14 August, 2001

The adherents of the meditation method of Falun Gong who are yesterday and today meditating in the Prague's Peace and Tylovo Squares want to call attention to the abuse of human rights in China. This method was popularized in China in 1992 by Mr. Li Hongzhi. Soon, Falun Gong had around 70 million practitioners. After the peaceful gathering of 10 thousand meditating practitioners in Beijing in 1999 the [party's name omitted] regime forbade this method and persecuted its adherents.