WASHINGTON—The fear was in the air as the woman stood in front of a Falun Gong booth in Chinatown in the New York City borough of Manhattan, handing out flyers to raise awareness about the ongoing persecution in China against her faith.
“Be careful,” a Chinese man passing by said. Someone may come and smash things up, he told her.
The person seemed well-intentioned, but the warning was another reminder of the constant China-linked harassment and intimidation that Falun Gong practitioners face.
“When I first came to America, I thought I was safe, but after all these years, I know now I’m not absolutely safe,” the woman told The Epoch Times. She asked to remain anonymous out of fear of reprisal against her family in China….
Spotlight on Transnational Repression as Falun Gong Marks 27 Years of Persecution
