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The lawsuit against Jiang has entered the phase of presenting legal statements. Due to this, Washington DC practitioners went to the Chinese Embassy to hold group practice. On Saturday, the Chinese Embassy hosted a banquet to entertain some guests. Officials who entered the Embassy could all see the practitioners' doing the exercises. The practitioners unfurled a banner with the words, "Falun Dafa is good" in front of the Embassy.
The lawsuit against Jiang is a global event to uphold justice through legal procedures, and throughout the proceedings we will comprehensively clarify the truth. Some practitioners contacted government officials, including congressmen, and delivered related documents of the lawsuit for them to read. Some practitioners used different ways including making phone calls to China, chatting online or mailing letters to inform government officials, the police and the people in China about the lawsuit against Jiang. Practitioners who deal with the media are compiling documents from similar trials in the past to help people understand what the lawsuit entails. Some practitioners contacted international experts of law, professors and scholars, introduced to them the background of the lawsuit against Jiang and requested their help and expertise.
While studying the Fa well and sending forth righteous thoughts, the practitioners are utilising this lawsuit to broadly relate to people from all walks of life in and out of China the facts of the severe persecution against Falun Gong.
Last October, Jiang came to visit the United States, and practitioners from all over the world took the opportunity to appeal during his trip. At that time, more than 2000 Falun Gong practitioners went to Chicago and Houston to hold group peaceful appeals, leading Jiang to spend much of his time hiding out to avoid seeing the practitioners.
During group discussions, we felt that bringing Jiang to trial today is an extension of the events in last October. Making good use of Jiang's visit to the United States, the practitioners exposed the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong to government officials, media and people from all walks of life.
Today, we are using legal procedures to bring Jiang to trial, and the truth-clarification can be done in an even broader scope in the society.
Regarding this issue, over the past four years, we have had many successes but also some less than ideal outcomes. The family rescue work in Canada gained success, and one of the primary reasons is that the practitioners truly explained the facts of persecution clearly. This is to say, that rescue work should not be confined to the rescue itself, similarly, the lawsuit should not be limited to the lawsuit itself.
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On April 5, 2003, the Falun Gong procession drew a lot of attention in the Washington DC Annual Cherry Blossom Parade. The Minghui School's procession was arranged to lead the entire parade in which more than 70 organisations participated. When a tourist group from Mainland China saw the scene, they were quite shocked. A practitioner told the tourists in this group: "When you return to China, please tell people what you saw here. Falun Gong practitioners walk on the famous Connecticut Avenue and lead many other organisations from all over the country in the parade. Why is that Falun Gong is respected in other countries in the world, while in China, it is persecuted?"
Today, Falun Gong practitioners are asking the entire world to take part in and support this trial to uphold justice, exposing the suppression that has been going on in China.
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2003/4/15/48430.html
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