Denmark Should Resist the Jiang Regime’s Pressure Against Falun Gong on Summit Art Show

The event organiser, the Copenhagen International Theatre (KIT), likes the practitioners' proposed art performances, which have won the Community First Prize at the Queen's Jubilee Cavalcade of the Edinburgh International Festival 2002.

However, the Chinese Embassy threatened to pull out all Chinese community performances unless Falun Gong practitioners were excluded from Asian Comments. According to the event organiser KIT, the Danish Foreign Ministry, which sponsors the event, bowed to the pressure.

The Jiang regime has recently been exporting its bullying tactics and persecution to the international community on a regular basis: it pressured Iceland to bar Falun Gong while the Chinese dictator was visiting the country, it pressured Ukraine to harass practitioners, and it pressured Cambodia to deport practitioners with UN refugee status.

Each of these incidents has attracted strong international condemnation and in the case of Ukraine a resounding legal court decision against the harassment.

The Jiang regime pressure at the EU-Asia summit art event is not only a persecution of peaceful Falun Gong practitioners, but also a persecution of the EU's democratic tradition and way of life.

We hope that the Danish and relevant EU authorities will resist the Chinese regime's export of bullying tactics and support the participation of Falun Gong practitioners in this art event.