Sweden: Joint Efforts from Falun Gong Practitioners and Amnesty International on International Human Rights Day in Gothenburg (Photos)

(Clearwisdom.net December 11, 2003) December 10 was International Human Rights Day. Many human rights organizations around the world celebrated this day in different ways. In Gothenburg, Amnesty International and Falun Gong practitioners held a joint activity to help people learn more about human rights abuses.

A Swedish Falun Gong-practitioner gave a speech, talking about the persecution in China and her personal experience in Thailand, where police unlawfully detained her because Jiang's regime had put pressure on them.

A representative of Amnesty International also gave a speech, describing the different forms that persecution takes against all kinds of religious and spiritual groups in China. If you take into account all the Christians, Buddhists, Muslims and Falun Gong practitioners who are being persecuted in China, there are indeed a great number of Chinese people being persecuted.

The activity finished with a parade, which moved along the main avenue in the center of Gothenburg. Many small candles were used to form the shape of a big candle, which is the symbol of Amnesty International, to remind the world to help stop torture and human rights violations.

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