Several pro-Beijing lawmakers in Hong Kong took aim at the spiritual practice Falun Gong on July 3, urging the government to ban the discipline under the city’s controversial national security law. Their call was met with condemnation by the city’s Falun Dafa Association who called it an attempt to extend the Chinese regime’s decades-long persecution of the practice to outside the mainland. It comes as freedoms in the financial hub have seen a dramatic fall in the aftermath of Beijing’s imposition of a draconian national security law last summer. Since then, the law, which criminalized acts deemed by the Chinese regime as subversion, secession, terrorist activities, or collusion with foreign forces, has been used to decimate the city’s pro-democracy forces. Dozens of prominent figures critical of Beijing have been charged or jailed under the law or similar offenses. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa involves meditative exercises and a …