What are Falun Gong practitioners hoping to accomplish with these lawsuits?
The lawsuits help educate people around the globe about the religious persecution of Falun Gong in China. These lawsuits also tell those who are responsible for the persecution that they cannot commit genocide and torture with impunity, and in doing so we believe they will help contribute to the end of the persecution of Falun Gong in China and abroad. Indeed, we have heard encouraging stories of officials in China who are now beginning to walk away from involvement with the persecution because their previous notions of impunity has been shattered by the reality of lawsuits filed against them around the world. We have all seen images of holocaust victims, half-starved skeletons gazing at us from behind barbed wire fences. Those images moved the world in the wake of World War II to vow “never again”. The images of the victims of the persecution of Falun Gong are no less horrifying. I have two photographs. In the first is a professor smiling happily and picking flowers in her garden and
