As world leaders gathered in Manhattan this week for the 80th United Nations General Assembly, Falun Gong practitioners held a series of peaceful protests outside U.N. headquarters, urging the international community to condemn the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) brutal persecution of the spiritual discipline since July 1999.
From Sept. 23 to 27, practitioners assembled daily across the street from the UN in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, where they displayed banners with messages in both Chinese and English that read “Stop the Persecution of Falun Gong,” “Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance,” and “End the CCP.” Participants said they want to raise awareness among delegates and visiting dignitaries of the continuing human rights abuses in China….