SAN FRANCISCO—Hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners and supporters held a rally on July 20 in Harry Bridges Plaza on the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the persecution of Falun Gong in China.
On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched a violent campaign to suppress the spiritual practice. Falun Gong, also called Falun Dafa, had become well known in China for its health benefits by ‘99, and the CCP viewed its growing popularity as a threat to the atheist communist regime.
