Falungong survives 20 years of repression
A woman walking past anti-cult posters beside a sidewalk in Beijing. The posters have gone up in Beijing as it approaches the 20th anniversary of a mass protest by Falungong practitioners outside the Zhongnanhai leadership compound on April 25, 1999. The group was later branded an evil cult and outlawed, leading to years of repression. – AFP pic, April 25, 2019.
SITTING lotus-style on an apartment floor, two women quietly rotate their arms in front of them – a rare sight in China where public displays of Falungong meditation have all but disappeared. It is a shadow of the spiritual movement’s heyday in China, where the group once boasted more than 70 million followers before it was outlawed in 1999, giving police carte blanche to persecute members.
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