With July 1 marking the 100-year anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Southern California residents who escaped persecution by the regime shared their experiences. Jana Li, of Chino, Calif., said her experience living under the CCP’s rule was “a nightmare.” “[The CCP] treated me like an enemy and a target to kill to death, either physically or spiritually,” Li told The Epoch Times. Li is one of the estimated 100 million Falun Gong practitioners who were practicing the peaceful meditation in China in the 1990s. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual practice based on truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. The practice gained widespread popularity in China prior to the start of its persecution in 1999. Li was arrested soon after the persecution began. She was held in three separate detention centers throughout China—Guangzhou, northeast China, and Beijing—as well as a women’s concentration camp in Beijing. While …