During this year’s traditional Chinese mid-autumn festival, supporters of Falun Gong sent greetings to Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong, praising him for turning the practitioners of Falun Gong around the world into “an extraordinary group of people” whose courage and steadfast determination have inspired the world’s people.
Falun Gong is a meditation practice rooted in traditional Chinese culture. Due to its health benefits, Falun Gong spread widely in China, garnering an estimated 70 million to 100 million adherents by the late 1990s. The practice’s moral teachings are rooted in the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.
Feeling threatened by Falun Gong’s popularity, the regime launched a brutal persecution campaign against the group in July 1999, which is still going on today in China. Millions have been jailed and tortured, and a large number of them have been killed via forced organ harvesting. Families are broken and many Falun Gong practitioners in China were forced to leave their homes….