Russia: Russian Falun Dafa Practitioners Protest against the CCP's Atrocities at the Chinese Consulate in St. Petersburg

On June 30th, 2006, Russian Falun Gong practitioners held activities outside the Chinese Consulate in St. Petersburg to protest against the Chinese Communist Party's brutal persecution of Falun Gong.

For several years, Falun Gong practitioners’ applications to protest at the Chinese Consulate in St. Petersburg have not been ratified by the Russian government. The government made obstacles for our protesting activities with the excuse of executing the order of their superiors. Although the government did not ratify our application, we decided to protest against the CCP brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners at the Chinese Consulate on 30th June while practitioners in Moscow were simultaneously protesting at the Chinese Embassy.

In the three days before the activity, Falun Gong practitioners spoke to all departments of the government and police offices in St. Petersburg. Though the governmental officials dared not ratify the protesting application under the huge pressure from the evil CCP, they listened carefully because they saw the resolute attitude of Falun Gong practitioners. They expressed their understanding and hoped that practitioners would send them more information in the future.

On 30th June, before the Falun Gong practitioners arrived at the Chinese Consulate, a lot of police waited there. Practitioners immediately told them the truth. Meanwhile, a police officer who knew the truth before said, “You can spread out the banners. We will not stop you.” So everyone spread out the banners to protest. A reporter from Radio Moscow interviewed us on the spot and broadcasted the protesting activity in a positive way on its night programme. In the one-hour protest, officers of the Chinese Consulate went out to take photos and videos of every practitioner. They kept the pressure on the Russian government. The cell phone 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 raking police officer, a lieutenant colonel, came to ask Falun Gong practitioners to end the protest or he would be fired.

Afterwards, the police called the organiser of the activity to the police office and asked her to put a protest down in writing. She made it clear on the record that it was illegal for the police to stop people holding protesting activities.