[Minghui.org] India: Falun Dafa at YVCare Earth Festival in Mumbai

 Nov. 11, 2023 | By a Falun Dafa practitioner in India

They had Falun Dafa books and informational materials on display. They also demonstrated the five exercises and distributed flyers to the festival goers to raise awareness of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution.

(Minghui.org) Falun Dafa practitioners were invited to participate in the YVCare Earth Festival in Mumbai on October 28 and 29, 2023. Many visitors from diverse backgrounds—including environmentalists, police officers, TV celebrities, tourists, and others—showed great interest in learning more about the practice and expressed their concern over the 24-year-long persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners in China.

In India, winter is the season of fairs and exhibitions, and people visit book fairs, flower shows, and other exhibitions with their friends and families.

The YVCare Earth Festival is India’s biggest festival dedicated to the environment, sustainability, compassion, health and fitness, and a cruelty-free lifestyle. At their booth at the festival, Falun Dafa practitioners informed people about their spiritual practice and shared its principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. They had Falun Dafa books and informational materials on display. They also demonstrated the five exercises and distributed flyers to the festival goers to raise awareness of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution.

The Falun Dafa booth at the YVCare Earth Festival on the JVPD grounds in Juhu, Mumbai

Practitioners teach visitors the Falun Dafa exercises.

Festival Staff: “What You All Are Doing Cannot Be Done by Anybody Else.”

Because the festival focused on the environment and compassion, it drew visitors interested in a conscious way of living. Against this backdrop, many were shocked to learn about the persecution. Some thanked practitioners for speaking out about this issue.

A festival staff member who stopped to speak with practitioners said he was impressed by the their efforts. “This is very different from everything else. What you all are doing cannot be done by anyone else in this world,” he said.

Amey, a young man sympathetic to the Tibetan cause, said he’d heard about the persecution of Falun Dafa. He was eager to learn more and talked with practitioners, expressing his hope that the CCP would collapse because it is so evil.

Rajesh Sreedhar from a western suburb of Mumbai was amazed that practitioners booked the booth with their own money and were selling Falun Dafa books at cost. He was keen to know about Falun Dafa and the ongoing persecution in China and asked about the health and other benefits of the practice. He purchased a copy of Zhuan Falun, the main text of Falun Dafa.

About 38 people registered for free introductory Falun Dafa webinars so they could learn the exercises in detail.

Celebrities and the Media Stop by the Booth

Sara Khan, a TV actress, accepted a Falun Dafa informational flyer from a practitioner at the booth and promised to read it to learn more about this mind-body practice.

Practitioners introduce the exercises to festival attendees.

Rajpal Yadav, a comedian and actor in Hindi cinema, learned about the practice and accepted materials from the practitioners.

A practitioner gives TV celebrity Rajpal Yadav flyers and a crystal lotus keepsake.

Regional news channel Superfast 24 stopped by the booth to interview practitioners and covered the exercise demonstrations.

A Superfast 24 reporter reports on activities at the Falun Dafa booth.

The Deputy Commissioner of Police of Mumbai, Vinayak Dhakale, showed keen interest in learning more about Falun Dafa and invited practitioners to introduce the practice at his regional department.

A practitioners gives Vinayak Dhakale information about Falun Dafa.

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Editor’s Note: Dear readers, do you know that Falun Dafa, originally from China, is currently practiced by people in over 100 countries? But in China, since Jul. 20, 1999, Falun Gong is defamed, slandered and persecuted due to the Chinese Communist Party’s fear of Falun Gong’s rapidly growing popularity. 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.

To learn more about the persecution Falun Gong practitioners are subjected to in China, visit http://faluninfo.net/.

For more information about the practice or to download Zhuan Falun, visit: www.falundafa.org. All books, exercise music, resources, and instructions are available completely free of charge.

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【明慧网】印度孟买地球节 民众踊跃了解法轮大法

文: 印度法轮功学员

在展位上，他们展示了法轮大法的书籍和资料。学员们还演示了法轮大法的五套功法，并向参观者分发了传单，告诉人们自一九九九年以来中共对法轮大法的迫害。

【明慧网二零二三年十一月七日】印度孟买的法轮大法学员于二零二三年十月二十八日和二十九日参加了在孟买举办的一个地球节（the YVCare Earth Festival）。在两天的活动中，印度各阶层人士，包括环保人士、警察、影视名人、游客等，都对了解法轮大法修炼表示出浓厚的兴趣，并对法轮大法学员在中国遭受的长达二十四年的迫害表示担忧和愤慨。

在印度，交易会和展览会通常会在冬季举行。在冬季，人们喜欢与朋友和家人一起参观书展、花展和其他展览。

这个地球节是印度最大的有关环境、可持续性、善心、健康与健身以及无残忍生活方式的节日。法轮大法学员在地球节上设立展位，向人们介绍法轮大法修炼，并分享了真、善、忍理念。在展位上，他们展示了法轮大法的书籍和资料。学员们还演示了法轮大法的五套功法，并向参观者分发了传单，告诉人们自一九九九年以来中共对法轮大法的迫害。

