(Nathan Su/The Epoch Times) Falun Gong Practitioners Celebrate Freedom Dozens of practitioners from Northern California’s Falun Gong community also participated in the parade.

This year marks the 27th anniversary of the start of the deadly persecution of the Falun Gong meditation practice in China.

Falun Gong practitioners from Hong Kong and other areas of Asia held a rally and march in Hong Kong on July 22, calling attention to 19 years of ongoing persecution of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong by the Chinese communist regime.

In 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began a nationwide persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.

A couple of Shen Yun’s dances tell stories based on the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa) in China today.

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Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is an ancient spiritual practice with meditative exercises and moral teachings based on truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.

Ahead of the G-20 summit, practitioners of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong gathered on Nov. 29 near the Sheraton Buenos Aires Hotel, where Chinese leader Xi Jinping was staying.

Around 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners march in the World Falun Dafa parade in New York on May 13, 2016.

Every year around July 20, hundreds of Taiwanese Falun Gong practitioners fly to Hong Kong to join an annual parade that peacefully protests the Chinese regime's ongoing persecution of Falun Gong in mainland China.

On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party launched its brutal persecution campaign against Falun Gong.

This legal architecture also involves and enhances the regime's brutal crackdowns on house church Christians and Falun Gong practitioners.

When Sun was being detained, she tried to explain to the guards how Falun Gong has benefited her, and sometimes shouted out defenses of Falun Gong's principles. As punishment for mentioning Falun Gong, Sun was locked up in a small, darkened room.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline espousing the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.

The gathering was an annual experience sharing conference for adherents of Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa.

July 20 marks 19 years of brutal persecution suffered by practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual practice in Communist China.

Authorities further alleged that CUPP members collected information on Falun Gong practitioners at the direction of the CCP and that one member entered Taiwan under the pretense of marriage in order to monitor Taiwanese civic organizations.

The rally also heard from Garnett Genuis, MP for Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan, and adherents of Falun Dafa (also called Falun Gong) who experienced persecution in China.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, was first introduced to the Chinese public in 1992 by Mr. Li Hongzhi.

The sample size represents about 10 percent of the estimated Falun Gong population in the United States, the report said.

Gong practitioners, Tibetan Buddhists, and other religious communities.

-based website that tracks the persecution of Falun Gong in China, Chinese lawyers have represented over 350 Falun Gong adherents in court and argued for their innocence, since the beginning of the year to the end of October.

He also thanked a local Falun Gong practitioner who told him about the persecution. Since 1999, the Chinese regime has consistently broadcast propaganda to defame Falun Gong in an effort to turn public opinion against practitioners.

Yang Yuyong and nearly 20 other Falun Gong practitioners in the Chinese port city of Tianjin were arrested and detained by local security forces last December.

Each year, Falun Gong practitioners in the U.S. and around the world hold commemorative events to mark the anniversary of the persecution.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline with meditation exercises and moral teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. It was introduced to the public in China in 1992.

An abundance of photography and literature documents the extensive spread of Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa. On May 13, a quarter century to the date that Mr.

Liberal MP Judy Sgro, co-chair of Parliamentary Friends of Falun Gong, speaks at a celebration on Parliament Hill marking the 25th anniversary of Falun Gong, May 9, 2017.

Falun Gong practitioners march in a parade in Flushing, New York, on April 23, 2017, to commemorate the 18th anniversary of the April 25th peaceful appeal of 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners in Beijing.

Zhang Zanning, a law professor at Southeast University in Nanjing who has taken on Falun Gong cases, told The Epoch Times that arresting Falun Gong practitioners was against the law.