Highlight: Emerging Technologies Used to Persecute Falun Gong - Falun Gong Bulletin Ep 4

And going into the second trend, it's similar high-tech surveillance used to monitor and detain Falun Gong practitioners. We've covered HikVision alarms in the past episode, but there's an emerging technology called the HealthCode app, which was mandatory for all Chinese citizens to have. It marks you as green, orange, or red to indicate if you have been in close contact with COVID-19 individuals, or if you are safe to go out and go to grocery stores, go to your workplace, go to school. This tool was actually used as a suppression tactic. Practitioner, one practitioner reported last year, police threatened to change her health code if she didn't renounce her faith to Falun Gong and sign an oath that she would stop practicing Falun Gong. Right, it's a good example of, you know, how the Chinese Communist Party, whatever technology they can use is really a repression tool. So ostensibly, it looks like it's some sort of health tool that also, we should note, restricts your movement, right? Restricts if you can go to your job, make money, restricts if kids can go to school, restricts where you can move around. And then the reality is, obviously the Chinese Communist Party is not using it for health. They're using it as a tool of repression. Exactly, and so emerging technologies just like this, just like the HealthCode app, the Falun Dafa Information Center will continue to monitor and document the cases.