(Clearwisdom.net) Reported by TASS, a Russian news agency, on August 6, 2002:

Falun Gong practitioners appealed in front of the Chinese Embassy on Friendship Street for an end to China's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. It was said that more than one hundred million people in China strived to practice cultivation, complying with the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance.