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U.S. Lawmakers, NGO Leaders Support Falun Gong's 18-Year-Long Peaceful Resistance
(Minghui.org) Several hundred Falun Gong practitioners from across the U.S. held a rally on Capitol Hill Thursday, calling for help in stopping the persecution of Falun Gong that began 18 years ago, on July 20, 1999. Several members of Congress, the chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, and several speakers from religious and human rights organizations expressed strong support in their remarks at the rally. Rep. Donald M. Payne (D-N.J.) was especially disturbed by efforts by the Chinese authorities to “transform” Falun Gong practitioners through forced religious conversion. He said, “...efforts to force religious conversion have culminated in thousands of Falun Gong practitioners being held in prisons, detention centers, and forced labor camps, under deplorable conditions, simply for their beliefs.” He expressed that governments should not dictate a person’s belief or faith. “It is incomprehensible and unacceptable for people to be treated in such a cruel, inhumane, and degrading manner.”
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