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Chinese torture victims as reported in the 2006 investigation of UN Special Rapporteur Manfred Nowak. Since 1999, hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners have been detained in re-education through labor camps, prisons, and other detention facilities in China, making them the largest group of prisoners of conscience in the country. [111]
Wang became a member of the China Zhi Gong Party in 2010, [2] eventually becoming the deputy director for Wuhan in the party in 2018. [2] In August 2020, Wang appeared on NBC News and denied claims by the U.S. Trump Administration that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the origin of the COVID-19 virus, or that they had safety problems.
Non-Chinese Falun Gong practitioners tend to fit the profile of non-conformists and "spiritual seekers" — people who had tried a variety of qigong, yoga, or religious practices before finding Falun Gong. This stands in contrast to the standard profile of Chinese, whom Ownby described as "the straightest of straight arrows". [1]
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As the practice continues to grow within China, tensions emerge between Falun Gong and Chinese authorities. In 1996, Falun Gong withdraws from the China Qigong Scientific Research Society, and thereafter finds itself the subject of growing scrutiny and criticism in the state-run press.
NTD was founded in 2001 by practitioners of the Falun Gong new religious movement. [2] [1] The station has a regular focus on the promotion of traditional Chinese culture and western classical arts, and devotes extensive news coverage to Chinese human rights issues, [citation needed] scrutinizing abuses of power by the Chinese Communist Party.
Terms related to Falun Gong are among the most heavily censored topics on the Chinese Internet, [100] and individuals found downloading or circulating information online about Falun Gong risk imprisonment. Chinese authorities began filtering and blocking overseas websites as early as the mid-1990s, and in 1998 the Ministry of Public Security ...