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According to a Washington Post report, it was Jiang Zemin who issued the order to label Falun Gong a "cult." In Mainland China, the term xiejiao has been used to target religious organizations that do not submit to Communist Party authority.
Aug 8, 2020 · The dominant narrative about Falun Gong among Western media is about a peaceful, if eccentric, group of people who adhere to some strange beliefs, and who are being persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party.
The Chinese government had alleged that Falun Gong was an "evil cult" or "heretical sect" and had used that official rationale to justify to ban and eliminate the movement. An extra-constitutional body called the 6-10 Office was created to lead the persecution of Falun Gong.
Falun Gong, also called Falun Dafa, is a spiritual practice and system of beliefs that combines the practice of meditation with the moral philosophy articulated by its leader and founder, Li Hongzhi.
Mar 19, 2019 · Falun Gong insists that thousands of its members have been killed in state custody, and three high-profile researchers—the journalist Ethan Gutmann, the human-rights lawyer David Matas, and the...
Jul 19, 2020 · A religious movement that emerged in China in the mid-1990s, Falun Gong surged in popularity nationwide before it was banned and brutally suppressed on the mainland in 1999. But it continues to...
Sep 5, 2018 · In fact, the meditators are practising a prescribed set of exercises from Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline which China banned in 1999 and calls an “evil cult”.
Apr 21, 2018 · Falun Gong — a spiritual exercise outlawed in China almost two decades ago — is also known as Falun Dafa and it seeks to combine the Chinese "qigong", a slow-moving exercise popular in the 1990s, with Taoist moral teachings.
Apr 3, 2019 · Posters for Shen Yun are so ubiquitous that they've become a meme. But what is it? The answer has to do with Chines religious minority Falun Gong and the Chinese government.
Jul 10, 2024 · 25 Years On, Falun Gong Still Firmly in Beijing’s Repressive Sights The Diplomat July 10, 2024 By Levi Browdea and Larry Liu. In July 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched one of the most wide-ranging political campaigns since the end of the Cultural Revolution – a comprehensive effort to eliminate Falun Gong, a meditation and spiritual discipline practiced by tens of millions ...
