(Clearwisdom.net) On January 6, 2005, after practitioners held an anti-torture exhibition on the Sun Gate Square in Madrid, a local TV station interviewed some of the practitioners. They broadcast a special report on Falun Gong entitled "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" on the prime time program "Seven days of Madrid" on Sunday, January 16.
A TV station in Madrid interviewing practitioners
Host (Female): In China, there is an ancient oriental cultivation practice - Falun Dafa. About 100 million people in more than 60 countries practice are practicing it and the number of practitioners is still constantly and rapidly increasing. There are also many Falun Dafa practitioners in Madrid. Today, we saw a number of them in Madrid.
Host (Male): Falun Dafa is not a religion, even less is it a cult, instead, it is an ancient of oriental cultivation practice. Just like what its practitioners said, Falun Dafa is a teaching that upgrades people's moral standards and improves their physical health. Unfortunately, these practitioners encounter persecution in China and are even illegally put in prisons, because Chinese government (Jiang's regime) considers them as a threat. Nevertheless, outside China, it has more than 500,000 practitioners in over 60 countries (footages showing group practices around the world were broadcasted). Similarly, there are also practitioners in Madrid. Let's go ahead and find more from them.
Host (female): Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, is a practice to improve health and keep fit through exercises and meditation and upgrade moral standard through cultivating xinxing (mind nature). Falun Dafa is a practice passing down from ancient time. It was opened to the public for the first time in 1992. At present, we can see practitioners all over the world including in the Petiro Park in Madrid, Spain. We can also see their peaceful practice in other major cities in Spain.
Carlos is an attorney. He is also a practitioner of Falun Gong who has practiced for two years. From Falun Gong books, we can find out that the principles of this practice are "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance".
Carlos: Falun Gong is a type of Qigong. To be specific, Qigong is a kind of ancient oriental culture that involves much energy and can help improve health.
Host (female): Every Sunday, Carlos would change his suits and go to Retiro Park with other practitioners to practice Falun Gong. This practice is completely free and is at no cost. Here (in the park), no one is the Master, all are practitioners. This practice is based on traditional cultivation in the Buddha school, aiming at to achieve the purification of both body and mind.
Carlos: Chinese people talk about "Xinxing". In Falun Dafa, we also emphasize Xinxing, namely, upgrading a person's characteristics and moral standard. It allows people to behave better and become more tolerant.
Host (female): Every Sunday, some Falun Gong practitioners go to the Retiro Park to practice the exercises. Jesus, Mariano and Lorena are also among them.
Jesus: Two years ago, I learned about Falun Dafa and read the flyer in a health expo in Madrid. Six months later, I decided to start practicing the cultivation. Now, I come here to attend the group practice every week.
Mariano: I saw some Chinese people doing meditation on the Spain Square. At that time, I approached them because I felt that they were very peaceful, while during that period of time, I had some trouble with my life.
Lorena: Previously I went to the park to do exercises every Sunday. When I saw them practicing Falun Gong, I felt it very good and I was also very curious about it. Therefore, I joined them.
Mariano: After I practiced Falun Gong, my back pain disappeared and I can sleep normally. Smile appeared on my face again.
Lorena: This practice is really miraculous, especially in spiritual aspect.
Host (female): Before 1999, more than 100 million people practiced Falun Gong every morning in parks across China. At that time, Falun Dafa was supported and honored by the Chinese government until 1999 when the then-President of China Jiang banned the practice.
Tian is 18 years old now. She was also one of the 100 million practitioners who participated in the group practice in China's parks at that time. When the suppression began, she was only 13 years old. Her grandmother was illegally imprisoned simply because of her practice of Falun Gong. She was one of the more than 100,000 people who have been unlawfully imprisoned.
Tian: My grandmother is 80 years old now. After the suppression began, because she would not renounce her belief, she was unlawfully detained three times. The police guards did not allow her to eat, drink water or even sleep.
Liu: The persecution is completely unreasonable and is absolutely unlawful and unfair. No one understood the reason of it. The only explanation is that there are too many practitioners in China, which China is ruled by the communist dictatorship system. The ruling party considers it (the large popularity) as a threat to its power and therefore started the suppression.
Carlos: The orders issued by Jiang Zemin aiming at Falun Gong are: "Destroy their reputation, bankrupt them financially, and eliminate them physically".
Host (female): Shao and Pan have been in Spain for several years. However the Chinese government refused to extend or reissue their passports just because they practice Falun Gong. They said that in China, at least 100,000 practitioners were illegally detained, tortured and put into forced labor camps. More than 1,200 practitioners were verified to have died from the persecution.
Carlos: In forced labor camps, practitioners are forced to work from 16 to 17 hours a day. They usually make some plushy toys, while these toys are not sold in China but exported to other countries.
There are countless methods of tortures (used in labor camps). (The TV screen shows photos depicting how Falun Gong practitioners are tortured in China). For example, they use electric batons to shock practitioners' bodies on the sensitive parts; they put female practitioners into male prisoners' cells and have them gang raped; they also inject practitioners with drugs that damage nerve system. As a consequent, practitioners are injured or even tortured to death.
Host (female): Lawsuits aiming at the persecution have been lodged in 24 countries over the world. However in China, such scenes appeared on TV screen: ("Tiananmen square self-immolation" video is played) In this video program, the Chinese government said that seven Falun Gong practitioners committed self-immolation on Tiananmen Square. However, according to international inspection, the videotape and the incident were single-handedly directed by the Chinese government. Its purpose was to defame Falun Gong.
Carlos: Yes, all of this was single-handedly directed by the Jiang's regime, because the man in the video wore a mask such that his face would not be burned. In addition, his sitting posture for meditation is not correct. Every Falun Gong practitioner is able to at least sit in semi-lotus position after practicing for a period of time and will be able to sit in full lotus position later. The man in the video who claimed to have practiced Falun Gong for five years was sitting there in a common posture of a Chinese policeman (practitioners demonstrate the correct sitting posture of meditation).
Host (female): Falun Dafa - the ancient oriental practice and culture, but to us a new practice and new culture, which benefits people's physical and mental health and helps to improve the social moral standard, appears today in Madrid's parks!
