On December 29 and 30, some practitioners from Texas gathered in front of the Chinese Consulate in Houston to protest Chinese communist regime's unfair trial of four former Falun Gong Contact People in Beijing, and to urge the Chinese government to stop its prosecutions against Falun Gong practitioners and released all the practitioners in custody. Journalists from local TV stations, Word Daily, and South America News came to report the event. Two practitioners attempted to deliver an appealing letter to the Consulate but the staff members refused to open the door. Nonetheless, practitioners were able to express their opinions to an official from the consulate.