Falun Gong Practitioners Gather for Candlelight Vigil
LOS ANGELES, Calif. About 300 Falun Gong practitioners held a candlelight vigil July 18 next to the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles, commemorating lives lost during a 22-year brutal persecution.
Practitioners at the vigil called for the immediate release of 27 friends and family members currently incarcerated in China for practicing Falun Gong, while some shared experiences of the suppression of their faith.
“Every day from morning to night, I heard the crackling of electric batons and the screams of Falun Gong practitioners when they were being persecuted,” Ding Xiaoxia, a victim of persecution of Falun Gong, told The Epoch Times.
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Christian citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, a Wuhan COVID whistleblower, looked very thin and was almost unrecognizable, like skin and bones, according to her defense lawyer Ren Quanniu, who visited her at the Shanghai Detention Center on Dec. 17.
Ren Quanniu said Zhang Zhan s health had visibly deteriorated; she was frail and shaky and had been stripped of any resemblance to her previous photos on the internet, human rights watchdog China Aid reports.
Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer turned citizen journalist, left her home in Shanghai and went to Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, in February to report about the things that were happening there.
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