(Clearwisdom.net) On June 30, 2006, practitioners held activities outside the Chinese Consulate in St. Petersburg to protest the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) brutal persecution of Falun Gong

For several years, Falun Gong practitioners' applications to protest in front of the Chinese Consulate in St. Petersburg have been denied by the Russian government. However, through a recent sharing and communication, Russian practitioners recognized that all things in the world, including law, are created by Dafa, so they have to provide ways for Dafa practitioners to validate the Fa. The government created obstacles to our protests with the excuse of following orders. This is an old force arrangement, so we have to firmly deny it. Practitioners as one body did not recognize this until now. Now, all practitioners have achieved a common understanding. Although the government denied our application, we went ahead with our protest outside the Chinese Consulate on June 30^th while practitioners in Moscow simultaneously protested outside the Chinese Embassy.

In the three days before the activity, Falun Gong practitioners clarified the truth to all departments of the government and police offices in St. Petersburg. Though the governmental officials dared not accept our protest application under huge pressure from the CCP, they listened to the truth clarification especially carefully because they saw the resolute attitude of Falun Gong practitioners. They expressed their understanding and hoped that practitioners would bring them more information in the future.

On June 30^th, before the Falun Gong practitioners arrived at the Chinese Consulate, a lot of police were waiting. Practitioners immediately clarified the truth to them. Meanwhile, a police officer who had already learned the truth said, "You can put out your banners. We will not stop you." So everyone spread out the banners to protest. A reporter from Radio Moscow interviewed practitioners on the spot and broadcast the protest in a positive way on its night program. In the one-hour protest, officers in the Chinese Consulate came out and took photos and videos of every practitioner. They kept pressuring the Russian government. The cell phones of the police officer on the spot beeped all the time. We could see that they were under huge pressure from their superiors. At last, a high ranking police officer, lieutenant colonel, came to ask Falun Gong practitioners to end the protest or he would be fired. Practitioners ended the protest and moved farther away from the Chinese Consulate and continued to send forth righteous thoughts across the river.

Afterwards, the police called the organizer of the activity to the police office and asked her make a written statement. She made it clear on the record that it was illegal for the police to stop such a protest. The police told her a judicial decision would come the following Monday.