A journalist group is calling for the release of 11 Chinese citizens who were detained after providing photos to the Chinese-language edition of The Epoch Times shedding light on the pandemic. The 11 are all adherents of the Falun Gong, a spiritual practice that has been heavily persecuted by the communist regime for decades. They have been held in a Chinese detention center pending trial for over a year since their arrest last July. Beijing authorities initially accused them of “using a heretical cult to sabotage law enforcement,” a charge often leveled at the adherents and other Chinese believers, according to the adherents’ lawyers. The offense is punishable to lifetime imprisonment, according to the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the regime’s top prosecution body. The arrests took place in Beijing on July 19 last year, a day before the 21st anniversary of the regime’s persecution of Falun Gong. Besides their faith, what …