Belgium: Falun Gong Practitioners Call for End to the CCP's Brutality during European Union Meeting

On June 15th, leaders from 25 European Union countries were assembled in Brussels to conduct a two-day summit meeting. Falun Gong practitioners from France, Belgium and Holland held activities in front of the European Parliament building to call upon the European Union for help stop the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit and to rescue Falun Gong practitioner Cao Dong. Cao Dong disappeared after meeting in Beijing with the Vice President of the European Parliament, Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott. It is believed that he was arrested by the CCP and is in a very dangerous situation.

Practitioners re-enact the tortures in front of the European Parliament building to call for an end to the persecution.

Practitioners re-enacted the CCP's harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. Practitioners also re-enacted the tortures of the "iron cage" and tiger bench, which the CCP's policemen often use to try and force Falun Gong practitioners to remounce their beliefs. At the activity, practitioners displayed a lot of pictures and explanations to show the torture that the CCP uses on practitioners in China. Practitioners also broadcast in French and English the eye-witness accounts of the CCP's harvesting organs from live Falun Gong practitioners. They also broadcast investigation reports, including the Vice President of the European Parliament Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott's investigation into the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners from Beijing.

Some practitioners demonstrated the five sets of Falun Gong exercises. The whole activity was peaceful and orderly. Many attendees from the EU meeting and passersby stopped at the activity to listen and learn about Falun Gong and the persecution. One lady, who couldn't believe what she read and heard, asked practitioners: "This is just a show, not real, right?" When practitioners told her that everything being re-enacted there is real in China, and has lasted for seven years, she was shocked and said that this crime must be stopped. Some passersby asked practitioners when they would hold the next activity.

The Associated Press, Belgium National TV Station and some human rights organisations came to the activity to make reports and interview the practitioners.