Over 200 Falun Gong practitioners gathered in front of the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles for a candlelight vigil Sunday evening, commemorating the peaceful appeal of over 10,000 practitioners to Beijing for their legal rights to continue the spiritual practice in China in 1999.
The event on April 23 also calls for an end to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 24 years of persecution of Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa.
Wearing yellow shirts printed with “Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance”—the core principles of the spiritual practice—attendees sit in rows, quietly holding candles and portraits of those who lost their lives in the persecution. Others held banners that read “Reject CCP,” “China: Stop Murdering for Organs,” “Stop Persecution of Falun Gong in China.”…