For 22 years, the communist regime in China has deployed a comprehensive campaign of repression against adherents of the spiritual group Falun Gong. Millions of Falun Gong practitioners have suffered detention, torture, harassment, forced labor, and organ harvesting. How the persecution started and how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has executed this expansive campaign is explained below. How Did 100 Million People Become Targets? A Popular Practice Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a meditation practice that features moral teachings based on three core tenets, “truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance,” along with a set of meditative exercises. In 1992, the practice’s founder, Li Hongzhi, introduced it to the public in Changchun, a city in northeastern China. It spread quickly by word of mouth to other parts of the country. By 1999, roughly 70 million to 100 million people around the country had taken up the practice, according to official …