(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioners from Kumamoto held peaceful protests in front of the Chinese Consulates in Nagasaki and Fukuoka on December 31, 2022. They unfurled banners and set up display boards to tell people about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 23-year-long persecution of Falun Dafa. They also called on the international community to pay attention to this persecution and work together to stop the CCP from wantonly killing practitioners.　

Practitioners peacefully protest in front of the Chinese Consulates in Nagasaki and Fukuoka on December 31, 2022

A practitioner who participated in the event said, “Jiang Zemin ordered the persecution of Falun Dafa in the name of the CCP and used the state power and resources to carry it out. Although Jiang died, the CCP continues to persecute Falun Dafa and harvest practitioners’ organs. We will continue to work hard to end the persecution, and hope that all walks of life, especially the Chinese people, will work with us to end the persecution, disintegrate the CCP, and bring a bright future to China.”

Background: What Is Falun Dafa and Why Is the CCP Persecuting It?

Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong) was first introduced to the public by Mr. Li Hongzhi in Changchun, China, in 1992. The spiritual discipline is now practiced in over 100 countries and regions worldwide. Millions of people who have embraced the teachings, which are based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, and have learned the five exercises, have experienced improved health and well-being.

Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity as a threat to the CCP’s atheistic ideology and on July 20, 1999, he issued an order to eradicate the practice.

Under Jiang’s personal direction, the CCP established the 610 Office, an extralegal security organization with the power to override the police and judicial systems and whose sole function is to carry out the persecution of Falun Dafa.

Minghui.org has confirmed the deaths of thousands of practitioners as a result of the persecution over the past 23 years. The actual number is believed to be much higher. Countless practitioners have been imprisoned and tortured for their faith.

There is concrete evidence that the CCP sanctions the harvesting of organs from detained practitioners, who are murdered to supply China’s organ transplant industry.