Germany: 'Information Day' during a Football Match between Germany and China

On February 28th 2008, the World Organisation for Human Rights held an Information Day activity at Badenova Stadium in Freiburg, Germany. Some Falun Gong practitioners from Germany and Switzerland also participated in the activity. They exposed the truth about the persecution against Falun Gong to the spectators who came to view the women’s football match between Germany and China and called on the Chinese Communist regime to put an end to the persecution of Falun Gong.

After 2 o’clock in the afternoon, nearly two hours before the game formally kicked off, many football lovers started to enter the stadium. Over 10,000 spectators converged on the stadium from various places by train, bus and car. Many of them took information flyers from Falun Gong practitioners at the train station, parking lots, intersections, the entrance or the sidewalks to the stadium. Some of them exclaimed, while holding flyers high above their heads, that they would take a close look at them after being seated.

Upon seeing information display boards, many people slowed down their footsteps to view the information on the boards and then walked to a desk to sign the petition calling for an end to the persecution. When sitting at a bar to have some drinks, an elderly couple put some leaflets on the desk and then put on their glasses to read the materials one after another attentively. Seeing nobody around the booth, the elderly woman waved the practitioners over to get them a petition form. When signing the petition, other customers happened to enter the bar, so she patiently asked them to sign the petition. They didn’t leave until the elderly man also signed the petition.

After the match was over, many others also accepted leaflets while walking out of the stadium. Though it was getting dark and started to drizzle when the practitioners were about to leave, a group of adults and children from a couple of families came over. All of them signed the petition one after another, family by family.

A passerby said that it was the first time for him to learn about the Chinese regime’s bloody persecution against Falun Gong and that it was hard for him to imagine why this kind of atrocity would happen today. Before leaving, he also thumbed up to practitioners and said, “Keep up the good work. I wish you a great success.”