On September 24, 25 practitioners arrived in Kaohsiung and finished their 14-day SOS! Global RescueWalk in Taiwan. The East coast group, 18 practitioners in all, started their walk from Taipei on September 11; the West coast group, consisting of 7 practitioners started from Yixing. Two groups joined in Kaohsiung and held a press conference to urge an immediate end of the persecution of Falun Gong in China.