(Clearwisdom.net) Many people pass by Helsinki Central Railway Station every Saturday. On June 16, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners returned to raise awareness about the eight-year inhuman persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Chinese student Sunny appealed for the rescue of her father Zhang Weijie, who was illegally arrested in China, and her mother Chen Man, who was taken away when trying to rescue Zhang.
Practitioners hung a banner, in both Chinese and Finnish, that read: "Please Stretch Out Your Helping Hands, Help Rescue My Parents." This was the appeal from Chinese student Sunny to the Finnish government and the local people. Sunny said that her family members in China had not seen her mother since she was taken away on June 8 in the process of trying to rescue her husband. Even though the 610 Office agents did not deny that they had taken her, they refused to give any reason or let the family members visit her.
"My old and sick grandmother not only lost my mother's attendance, but also had to go everywhere looking for my mother. I am separated by seas and oceans, and cannot directly rescue my parents, or look after and comfort my grandmother. I hereby sincerely appeal to the Finnish government and the people of Finland to stretch out their helping hands and exert pressure on the Chinese Communist Party to respect human rights, end the persecution, and release my parents as well as the thousands of other imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners."
Sunny and another Finnish practitioner standing in front of a banner that reads "Please Stretch Out Your Helping Hand, Help Rescue My Parents"
Local people earnestly read the banners
A young woman signs to express her support for Falun Gong immediately after learning the truth
After reading the truth-clarification information, many people came to listen to the Finnish practitioners explain the details of the arrest of Sunny's parents. Many promised to mail appeal letters to Finnish politicians to help rescue her parents, or signed to express their support to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. Several Finns, in tears, praised the practitioners, "You have done a very good thing." And then asked anxiously, "How we can stop this persecution, what can we do?"
After reading a banner, a young female asked, "How long has this brutal persecution been going on?" The practitioner told her, "It has been eight years since the persecution started on July 20, 1999. The cruelest deed is that they harvest living Falun Gong practitioners' organs to sell, and burn the corpses to destroy the evidence." After hearing this, the lady felt so sad that she cried; she signed the petition to stop the persecution immediately.
An elderly gentleman said, "I know why the Chinese Communist Party persecutes Falun Gong. It is because at that time Jiang Zemin feared there were too many Falun Gong practitioners and you only wanted be practitioners and not part of the Party."
A young man said, "I have a friend in Xinjiang who told me he knew a
very high official in Xinjiang who is a Falun Gong practitioner and was put into
jail and lost his government position. The prison authorities said to him, 'As
long as you give up Falun Gong, we will restore your position, your car, your
house and your salary.' He said he would never give up cultivating Truthfulness,
Compassion and Forbearance. My friend said that he did not realize that there
were such people like this at the present time. I really admire him."
Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200706/40046.html
Category: Rallies & Protests
