NEW YORK—As world leaders gathered in Manhattan at the United Nations for the 81st General Assembly on Sept. 22, nearly 100 Falun Gong practitioners rallied at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza to raise awareness of the ongoing persecution of the practice in China.
Some adherents held banners that read “Stop the Persecution of Falun Gong” and “Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance,” while others did the tranquil exercises of the practice.
Falun Gong is a traditional spiritual discipline of meditative exercises and moral teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been persecuting the practice for the past 27 years….