It’s been nearly a year since the Chinese regime arbitrarily detained the brother of a Toronto resident for practising Falun Gong, once again prompting calls for an end to Beijing’s long-running persecution campaign against the meditation practice.
At a rally outside the Chinese consulate in Toronto on Dec. 10, Lizhi He, a Canadian citizen, told the story of his family’s harrowing experience. His brother, Lizhong He, a farmer in Gansu Province in north-central China, has been imprisoned since Jan. 12, 2023, for practising Falun Gong, a traditional spiritual discipline that has been brutally oppressed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since 1999….