This year marks the 27th anniversary of the deadly persecution of the spiritual practice Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, in China. Falun Dafa practitioners and human rights advocates will gather in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington for a rally and march, calling for an end to the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights violations. Watch our special coverage of these events on July 23 at 11:30 p.m. ET.
Introduced to the public in the early 1990s, Falun Dafa is a spiritual discipline based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. An estimated 70 million to 100 million people in China had taken up the practice by 1999, when the Chinese Communist Party leadership, which considered the practice’s popularity a threat to the regime’s power, launched a nationwide campaign to eradicate it….