United Kingdom: Practitioners Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day in London

The 13th of May, 2006, was the seventh annual World Falun Dafa Day. UK Falun Gong practitioners held activities including singing and dancing in St.Martin’s square in the centre of London. Onlookers happily accepted leaflets and gave warm applause to practitioners who were performing.

Falun Gong was made public on May 13th, 1992. For fourteen years it has been spreading in China and abroad by word of mouth, purifying people’s minds and bodies. Now it has spread to nearly eighty countries and regions across the world. The first annual World Falun Dafa Day was set up on May 13th, 2000, shortly after the CCP started persecuting Falun Gong.

Fandancers

Practitioners performed dances entitled “Falun Dafa is good”, “Fast Spinning Falun” and “Praising Lotus Flowers”. They also sang a song called “Singing Praises of Master” wishing their beloved Master happy birthday.

Respectfully wishing beloved Master a happy birthday

Practitioners also demonstrated Falun Gong exercises, which caught eye of shoppers and tourists. Some asked practitioners for details of practice sites, hoping to learn Falun Gong.

Young practitioners demonstrate the fifth Falun Gong exercise, a sitting meditation

As the inhuman persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party is still being carried out, the atmosphere of the festivity had a touch of grief over 2800 Falun Gong practitioners in China who have been persecuted to death by the evil party, as well as practitioners in China who are still being locked up in places such as labour camps, concentration camps and brainwashing classes.

A practitioner sings a song entitled “Set Them Free”

Practitioners hung photographs depicting Falun Gong's spread around the world, practitioners in all countries practising together, and evidence of Falun Gong practitioners being cruelly persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party. The cruel persecution shocked people and they expressed their indignation at the CCP's evilness. Many were condemned the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong and calling on the UN and UK Government and International Organisations to thoroughly investigate the places such as labour camps in China where Falun Gong practitioners are locked up and signing the petition of ending the persecution.

Many signed the petition condemning the CCP persecution of Falun Gong

A lady from Malaysia and an English lady said to the practitioner distributing leaflets, "We know that Falun Gong is being persecuted by the CCP and we support Falun Gong practitioners."

While distributing leaflets, Joan, a Falun Gong practitioner from Manchester met an English man and they talked for a long time. After that, the man told Joan: I think that many ingenious people will learn Falun Gong. The leader of the next Chinese regime will probably permit Falun Gong to become a part of the Chinese people’s way of life.

Joan continued: While peacefully protesting in front of the Chinese Embassy in Manchester not long ago, she met a young couple whom she knew when taking part in an activity in another city. The young man told Joan: “As soon as I have got permanent residence of the UK, I will stand protesting against the CCP before the Chinese Embassy together with you because it is too bad.