Lidia traveled to Warsaw from another city. When she saw so many people practicing slow-moving exercises in the quiet park in the early morning, she stopped to watch. She said, “They look very relaxed and peaceful.” A practitioner talked to her and gave her more information.

She learned that this is an ancient practice from China called Falun Dafa, and that Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is the principle that these practitioners follow. She said, “Traditional Chinese culture is very good. A culture with moral norms has the same goal as the Western belief in God.”

She said she heard the CCP regime persecutes people but this was the first time she heard about the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners. She thanked the practitioner for the information.

A young Ukrainian who passed by the park read the Falun Dafa flyer carefully. He said, “As a member of persecuted people in the war, I care about my country very much. I can also understand the feelings of other persecuted people. I hope Falun Dafa practitioners can win their own rights and live in a country that has the power to uphold their beliefs.”

A Polish undergraduate student also said that seeing so many people practicing Falun Dafa gave him a very quiet, pure and peaceful feeling. He said that belief was a fundamental human right, and that Poles had difficult experiences under communist rule. The persecution of Falun Dafa must stop.

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 organisation 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.