Finland: Falun Gong Practitioners Hold Roadside Activities During a Meeting of the European Security Council

On December 4th and 5th, the Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe convened in Helsinki and the Heads and Ministers of foreign affairs from over 70 countries from around the world attended the meeting. Finnish Falun Gong practitioners conducted two days of peaceful protest, strongly urging the participants of the conference to pay close attention to the nine year brutal persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP, calling on the world’s people to stop this persecution together.

On the 4th the weather was overcast and from the morning the wind, rain, snow and hail accompanied each other. Falun Gong practitioners held up banners reading “Falun Gong is good”, “Stop the persecution of Falun Gong”, “Condemning the live organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioner’s organs”, “Harming mankind is not just an average crime” and more than ten banners, stood unmoved in the very poor weather.

During the period of the European peace and cooperation conference, Falun Gong practitioners urged and demanded the participants to pay close attention to the CCP’s nine year brutal persecution and suppression of Falun Gong practitioners, calling on the world’s people to stop the persecution together.

The cars belonging to heads of different countries were accompanied by police cars who lead the way. Several times they passed in front of the practitioners. On that day was also the plenary meeting of the Finland parliament and parliament members and pedestrians happily took flyers from practitioner’s hands and held up their thumbs in approval at the practitioners in the rain and snow.

A practitioner from Finland Sinikka said, "All of Europe’s Ministers of foreign Affairs have come and we would like to let them come to understand the true situation of the CCP’s brutal persecution of Falun Gong and moreover to stop the CCP’s persecution of human rights.”

A practitioner called Xiao Lu said, “We are just letting the world know that Falun Gong is good and that Falun Gong is in every corner. That the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong has still not stopped and that every country has a responsibility in stopping the persecution.”