In fact, it was a direct response to practitioners being arrested and beaten in nearby Tianjin and a smear media campaign against them. The incident was pivotal, but for different reasons. That April day, Premier Zhu Rongji engaged members of the gathered group and listened to their grievances.
Those arrested were released. Practitioners who were there told me they had felt elated about the open communication between the government and its people. He labelled Falun Gong a threat to the Party and said it would be an international loss of face if Falun Gong were not immediately crushed.
What appears to have scared Jiang and other Party hardliners some who are still in top posts, maintaining the campaign was how popular and cross-social strata Falun Gong had become. In northern cities, workers practised Falun Gong together in factory yards before heading to the machines. Professors and students meditated on Tsinghua University lawns.
And why, when a government report estimated there were more Falun Gong practitioners 70 million plus than Party members, security agents began interrupting exercise sessions. For decades the Party has persecuted different groups — intellectuals, artists, clergy, conservatives, reformists — through political movements.
Some are targeted because they are outside Party control or have their own ideology. In April , an article appeared in Tianjin city deriding Falun Gong. This time, however, several dozen of the participants were arrested.
Other practitioners requesting the release of the detained practitioners were told that the orders came from the central authorities in Beijing. Several Falun Gong adherents met with then-Premier Zhu Rongji and other top leaders to request the end of harassment and restrictions on publishing Falun Gong teachings and the release of Tianjin practitioners. Zhu assured them that the Party was not opposed to Falun Gong and agreed to the release of the detainees.
On June 10, , the Politburo Standing Committee created the Office as a subdivision of the Party to monitor, track, and persecute Falun Gong and other disfavored religious groups. On July 20th, hundreds of Falun Gong adherents were taken into custody by security forces. Initially, the CCP-controlled press declared that Falun Gong was banned as a threat to social order because its spiritual beliefs and values of truth, compassion, and tolerance were incompatible with Marxist materialism.
That derogatory label was applied 3 months later to undermine public sympathy for practitioners and to mislead the world. The spiritual group was banned in mainland China in but its members have been allowed to practice in Hong Kong freely, even though the group urges people to renounce the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
Yang said she no longer feels safe in the city after the security law made the broadly defined crimes of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces punishable by up to life in prison.
The alleged suppression is nonsense. President Donald Trump. Ingrid Wu, spokeswoman for the Hong Kong Association of Falun Dafa, an alternative name for the group, said two members have already left Hong Kong because of fears for their safety. She identified one of those people only as Susan, and asked that the other not be named.
Even though the new security law makes no specific mention of religious or spiritual groups, Maya Wang, senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch, described the law as wide and arbitrary.
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