33 Western Falun Gong Practitioners Stage a Peaceful Appeal on Tiananmen Square and Are Currently Being Detained

(Clearwisdom.net) November 20, 2001 -- About 2pm Beijing Time, 33 Western Falun Gong practitioners displayed a banner stating "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" and staged a peaceful appeal for Falun Gong on Tiananmen Square. A few minutes later, they were all arrested by Chinese police.

These 33 Western Falun Gong practitioners came from United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, United States, Canada, Australia and other countries. They displayed a banner stating "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" and sat in meditation on the Square. One of them called out loudly "Falun Dafa Is Good" to the tourists and was beaten by the police. According to an eye witness account, a few minutes later, all 33 practitioners were arrested by the police. One practitioner made a brief phone call to a friend from the detention centre near Tiananmen Square about their situation and said that reporters from CNN and other overseas media were arrested along with them at the same time.

Major western medias such as New York Times, CNN, Reuters, AP and Dailynews have also reported on this incident.

Source:http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/20/15953.html