The Chinese regime’s persecution of Falun Gong is “unacceptable and must end,” the State Department said in a statement as the brutal eradication campaign entered its 23rd year.
“23 years ago, the People’s Republic of China began its brutal persecution of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong, its practitioners, advocates, and human rights defenders,” the department’s Office of International Religious Freedom wrote on Twitter on July 21.
Falun Gong is a spiritual discipline that teaches the values of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance with a set of meditative exercises. The practice’s popularity shot up in China during the 1990s, with an estimated 70 million to 100 million adherents by the end of the decade….