(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioners in New Zealand held a rally and a parade at City Hall Square in Wellington to protest the persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over the past eight years. They demonstrated the five sets of Falun Gong exercise. The Divine Land Marching Band played "Falun Dafa Is Good" and other music.



The Divine Land Marching Band played "Falun Dafa Is Good" on City Hall Square in Wellington.


Group exercise on City Hall Square


Practitioners march in downtown Wellington to protest the CCP's persecution in the past eight years.


Rally in front of the Chinese Embassy protests the CCP's persecution.


Former CCP diplomat Chen Yonglin calls for his former colleagues to quit the CCP


Mourning fellow practitioners in China who died in the persecution.

Falun Gong practitioners held a parade downtown around noon, carrying pictures of persecution victims in their hands. Their banners stated, "Stop the Persecution of Falun Gong" and "Stop harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners."

Busy passersby took fliers and stopped to find out more information about the persecution of innocent Falun Gong practitioners by the CCP.

Practitioners rallied in front of the Chinese Embassy around noon. Mr. Huang Guohua condemned the CCP for persecuted his wife to death when she was three month pregnant. Their little daughter lost her mother.

Former CCP diplomat Chen Yonglin, who openly broken free from the CCP, gave his advice to his former colleagues in the Chinese Embassy: See clearly the trend of quitting the CCP and leave a way out for themselves.

Though it was drizzling, Falun Gong practitioners held a candlelight vigil in the evening to mourn their fellow practitioners in China who had died in the persecution.