Local practitioners of the faith group Falun Gong held an awareness day at the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg on Oct. 29 to draw attention to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ongoing persecution of practitioners in China and increasing use of transnational repression on U.S. soil.
The day included visits to legislators’ offices and a news conference featuring bipartisan support from Pennsylvania state Sens. Doug Mastriano, a Republican, and Sharif Street, a Democrat.
The event focused on the need for Pennsylvania and the federal government to take action against the CCP’s state-sanctioned abuses, particularly the forced organ harvesting of practitioners in China….