Amid cultural celebrations at the Baila Con Dover Latin Festival at the Green in historic downtown Dover, Delaware, on Aug. 29, an informational booth hosted by local Falun Gong practitioners drew steady attention from festivalgoers, civic leaders, and political candidates seeking to raise awareness of human rights abuses in China.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline and meditation practice with moral teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. The practice was first introduced to the public in 1992 and quickly grew by word of mouth to reach an estimated 70 million to 100 million practitioners in China by the decade’s end….