Lawmakers are asking the government to take more action to curb transnational repression after Falun Gong practitioners were attacked outside the Chinese Consulate in Toronto last month.
MPs from across the House have condemned the Sept. 22 incident, in which a man wearing a jacket bearing a patch of a Chinese flag attacked Lina Li and Nora Geng while they were standing outside the consulate on a public sidewalk with a banner display, raising awareness about the Chinese communist regime’s persecution of Falun Gong.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline that combines meditation and qigong exercises with moral teachings centred on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance. Since 1999, it has been persecuted in China by the communist regime, which saw Falun Gong’s growing popularity as a threat to its rule. Reports indicate practitioners have faced mass detention, torture, imprisonment in labour camps, and forced harvesting of their organs….