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Article: Falun Gong adherent brings protest to South Bay cities
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- June 20, 2009
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Jie Li was just 23 years old when she and a group of friends were
rounded up by police in Beijing and taken to a detention center,
where she would serve five years as an enemy of the Chinese
government.
They were arrested because they are practitioners of Falun Gong,
a belief system set down by Li Hongzhi in 1992 that stresses
meditative exercises and careful cultivation of virtuous character.
The Chinese government declared Falun Gong an "evil cult" after a
large-scale peaceful protest by the group in 1999. Since then, the
government has aggressively prosecuted those who express their
beliefs. In turn, Falun Gong practitioners call the atheist
communist regime an "evil cult."
But, unlike ...