Falun Gong Practitioners Call on European Union to Urge Myanmar Government to Release Chan Wing-Yuen

On January 27 and 28, 2003, ministers from the European Union and Southeast Asian Countries held a conference in Brussels, the capital city of Belgium. Several Falun Gong practitioners from Belgium, Hong Kong, and Taiwan held a peaceful appeal in front of the European Union Minister Council Building and called on the European Union to urge the Myanmar government to release Chan Wing-yuen, who is illegally imprisoned. The practitioners also delivered a letter from the Hong Kong Falun Dafa Association addressed to the Myanmar government. They distributed literature to media and conference participants.

Some citizens of Myanmar in Belgium saw our peaceful appeal and stepped forward to contact us. When they learned that a 71-year-old Hong Kong man was sentenced to 7 years in jail by the Myanmar government under the pressure of Jiang's regime and that the reason was just for his holding a banner on which "Truthfulness, Benevolence, Forbearance" were written, they showed sympathy and expressed their support to us, and requested truth-clarifying literature. A gentleman from Myanmar contacted media and wanted to expose the news to the international community after learning about what happened. He told us that a Norwegian radio broadcasting station would cover the story on the same day.

Local and international media came and covered the event.