After a Falun Gong practitioner was attacked outside the Chinese Consulate in Toronto this week, supporters and community leaders gathered at the site on Sept. 24 to condemn the violence and to call on authorities to investigate what they described as transnational repression.
“Transnational repression is by no means a distant international issue, but a real problem that is threatening Canadian society, Canadian residents, and their fundamental freedoms,” said Jeff Li, a Falun Gong practitioner who helps organize campaigns to raise awareness about the Chinese communist regime’s persecution of the spiritual discipline.
“This incident reminds us once again that any attempt to extend foreign political persecution into Canadian territory must be taken seriously.”…