• An Ancient Practice and a Modern Movement

  Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa, is a spiritual practice based on the ancient taoism philosophy of Qigong exercises and principles. Founded by Li Hongzhi in China in 1992, Falun Gong practitioners use a series of five meditation exercises to develop an understanding of the main principles of truthfulness, compassion and forbearance.Falun Dafa: Introduction to Falun Dafa The movement was banned in China in 1999 because government officials feared it challenged their authority. Since then, members of Falun Gong have been harassed, jailed, tortured, and even killed for use of their organs in transplants.http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/washington/news.aspx?id=139457

• Current News: Canada CBC TV Documentary Probes Persecution of Falun Gong in China

  Beyond the Red Wall: The Persecution of Falun Gong will air on CBC Newsworld on Tuesday, November 6 at 10:00 pm ET/PT, and will repeat on Saturday, November 10 at 4 a.m. ET and 11 PM ET/PT. The film will also be aired in Quebec and Ireland this fall.

  The story recounts how Zhang, a Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested while on a return visit to China in 2002. He was sentenced without trial to three years in a labor camp, where he was severely beaten, repeatedly shocked with an electric baton, and brainwashed in an attempt to have him relinquish his faith. Canadian activists forced China to release Zhang with a pressure campaign.

  Untold thousands of Falun Gong practitioners in China haven’t been so lucky. Routinely jailed without trial, they face the same sort of brutality inflicted on Zhang simply because they adhere to Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline and meditation practice. Human rights groups have documented over 3,000 torture deaths of Falun Gong practitioners in China, and the most recent U.S. Department of State report on human rights highlighted the ongoing persecution.

  The problems began in April 1999 after about 10,000 practitioners quietly gathered outside the Communist Party headquarters in to protest harassment, the Party became alarmed.

  The official persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999, with a directive from Jiang Zemin.What followed was a series of mass arrests and an intense propaganda campaign that vilified Falun Gong both in China and overseas. Soon, disturbing reports began to emerge, telling of the systematic persecution, torture, and execution of practitioners.

  A part of the broadcast documents the illicit, state-sanctioned harvesting of the bodily organs of Falun Gong practitioners for China’s booming transplant industry. Chinese organ brokers freely admitted in phone conversations that they had “Falun Gong suppliers” immediately available to provide organs. Average wait times for a kidney transplant appear silently on the screen, the figures speaking for themselves: Canada, 2555 days; United Kingdom, 1095 days; United States, 1825 days; and China, 15 days.

  Far from being eliminated, Falun Gong has even been quietly growing in rural areas and smaller cities, " because nobody can destroy one's belief," says Guo Guoting, an exiled Chinese lawyer who defended Falun Gong adherents in China before the authorities shut down his law practice. He fled to Canada in 2005.

  Johnson, who won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of features he wrote about Falun Gong, says in Red Wall that the persecution “remains one of the scars on the body politic of China,”

  “In order for China to move forward, they have to have this kind of a reckoning," says former Canadian Cabinet Minister Kilgour, “...the killing has to stop.” http://www.livestrong.com/health-article/canada-cbc-tv-documentary-probes-persecution-of-falun-gong-in-china_dcbae8d7-50d3-4a23-8e8a-c9631f1ef617/

• Fast Facts

  1. Also called: Falun Dafa
  2. Founded: 1992 by Li HongzhiTime: Spiritual Society or Evil Cult? (June 25, 2001)
  3. Banned in China in 1999CNN: American Falun Gong Arrested In China (January 30, 2003)
  4. Translation: "Great Law of the Wheel of Law"Falun Dafa: Introduction to Falun Dafa
  5. Members: 100 Million in 80 countriesFalun Dafa: Introduction to Falun Dafa
  6. Teachings: Buddha's Law of Truthfulness, Benevolence and ForbearanceFalun Dafa: Introduction to Falun Dafa
  7. Beliefs: telekinesis, power of third eye, Karma, and aliens living on earthNew York Times: Rooting Out Falun Gong (April 20, 2000) Official Site: What Shanshan Saw in Other Dimensions (May 29, 2001)
  8. Chinese Government View: Has been labeled as a cult by the China's People's Daily: The Breaking Point (June 25, 2001)

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