Colombia: Activities Call to End Decades-Long Persecution of Falun Dafa

(Minghui.org) Practitioners in Colombia held a series of activities to raise awareness of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 26 years of persecution, which targets their spiritual practice on July 20, 2025. Through these activities, Medellin and Bogota residents learned about the persecution taking place in China, and many of them signed a petition calling to stop the persecution.

The Art of Zhen Shan Ren International Exhibition in Medellin

Practitioners from Medellin, Rionegro, Marinilla, and El Retiro demonstrated the Falun Dafa exercises and held the Art of Zhen Shan Ren International Exhibition in front of the Atanasio Girardot Sports Complex (Unidad Deportiva Atanasio Girardot) in Medellin, the second largest city in Colombia. The paintings caught the attention of passersby, not only for their artistic quality, but also for the inner peace that the paintings exude and the brutality they depict regarding the CCP’s persecution of practitioners in China.

The sports complex is a popular gathering spot. Many people had the opportunity to learn about Falun Dafa and the persecution in China. Most of them did not previously know about the crime of forced organ harvesting from practitioners while they are alive.

Medellin residents viewed the Art of Zhen Shan Ren International Exhibition artworks and learn about Falun Dafa and the CCP’s persecution in China.

Many people who were drawn by both the peaceful exercise demonstration and the realistic paintings wanted to know more about Falun Dafa and were outraged to learn about the persecution and organ harvesting crimes.

Practitioners passed out leaflets and collected signatures on a petition to the G7+7 countries to help end the CCP’s forced organ harvesting. The Group of Seven (G7) members include: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan. Those who signed the petition expressed their solidarity with Chinese practitioners and the hope that the human rights abuses will end soon.

People sign a petition to help end forced organ harvesting in China.

Admiration for Falun Dafa Practitioners in China

Young athlete José was very interested in the art exhibition. He said it was important to show the way practitioners are persecuted in China through realistic paintings, “In reality, it is a protest that touches one’s soul because one cannot imagine how they remove the organs from a person who is still alive. They do not even sedate them. This shows their contempt for human beings.”

José encouraged Falun Dafa practitioners to continue exposing the persecution.

He added that he had great admiration for the practitioners in China, for the way they have been faithful to their belief, despite the persecution to which they have been subjected by that totalitarian state. He said that he encouraged them to continue with the courage they have shown so far.

Artist: The CCP’s Actions Violate Human Rights

Mr. Alberto, who is an artist, was interested in the paintings. He said, “They are very well executed and tell a story of the horrors that some countries have gone through because of the genocides that happened and that governments are complacent with this.”

Mr. Alberto praised the artworks.

When he learned about the persecution, he also commented on other human rights violations that he knew about: “Not allowing women to have more than one child, so that became an appalling genocide, and the abortions were in the millions. It is very painful, so it is the biggest slaughter of humanity, and they [the CCP] don’t want people to know the barbarities they do. They should respect human rights, but they cover up [their crimes] so that people won’t know. That’s why they prohibit people from spreading information about the things they do. What they are doing in China violates human rights.”

Peaceful Protest in Front of the Chinese Embassy in Bogota

Practitioners held a peaceful protest in front of the Chinese embassy in Bogota, Colombia’s capital, on the morning of July 20, 2025. They condemned the persecution and talked to passersby about the forced organ harvesting and brainwashing that practitioners are subjected to by the Chinese communist regime.

Practitioners in Bogota peacefully protested in front of the Chinese Embassy on the morning of July 20, 2025.

Talking to a motorist about the persecution

Many people were dismayed to learn about the CCP’s persecution, which is rarely reported in the state media.

Afterward, practitioners went to Boyacá Avenue, where a parade is held on July 20 every year, since July 20 is Colombia’s Independence Day. They passed out thousands of flyers. Many people were dismayed to learn that Falun Dafa practitioners in China are subjected to the CCP’s forced organ harvesting and jailed in brainwashing institutes just for practicing a meditation and following the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance.