United Kingdom: Falun Gong Practitioners submit a petition and signatures to the British Prime Minister's Office

In order to urgently seek the rescue of Falun Gong practitioners taken into custody and persecuted illegally in China and also their relatives and orphans, several British practitioners went to London to the British Prime Minister's office at 10 Downing Street on September 1st. They submitted a petition of more than eight thousand signatures to the British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as well as a human rights report on Falun Gong by the United Nations.

Prime Minister Blair will participate in Sino-British and Central European summit in China in September. Practitioners hoped to take this opportunity to submit the petition and once again draw the Prime Minister's attention to the persecution of Falun Gong by the evil Chinese Communist Party; expose the truth to him and urge him to rescue Falun Gong practitioners taken into custody and persecuted illegally in China and their relatives and orphans.

These eight thousand signatures have been collected by practitioners in a rescue effort launched in various place in Britain. Behind these signatures are the practitioners' spirit of perseverance and the kind hearts of thousands of people.