Name: 25-04-26 Wellington Commemorating April 25 Peaceful Appeal
Uploaded: 2026-04-27T10:36:46.415Z
Duration: 1 min 25 s

Friends of Falun Gong NZ

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On the 25th of April, 1999, 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered peacefully outside Beijing’s State Council Appeals Office to request the release of 45 illegally detained practitioners in Tianjin as well as the right to freely practice their faith in response to growing restrictions from the government. 

Then-Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji met with several Falun Gong representatives to discuss at the State Council, and it appeared as though the issues were resolved by nightfall with orders given to release the detained practitioners. As the crowd dispersed, cleaning up the occupied area, observers praised the gathering as the “the most rational, peaceful and orderly citizen petition in modern Chinese history.” 

However, in the following months, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin overruled Zhu’s conciliatory approach and labeled the peaceful protest a threat. The regime then used the event to launch a brutal persecution on July 20, 1999, portraying it as a “siege”, aimed at eradicating Falun Gong.

- via Faluninfo.net

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Today, 27 years later, Falun Gong practitioners in Wellington are holding a public event, including a candlelight vigil, to honor the spirit of that historic day, and to call on all people of conscience to condemn the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal persecution and to support the universal values of human rights and dignity.

Song name: Light up the candle by Anna Kokkonen
https://youtu.be/FvMOXwN8oDs?si=xGlyBYtfKFhVKbfv

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