The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) increased its persecution against a spiritual group amid the pandemic to prevent its adherents from exposing to the world the COVID-19 situation within China, according to a report released by Falun Dafa Information Center.
The report explores the latest updates and trends in the persecution against Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline brutally persecuted by China’s communist regime since 1999.
Despite restrictions imposed due to the pandemic, arrest and harassment cases almost doubled in the first semester of 2020 and nearly tripled by 2021—compared to the same period in 2019—as reported by the Falun Dafa Information Center.
The CCP’s purpose, according to the report, was to thwart Falun Gong practitioners’ efforts to get on-the-ground information regarding the health crisis out of China….