图1：孟买YVCare地球节上的法轮大法展位。

图2～3：学员正在教民众法轮大法第五套功法。

地球节工作人员：你们所做的事情是任何人都做不到的

地球节完全围绕着环境和善心这一主题，因而吸引了生活中寻求良知的访客。在这个背景下，许多参观者在了解了法轮功学员遭受迫害的情况后感到震惊。有些人感谢学员们为此发声。

一个地球节的工作人员停下来与学员交谈。他对学员们的努力印象深刻。他说：“这与其它一切都不同。你们所做的事情是任何人都无法做到的。”

年轻人艾米（Amey）之前听说过法轮大法遭受的迫害。他渴望从学员那里了解更多关于迫害的消息，并说希望中共因其邪恶本质而在未来解体。

孟买西部郊区的居民拉杰什·斯里德哈对（Rajesh Sreedhar）学员自己出钱预订展位并以成本价销售法轮大法书籍感到惊讶。他渴望了解法轮大法和中共对大法持续的迫害，并询问学员修炼给健康和日常生活带来的好处。在离开之前，他还购买了法轮大法的主要著作《转法轮》。

约有三十八人报名参加法轮大法网上免费教功班，以便详细学习法轮大法功法。

名人和媒体驻足大法展位

电视演员萨拉·汗（Sara Khan）从展位的学员那里接受了法轮大法的传单，并说会阅读以便了解这个有益身心健康的修炼方法。

图4：学员在法轮大法展位向人们介绍功法。

印度电影喜剧演员拉杰帕尔·亚达夫（Rajpal Yadav）了解了有关法轮大法的信息，并接受了学员提供的资料。

图5：电视名人拉杰帕尔·亚达夫接受了法轮功学员递上的真相传单。

一家地区新闻频道（Superfast 24）记者来到了展位，对学员进行了采访，并报道了他们的功法演示。

图6：地区新闻频道（Superfast 24）主持人（左）在法轮大法展位进行报道。

孟买市警察局副局长维纳亚克·达卡莱（Vinayak Dhakale）非常有兴趣了解法轮大法的修炼，并与学员取得联系，计划在他的部门介绍法轮大法。

图7：警察局副局长维纳亚克·达卡莱接受学员提供的法轮大法信息。

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朋友，您知道吗？从1992年5月开始，到2010年底为止，法轮功已经传到114多个国家，在那里人们都可以自由自在的炼功…

可是，在中国，从1999年7月20日开始，江泽民因为妒忌法轮功人数众多，对法轮功恶毒的诽谤与迫害。社会上很多人听信了共产党媒体的宣传和煽动，对法轮功产生了很深的误解与仇恨。

最为恶劣的，是在2001年1月导演了一场所谓的”自焚”闹剧，并通过新华社以从未有过的速度向全世界散播，嫁祸法轮功。这场闹剧，后被包括服务于联合国的国际教育发展组织（IED）在内的多个国际组织认定为虚假编造。朋友，您愿意把法轮功真相与更多的人分享吗？

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[The Epoch Times] Senior CCP Official Threatens Falun Gong Practitioners in Finland

THE ACTIONS OF THE FORMER HONG KONG CHIEF EXECUTIVE HAVE SPURRED CONCERN FROM HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES.

BY EVA FU/ THE EPOCH TIMES

Levi Browde, executive director of the Falun Dafa Information Center, said the Helsinki park episode marks “part of a larger trend of Chinese Communist Party officials and affiliates attempting to intimidate, surveil, and silence Falun Gong practitioners outside of China.”

“That a senior Chinese official would personally confront peaceful meditators in a European democracy highlights how high a priority suppressing Falun Gong remains for Beijing,” he said in a statement, noting that several of Leung’s comments “also illustrate how deceived by CCP propaganda Chinese officials are themselves.”

Leung Chun-ying, former Hong Kong chief executive, threatens Falun Gong practitioners in Sibelius Park in Helsinki on Aug. 13, 2025. Courtesy of Helsinki Falun Gong practitioners

Former Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying threatened a group of Falun Gong practitioners in Finland as they collected signatures to oppose ongoing human rights abuses in China, heightening concern from the persecuted spiritual group that its members are still at risk even after escaping the country.

“Once we have your names, we can immediately look you up once we are back, one by one,” Leung said in a recording reviewed by The Epoch Times.

The incident took place on Aug. 13 in Helsinki’s Sibelius Park, a popular tourist attraction. A Falun Gong information booth there has drawn thousands of people in the past few months.

Leung, Hong Kong’s chief executive from 2012 to 2017, is now vice chairman of China’s top political advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. Leung presides over a powerful apparatus tasked with influence and intelligence operations abroad to advance Beijing’s agenda inside and outside of China.

On Aug. 13, the information booth featured two blue banners calling attention to the persecution of Falun Gong in China. In front of the booth, a man and a woman were demonstrating meditative exercises. Next to them was a table covered with a blue cloth. Several other practitioners were talking with passersby and inviting them to sign petitions to end torture and forced organ harvesting in China.

Leung walked up to the booth with his wife, Regina Leung Tong Ching-yee, and two other men.

