(Clearwisdom.net) On July 8 Falun Gong practitioners introduced Falun Gong in Kauhajoki, a small town in southeast Finland.

Talking to passersby about Falun Gong and the persecution	Practising the first of five exercises taught in Falun Gong

It was the first time for many of the local people in Kauhajoki to see or hear about Falun Gong. Many people were attracted to the music playing at the activity and the beautiful performance of the slow moving and meditative Falun Gong exercises, but when they saw the pictures depicting the torture experienced by practitioners in China they fell silent and were truly shocked. The practitioners took this chance and clarified the facts behind the dreadful persecution, after which people signed their names on the petition to help stop this atrocity. The local newspaper also attended and conducted an interview with one of the practitioners. With more support from the kind people who have learned about the persecution the culprits will soon be brought to justice and the persecution stopped.

Since the Chinese Communist Party's crackdown on Falun Gong, a practice which cultivates mind and body through practicing five gentle sets of exercises and follows the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," 2781 Falun Gong practitioners have been verified via relatives, eyewitness accounts or victims' photos, etc, as being persecuted to death. Most lost their lives after enduring prolonged inhumane torture including continuous beatings, shocks with high voltage electric batons, sleep deprivation, force-feeding, and the injection of nerve damaging drugs, all which take place in forced labor camps, jails and brainwashing classes all over the country. The United Nation's 2004 Report on Human Rights Persecution of Falun Gong pointed out that the brutality and cruelty of the torture "defies description."

Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200508/28512.html
Originally in Finnish: http://fi.clearharmony.net/articles/200508/3090.html