December 10th is World Human Rights Day. Falun Gong practitioners in Houston, wearing yellow T-shirts and carrying various picture boards, went to the Chinese Consulate in Houston to hold a peaceful appeal. They called for the Chinese government to stop Jiang Zemin's evil doing, immediately release Ms. Teng Chunyan, and to release all other imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners.
After setting up the display boards, one practitioner distributed Dafa materials while everyone else practiced the exercises with the music. Many pedestrians stopped to watch us and asked for Dafa information. Some people, who were interested in our demonstration, even started learning the exercises on site.
One young lady from Beaumont had come to Houston on business. When she took the newspaper from the practitioner's hand, she pointed at the picture in the newspaper and said that it was exactly what she wanted to learn. She learned the five sets of exercises after returning from her business meeting. She said: "It is so wonderful. I will keep learning it after I go home." She told us that she was working at a health center in a university and the center was looking for an efficient fitness method. She wants to introduce Falun Gong to her university so that more people can benefit from it.
A reporter from International Daily News interviewed practitioners. He also took pictures of us demonstrating the exercises. We told him that the situation of Falun Gong in China is deteriorating and more than 90 practitioners have been tortured to death. He was shocked by such facts. We told him further truths such as, over 500 practitioners have been sentenced to jail terms; more than 600 practitioners have been sent to psychiatric hospitals; more than 10,000 practitioners have been sent to labor camps, and over 50,000 practitioners have been arrested.
Practitioners from Houston
Dec. 10, 2000
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