At noon, on Dec. 10, 2021, Gao Hongmei held a blue banner while standing across from the Chinese regime’s Consulate General in New York. She stood motionless, looking straight ahead, while thinking about her mother who has been in a Chinese prison for over a year for her spiritual beliefs. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) arrested Gao’s mother for the fourth time in 20 years in May. Her mother, Hu Yulan, 76, had been under constant police surveillance before her arrest, Gao said. China’s widespread net of security cameras identified Hu handing out information fliers that describe the CCP’s ongoing persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Falun Gong is a peaceful spiritual practice first introduced in China, teaching followers to apply the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance in their daily lives. However, the CCP has attacked the practice since 1999, violating practitioners’ human rights through arrests and torture, and even …