Why Falun Gong prisoners of conscience are particularly vulnerable?
In 1998, the Chinese Communist regime’s survey found 70-100 million people were practising Falun Gong, a peaceful meditation practice of the Buddhist school. Feeling threatened by such a large group that was not under his control, the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) banned Falun Gong in 1999 giving the direct order to “Destroy their reputation, bankrupt them financially and annihilate them physically.” Since the ban, these tens of millions of people have been placed outside the protection of the law in China. They are refused education and social support, fired from their jobs, imprisoned without trial, and are tortured in forced labour camps, where deaths of Falun Gong practitioners “count as suicide”. Many practitioners who were arrested often refuse to disclose their names and personal details for fear of implicating their families, friends and colleagues. These situations make Falun Gong practitioners particularly vulnerable, since the regime can remove their organs wit
