(Clearwisdom.net) The March for Peace, Perugia-Assisi in Italy drew tens of thousands of people from across Italy and abroad on September 25, 2011. The march takes place every two years, over a distance of about 25 kilometers, starting from Perugia and reaching the end in Assisi.

There were booths about peace and human rights issues along the march route. The local Falun Gong practitioners set up a booth to expose the brutal persecution against Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist regime that has continued for the past 12 years.

Many people, and at times entire groups of march participants, stopped to read the posters and ask questions about Falun Gong.

People read informational posters and watch practitioners demonstrate the exercises

One woman wanted to learn the exercises right away, and a Falun Gong practitioner at the booth taught her some of the exercises. She had been walking for a long time and was very tired when she came to the booth. However, after just a brief period of practicing the Falun Gong exercises, she felt as if she'd taken a long rest and was full of energy. She was very pleased.

A woman learns Falun Gong exercises after walking in the march

Some members of Amnesty International expressed their support for Falun Gong and promised to do their best to further spread the information about the persecution of Falun Gong.

Marco, a firefighter from Siena, started to practice Falun Gong on his own a few years ago. Happy to see the Falun Gong booth at the march, he stopped to talk with the practitioners there about some of the specific exercise movements he had been unsure about.

The event started early in morning and finished after sunset.