The petition notes the incarceration in China of Canadian citizen and FalunGong adherent Sun Qian, who has been sentenced to eight years in prison, as well as another eight FalunGong practitioners with Canadian ties who are currently imprisoned for
In 1999, he launched a brutal persecution against FalunGong that has continued to this day.
Since then, FalunGong practitioners all over the world have been working to raise awareness of this human rights crime.
And the forced organ harvesting that they’ve subjected FalunGong practitioners to is a crime against humanity."
The forced organ harvesting that they’ve subjected FalunGong practitioners to is a crime against humanity.
Attack on FalunGong Adherent
Around 4 p.m. that same afternoon, Liao Qiulan, a practitioner of the spiritual discipline FalunGong, was also attacked while walking in the Lai Chi Kok neighborhood.
(Courtesy of Shenli Lin)
FalunGong adherent Yanqing Li, the sister of Toronto resident Yanjie Li, was arrested for practising FalunGong on April 8 and sent to a detention centre near Harbin City.
Trey, who has conducted more than 20 years of research into the benefits of the meditative practice FalunGong and authored three books, said that FalunGong has helped quiet her mind’s constant “internal chatter.”
Falun Dafa Information Center, in its latest report released on June 30, identified hundreds of transnational repression cases targeting FalunGong practitioners in the United States from 2020 to 2025.
He spied on Chinese dissidents in New York and FalunGong practitioners, reporting back to Chinese state security.
Zhu participated in protests against then-Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen in 2019 on her visit to New York.
Leng began practicing FalunGong in 1995.
Persecution
The persecution of FalunGong began in July 1999 on orders of then-Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin.
FalunGong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline and meditation practice with moral teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. It rapidly gained popularity in China during the 1990s.
A version of the bill, the FalunGong Protection Act, passed the U.S. House of Representatives in May 2025.
In an X post on June 18, Weber urged the Senate bill to be enacted into law.
The company’s performers are also largely adherents of FalunGong, a spiritual practice heavily persecuted in China by the communist Chinese regime since 1999.
But tonight, all of that friction evaporated when Ms.
Dodson also spoke about the persecution of FalunGong practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party, condemning forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience as “inhuman” and calling for greater international awareness and condemnation of the human
"He could be tortured to death like thousands of other FalunGong practitioners have been.
"He could be killed for his organs like an unknown number of FalunGong practitioners have been."
Dr.
This is precisely what this article does with FalunGong: It has completely missed, or more accurately, dismissed, the principles that guide the lives of FalunGong practitioners.
Ian Johnson, a former Beijing bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on FalunGong, has lifted a number of curtains on the party-state persecution of FalunGong in his 2005 book Wild Grass:
Declaring Falun
FalunGong practitioners protest the persecution inside China at United Nations Plaza on Sept. 24, 2019. (Eva Fu/The Epoch Times)
“We are just regular citizens. ... What could be wrong with practicing FalunGong?
Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has cosponsored S. 4009, the FalunGong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act, adding another Democratic name to a bipartisan bill targeting the Chinese regime’s persecution of FalunGong practitioners and other
Liberal MP Judy Sgro, co-chair of Parliamentary Friends of FalunGong, speaks at a celebration on Parliament Hill in Ottawa marking the anniversary of the public introduction of FalunGong, on May 9, 2017.
On July 18, FalunGong practitioners from around the world will gather in Washington for the annual rally and march to call for an end of the Chinese communist regime’s brutal persecution of FalunGong.
While Mor has been actively raising awareness about the persecution of FalunGong in China on her social media platforms, she had never spoken in public about her own faith in Falun Dafa.
On Sept. 24, FalunGong practitioner Liao Qiulan, who organizes local FalunGong-related events, was attacked by two strangers on Sept. 24 while walking in the Lai Chi Kok neighborhood in Hong Kong.