Falun Gong adherents are calling on the federal government to demand the release of Canadian citizen Sun Qian and 13 family members of Canadians jailed in China for their practice of Falun Gong as the world observes International Human Rights Day on Dec. 10. In an online press conference Friday, Joel Chipkar, spokesperson for the Falun Dafa Association of Canada, said Falun Gong remains “one of the most largely and most violently persecuted groups in China.” “Twenty-two years ago, the Communist Party of China waged an illegal and deadly persecution against Falun Gong,” he said. “Human rights organizations, the United Nations, and the U.S. State Department have reported on the nationwide horrific abuses happening to Falun Gong practitioners, including rape, torture, murder, and a massive propaganda campaign to paint Falun Gong as the enemy of the state.” He brought up the case of Sun, a Vancouver-based businesswoman, who was arrested …