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Falun Gong
Falun Dafa
1992 CE – present · East Asian · Living · Originally China; now Taiwan, US, and diaspora worldwide
VIII. POSTWAR & CONTEMPORARY — 1945 – PRESENT
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- 1992 CE Li begins teaching; the practice spreads with extraordinary speed through parks, workplaces and state institutions.
- 1996 CE Li withdraws Falun Gong from the state-run qigong association; official pressure begins.
- <strong>25 April 1999 CE</strong> Over 10,000 practitioners assemble silently outside Zhongnanhai, the Communist Party leadership compound in Beijing, to petition for recognition. It is the largest unauthorised gathering in the capital since 1989 and it takes the leadership completely by surprise.
- <strong>20 July 1999 CE</strong> Falun Gong is banned as a heretical organisation. The 610 Office is created to suppress it. Mass arrests, re-education through labour, and documented deaths in custody follow.
- 2001 CE A self-immolation in Tiananmen Square is presented by state media as proof of the movement's danger; Falun Gong disputes the incident's authenticity, and independent verification has never been possible.
- 2006–present Allegations of forced organ harvesting from detained practitioners. The 2019 China Tribunal, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, concluded that forced organ harvesting had occurred on a significant scale and that Falun Gong practitioners were probably a principal source. China rejects the finding.
- 2000s–present Outside China the movement builds Shen Yun, a touring dance company, and The Epoch Times, which grew from a diaspora paper into a large and politically aligned media operation in the United States, drawing its own investigative scrutiny.
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