In honor of International Human Rights Day, people practicing the spiritual faith Falun Dafa held a rally in Hong Kong on Dec. 8. They’re drawing attention to a campaign of hatred that has lasted over 20 years: the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal persecution of their meditation practice.
Hundreds gathered at Edinburgh Place in Central, Hong Kong, to observe Human Rights Day and expose the persecution in China of the spiritual practice Falun Gong, particularly the practice of forced organ harvesting.
Kan Hung-cheung, the chairman of the Hong Kong Association of Falun Dafa, said that now more people have come to realize the evilness of the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, since the Hong Kong government began to suppress the protesters.
“In the last few months of you know, the—under so much suppression and persecution by the CCP to the Hong Kong people—many, many people will be become—they are very clear about the evilness of the CCP,” Kan said.
Several members from the Legislative Council of Hong Kong spoke at the rally.
Wu Chi-wai, Chairman of the Democratic Party and member of the Legislative Council, praised practitioners for their persistence and peaceful manner in the face of the harsh persecution.
“I also admire Falun Gong practitioners’ courage to safeguard their belief. They have faced the same situation and they have perseverance on this since 2000. Because of this, many practitioners sacrificed their [lives] for freedom,” Wu said.
Wu said that freedom of belief and freedom of speech belong to everyone.
With reporting by NTD Hong Kong bureau