"Falun Gong is a very, very peaceful spiritual practice, and the principles of Falun Gong are truthfulness, compassion, forbearance," she said.

Practitioners of Falun Gong, a religious minority in China, don’t have to imagine the horror of forced organ harvesting. They live it.

Its coverage of Falun Gong has been “shameful,” according to an analysis issued in 2024 by the Falun Dafa Information Center, a nonprofit monitoring the persecution of Falun Gong.

Following Conscience Minenkova, a dental equipment supplier’s assistant manager, has practiced Falun Gong for more than a decade. “We tell the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong, and the CCP is afraid of this,” she told the court on July 23.

Standing strong in her faith, she continued to produce and distribute Falun Gong materials. A large but hard-to-determine number of Falun Gong practitioners live in the same way.

One of the largest groups in the parade was made up of local Falun Gong practitioners.

—are co-introducing the Falun Gong Protection Act to impose sanctions on Beijing’s systematic forced organ harvesting that has been targeting the persecuted faith group Falun Gong.

How do you see, more broadly, the Falun Gong community responding to pieces like this that are attacking?

The bill, the Falun Gong Protection Act (HR 1540), passed with broad bipartisan support and includes provisions to sanction individuals implicated in the forced harvesting of organs of Falun Gong practitioners.

The practitioners of Falun Gong regularly demonstrate there, raising banners and meditating.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, was first introduced to the public in China in 1992.

They are practitioners of Falun Gong. Who are these people? What motivates them? And how might their struggle to expose the Chinese Communist Party have far-reaching implications for all of us?

Some Falun Gong practitioners were detained for up to one month in detention facilities. Minghui has been able to obtain the names of these Falun Gong practitioners.

The group made the appeal in 1999 for freedom of belief to follow their meditative practice of Falun Gong, also called Falun Dafa, and for the CCP to stop harassing practitioners throughout the country.

Falun Gong practitioners in recent years.

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In 2025, rights group World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong also reported that Xi had given directives during the 2022 meeting to suppress Falun Gong on a global scale.

Destro said the United States must begin by safeguarding Falun Gong practitioners within its borders. “They need to enforce the Falun Gong's rights here,” he said. “We've got a lot of Falun Gong practitioners here. Are they being harassed?

But the unanimous vote of the House to pass the Falun Gong Protection Act in June demonstrates clearly that the American people are on the side of human rights for Falun Gong.

The efforts to target Falun Gong have also extended far beyond China’s boundaries.

According to Jiang, the Party now views Falun Gong as its most organized and persistent ideological opponent. “The Falun Gong group has exposed the crimes of communism more effectively than any other group,” he said.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline that features meditative exercises and teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.

There were at least 70 million people practicing Falun Gong in China before 1999, according to Chinese authorities at the time.

-based website that tracks and records the persecution of Falun Gong. Further, more and more Chinese have taken up the practice. A Beijing resident shared how she learned about Falun Gong in her greeting message to Mr. Li.

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

Falun Gong.

The CCP is attempting to silence the hearts and minds of over 8 billion people, but this tyranny cannot succeed if we refuse to be silenced.

The State Department has called on Beijing to end its eradication campaign against Falun Gong ahead of July 20, the date that marked the start of the persecution in 1999.

102 charms related to Falun Gong.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual practice that includes slow-moving meditative exercises and teachings based on the principles of truth, compassion, and tolerance.