Falun Gong practitioners do exercises at an event marking the 22nd anniversary of the start of the Chinese regime’s persecution of Falun Gong, in Washington on July 16, 2021.

At the rally, Falun Gong adherents called for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong in China.

Practitioners of Falun Gong (or Falun Dafa) practice the sitting meditation of the spiritual discipline in Central Park in Manhattan, on May 10, 2014.

Falun Gong practitioners take part in a candlelight vigil commemorating the 20th anniversary of the persecution of Falun Gong in China, on the West Lawn of Capitol Hill on July 18, 2019.

Zheng Buqiu attacks a Falun Gong information booth in Flushing, New York, on Feb. 10, 2022.

-based website that tracks the persecution of Falun Gong in China.

The attacks on Falun Gong are an example of the CCP’s transnational repression and power projection.

Levi Browde, executive director of the Falun Dafa Information Center, at a Falun Gong rally at City Hall in New York on May 11, 2016.

Zheng Buqiu attacks a Falun Gong information booth in Flushing, New York, on Feb. 10, 2022.

Practitioners of Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, gathered in London on Sunday to celebrate World Falun Dafa Day.

Jie Lijian speaks at a rally supporting Falun Gong practitioners and calling for an end to the CCP’s persecution. (Courtesy of Jie Lijian)By 2025, Jie said he had organized more than 100 demonstrations.

According to the Falun Dafa Information Center report, the Chinese regime had previously detained Fang for more than four years, where he was “egregiously tortured for his faith in Falun Gong.”

Falun Gong practitioner Matthew Kang does one of the Falun Gong exercises at Ortega Park in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Oct. 3, 2021.

Although the pandemic has cut down travel, about 4,000 Falun Gong adherents from New York and elsewhere gathered on May 13 in the Big Apple to mark World Falun Dafa Day.

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Falun Gong practitioners participate in a parade to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the April 25th peaceful appeal of 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners in Beijing, in Flushing, N.Y., on April 23, 2022.

Hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners rally to express their gratitude to Mr. Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong, and wish him a happy Mid-Autumn Festival, on Sept. 12, 2021.

Though not a Falun Gong practitioner, her husband Niu Jiancheng was arrested, too, for transporting print material in connection with Falun Gong.

Two decades ago, Beijing banned Falun Gong as an “evil cult” and set out to eliminate it.

Practitioners who speak with neighbors or strangers about Falun Gong run the risk of being detained—or worse, sentenced to prison. Teachers are required to indoctrinate their students with anti-Falun Gong propaganda.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a traditional self-improvement discipline that includes meditation exercises and is based on the principles of “Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance.”

The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, a U.S.

Multiple practitioners of Falun Gong lost their lives while in police custody in China since May, according to reports from Minghui.org, a U.S.-based leading website that documents the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) persecution of Falun Gong.

(Larry Dye/The Epoch Times) ‘What the CCP Opposes Is Definitely Good’ Peng started practicing Falun Gong in 1996 after her friend wrote to her recommending the faith.

Bay Area Falun Gong practitioners meditate in front of the Ferry Building before a parade to celebrate World Falun Dafa Day in San Francisco on May 8, 2021.

Falun Gong Whistleblowers "Falun Gong practitioners run the largest underground media and information network inside China," the report noted.

Li Hongzhi’s lecture on Falun Gong in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in 1993.

This time, there are episodes on Falun Gong practitioners. I think that gives a very powerful message. I particularly like the stories on what happened to Falun Gong because it is close enough for me.” Mr.

“I want to thank the Falun Gong community for their advocacy,” he said.

Soon the CCP forbade the practice of Falun Gong On July 20, 1999, the CCP began a large-scale violent persecution against the tens of millions of Falun Gong practitioners in China.