Candlelight Vigil at Los Angeles Chinese Consulate Commemorates 10,000-Person Appeal in 1999

Falun Dafa practitioners hold photos of some of those who were killed during the 22-year persecution by the Chinese Communist Party in China, at a candlelight vigil in Los Angeles on April 23, 2021. Debora Cheng/The Epoch Times

LOS ANGELES—Over 150 practitioners of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong gathered for a candlelight vigil in front of the Chinese Consulate on April 23.

April 25 marks more than two decades since around 10,000 practitioners of Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, quietly gathered near the Central Appeals Office in Beijing in 1999 to petition the government for the release of 45 practitioners illegally arrested in Tianjin, a city 60 miles east of Beijing.