Why did practitioners appeal to the Central Committee?
As early as June of 1996, the Propaganda Ministry of the Central Committee instructed various levels of government to criticize Falun Gong. Guangming Daily News launched the first attack with the article “Alarm Bell Keeps Ringing.” The News Publishing Bureau subsequently prohibited the publishing, distribution and sale of Falun Gong books. Before April 25, police all over had already begun to seize Falun Gong books, and interfere with group practices. The arrest of practitioners by the Tianjin Police was an escalation of the persecution. The problem had already reached the point it could not have been resolved without the intervention of high-level leadership from the Central Committee. How many people went to appeal on April 25? From Beihai Park’s South Gate to the west side of the Xi’an Gate, and from Fuyou Street to the alley west of it–in these two places alone, there were thirty thousand people. Practitioners that came later were stopped on the outer peripheries. Practitioners fr
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