Ten years ago tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of an event that changed China forever. As many as ten thousand practitioners of a popular meditation practice called Falun Gong... surprised Chinese leaders when they gathered en masse near the Beijing appeals office. Our correspondent in Hong Kong spoke with a Chinese human rights lawyer about the importance of this event. In July 1999, the Chinese regime officially launched a crackdown of the Falun Gong meditation practice. And a gathering near Beijing's central leadership compound on April 25—three months earlier—was in many ways the beginning. On that day, ten thousand Chinese citizens appealed for their right to practice Falun Gong without harassment from the CCP and its state-run media. We spoke with Xi'an City-based human rights lawyer Zhang Jiankang. Zhang says the April 25th sit-in was not only rational but notably peaceful. And it completely conformed with the people's right to appeal. [Zhang Jiankang, Human Rights Lawyer]: (male, Chinese) "I think it was a very significant and meaningful event in China's modern history. It was a rational and peaceful action undertaken by Chinese citizens, completely peaceful and justifiable, which is remarkable. It was a Chinese-style nonviolent movement." Zhang says that, in his view, any civilized country and government should permit and approve such a rational action. The Chinese communist authorities, however, used state apparatus to violently suppress ...
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