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San Francisco: Falun Gong Practitioners Commemorate the April 25 Appeal (Photos)

April 25, 2013 |  

(Minghui.org) On April 21, Falun Gong practitioners from San Francisco held a series of activities in Chinatown to commemorate the 14th anniversary of the April 25 Appeal. They set up a photo exhibition and held a rally with several speeches presented to honor the occasion.

法轮功学员在花园角广场炼功
Demonstrating the exercises

法轮功学员在中国城街道拉起真相横幅

法轮功学员在中国城街道拉起真相横幅
Banner display

中国城的退党服务中心
A volunteer from the service center for quitting the party

法轮功学员向民众讲真相
A practitioner distributes informational materials

民众(右)在学功
Passersby stop to learn the Falun Gong exercises

民众在观看真相展板
Viewing the display boards

集会现场

集会现场
The rally

法轮功学员在展示功法
Demonstrating the exercises

Ms. Lan, a Falun Gong practitioner from Shenzhen, China, said in her speech that 14 years ago she was a high-ranking officer at an enterprise in Shenzhen. She heard about Falun Gong after the April 25 Appeal.

法轮功学员蓝女士在发言
Ms. Lan gives a speech

Ms. Lan was wondering why more then 10 thousand practitioners went to Beijing to appeal. So she found a copy of Zhuan Falun, the main book of Falun Gong, and tried to find out what Falun Gong was all about. She finished the book within two days and had discovered a new purpose for her life. After the persecution of Falun Gong started in 1999, she also went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and was arrested.

Ms. Li Jie, who was a senior in college 14 years ago, was one of the participants of the April 25 Appeal. In 2000, she was arrested simply because she rented her apartment to a Falun Gong practitioner. She was sentenced to 5 years, and was badly tortured.

Seventy-two-year-old Mr. Meng also attended the April 25 Appeal. He started practicing Falun Gong in 1996. He shared in his speech how the practice healed all his diseases. He called upon the audience to learn the truth about Falun Gong, and abandon the Chinese Communist Party.

Many tourists stopped at the rally. Some of them talked with practitioners and some learned the exercises.

纽约游客Tammy(右)主动了解真相
Tammy, a tourist from New York, talks with practitioners about learning the exercises.