(Clearwisdom.net) On July 20, 2006, the 7^th anniversary of the start of the persecution of Falun Gong in China, Falun Gong practitioners in Berlin, Germany held a daylong protest activity from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. in front of the Chinese embassy on Jannowitz Bridge, although temperatures reached up to 34 degrees centigrade.

Informing Berlin citizens about the persecution

Falun Gong practitioners protest the persecution in front of the Chinese embassy

Many people passing by accepted flyers with information about the forced organ removals from living Falun Gong practitioners in China. We also met many people who told us that they already knew about it. There have been practitioners protesting in front of the Chinese embassy for almost as long as the persecution has lasted. During the last years, practitioners have been coming to the Jannowitz Bridge almost daily. It is easy to understand why many people who live or work close by would be well informed about the persecution.

Although the staff at the embassy tried numerous times using police intervention to force us to abandon our protests in front of the largest embassy in Europe, we never gave up and we will maintain our peaceful vigil in front of the embassy until the end of the persecution.

In the morning, one young lady from a Berlin radio station came to interview two Falun Gong practitioners. She asked detailed questions about why we practice Falun Gong and why we participate in protest activities. Perhaps she will tell her young listeners about our activities to let more people learn about the persecution.

It is the hope of all Berlin Falun Gong practitioners that we will not have to repeat the same protest in front of the Chinese embassy on July 20 of next year. We hope that the brutal persecution will be over by that time, because seven years are too long already.