On May 17, 2008 Dutch Falun Gong practitioners held a demonstration in the city of Assen to protest the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.

Assen is one of the fastest growing cities in Holland's Northern Province of Drenthe. With banners, flyers, petition forms and exercise demonstration, the people in Drenthe were informed about the 9-year-long brutal persecution.

Signatures were gathered for the "Million Signatures" petition campaign, demanding that the Chinese communist regime immediately stop its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. After seeing the banners depicting Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted in China, and hearing about the persecution, many people spontaneously came to the petition table to sign the petition.