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.

“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. 

The 610 Office was a secret, extra-legal nationwide network designed to target Falun Gong practitioners.

Falun Gong practitioner Xu Na in China in this undated photo. Xu was sentenced to eight years in prison for her religious beliefs.

Falun Gong sources say that over the last twenty years in China, several million Falun Gong have been detained.

Over 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners went to appeal on April 25, 1999, in Beijing, China.

He had begun practicing Falun Gong three years earlier.

Shortly after the persecution of Falun Gong began, China's organ transplant industry began to boom. Many Falun Gong practitioners have shared how they were nearly victims of China’s organ harvesting.

Reports of unacceptable human rights abuses against the Falun Gong continue to surface, despite the fact that Falun Gong traditions are rooted in the peaceful values of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance."

Because of my faith in Falun Gong, I was fired by my university.

Part of the of facility houses Falun Gong practitioners for detention and mistreatment.

Falun Gong adherent Jason Wang recounted the assault with The Epoch Times. On Saturday, Wang drove his car together with his mother, his 6-, and 4-year-old children toward downtown Paris for a weekly Falun Gong event.

A Falun Gong adherent died in northeastern China after experiencing instances of torture, according to Minghui.org, a U.S.-based website that reports on Beijing's persecution of Falun Gong.

Chinese police harassed or arrested nearly 3,000 Falun Gong adherents in the recent two months, according to Minghui.org, a U.S.-based website that documents the Chinese communist regime's persecution of Falun Gong.

July 20 marks the 23rd year of the Chinese regime's persecution of Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline with meditative exercises and moral teachings.

Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong. Gao learned in the prison that Falun Gong adherent Chen Shang was kept in a damp room and couldn't see any sunlight all day long.

Li brought the ancient spiritual practice of Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, to the public in 1992.

Falun Gong practitioners take part in a parade marking the 22nd anniversary of the start of the Chinese regime's persecution of Falun Gong, in Washington on July 16, 2021.

According to Shen Yun, its artists practice Falun Gong.

All of them are Falun Gong practitioners. Falun Gong is a spiritual discipline based on the core tenets of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance, and about 70 million to 100 million people were practicing it in China in 1999.

Xu was sentenced to eight years for practicing Falun Gong in China when his wife was pregnant.

“They wanted to create internal CCP branches in any civil group, including Falun Gong, which was in violation of the principles of Falun Gong.”