Hundreds of Falun Gong Practitioners Gather at Chinese Consulate in San Francisco

Falun Gong practitioners rallied at the consulate to commemorate the anniversary of the group’s peaceful appeal for freedom of belief in China 26 years ago.

Hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners commemorate the 26th anniversary of an April 25 peaceful appeal for freedom of belief in China by protesting outside the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco, Calif., on April 25, 2025. Lear Zhou/The Epoch Times

SAN FRANCISCO—Hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners rallied on April 25 in front of the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco, marking the anniversary of 10,000 fellow practitioners’ peaceful appeal 26 years ago in Beijing, the political center of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The group made the appeal in 1999 for freedom of belief to follow their meditative practice of Falun Gong, also called Falun Dafa, and for the CCP to stop harassing practitioners throughout the country.