(Minghui.org) Practitioners held activities to introduce Falun Dafa and raise awareness of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution. The event was held on November 5, 2022, at Place Saint-Michel, located in the heart of Paris and a renowned cultural district. 

Their eye-catching banners, display boards, and peaceful exercise demonstrations attracted many passers-by. People took fliers and stopped to learn more about the event. Many signed the petition calling to end the CCP’s persecution, and encouraged practitioners to persevere.

Practitioners held activities at Place Saint-Michel on November 5 to introduce Falun Dafa and tell people about the CCP’s persecution.

Atika Osiris, a civil servant, was shocked and indignant when she learned that the CCP persecuted and even conducted organ harvesting from imprisoned practitioners while they are alive. She said, “This is inhuman. It is stealing and robbery, stealing other people’s lives to make a profit. Life is given by God and is inviolable. This atrocity must be stopped.”

Ms. Osiris said that the international community should rise up to intervene in this matter and safeguard the basic rights of Falun Dafa practitioners. “We want peace in the world and peace for all mankind.”

She learned the Falun Dafa exercises at the booth and afterwards said she felt comfortable and relaxed. She said, “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is wisdom. This exercise is peaceful and can help one achieve inner peace. This is health.” She said that she would go online to learn the practice when she returned home, and she would also go to a group practice site near her home to do the exercises. 

People Encourage Practitioners to Continue Exposing the Persecution

People sign a petition to condemn the persecution.

Dashi, a Tibetan living in exile in France, is a craftsman. Due to the persecution by the Chinese regime, he went to Europe. He said that Tibetans are all Buddhists, and in Tibet, they, like Falun Dafa practitioners in China, are also persecuted by the CCP. He also said, “I have heard of live organ harvesting from Falun Dafa practitioners. This is a very cruel act. I support your protest.” He said that the Chinese people must wake up and jointly stop the CCP’s persecution.

Pachaanga Braklo, a student from the Université Paris-Dauphine, said, “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is an important value that I agree with. The CCP is autocratic, and its persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners is a crime.” He said that practitioners should continue to fight for their belief.

Alain Castanié said, “The CCP’s persecution of the common people is completely inconsistent with all the norms of the West and current society.” He said he still remembered the scene of the young man intercepting the tank on Tiananmen Square on June 4 more than 30 years ago. He said that in China people have no human rights or protection. Protests are not allowed.

Fabrice Chevalier

Fabrice Chevalier, a computer engineer, has been to China and feels that the Chinese are amiable, and it is a beautiful country. He said that Chinese people were forced into a mold since childhood and conditioned to not have opinions that contradict Party rule and ideology. What the official media says is what they say, and no other information is allowed. It is brainwashing. So we must oppose such persecution. The CCP’s persecution of Falun Dafa is unreasonable. He said, “It’s good that you are here to expose this brutal behavior. Keep going!”

Background: What Is Falun Dafa and Why Is the CCP Persecuting It?

Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong) was first introduced to the public by Mr. Li Hongzhi in Changchun, China, in 1992. The spiritual discipline is now practiced in over 100 countries and regions worldwide. Millions of people who have embraced the teachings, which are based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, and have learned the five exercises have experienced improved health and well-being.

Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity as a threat to the CCP’s atheistic ideology and on July 20, 1999, he issued an order to eradicate the practice.

Under Jiang’s personal direction, the CCP established the 610 Office, an extralegal security organization with the power to override the police and judicial systems and whose sole function is to carry out the persecution of Falun Dafa.

Minghui.org has confirmed the deaths of thousands of practitioners as a result of the persecution over the past 23 years. The actual number is believed to be much higher. Countless practitioners have been imprisoned and tortured for their faith.

There is concrete evidence that the CCP sanctions the harvesting of organs from detained practitioners, who are murdered to supply China’s organ transplant industry.