Falun Gong Practitioners Hold Los Angeles Vigil to Mark 25 Years of Persecution in China

Hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners held a candlelight vigil in front of the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles on July 20 to mark the 25th year of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) brutal persecution of the spiritual group.
The persecution continues to this day.
As the sun set, attendees quietly sat in front of the consulate, holding candles and photos of those who have lost their lives for their belief in “truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance,” the main tenets of Falun Gong, which were featured on their yellow shirts.
More than a dozen practitioners stood on both sides of the gathering, holding banners that read “The World Needs Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance” and “Organ Harvesting from Falun Gong Practitioners Must Stop.” Behind the main stage, large bilingual banners read, “Falun Dafa is Good” and “Stop Persecuting Falun Gong.”…