Photo report - Candle light vigil in Gothenburg to protest against the latest tragic deaths in China

The increasing number of Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted to death is appalling and is a disgrace to the Chinese people and humanity. Practitioners in Gothenburg held a candle light vigil at their largest practice site and later outside the Chinese consulate. A long line of candle lights twinkled like lively stars in the wet misty night as if they were telling everyone that no evil forces can shut out the benevolent hearts of millions of Dafa practitioners. Some large posters and a bright yellow banner with the words “343 have been killed, this crime must be stopped immediately" exposed the atrocities.

Some practitioners handed out information about the latest tragic death cases. The Swedish people who passed by stayed to talk to us and show their sympathies to Falun Gong practitioners in China. Almost all of them took our fliers and many signed on our petition without being asked. Many of them encouraged us and gave their support to us. We could hear:

”It’s a very good thing you do. I hope there will bring a change.”
”It’s very cold. Aren’t they freezing? They look very harmonious though.”
”Mummy, I want to try this sometime!”
“What is this?” “They are having candle lights, some more Falun Gonger have been killed”

After a woman heard about the death cases and the torture that were used on Falun Gong practitioners in China, she said: “This is really evil”.

A young man from Ireland was very surprised after being informed about Zhao Ming (a student at Trinity College in Dublin) who has been imprisoned for his belief in Falun Gong. He wondered why a person could be put into jail just for doing meditation: ”This is so harmless!”

In the evening we gathered outside the Chinese consulate in Gothenburg and held a candle light vigil.