Ukraine: Ukrainian Police Recommend Practice Site to Falun Gong Practitioners

On August 10th, Falun Gong practitioners in eastern Ukraine held an activity in the coastal town of Mariupol, introducing Falun Gong to local people and exposing the Chinese Communist regime’s brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.

People learning Falun Gong exercises on the beach in Mariupol

This was the first time Ukrainian Falun Gong practitioners held an activity in this town. Before the activity, practitioners applied to the relevant government department for a permit to hold the activity in a park in the town centre.

On Sunday, when practitioners arrived at the park, they discovered that there were few people around. A group of police greeted them. During the dialogue with the police, practitioners felt that these policemen didn’t know much about Falun Gong and were a bit suspicious. Practitioners gave each policeman material about Falun Gong and politely talked to them about the brutal persecution that innocent Falun Gong practitioners have been suffering in China. When the police heard that in today’s China a group of kind people, who believe in “truthfulness, compassion and tolerance”, have been brutally persecuted by the Chinese Communist regime, they were all very shocked and immediately their attitude softened. They told practitioners, “There are not many people in this park. If you want to let more people know the truth, you have to find a place with many people. There is a place that is very crowded. We can take you there. That is an outdoor bathing place. Every Sunday there are always lots of people from different cities who take a rest and do sight-seeing there.” Then the police took practitioners by car to the crowded place.

Practitioners choose the entrance to the bathing place to put out display boards and banners. A few practitioners demonstrated Falun Gong exercises while others distributed Falun Gong leaflets. Within two hours all four thousand copies of leaflets were gone. When practitioners practised the fifth sitting meditation on the beach, it attracted many people who wanted to learn the exercises.

With the help of the police, many Ukrainian people learned the truth about Falun Gong.