News from Beijing

January 1, 2000. On the first second of the new millennium, about 20 practitioners were arrested on Tian-an-men Square while they were trying to hold up a banner of "Falun Dafa". Among them, 10 came from Australia. All these practitioners are in custody now.

January 1, 2000. On 11:40am, two Falun Dafa practitioners held up a banner that read "Falun Turns Forever", and they were arrested immediately. On the morning of January 1, arrested practitioners filled seven or eight police vans.

January 1, 2000. At the turn of the new millennium, many practitioners, including some from Japan, gathered together in front of national flag on Tian-an-men Square. In the beginning, they wanted to practice Falun Gong exercises together. But some practitioners suggested that they should hold the first experience-sharing conference of the new millennium as it was so difficult for practitioners to get together. The experience-sharing conference started in Chao-Yang District, Beijing City, at 3am, January 1, 2000. A total of 22 practitioners attended the conference. They came from Beijing, Shan-Xi, Shan-Dong, Guang-Xi, Liao-Ning, Xi-An, Si-Chuan, Jiang-Xi, Shanghai, Hebei, and Japan. After the conference, they decided to go to Tian-an-men square to welcome the first morning of the new millennium.

January 1, 2000. Since the 1999 Guang-Zhou Experience Sharing Conference, many Falun Dafa practitioners went to Beijing to appeal one after another. According to practitioners from Wu-Han City, Hu-Bei Province, many practitioners from Hu-Bei went to Beijing. Around mid-December, 17 practitioners from Han-Chuan area and 7 practitioners from Dong-Xi-Hu district were escorted back from Beijing. Now, at least 20 practitioners from Wu-Han have arrived in Beijing. Some practitioners in Wu-Chang district have been practicing Falun Gong exercises in the early morning in public areas for one week.

A soldier in army continued to practice Falun Gong after it was banned by the Chinese communist regime. He also went to Beijing to defend Falun Gong. Because of this, some of his supervisors were penalized. According to this practitioner, he decided to go to Beijing to appeal when he was forced by the army authorities to watch the TV propaganda about some former contact people of Falun Gong Research Society. Instead of being brainwashed by the TV propaganda, he was moved by what he saw about these contact people. So he decided to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa.

A student from Wu-Han Police School went to Beijing to appeal. After he was released from detention, he continues to practice Falun Dafa. Now, he has gone to Beijing again to appeal.