april 25 appeal

Video: Ten years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners appealed in Beijing for the right to practice their belief.

New York City hosted a candlelight vigil on April 25 to mark the day 14 years ago that over 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered at China’s central government in Zhongnanhai, Beijing.

An April 28 parade marks 13 years since a peaceful appeal by 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners outside China’s Central Appeals Office in Beijing.

A group of New York assemblymen gathered in Albany Wednesday to support practitioners of Falun Gong on the date when this traditional Chinese spiritual practice first seized the world’s attention.

Guo De-Huang’s wife tried to convince him not to go to the Appeals Office in Beijing on April 25, 1999. She feared for his safety. But a fellow Falun Gong practitioner from Tianjin had asked for his help on April 24, and he felt it was his duty to go.