From November 16 to 19, 2005, during Hu Jintao's visit to South Korea, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) exerted pressure on the South Korean Government, forcing it to breach the principles of a democratic country and suppress Falun Gong practitioners' peaceful appeals. The victims include 11 Falun Gong practitioners from Hong Kong and local practitioners who were unlawfully arrested and charged.

In Hong Kong, practitioners appealed twice last week in front of the South Korean Consulate in Hong Kong to urge the South Korean Government to not be accomplices of the CCP.

More than 20 practitioners marched for the second time since last Thursday from Chater Gardens to the South Korean Consulate on the afternoon of November 22 to appeal and hand over an open letter.

The practitioners pointed out that the CCP, which maintains power through lies and violence, would collapse soon. No country or government should assist that rogue regime against their conscience. Hong Kong practitioners asked the South Korean Government to immediately correct its mistakes, stop following the CCP to persecute Falun Gong, withdraw the unreasonable charges against the practitioners and apologize to the practitioners.

Practitioners delivered the book, Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party in both Chinese and Korean and Falun Gong truth-clarification literature.

A western practitioner reads an open letter to South Korean Consulate officials

During Hu Jintao's visit to South Korea and attendance at the APEC conference (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) in Busan, South Korean Government officials yielded to CCP pressure and interfered with practitioners' appeals.

1. Before the arrival of Hu Jintao, on November 14, Professor Chang Ching-hsi, an economist and a practitioner from Taiwan who was invited to give a seminar at the South Korea Parliament, was unlawfully detained for more than two hours in Incheon Airport. On November 15, Practitioner Lau Wai-hing from Hong Kong was denied entry and forcefully deported on the morning of November 16. These incidents indicate that the South Korean government accepted the CCP's blacklist to unlawfully deny entry of Falun Gong practitioners.
2. Restricting practitioners' normal appeal activities and depriving them of their rights. After the end of a gathering on November 16, South Korean police surrounded practitioners for one hour.
3. At least three South Korean practitioners were arrested for shouting "Falun Dafa is good" or displaying banners with these words. It was rumored that the South Korean government would fine one practitioner and prosecute another.

Practitioners returning from South Korea said that they received unfair treatment during Hu Jintao's visit. Ten practitioners were tightly followed by Korean police and plainclothes police after they entered the country. Wherever they ate, stayed, walked or traveled, even using the restroom, Korean police followed them. Practitioner Hu said, "Every morning, the police were waiting for us before we got up and monitored us wherever we went."

Ms. Liu narrated what happened on the morning of November 17. When Hu Jintao left the hotel for Parliament at 10 a.m., a large number of police blocked practitioners appealing outside the hotel and would not let them leave for one hour. She said, "Those were armed police surrounding us. It is inconceivable that we were not allowed to move for one hour."

Since coming to Korea, the practitioners explained the facts to the Korean police. The police said that they knew Falun Gong is good but were following orders from higher levels. A Korean officer told Ms. Lau Wai-hing who was unlawfully deported, "It is not your problem or my problem. It is the problem of the government." Some police disclosed that the CCP foreign ministry contacted the South Korean government and requested stern restriction of Falun Gong practitioners' appeal.

On November 17, on the second day after Ms. Lau Wai-hing's deportation, practitioners in Hong Kong held an appeal in front of the South Korean Consulate in Hong Kong and asked that the South Korean government not follow the CCP to persecute Falun Gong, including not accepting the CCP's blacklist.

November 20^th was the Universal Children's Day. In France, children were dressed up and went sightseeing with their parents. As one of the most famous tourist attractions, Paris attracted a lot of children from various areas that day. The entire city was full of children's pleasant laughter and all the people seemed to be engrossed in the cheerful atmosphere.

However, it is not true that children in every part of the world are so lucky. In China, due to the Chinese Communist regime's unlawful persecution against Falun Gong practitioners, countless innocent children have lost their parents or become destitute and homeless. Some of them even have lost their young lives in this inhuman persecution. To rescue these innocent children, the "Rescue Falun Gong Children Persecuted in China" campaign was staged at Paris' Human Rights Square.

Anti-torture exhibition with real-life models

Demonstrating Falun Gong exercises

With "Rescue Falun Gong Children" theme music playing, a host introduced Falun Gong and the persecution in China in English and French respectively. In the square, an anti-torture exhibition enacted by practitioners attracted the attention of many tourists. In the meantime, practitioners in yellow clothes demonstrated Falun Gong exercises in unison.

Passersby were concerned about the persecution

We Support Justice: A young man signs a petition calling for an end to the

Children who came to sign the petition expressed their views while signing their names: "This suppression is indeed terrible!" "Those perpetrators are really evil!" "Your activities are really great!"

The parents who accompanied their children there were also deeply touched. A lady said sadly, "Seeing these, I am really distressed." When hearing that under the CCP's pressure, many schools don't dare to admit orphans of persecuted Falun Gong practitioners, some mothers were so dumbfounded that they could not utter a word for a long time. Finally they said, "Really incredible!" "Really despicable!" A gentleman simply used "shameless" to summary his opinion on the Chinese Communist regime. While people were enthusiastically rendering their support for justice, some came up with ideas of how to put an end to the persecution.

During the activities, various media interviewed practitioners and passersby.