SAN FRANCISCO Bay Area Falun Gong practitioners held a rally in front of the Ferry Building on April 24 to commemorate an anniversary and to raise awareness that the meditation discipline Falun Gong is still being persecuted in China today.
On April 25, 1999, around 10,000 people gathered peacefully at the Chinese communist headquarters at Zhongnanhai to appeal for their right to freely practice Falun Gong. The appeal took place after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to treat Falun Gong’s enormous popularity as a threat. The Tian Guo Marching Band, consisting of Falun Dafa practitioners plays at a rally in front of the Ferry Building in San Francisco on April 24, 2021, to raise awareness of the persecution happening in China. (Christian Lambert/The Epoch Times)