A peaceful gathering of about 10,000 religious adherents in communist China more than two decades ago “continues to give courage to millions around the world” who seek an end to Beijing’s repression, Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) said on April 21.
Perry was referring to an appeal by adherents of the spiritual group Falun Gong at the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) headquarters in Beijing in 1999, describing it as the “largest peaceful protest in modern Chinese history.”
The adherents were appealing for the release of around a dozen practitioners who had been arrested days earlier and for authorities to lift their suppression of the spiritual practice.
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