Ryan is a co-sponsor of the FalunGong Protection Act, which would sanction the communist regime for its practice of killing detained FalunGong practitioners for their organs.
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.
"The treatment of FalunGong practitioners is just horrific by the CCP," Hartzler told The Epoch Times.
FalunGong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual practice made public in China in the early 1990s.
In January, two Chinese men assaulted a FalunGong practitioner in Sibelius Park in Helsinki, Finland’s peaceful capital. Named after the renowned Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, the park is a regular gathering place for FalunGong practitioners.
Many countries have passed motions and bills to support FalunGong, condemn the persecution, and sanction the CCP's evil deeds. Behind all of these are the unremitting efforts of FalunGong practitioners.
(Courtesy of Helsinki FalunGong practitioners)
Although FalunGong is freely practiced in the West, the Chinese regime has ordered its agents overseas to expand their repression.
Its coverage of FalunGong has been “shameful,” according to an analysis issued in 2024 by the Falun Dafa Information Center, a nonprofit monitoring the persecution of FalunGong.
Following Conscience
Minenkova, a dental equipment supplier’s assistant manager, has practiced FalunGong for more than a decade.
“We tell the truth about the persecution of FalunGong, 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 FalunGong materials.
A large but hard-to-determine number of FalunGong practitioners live in the same way.
—are co-introducing the FalunGong Protection Act to impose sanctions on Beijing’s systematic forced organ harvesting that has been targeting the persecuted faith group FalunGong.
They are practitioners of FalunGong.
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?
The bill, the FalunGong Protection Act (HR 1540), passed with broad bipartisan support and includes provisions to sanction individuals implicated in the forced harvesting of organs of FalunGong practitioners.