
Fifteen minutes later, a car from the Chinese Embassy suddenly entered the
embassy, and was captured by the cameras of reporters who were conducting
interviews. The embassy staff who drove the car came out later, looking nervous,
and tried to snatch the camera and videocam from the reporters. Reporters from The
Epoch Times and NTDTV reminded him that this was not CCP territory,
but is Malaysia. In Malaysia, reporters have the freedom to conduct interviews
and take pictures. They told the embassy staff that they had no right to
intervene. At the time, Zhang Xufeng, who was doing the Falun Gong exercises, saw the
embassy staff member behave in a rude and disrespectful manner to the reporters.
Mr. Zhang stopped the man from grabbing the reporter's camera. The man
threatened him and attempted to drag Zhang Xufeng into the embassy. Mr. Zhang
said afterward, "Even in Malaysia, the Chinese Embassy staff dares to
behave so rudely and unreasonably to Chinese practitioners. It seems he thought
that he could drag me into the CCP's building to persecute at any time." Recently, Falun Gong practitioners in Malaysia have been interfered with when
holding activities or doing the exercises and mediation in front of the Chinese
Embassy to protest the CCP's persecution. Mr. Zhang said, "The Chinese
Embassy has been exerting pressure on the Malaysian police, to try to drive the
practitioners away, and now the embassy staff came out directly to interfere. I
feel they are very afraid of the persecution being exposed by the media,
particularly since the revelation of the Sujiatun concentration camp." The practitioner and the reporters went to the police department the next day
to report the incident, requesting the Malaysian police to investigate the
matter.
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