(Minghui.org) Amnesty International members in Oulu, Finland, a city about 100 miles from the Arctic Circle, launched a letter-writing marathon on December 10, International Human Rights Day.
The letters called for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong in China, which began in July 1999 and has involved crimes against humanity, such as state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong prisoners of conscience.
Students participate in the letter writing marathon in Oulu, Finland, on International Human Rights Day 2014.
The letters written during the campaign will be sent to prisons in China where Falun Gong practitioners are being detained, agencies in charge of implementing the persecution, and the head of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping.
A day before, practitioners rallied in the pedestrian zone in Rovaniemi, the administrative capital and commercial centre of Finland's northernmost province, Lapland, to raise awareness of the persecution.
Oulu, which is right on the Arctic Circle, is in darkness for about 22 to 23 hours of every day at this time of year. However, the winter chill and lack of sun didn't keep the locals or the tourists from learning about the persecution. They read the banners carefully by the light of the street lamps.
Many signed the petition to call for an end to the persecution in China.
Falun Gong practitioners collect signatures near the Arctic Circle.
