Finland: A Practitioner Collects Petition Signatures that Oppose Article 23 in the City of Turku

A practitioner in the city of Turku collected petition signatures on Friday 4th and Saturday 5th of July appealing against the legislation of Article 23 in Hong Kong, which would deprive the Hong Kong people of their freedom and human rights. At the same time, this was a great chance for the practitioner to tell people about the persecution of Falun Gong in China. She had the opportunity to talk with over two hundred people, and almost all of them listened carefully and signed the petition. Many of them said it would be a real shame if Hong Kong went through with the Article 23 legislation. Quite a lot of them had already heard about Article 23, and many of them mentioned Falun Gong, and how Article 23 would affect the human rights of all kinds of people in Hong Kong. The practitioner talked with some people for quite a while, and they really wanted to learn more. After she told a young man about the principles of Falun Dafa and about the Jiang regime’s persecution, he said "There is no way something this good should be persecuted!" A member of the Finnish Parliament also came to talk with her for a long time about Falun Gong, and in the end the MP said, “You are doing the right thing here!” He was amazed that the Olympic Games are going to be held in China, even though human rights are not respected there.