Commentary
On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party banned Falun Gong and started subjecting its adherents “to widespread surveillance, arbitrary detention, horrific torture, and extrajudicial killing—abuses which continue today,” according to Freedom House, a nonprofit organization.
Twenty-three years later … and the persecution continues.
Why?
According to Levi Browde, executive director of Falun Dafa Information Center, “Falun Gong is the single largest whistleblower of the CCP’s crimes on the world’s stage, with tens of millions engaged in grassroots civil disobedience inside China combined with media companies, human rights groups, and cultural organizations founded by Falun Gong practitioners around the world—all of which expose the tyrannical nature and nefarious history of the CCP.”…