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

Falun Gong practitioners are doing their utmost to make it happen.”

Many of its artists practice Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline persecuted by the Chinese regime since 1999.

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

Falun Gong practitioners take part in a parade commemorating the 20th anniversary of the persecution of Falun Gong in China, in Washington on July 18, 2019.

For example, overseas pro-Beijing media have spread propaganda smearing Falun Gong.

All were adherents of Falun Gong, a banned spiritual practice in mainland China.

"On July 20, 1999, hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners were arrested in their homes in the middle of the night. Over the following week, as many as 50,000 Falun Gong were reportedly detained," he said.

(Wen Ai/The Epoch Times) These photos all depict Falun Gong practitioners who were persecuted to death in China for their belief in Falun Gong.

Li Hongzhi addressed more than 9,000 Falun Gong practitioners attending an experience-sharing conference. Mr. Li is the founder of Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa.

“It sends them a message that you can’t persecute Falun Gong,” he said.

“For the last 19 years, there has been a persecution of those who practice Falun Dafa.” Falun Gong was founded in northeast China in 1992.

Chinese persecution of Falun Gong in general and the killing of Falun Gong for their organs in particular.

He too had seen Falun Gong practitioners, Christians and Han Chinese among the camp detainees.

The Communist Party has maintained its hardline attitude towards Falun Gong since the beginning of the persecution in 1999—as the ongoing arrests, harassment, and secret trials of Falun Gong practitioners can attest to.

Adherents of the spiritual practice Falun Gong still face these horrors today.

Today we sit down with Falun Dafa Information Center spokesperson Peter Erping Zhang, who has been practicing Falun Gong for 25 years.

“I hope they can stand with us, calling on the CCP to stop the persecution of Falun Gong.

Falun Gong practitioners call for the end of the persecution in China, in Santa Monica, Calif. on July 21, 2019. (Yuan Ji/The Epoch Times) The founder of Falun Gong, Mr.

"(Falun Gong) should be encouraged in all society across the world, not just in China alone, but everywhere."

“What is happening to Falun Gong people shows us how barbaric the Chinese government is," he said.

Friends of Falun Gong is an American nonprofit organization formed by citizens concerned about the Chinese communist regime’s treatment of Falun Gong practitioners.

In the 2000s, along with lawyers such as the renowned Gao Zhisheng, Wang was one of the first to represent Falun Gong practitioners in court. Police detain a Falun Gong demonstrator in Tiananmen Square on Oct. 1, 2000.

” them and “numerous other Falun Gong practitioners” from custody.

Not surprisingly, all Falun Gong-related websites are blocked, even including MIT’s website at one point, because it hosts the MIT Falun Gong club.

Reuven Bulka; and Ottawa Falun Gong practitioner Grace Wollensak attend the rally marking the 20th anniversary of the Chinese regime's persecution of Falun Gong, in Ottawa on July 18, 2019.

The Political and Legal Affairs Commission is responsible for the persecution of Falun Gong.

Censoring and Spying Huawei has done far more in the persecution of Falun Gong than simply policing its own employees.

A grand march of 5,000 Falun Gong practitioners walks down Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington on June 20, 2018.

After Wang's meeting with Carney, Falun Gong practitioners called out "Stop the persecution of Falun Gong" as Wang's motorcade drove by.