Persecution of Falun Gong
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In 1999, the Chinese Communist Party initiated an ongoing campaign to eliminate the new religious movement Falun Gong in China, maintaining a doctrine of state atheism. It is characterized by a multif
Then-member of the United States House of Representatives, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who co-sponsored a congressional resolution condemning organ harvesting from Falun Gong adherents, speaks at a rally in Washington, D.C.
Morning Falun Dafa exercises in Guangzhou. The banner reads "Falun Dafa Free-Teaching Exercise Site". Falun Gong's popularity worried senior officials of the CCP.
Falun Gong practitioners at Tiananmen Square appealing for an end to persecution
Falun Gong books are destroyed following announcement of the ban in 1999.
Gao Rongrong
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Gao Rongrong was an accountant at an art college in Shenyang, China. She was dismissed in 1999 for practicing Falun Gong. Gao was reportedly sent to the Longshan Forced Labor Camp in July 2003.
Persecution of Falun Gong
…shackling in painful positions, sleep and food deprivation, force-feeding, and sexual abuse, with many variations on each type. Extrajudicial killing Gao Rongrong, a Falun Gong practitioner from Liaoning province, was tortured in custody in 2005. The Falun Dafa Information Center reports that over 3,700 named…
Gao Rongrong in 2004, with her face visibly disfigured after being tortured with a stun baton.