Kumamoto, Japan: Protesting the Persecution Outside the Chinese Consulate

(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioners in Kumamoto, Japan, peacefully protested the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 23-year-long persecution outside the Chinese Consulate in Fukuoka on January 21, the Lunar New Year’s Eve. They also held a candlelight vigil to commemorate the practitioners who died as a result of persecution.

Protesting the persecution outside the Chinese Consulate.

Falun Gong practitioners set up banners and display boards reading “Falun Dafa is good”, “Stop the persecution of Falun Gong”, “Disintegrate the CCP and stop the persecution”, and “Restore the freedom of Falun Gong,” appealing to the Japanese people to find out more about the persecution, and help bring an end to it.

Falun Gong guides people to uplift their morality. Practitioners follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. The CCP’s 23-year-long brutal persecution of Falun Gong has put the Chinese people in a situation where it is difficult to distinguish between good and evil, and morality has plummeted.

A practitioner said: “The CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong is still going on. Our effort protesting it is also going on. We hope that people who still have a conscience will recognize the harm that the CCP has brought to the world as soon as possible.”

Background: What Is Falun Dafa and Why is the CCP persecuting it?

Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong) was first introduced to the public by Mr. Li Hongzhi in Changchun, China, in 1992. The spiritual discipline is now practiced in over 100 countries and regions worldwide. Millions of people who have embraced the teachings, which are based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, and have learned the five exercises have experienced improved health and well-being.

Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity as a threat to the CCP’s atheistic ideology, and on July 20, 1999, he issued an order to eradicate the practice.

Under Jiang’s personal direction, the CCP established the 610 Office, an extralegal security organization with the power to override the police and judicial systems and whose sole function is to carry out the persecution of Falun Dafa.

Minghui.org has confirmed the deaths of thousands of practitioners as a result of the persecution over the past 24 years. The actual number is believed to be much higher. Countless practitioners have been imprisoned and tortured for their faith.

There is concrete evidence that the CCP sanctions the harvesting of organs from detained practitioners, who are murdered to supply China’s organ transplant industry.