United Kingdom: Falun Gong Practitioners Held a Press Conference Condemning the Hatred and Violence Incited by the Chinese Communist Party

On January 27th, 2005, UK Falun Gong practitioners held a press conference in front of the Chinese Embassy in London to condemn the surprise attack by a man from the Chinese Embassy against a female Falun Gong practitioner. They also expressed condemnation for the hatred, lies, and persecution of Falun Gong exported by the Chinese Communist Party and by the Chinese Embassy in a democratic country.

Condemnation of the export of the persecution by the lies and hatred incited by the Chinese Communist Party

In the late evening on January 24th 2005, Yudong Gao, a British female Falun Gong practitioner who works as a finance officer for an investment bank, travelled to the Chinese Embassy in London after dinner in order to join a couple of Chinese Falun Gong practitioners in peaceful protest against the Chinese Communist Party’s cruel persecution of Falun Gong. At about 9 o’clock that night, Yudong Gao was alone. A Chinese man came from the Chinese Embassy toward her and suddenly threw his drink over her. He also kicked her with considerable force. She asked peacefully, “Why did you do that?” That man yelled at her. She stood up right away, called the policeman on duty across the street and walked toward the policeman. It was surprising that the man ran after her and beat her head so that Yudong Kao almost fell down. The policeman arrived at this moment, subdued the man, and had him arrested immediately. The entire process was all recorded by the twenty four hour video camera on the wall in front of the door of the Royal Institute of British Architecture. The tape was kept as evidence by the London Metropolitan Police.

Mrs Gao said at the press conference, “I do not know the man, nor do we have any dispute. Why did he attack me, a woman who was sitting peacefully? It is the lies spread and incited by the Communist Party that stirred up this hatred toward Falun Gong practitioners by those who are not clear about Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. On one hand, the Communist Party cruelly persecute Falun Gong practitioners with hundreds of torture methods in the labour camps; on the other hand, it makes up lies to slander Falun Gong, such as the immolation in Tiananmen Square, which the Chinese media then uses to stir up the hatred of those not clear about the truth of Falun Gong.

Yudong Gao

The chairman of the Falun Gong Association, Peter Jauhal said, “We know that the Chinese Communist Embassy has been angry at Falun Gong practitioners about the three-year consecutive peaceful protest in front of the Chinese Embassy in London. We strongly protest against the Chinese Communists' export of the persecution of Falun Gong to the U.K.”