MOSCOW—Russian Falun Gong practitioners continued to protest in front of the Chinese embassy in Moscow on March 26, and police continued to arrest them.
When Falun Gong adherents individually unfurled protest banners in front of the embassy, police officers arrested them in short order, taking them to the Ramenki police station.
Five Russian Falun Gong practitioners are being held in police custody in the police station at the time of this writing, and police are reportedly preparing civil-law charges against them. Police also arrested numerous protesting Falun Gong practitioners and confiscated their protest banners on March 24 and 25.
According to one practitioner, appealing individually in front of the embassy does not require a permit. So the practitioners took care not to congregate in front of the embassy building, but instead kept separate to ensure that they would be protesting as individuals rather than as a group.
Meanwhile, at the official opening of 2007 as "The Year of China" in Russia, Epoch Times Russia staffer Svetlana Kim was detained by officers of Russia's Federal Security Service. Police removed her from the Krokus City exhibition center where she was covering the event, and detained her at a police station.
These protests are in response to the impending visit of Hu Jintao, leader of the Chinese communist regime. The Chinese regime banned the practice of Falun Gong in 1999, after officially supporting it for several years before that.
Since the ban was effected, the Chinese regime has arrested hundreds of thousands of Chinese practitioners, torturing and murdering thousands, and using some as a living organ warehouse for transplants for wealthy foreigners (please see China's New Regulation Exposes Organ Removal From Live Minors and Organ Harvesting in China. )
Falun Gong, a peaceful meditation and exercise regimen, is practiced throughout the world. Falun Gong practitioners regularly appeal for an end to the persecution in China. Only in countries with strong ties to communist China are these demonstrations suppressed.
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