Thousands of Falun Gong Practitioners March in Prague to Showcase Hope and Resilience

Thousands of Falun Gong Practitioners March in Prague to Showcase Hope and Resilience

More than 2,000 people from across Europe joined the parade in the Czech capital. It also called for an end to the long-running persecution of Falun Gong in China, which has extended beyond its borders.

Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, is a discipline rooted in ancient Chinese traditions that involve moral improvement leading to spiritual enlightenment.

The practice is composed of meditative exercises and a set of moral teachings centered on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance.

Out of fear that Falun Gong’s increasing popularity would threaten the Chinese communist regime’s power, the regime in China ordered a brutal suppression of the practice in 1999, resulting in an estimated 100 million practitioners being targets of detention, torture, and forced organ harvesting.

In 2019, an independent tribunal concluded that the regime has killed prisoners of conscience for their organs to supply the transplant market “on a significant scale” for years, with no evidence that the practice has stopped.

The main victims, the tribunal said, are detained Falun Gong practitioners.