July 20 marks the 23rd year of the Chinese regime’s persecution of Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline with meditative exercises and moral teachings.
It grew in popularity during the 1990s with up to 100 million people practicing in China by the end of the decade. Perceiving this to be a threat, the Chinese regime in 1999 launched a nationwide campaign seeking to eradicate the practice.
Millions of Falun Gong practitioners have been detained in jails and detention facilities across the country, where they are subjected to torture and forced organ harvesting.
The forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners should be the focus when addressing human rights issues with China, according to top human rights advocates participating at the International Religious Freedom Summit 2022 in Washington from June 28–30….