Swedish Newspaper reports on Falun Dafa exhibition

Motala & Vadstena Tidning (Extract from a Swedish newspaper): An Illustration of Falun Gong

Wednesday 30 January 2002

By Benny Ekberg

Vadstena

What is Falun Gong? An exhibition answers that in the library. On exhibition screens, the story is told about the movements´ adherents in China.

Mats Lindberg, who runs his own business, and Tony Lingefors, a student from Motala, have both found
interest in Falun Gong. They describe themselves as searching persons.
Mats Lindberg tells of when two years ago he listened to a talk from a Falun Gong practitioner
from Gothenburg.

”It went to the heart. I wanted to carry on with that,” he says.

Tony Lingefors also found the Falun Gong movement two years ago.

”I am interested in existential issues, and searched a lot,” he says.

In Vadstena-Motala there is a handful of practitioners. In total there are around 300-400 Falun
Gong adherents in Sweden. The movement is practiced in 53 countries.

(..) The movement is free from religious and political forms. The practitioners are all volunteers.

”It is about cultivating body and soul,” says Mats Lindberg.

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”(…) to me the consciousness is sharpened with Falun Gong,” says Mats Lindberg.

The movement began in China 1992, and grew fast. Then there were some 70 million practitioners. The Chinese government, which at the beginning supported the method, decided in 1999 to ban Falun Gong. Since then, the practitioners have been persecuted.

There are illegal detentions and torture. Many people have been sent to labour camps and prisons. Many have also been killed.

”(…) We want China to respect human rights,” Tony Lingefors emphasizes.

The purpose of the exhibition which can be seen in the library in Vadstena, is both to inform about Falun
Gong and to describe the persecution of the practitioners in China. (…)