China sentenced 674 Falun Gong practitioners in the first half of 2021, with the longest sentence being 14 years and the oldest victim 88 years old, according to statistics from Minghui.org. The regime detained the practitioners due to their faith, and prosecutors charged them with so-called “sabotaging the enforcement of law.” However, the courts were unable to establish any crime of substance. Knowing Falun Gong practitioners are innocent, some Chinese judges and prosecutors released 13 practitioners without a sentence from January to June. In the past century, the Chinese regime has shown little tolerance of faith, and the upcoming July 20 marks the 22nd anniversary of the beginning of the persecution that the regime imposed on Falun Gong practitioners in China. Falun Gong is a spiritual practice that includes meditative exercises and moral teachings centered around the values of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. According to the Falun Dafa Information Center, a website for …