The U.S. government and international experts are calling on Beijing to ends its persecution of the spiritual practice Falun Gong, after a recent leaked document purportedly from Chinese authorities in a northeastern province revealed that efforts to suppress the group have intensified.
On Nov. 21, Bitter Winter, an English-language online magazine published by Italy-based nonprofit Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), made public a document from the Liaoning Province branch of the secret police force known as the 610 Office. It is an extralegal state police that was established by former Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin in 1999 for the sole purpose of carrying out the persecution of Falun Gong.
