WASHINGTON—An estimated 1,500 people congregated together near Washington’s National Mall to call for an end to communist China’s brutal persecution of the spiritual group Falun Gong which has entered its 25th year—an atrocity advocates said is too critical for Americans to overlook.
At a rally held near the Capitol, U.S. rights advocates and experts raised the alarm that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has taken its persecution well beyond its borders into the United States and other free societies.
“It is something that should strike concern, if not fear in the heart of every single American and every single person living in a country where China has sought to repress, to spend to censor, to propagandize, to intimidate, to violently attack,” said Katrina Lantos Swett, president of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice….