Falun Gong practitioners in Canada want Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly to urge Beijing to end the “torture and killing” of the spiritual discipline’s adherents while she is in China. They are also asking her to request the release of those incarcerated for practicing Falun Gong, including 11 family members of Canadians and a Canadian citizen.
Ms. Joly’s visit to China on July 18—at the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi—coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of the spiritual practice Falun Gong, which began on July 20, 1999, as highlighted by the Falun Dafa Association of Canada (FDAC).
