10 August 2001

Brno: An unusual sight was available yesterday to the people who passed through the Czech Street in the heart of the Moravian metropolis. There was a public demonstration of the Chinese practice of Falun Gong (Falun Dafa) by four yellow clad adherents of that ancient method of "refining and uniting body, mind and spirit."

"We have traveled from England to help our friends in Brno to publicly and freely demonstrate the exercises of Falun Gong and its spiritual practice. The teaching of Falun Dafa was made public by Master Li Hongzhi in 1992 in China and very soon it spread throughout the country. The year before last Falun Dafa was placed outside the law, 50 thousand adherents were imprisoned in concentration camps and 267 people were already tortured to death by the Chinese dictatorship!" told Blesk one of the followers Czecho-englishman Zek Halu. According to him people who are interested can find out further details from www.falundafa.org or telephone 0776/128765

The caption inside on the left hand side of the main picture reads: Two of the adherents of the Chinese teaching of Falun Gong demonstrate one of the exercises and meditation in the centre of Brno.

The caption under the inserted picture of the Chinese man reads: This young man also traveled to Moravia to propagate this unusual method.