Italy: Letting People Know about Falun Gong during the Assisi Peace Parade

Assisi is located in Umbria, in the centre of Italy. Renowned Catholic sage Saint Francis of Assisi gave up his normal life here and started cultivation. Every year, a grand parade is held in this city. On the 11th of September 2005, over twenty thousand people joined the parade supporting justice, peace, democracy and human rights from Perugia to Assisi. To let people know about the persecution against Falun Gong in China, practitioners from Milan, Rome and Florence set up a stall on the the parade route. They displayed poster information boards and demonstrated the five sets of Falun Gong exercises.

After reading the information on the boards and watching the exercise demonstration, people who joined the parade got to know Falun Gong and saw how the Chinese Communist Party brutally persecutes Falun Gong practitioners. Many people have watched a programme about it on Italian TV, so they already understood the persecution. There were many people who stopped to chat with practitioners and read the information boards. They patiently queued in line to sign the petition to stop the persecution.