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Falun Gong software developers in the United States are also responsible for the creation of several popular censorship-circumvention tools employed by internet users in China. [178] Falun Gong Practitioners outside China have filed dozens of lawsuits against Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Bo Xilai, and other Chinese officials alleging genocide and ...
The Cemetery of Confucius was attacked by Red Guards in November 1966. [1] [2] Falun Gong books are destroyed following announcement of the ban in 1999.Antireligious campaigns in China are a series of policies and practices taken as part of the Chinese Communist Party's official promotion of state atheism, coupled with its persecution of people with spiritual or religious beliefs, in the ...
According to CIPFG, the role of the Human Rights Torch Relay was to raise awareness of Human rights in the People's Republic of China, especially the persecution of Falun Gong. [9] Some celebrities participated in the march, such as Chen Kai, a former member of China's national basketball team. [10]
Representatives of the party-state, typically acting through China's overseas diplomatic mission, have applied diplomatic and commercial pressure on foreign governments, media organizations, and private enterprises with regards to Falun Gong. In North America, Chinese agents have reportedly visited newspaper offices to "extol the virtues of ...
Li Hongzhi authored the first book of Falun Gong teachings in April 1993; titled China Falun Gong, or simply Falun Gong, it is an introductory text that discusses qigong, Falun Gong's relationship to Buddhism, the principles of cultivation practice, and the improvement of moral character (xinxing). The book also provides illustrations and ...
Soon thereafter, a nationwide persecution of the practice began. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a form of spiritual qigong practice that involves meditative exercises, and a philosophy drawing on Buddhist and Taoist tradition introduced by Li Hongzhi in Northeast China in the spring of 1992. By the late 1990s, it had attracted tens of ...
One of their goals was to undermine U.S. support for Falun Gong and pro-democracy movements. According to the criminal complaint, in February 2023, Sun proposed to PRC a plan to counter "anti-China forces" by participating in an Independence Day parade in Washington, D.C. and requested $80,000 PRC funding for the participation. [30] [31]
Among the most vocal and consistent opponents of the CCP rule in the last decade are practitioners of Falun Gong. Falun Gong is a qigong-based practice of meditation with a moral philosophy based on Buddhist traditions. [43] It was popularized in China in the 1990s, and by 1999, it was estimated to have 70 million practitioners. [44] [45]