To recognise Beijing’s interference with democracy in the UK, it’s “imperative” to recognise what’s happening to Falun Gong, Lord Alton of Liverpool said on Monday.
Speaking at a seminar in Parliament, Mr. Alton said the human rights atrocities happening to Falun Gong adherents are “the next big human rights crisis in China after Xinjiang.”
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a meditative practice that consists of slow-moving exercises and teaches the values of “truth, compassion, and forbearance.”
Originating in mainland China in 1992, Falun Gong attracted some 70 million to 100 million practitioners, including Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members and cadres, before former Chinese regime leader Jiang Zemin turned the party and state apparatus against it in 1999….