SAN FRANCISCO—Over 300 people paraded from San Francisco’s Ferry Building to Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square on July 16 to mark the 23rd year of persecution against Falun Gong in China.
Sandy Wang has practiced Falun Gong (a Chinese meditation practice also known as Falun Dafa) since 1994. She was among the hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners who have been illegally arrested and tortured by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for their beliefs.
“At the police station, they would force me to sign [a pledge to renounce my faith],” Wang told NTD Television. “They would force my hand open, but I made a fist because I won’t sign. They bent my thumb until it dislocated and couldn’t sign anymore.”…