China's Crackdown on Falun Gong

Witness History

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 3 August 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In July 1999, the spiritual movement Falun Gong was banned in China. Thousands of people were arrested. The Chinese government says Falun Gong is an "evil cult", but followers of the movement say they have been the victims of state persecution.

Witness speaks to Falun Gong practitioner Chao Yu and journalist Ian Johnson.

(Photo: Falun Gong practitioners stage a sit-in protest outside the Convention and Exhibition Centre in Hong Kong, 2002. Credit: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images)

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0:24.9	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Choosing what to
0:32.1	watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:36.5	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:41.5	telly we share what we've been watching.
0:43.7	Cladie Aide!
0:45.7	Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:48.2	Lovely.
0:49.0	Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:51.2	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:54.7	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds.
0:58.9	Hi and thanks for downloading Witness the history Podcast from the BBC World Service.
1:04.1	I'm Lucy Burns and today I'm taking you back to July 1999 when the Chinese government
1:09.6	launched a crackdown on the spiritual movement, Fallon Gong.
1:13.0	When I was very young, I always want to know the reason why we were here.
1:23.6	What is the real purpose of people's life?
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