One Falun Gong practitioner, who asked for anonymity over safety concerns, said he greeted Leung by saying, “Welcome to Helsinki.”

Leung proceeded to accost them with questions and dismissed the persecution as nonexistent, according to the practitioners and recordings shared with The Epoch Times.

The couple brought out their phones to film people’s faces, an act that the practitioners found intimidating. Some fled China not long ago or still have relatives in country. With its advanced facial recognition technology and comprehensive police database, the communist regime can use photos and videos to trace dissidents and harass their family members, something common for Chinese dissidents.

Regina Leung Tong Ching-yee, wife of former Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, in a confrontational exchange with Falun Gong practitioners in Sibelius Park in Helsinki on Aug. 13, 2025. Courtesy of Helsinki Falun Gong practitioners

Falun Gong is a spiritual discipline and meditation practice with moral teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. Since 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has engaged in a nationwide campaign to eliminate the spiritual practice by any means necessary, including via arbitrary arrest, torture, forced labor, and brainwashing, tactics that have been well-documented by human rights groups and the U.S. State Department.

Multiple Falun Gong practitioners present during the Aug. 13 encounter had escaped China after enduring years of harassment, surveillance, and other forms of abuse.

The man who welcomed Leung was one of them. For refusing to give up his belief, he lost his job and was forced to go into hiding for eight years. Police officers intimidated his family only months ago following another harassment incident at the park.

Leung’s political position and history of hostility toward Falun Gong worries human rights watchers.

Leung Chun-ying, former Hong Kong chief executive and his wife, Regina Leung Tong Ching-yee, in a confrontational exchange with Falun Gong practitioners in Sibelius Park, Helsinki, on Aug. 13. Courtesy of Helsinki Falun Gong practitioners

Levi Browde, executive director of the Falun Dafa Information Center, said the Helsinki park episode marks “part of a larger trend of Chinese Communist Party officials and affiliates attempting to intimidate, surveil, and silence Falun Gong practitioners outside of China.”

“That a senior Chinese official would personally confront peaceful meditators in a European democracy highlights how high a priority suppressing Falun Gong remains for Beijing,” he said in a statement, noting that several of Leung’s comments “also illustrate how deceived by CCP propaganda Chinese officials are themselves.”

The practitioners reported the incident to the police, who arrived shortly after Leung and his wife departed. The officers assured the practitioners that their booth is protected under Finnish law and said they would monitor the area to mitigate any interference.

The practitioner who initially greeted Leung said he did not expect what followed.

“He said he could ‘look us up,’“ he told The Epoch Times. ”What’s the purpose of that?”

He said there have been two other instances in the past year in which Beijing supporters have intimidated them or tried to sabotage the site.

In September 2024, two men pulled down banners at the booth and warned two people present that they must “behave” if they want to be safe in Finland.

Two Chinese men knocked down Falun Gong banners in Helsinki’s Sibelius Park on Sept. 21, 2024. Courtesy of Helsinki Falun Gong practitioners

Two men who verbally abused a Falun Gong practitioner and tried to grab his phone in Helsinki’s Sibelius Park on Jan. 16, 2024. Courtesy of Helsinki Falun Gong practitioners

In January, two different men insulted the same practitioner for his faith and tried to grab his phone.

“We’ve already reported this to the Chinese Embassy,” one of the men said, in a recording shared with The Epoch Times.

The confrontation on Aug. 13 was the latest reminder of Beijing’s relentless suppression, the practitioner said.

“We are outside of China, but it doesn’t feel all that safe,” he said. “The Chinese Communist Party is still trying to persecute us.”

Browde said he is worried about the depth of Chinese influence over other countries, pointing to recent incidents in which Falun Gong practitioners in Serbia and Russiawere detained and prosecuted before visits to those countries by Chinese leader Xi Jinping. In July, Russia sentenced one woman detained since 2024 to four years in prison.

“As the Chinese regime intensifies its global campaigns of intimidation and coercion, it’s vital that democracies take action to protect vulnerable communities like Falun Gong and Finnish citizens practicing this faith,” Browde said. He urged Finnish authorities to publicly condemn Leung’s behavior and investigate Chinese surveillance and harassment of the spiritual group in the country.

Source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/former-hong-kong-leader-threatens-falun-gong-practitioners-in-finland-5902377

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Editor’s Note: Dear readers, do you know that Falun Dafa, originally from China, is currently practiced by people in over 100 countries? But in China, since Jul. 20, 1999, Falun Gong is defamed, slandered and persecuted due to the Chinese Communist Party’s fear of Falun Gong’s rapidly growing popularity. 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.

To learn more about the persecution Falun Gong practitioners are subjected to in China, visit http://faluninfo.net/.

For more information about the practice or to download Zhuan Falun, visit: www.falundafa.org. All books, exercise music, resources, and instructions are available completely free of charge.

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Why Jiang Zemin and CCP Persecute Falun Gong?

http://thetruthaboutfalungong.blogspot.sg/p/epoch-times-nine-commentaries-on.html

[VIDEO] Why Jiang Zemin and CCP Persecute Falun Gong?

http://thetruthaboutfalungong.blogspot.com/p/video-why-jiang-zemin-ccp-persecute.html