Its adherents in China have been brutally persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since former CCP leader Jiang Zemin launched a campaign to exterminate the movement in 1999.

Then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin had even claimed that the practice would fall within days, yet practitioners proved resilient, Jekielek said. Falun Gong practitioners appeal next to the U.N. headquarters in New York City on Sept. 20, 2023.

Wang, a current member of the Politburo Standing Committee, has been a trusted adviser to three successive leaders of the CCP: the late Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping.

In July 1999, the CCP, led by the now-deceased Jiang Zemin, viewed Falun Gong's increasing popularity as a threat to its authority and initiated a severe persecution campaign aimed at eradicating the spiritual discipline.

Considering its popularity as a threat to the communist regime, on July 20, 1999, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin launched a brutal persecution of Falun Gong that continues to this day.

Then, in 1999, then-paramount CCP leader Jiang Zemin issued orders to "eradicate" Falun Gong using methods including illegal arrests, propaganda, brainwashing, forced labor, and torture.

In July 1999, then-Communist leader Jiang Zemin initiated a persecution campaign against Falun Gong out of jealousy over its growing popularity.

However, in 1999, then-Party leader Jiang Zemin saw the rising popularity of the practice as a threat to his power and the atheist ideology of the CCP.

The incident draws attention to the power struggle between current CCP leader Xi Jinping and the faction of former CCP leader Jiang Zemin.

On July 20, 1999, former Communist leader Jiang Zemin, fearing the number of Falun Gong practitioners exceeded that of Chinese Communist Party members, launched a campaign of persecution that has continued for 25 years.

Former Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004, visited China 14 times, meeting with CCP leaders including Mao Zedong and Jiang Zemin.

However, in 1999, then-Party leader Jiang Zemin perceived its rising popularity as a threat to his authority and the atheist ideology of the Chinese Communist Party.

Jiang Zemin Hit by Rare Weather Twice On May 8, 2001, Jiang Zemin, former leader of the CCP, went to Hong Kong to attend the annual meeting of Fortune Global Forum Hong Kong, hosted by Fortune magazine.

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Wang lamented the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong in China, initiated in July 1999 by the late former communist leader Jiang Zemin.

According to current affairs commentator Li Yanming, the Chinese banking sector has long been controlled by the factions of the late former CCP leader Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong, former vice chairman.

The book “Unbridled Evil: The Corrupt Reign of Jiang Zemin in China,” which The Epoch Times published in Chinese in 2012, also describes the incident.

It was introduced to the public by Li Hongzhi in 1992 and attracted over 70 million followers in China due to its health benefits, before the former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin launched a brutal persecution 1999.

By 1999, the then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin perceived Falun Gong's moral teachings and growing popularity as a threat to the CCP's culture of struggle, atheism, and materialism, and he launched a nationwide campaign of persecution to eradicate the practice

Falun Gong practitioners have been facing persecution in China since 1999, the year then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin started a brutal campaign to eradicate the practice.

In January 2001, the CCP staged a self-immolation incident in Tiananmen Square under the direction of then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin and blamed it on Falun Gong practitioners.

With the practice's immense popularity, the then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin viewed it as a threat to the regime's authoritarian control over Chinese society. By 1999, the number of Falun Gong practitioners had exceeded that of CCP members.

Feeling threatened by its popularity, China’s ruling Communist Party and its then-leader Jiang Zemin launched a severe repression campaign against Falun Gong practitioners in July 1999.

Believing the popularity of the spiritual practice to be a threat to his power and the atheistic ideology of the CCP, then-Party leader Jiang Zemin ordered the practice to be eradicated on July 20, 1999.

Some prominent figures in China's health and biomedical industries have ties to the political faction of Jiang Zemin, the former CCP leader who passed away on Nov. 30.

Liu later disclosed in her autobiography that she was arrested due to offending former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin. At the end of 2002, before Ms. Liu’s case was concluded, the former leader ordered people to sell all of Ms.

CCP Sees Falun Gong as 'Political Enemies' Falun Gong was widely popular and even celebrated by Chinese officials throughout the 1990s until then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin unilaterally launched a violent campaign as the millennium came to a close.

Late CCP leader Jiang Zemin hand-wrote a plaque that featured on the wall of the New York office of China Press.

Fearing the potential loss of control of the Chinese populace, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin personally decided to “eradicate” Falun Gong and launched a nationwide campaign to persecute the faith in July 1999.