(Clearwisdom.net) The City of London, Ontario has a population of 330,000. On August 29 and 30, the "Journey of Falun Dafa" photo exhibition that is touring the world was held in the City Hall there. Before the photo exhibition, a vice-consul from the Chinese Consulate spread fabricated lies to the local media and the city hall, attempting to prevent this photo exhibition. Actually, people outside China all understand that when Chinese Consulate officials' talk about the "re-education" of Falun Gong practitioners, they in fact mean brainwashing. The cultivation of Falun Dafa is completely voluntary. Practitioners are free to come and go. However, the "re-education" is intended to force people to give up their belief in Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. Some practitioners were even "transformed" to death. The vicious people thought that the situation here was the same as in China and that they could deceive people. The results can be well imagined. Through practitioners' clarifying the truth and their kind and righteous conduct, the city hall staff supported the photo exhibition, which made the Chinese Consulate's vicious attempt in vain.
Entrance of the exhibition hall. | A visitor. | Local newspaper photographer. |
On August 28, a day before the exhibition, Ontario practitioners held a press conference in London regarding rescuing Canadian residents' family members who are suffering from persecution in China. Thus, local media gave full attention to this exhibition. The chief secretary kindly suggested that August 29 and 30 would be a good opportunity to hold the exhibition as there would be lots of people coming during that time to turn in their taxes.
On August 29, reporters from a local newspaper came to conduct interviews and take photographs. Later, TV station reporters also came to interview us and broadcast their stories in the evening news. They also briefly introduced Falun Dafa's fundamental teachings of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance and the practice, as well as the ongoing persecution in China.
Below are a few stories during the photo exhibition: