Rally and Parade in Welington, NZ 2026| Commemorating 20th July|For End CCP|

Commemorating 20th July, for the End CCP, Falun Gong Group rally and parade in Wellington, New Zealand.

For more than 27 years, since 20 July 1999, the Chinese Communist Party has carried out a systematic campaign to eradicate Falun Gong, a peaceful spiritual practice based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance.

Over these years, countless practitioners have been subjected to arbitrary arrest, prolonged detention, imprisonment, coercive "re-education," torture, and forced labour. Families have been separated, livelihoods destroyed, and many have paid the ultimate price for refusing to abandon their beliefs.

Perhaps the most disturbing allegation is that prisoners of conscience, including Falun Gong practitioners, have been killed for their organs. These allegations have been the subject of extensive investigation by independent researchers and experts and have drawn serious concern from international bodies and human rights organisations.

The wider pattern of persecution against Falun Gong has also been documented and reported by independent and respected organisations, including Human Rights Watch, Freedom House, Amnesty International, the United Nations Special Rapporteurs, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, and the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, to name only a few.

Yet despite all of this, Falun Gong practitioners have responded not with hatred or violence, but with extraordinary courage and compassion. Every day, many continue to peacefully tell others about what is happening, believing that truth is stronger than fear and that conscience is stronger than oppression.

Their example reminds us that the defence of human rights is not merely the responsibility of governments or international organisations. It is the responsibility of all people who believe that every individual should be free to live according to their conscience and beliefs.