Canada also sanctioned Chinese officials in December 2024 for persecuting Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Falun Gong practitioners, saying that these groups are subject to various forms of suppression by the Chinese regime, including arbitrary detention and forced

Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance.

The only source that could supply the numbers of organs needed are detained, non-consenting Falun Gong practitioners, Wang said. "The persecution of Falun Gong is genocide and a crime against humanity.

Conservative MP Scott Reid, who raised Falun Gong in his first intervention as an MP in 2001, said he has always been struck by the non-violent response of Falun Gong practitioners in the face of such persecution.

"I hope all Chinese people will stand up and speak out in support of Falun Gong.”

The plaintiffs, Falun Gong practitioners, argued that this is where Cisco came into play.

In 2024, a political insider revealed a directive issued by Xi in 2022 to suppress Falun Gong globally, targeting organizations founded by Falun Gong practitioners.

The CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong is “well-documented,” Sherman said.

Falun Gong practitioners take part in a parade to celebrate World Falun Dafa Day while calling for an end of the persecution in China, in New York City, on May 10, 2024. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times) Reintroduced in March by Sens.

"A lot of young people are here today because they are keen to speak up for Falun Dafa," said Sean Tsai, a 17-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Taiwan.

Wang is one of several lawyers in China facing the wrath of the CCP for defending Falun Gong practitioners.

The Senate should pass the Falun Gong Protection Act without delay.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual practice centered on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance.

He estimated that half of all the people in the entire system [incarcerated in China] were Falun Gong practitioners," Jekielek said. "They built this on the backs of the Falun Gong, starting in 2000.

Falun Gong practitioners are known for spreading information to people in mainland China about how the regime persecutes them and what Falun Gong is.

Louis Liu joined Falun Gong practitioners in New York City on July 20, 2025, in a parade calling for an end to the Chinese Communist Party's 26-year persecution of Falun Gong.

In his new book, “China’s War on Faith,” Brownback discusses ongoing genocides targeting Muslim Uyghurs, Tibetan Buddhists, and Falun Gong practitioners.

Promotion and Fall Having made good on his declarations to deal with Falun Gong, Guo Youming received the treatment he was looking for.

To the sides, other practitioners held banners demanding the Party stop persecuting Falun Gong.

And the persecutory machinery the regime uses on its targets—be it Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, or house Christians—has only expanded as the world turned away, he said.

Gong, for their organs.

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A Falun Gong practitioner, Paitoon eschewed lawyers ("lawyers are useless," he said) and instead wrote a lengthy account of Falun Gong to the judges, appearing in court whenever requested, from 2005 until recently.

Cheung said once the CCP began persecuting Falun Gong in 1999, it used a “cult narrative” to describe Falun Gong, which she noted is a form of cognitive warfare that has been “very unfair” to the Falun Gong community.

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Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a meditation practice based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.

(Illustration by The Epoch Times, The Epoch Times, Getty Images) Why Australians Should Mobilise to Protect Falun Gong The former ADF officer also explained why the CCP saw Falun Gong as a threat.

More than 103,000 people in China and around the world have filed criminal complaints against former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin for his lead role in the persecution of Falun Gong, according to Minghui.org, a website devoted to reporting on the Falun Gong

Grace Wollensak of the Falun Dafa Association of Canada got wind of the bogus emails and immediately alerted MPs that the emails were not from Falun Gong practitioners but from Chinese agents.