In Hong Kong, the safety of local adherents of the spiritual practice Falun Gong is again under close scrutiny after several of their roadside information booths were vandalized by people with suspected ties to the Chinese regime. Whether they could continue to freely practice their beliefs became a concern ever since Beijing imposed a draconian national security law on Hong Kong in late June. The law punishes vaguely-defined crimes such as subversion and collusion with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a practice centered around meditation exercises and moral teachings based on truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. Amid Falun Gong’s growing popularity in mainland China, the Chinese regime, fearing the practice would threaten its rule, launched a sweeping suppression campaign in July 1999. Millions of Falun Gong adherents have been detained inside prisons, labor camps, and other facilities in China, with hundreds of …