By Russian Dafa practitioner
(Clearwisdom.net) On June 30, 2006, practitioners held activities
outside the Chinese Consulate in St. Petersburg to protest the Chinese Communist
Party's (CCP) brutal persecution of Falun Gong For several years, Falun Gong practitioners' applications to protest in front
of the Chinese Consulate in St. Petersburg have been denied by the Russian
government. However, through a recent sharing and communication, Russian
practitioners recognized that all things in the world, including law, are
created by Dafa, so they have to provide ways for Dafa practitioners to validate
the Fa. The government created obstacles to our protests with the excuse of
following orders. This is an old force arrangement, so we have to firmly deny
it. Practitioners as one body did not recognize this until now. Now, all
practitioners have achieved a common understanding. Although the government
denied our application, we went ahead with our protest outside the Chinese
Consulate on June 30th while practitioners in Moscow simultaneously
protested outside the Chinese Embassy. In the three days before the activity, Falun Gong practitioners clarified the
truth to all departments of the government and police offices in St. Petersburg.
Though the governmental officials dared not accept our protest application under
huge pressure from the CCP, they listened to the truth clarification especially
carefully because they saw the resolute attitude of Falun Gong practitioners.
They expressed their understanding and hoped that practitioners would bring them
more information in the future. On June 30th, before the Falun Gong practitioners arrived at the
Chinese Consulate, a lot of police were waiting. Practitioners immediately
clarified the truth to them. Meanwhile, a police officer who had already learned
the truth said, "You can put out your banners. We will not stop you."
So everyone spread out the banners to protest. A reporter from Radio Moscow
interviewed practitioners on the spot and broadcast the protest in a positive
way on its night program. In the one-hour protest, officers in the Chinese
Consulate came out and took photos and videos of every practitioner. They kept
pressuring the Russian government. The cell phones of the police officer on the
spot beeped all the time. We could see that they were under huge pressure from
their superiors. At last, a high ranking police officer, lieutenant colonel,
came to ask Falun Gong practitioners to end the protest or he would be fired.
Practitioners ended the protest and moved farther away from the Chinese
Consulate and continued to send forth righteous thoughts across the river. Afterwards, the police called the organizer of the activity to the police
office and asked her make a written statement. She made it clear on the record
that it was illegal for the police to stop such a protest. The police told her a
judicial decision would come the following Monday.
Posting date: 7/8/2006
Original article date: 7/8/2006
Category: Falun Dafa Worldwide
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/7/4/132122.html