The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in the United States, a university professor warned at a rally in Philadelphia on June 28.
Mark Thomas, an assistant professor of international relations and political science at La Salle University, told rallygoers in the city’s Chinatown neighborhood that the CCP has escalated its transnational suppression of the spiritual practice.
Thomas pointed out that “nothing is more fundamental to a person’s existence than the freedom of expression.”
“The Communist Party holds the monopoly on truth,” he said. “It thinks on behalf of the people and forbids rights that democratic societies consider so precious.”…