Falun Dafa practitioners in Sydney celebrated World Falun Dafa Day on May 13 with festivities including a marching band and a parade of people wearing bright yellow shirts across the city. This year marked the 29th anniversary since Falun Dafa was introduced to the public in 1992, and is also the 7oth birthday of Mr. Li Hongzhi, the founder of the spiritual practice. Falun Dafa, also called Falun Gong, is a meditation discipline first introduced in northern China in 1992, that features teachings based on three core principles, truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance, along with a set of slow-moving exercises meant to uplift both mental and physical health. Around 70-100 million people had taken up the practice by 1999, when the atheist Chinese regime saw its immense popularity as a threat to its rule. Beginning from July that year, millions have been thrown into jail or other detention facilities, where they have been …