USA: Texas Dafa Practitioners Appeal in Front of Chinese Consulate for the Release of American Citizen Charles Li

At noon on March 30 2003, Sunday, Houston Dafa practitioners came to the outside of the residential compound of the Chinese Consulate to practise the Falun Gong exercises and send righteous thoughts [thinking upright thoughts to purify oneself and one's surroundings] on the public lawn. On the display board were the words, "Release American Citizen Charles Li," and the words "Falun Dafa is good" could be seen on the banners. It was early spring in Houston and the temperature was high, but many Dafa practitioners managed to come. One family has 14 members who practise Falun Gong. Other than several members who were not in Houston, the rest of the family all came. One practitioner drove from Austin together with two other Chinese and Western practitioners from Switzerland to join the activity. The practitioners revealed that the Chinese regime arbitrarily detained and sentenced American citizen Charles Li, which is an expansion of the persecution of Falun Gong that cannot be acknowledged. It's not wrong that Charles Li practises Falun Gong. Telling the deceived Chinese people the truth in a peaceful manner is not wrong, but a just and courageous action. The practitioners strongly demanded that the Chinese government immediately release Charles Li.

As it was a weekend, with many cars coming in and out of the residential compound of the Chinese Consulate, the people inside the cars could clearly see the words on banners and display boards, and the Dafa practitioners peacefully doing the exercises on the public lawn. Some cars stopped and carefully looked at the banners.