Amid cultural celebrations at the Baila Con Dover Latin Festival at the Green in historic downtown Dover, Delaware, on Aug. 29, an informational booth hosted by local Falun Gong practitioners drew steady attention from festivalgoers, civic leaders, and political candidates seeking to raise awareness of human rights abuses in China.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline and meditation practice with moral teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. The practice was first introduced to the public in 1992 and quickly grew by word of mouth to reach an estimated 70 million to 100 million practitioners in China by the decade’s end.In July 1999, the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), fearing that Falun Gong’s popularity threatened the regime’s power, launched a brutal campaign to eradicate the practice. Since then, many have suffered arbitrary detention, forced labor, torture, and even death from forced organ harvesting.Volunteers at the festival demonstrated the gentle Falun Gong exercises, distributed educational literature, and collected petition signatures supporting S.4009, the Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act.Introduced by Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and reported by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on July 27, 2026, the bill seeks to impose sanctions on foreign persons facilitating organ trafficking, mandate comprehensive U.S. State Department reporting, and prevent American medical institutions from aiding abusive transplant practices. A companion measure, the Falun Gong Protection Act (H.R. 1540), passed the House of Representatives unanimously in May 2025.
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