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Faluninfo.net | Faluninfo TV | Faluninfo LIBRARY | GO WHAT IS FALUN GONG? WHY PERSECUTION? THE STORY 01 | Ancient Roots, Almost Lost 02 | The Rise of Falun Gong 03 | Eve of Persecution 04 | Terror Unleashed 05 | Violent Suppression 06 | Peaceful Resistance KEY TOPICS What Is The Evidence? Forced Organ Harvesting Genocide Why Haven’t I Heard about This? CCP Targets Shen Yun Family Rescue Transnational Repression Independent Documentation Government Actions Investigative Journalism Misconceptions NEWS Latest News FilmsVideos Survivor Accounts Test content Deaths Newsletters In the News Third-party news reports from media outlets around the world. Press Releases Events Key Topics Photo Galleries What is Falun Gong? Why persecution? Brutalwidespread? Genocide? What is the evidence? Why haven’t I heard? Misconceptions? Falun Gong Story Ancient Roots The Rise of Falun Gong Eve of Persecution Terror Unleashed Violent Suppression of 100 Million Peaceful Resistance KEY TOPICS NEWS TAKE ACTION NEW REPORT In Covering Falun Gong, New York Times Distorts, Ignores, and Maligns READ MORE Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual practice in the Buddhist tradition. Falun Gong combines meditation and gentle exercises with a moral philosophy centered on the tenets of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance. Although introduced to the public in China in 1992, its roots extend back thousands of years. LEARN MORE In 1999, there were 100 million people practicing Falun Gong in China. Because of its popularity and independence, communist leader Jiang Zemin ordered the practice be eradicated.” Millions have been detained or imprisoned. Over 100,000 have been tortured or abused in custody, and thousands have died from torture in custody. LEARN MORE Since Falun Gong’s introduction in China in 1992, the practice has spread to 100+ countries, transcending barriers of culture, language, and ethnicity. Practice sites are anywhere from Central Park to the beaches of Togo in Africa. Despite differences, what motivates these diverse individuals to practice, and what unites them? LEARN MORE From ancient roots extending back thousands of years, to a house-hold name in China during the qigong boom in the 1990s, to the largest group of prisoners of conscience in the world, to an unprecedented grassroots movement throughout China. Learn the real story of Falun Gong. Read the Falun Gong story From ancient roots extending back thousands of years, to a house-hold name in China during the qigong boom in the 1990s, to the largest group of prisoners of conscience in the world, to an unprecedented grassroots movement throughout China. Learn the real story of Falun Gong. Ancient Roots The Rise of Falun Gong Eve of Persecution Terror Unleashed Violent Suppression of 100 Million Peaceful Resistance New Report (March 2024) The New York Times has repeatedly failed to cover atrocities against Falun Gong, while amplifying Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda about the community, with devastating results. A new study by the Falun Dafa Information Center found that the agenda-setting newspaper has significantly and irresponsibly distorted the story of Falun Gong. News LATEST NEWS Newsletters Torture in Chinese Prison, Espionage in Germany Around the World Falun Dafa Practitioners Hold Meditation Classes in Fiji News Mother of California Resident Unjustly Given Long Prison Term in China News Shanghai Police Force Eviction of Falun Gong Practitioner Newsletters Violence Against Women in China, Art Exhibition in Turkey Serbian Falun Gong Practitioners Detained Ahead of Xi Jinping’s Visit NEW YORK—Serbian police detained six Falun Gong practitioners and two relatives ahead of Xi Jinping’s visit to Belgrade on Tuesday,... 05-08-2024 | PRESS RELEASES UPDATE: Russian Court Orders Woman Detained for Nearly Two Months for Practicing Falun Gong 05-04-2024 | PRESS RELEASES URGENT APPEAL: Falun Gong Practitioners Detained in Russia 05-03-2024 | PRESS RELEASES UK Officials Express Support for Falun Gong Practitioners on Anniversary of Historic Appeal 04-29-2024 | GOVERNMENT ACTIONS THE FULL STORY Key Questions What is Falun Gong? Why persecution? Brutalwidespread? Genocide? What is the evidence? Why haven’t I heard? Misconceptions? Falun Gong Story Ancient Roots The Rise of Falun Gong Eve of Persecution Terror Unleashed Violent Suppression of 100 Million Peaceful Resistance Key Topics Organ Harvesting Killed for Beliefs Torture Propaganda Forced Transformations Personal Accounts Transnational Repression Your Voice Can Help End the Persecution Tens of millions remain at risk. Give voice to those who have none. act now Voices of Support Antony Blinken U.S. Secretary of State Today, the United States designated a Chinese Communist Party official for his involvement in the arbitrary detention of Falun Gong practitioners. We will continue to promote accountability for those responsible for religious freedom [violations].” Mike Pompeo Former U.S. Secretary of State We call on the PRC government to immediately end its depraved abuse and mistreatment of Falun Gong practitioners, release those imprisoned due to their beliefs… and address the whereabouts of missing practitioners.” Wu Shaoping Chinese human rights lawyer No matter what excuse the Chinese Communist Party uses to arrest Falun Gong practitioners, it is illegal. It has no legal basis whether it’s in China or internationally.” Nina Shea Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Religious Freedom at Hudson Institute Policymakers should clearly condemn this persecution against Falun Gong and declare it a genocide.” Freedom House The Battle for China's Spirit, 2017 Millions of people in China continue to practice Falun Gong, including many individuals who took up the discipline after the repression began. This represents a striking failure of the CCP’s security apparatus.” Sam Brownback Former U.S. Ambassador for International Religious Freedom For years, the world kind of turned a blind eye to what the Falun Gong were saying about organ harvesting. But the world can no longer sit back and say… I’d rather just not know.” Sarah Cook Senior Advisor for China, Hong Kong and Taiwan at Freedom House After nearly 20 years of persecution, Falun Gong survives in China: millions of Chinese still practice the discipline, including hundreds of thousands who have published online statements rescinding denunciations made under torture during ‘transformation’ efforts.” Amnesty International March 2000 Report on China The crackdown is politically motivated, and the vast majority of its victims are ordinary people who merely exercised peacefully their fundamental rights to freedom of belief.” Chris Smith United States Congressman (R-NJ) Falun Gong practitioners have been great witnesses of courage and peace. Many members of Falun Gong are great heroes of Internet freedom.” Patrick Leahy U.S. Senator (D-VT) The Chinese government has arbitrarily detained millions of Falun Gong practitioners… [who] have been interred at reeducation camps, beaten, electrocuted, force-fed, sexually assaulted, starved, and tortured in countless other horrific ways…The Chinese government should immediately cease its arbitrary detention and brutalization of Falun Gong practitioners.” Arthur Waldron Lauder Professor, University of Pennsylvania Falun Gong activities and publications are doing much to end the lying in China. Their writings are forthright, not couched in ambiguities. They call things exactly as they see them. They also espouse cures to the pathologies of communism, in the traditional Chinese values of truthfulness and human heartedness.” Freedom House Annual Report 2017 Falun Gong practitioners across China are subject to widespread surveillance, arbitrary detention, imprisonment, and torture, and they are at a high risk of extrajudicial execution.” Featured Stories Silent Summer Absent that morning was what made the plot of pines and dirt...