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Falun Gong is a Chinese qigong discipline involving meditation and a moral philosophy rooted in Buddhist tradition. The practice rose to popularity in the 1990s in China, and by 1998, Chinese government sources estimated that as many as 70 million people had taken up the practice.
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 ...
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 ...
On Sunday July 5, five days after China enacted a new national security law in Hong Kong, Yang Xiaolan and three dozen Falun Gong members stood upright in a public park, their arms outstretched ...
It imprisoned thousands of Falun Gong practitioners in response to their 1999 silent protest in Beijing. Similar stories of persecution abound among the minority Tibetan and Uighur populations.
Falun Gong is a spiritual practice taught by Li Hongzhi.Practicing Falun Gong or protesting on its behalf is forbidden in Mainland China, yet the practice remains legal in Hong Kong, which has greater protections of civil and political liberties under “One country, Two systems.” [1] Since 1999 practitioners in Hong Kong have staged demonstrations and protests against the Chinese government ...
Revenge of the Forbidden City: The Suppression of the Falungong in China, 1999-2005 is a 2009 book by James W. Tong, published by Oxford University Press.It describes how the Chinese government suppressed the Falun Gong in that stated time frame.
Falun Gong members alleged in 2011 that Cisco provided China with the technology behind its "Golden Shield" surveillance platform knowing it would be used by the Chinese government to oppress ...