Falun Gong Practitioners Remind the World of the Persecution

13 years of torture and imprisonment must end, said Falun Gong adherents outside the Chinese consulate in Toronto Friday

Falun Gong adherents hold a banner at a protest outside the Chinese consulate in Toronto on Friday. The banner describes mass organ harvesting from Falun Gong adherents imprisoned in China. Kristina Skorbach/The Epoch Times

TORONTO—Solemn and peaceful, Falun Gong practitioners lined up along St. George Street in downtown Toronto facing the gates of the Chinese consulate. This is the 13th year that the spiritual practice has been violently persecuted by the communist regime in China.

Yellow banners and a couple of keynote speeches from victims and supporters of Falun Gong carried a familiar message: “Stop the persecution of Falun Gong.”

“Today, the Communist Party is responsible for terrible crimes against Falun Gong practitioners and their main goal is to cover up all evidence of these crimes,” said Joel Chipkar with the Falun Dafa Association of Toronto.