On April 25, when Liu Huiqing and three other Hong Kong Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated in front of the Liaison Office, Beijing’s representative office in Hong Kong, over ten police officers in plain clothes or uniforms and office security guards watched alertly. They came to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of a historical appeal for freedom of belief in mainland China, but the current situation in Hong Kong—a four-person limit on public group size and the new national security law imposed by Beijing—made this year’s rally special. “Twenty-two years have passed since tens of thousands Falun Gong practitioners peacefully appealed on April 25, 1999,” Liu Huiqing, representing the Hong Kong Falun Dafa Association, said at the front of the rally. “The Chinese Communist Party continues the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.” “Commemorate 22nd anniversary of the April 25 peaceful appeal,” “Stop the persecution of Falun Gong,” and “Falun Dafa is good,” …