NEW YORK—Over 200 Falun Gong practitioners and supporters gathered outside the Chinese Consulate yesterday for a candlelight vigil for the thousands of Falun Gong practitioners arrested in China since December of last year.
According to the Falun Dafa Information Center (FDIC), 8,037 Falun Gong adherents from 29 provinces have been jailed, some for up to 2.5 years. The mass arrests are part of the Chinese Communist Party’s attempt to silent dissidents and those who the Community Party thinks might disrupt the “harmonious Olympics.”
