Bayerwald-Echo (Germany newspaper): Falun Gong demonstrate against torture

CHAM – Last Saturday, a group of Falun Gong practitioners came to Market Place at the centre of Cham to raise awareness of the persecution that is occuring in their home country, China. Falun gong, also called Falun Dafa, is a traditional Chinese meditation system based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. The principles teach practitioners to always be kind to others and to put others first. This is what the demonstrators have been doing. In China, approximately 700 people have been tortured to death with thousands haven been thrown into jail. "There is no reason for this persecution," said Mr. Römer, from the International Human Rights Association, who was in support of the Chinese visitors at Market Place. The practitioners collected signatures, on the one hand to call for support for the lawsuit against the former head of state, Jiang Zemin, who has been accused of genocide in the US and on the other hand for an appeal to the Federal Government to rescue Xiong Wei [a Falun Gong practitioner who was studying in Germany, but is currently being detained in China.]