NEW YORK CITY—Several New York libraries on April 20 received threats targeting a parade organized by Falun Gong practitioners.
Multiple Queens Public Library branches received bomb threat emails on the night of April 20 demanding that they stop a Falun Gong parade.
The threats came a day after Falun Gong practitioners held a thousands-strong parade in the neighborhood calling for an end to the persecution of their faith in China. The April 19 rally also commemorated a peaceful gathering of Falun Gong practitioners 26 years ago in Beijing that is now known among them as the April 25 appeal.
Global Tuidang Center, an organizer of the Saturday parade, received a similar email around the same time. The sender claimed they will drive into the parade participants while sending another group of assailants to Dragon Springs, which is home to the headquarters of Shen Yun Performing Arts, a New York-based arts group the Chinese regime has tried for years to disrupt using political and economic pressure, according to a copy of the email The Epoch Times reviewed….