US Ambassador to China Calls for Release of Detained Falun Gong Practitioners

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โ€˜The United States will continue to speak out in support of freedom of religion and belief in China,โ€™ said Nicholas Burns.

U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns has urged the Chinese communist regime to release Falun Gong practitioners, who have been brutally targeted for their spiritual beliefs over the past 25 years.

The ambassador made the statement on July 22, shortly after the State Department called for an end to the Chinese Communist Partyโ€™s (CCPโ€™s) long-running persecution campaign against the faith group. The regimeโ€™s suppression of the group has resulted in a large number of practitioners being arrested, imprisoned, or even killed for their organs.

Mr. Burns urged the regime to release all detained Falun Gong practitioners and others imprisoned in China for their beliefs.

โ€œThe United States will continue to speak out in support of freedom of religion and belief in China. We call on the PRC [Peopleโ€™s Republic of China] to release all those imprisoned for their beliefs, including Falun Gong practitioners,โ€ Mr. Burns said in a statement on social media platform X.

The U.S. Embassy in Beijing commemorated the 25th anniversary of the start of the persecutory campaign.

โ€œWe solemnly mark 25 years today since the Peopleโ€™s Republic of China (PRC) began a campaign of repression against practitioners of Falun Gong,โ€ the embassy said in a July 23 statement on X.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline incorporating meditative exercises and moral teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. By the end of the 1990s, an estimated 70 million to 100 million people had taken up the practice in China. Its health benefits and positive societal effects also drew praise from state institutions and media.

Its enormous popularity, however, was perceived as a threat by then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin, who had long feared that the Party had lost its dominance over daily life in China. On July 20, 1999, Jiang utilized his power to initiate a sweeping persecution campaign against Falun Gong. Since then, millions of practitioners have been detained inside prisons, labor camps, and other facilities, with hundreds of thousands tortured while incarcerated and untold numbers killed, according to the Falun Dafa Information Center.

Byย Dorothy Li

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