(Minghui.org) The leaders of 28 countries gathered in Brussels on July 12, 2015 to discuss the Greek financial crisis. Falun Gong practitioners in Belgium and Germany took this opportunity to inform delegates and citizens of the movement in China urging the prosecution of former dictator Jiang Zemin.
Banners could be seen in many places on the street, with messages of “Support 60,000 Criminal Complaints Against Jiang Zemin,” “Falun Dafa is good,” and “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” Jiang Zemin launched the violent suppression of Falun Gong in China in July 1999, and it continues to this day.
Practitioners display banners at the Euro Summit in Brussels on July 12, 2015, telling the public about the persecution of Falun Gong in China.
A young woman named Anne stopped by to talk a practitioner. She could not understand why such a peaceful meditation system would be banned in China. After a practitioner explained the persecution campaign, she said, “My parents are immigrants from Ukraine, a former communist county. With a communist regime ruling a nation, no wonder tragedy like this would happen.”
Anne was shocked to learn that the Chinese regime harvests organs from living practitioners imprisoned for their beliefs, and said that she would tell more people about the persecution.
A practitioner explains to Anne (middle) the suppression of Falun Gong in China.
Pedestrian Philippe Flemal said he had been in Taiwan for one year. “I studied Chinese there, so I know what is going on,” he said, adding that a “brutal persecution like this can happen only in China.”
Meredith from Minnesota and Diana from Mexico are both majoring in international relations. They were here for a European Union project involving disabled people. Impressed by the gentle meditation the practitioners demonstrated, they learned the exercises in the morning and wanted to know more about the persecution happening in China.
“This should not have happened in the first place,” said Meredith.
After Meredith (middle) and Diana (right) learned the Falun Gong exercises, they came back to learn more about the ongoing persecution in China.
Peter, an employee of the European External Action Service, listened attentively to the practitioners and said, “This situation [the persecution] will not last long. It will change for sure.”
Curious about what the practitioners were doing, several security officers asked to read their pamphlets. One of them said, “Your group is a good one. It has been a pleasure working with you.”
Passersby stopped to learn about Falun Gong.
On December 12, 2013, the European Parliament passed a resolution condemning the Chinese regime’s forced organ harvesting from prisoners and detained Falun Gong prisoners, and called for a EU investigation into the illegal transplants.
The suppression of Falun Gong in China is still ongoing: in the first 6 months of 2015, 61 practitioners were confirmed killed by torture in police custody, 2,539 were arrested, and 430 were imprisoned.
