Falun Gong practitioners gather in front of the Chinese Consulate in Toronto on April 25, 2026, to commemorate the 27th anniversary of their fellow practitioners’ April 25, 1999, appeal in Beijing calling for freedom of belief. Evan Ning/The Epoch Times
Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside the Chinese Consulate in Toronto on April 25 to commemorate the 27th anniversary of a peaceful appeal in Beijing by fellow practitioners calling for the freedom to practise their faith.
On April 25, 1999, more than 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered peacefully and quietly in Beijing outside Zhongnanhai, the Chinese regime’s central headquarters, to call for the release of 45 practitioners who had been arbitrarily detained by police in the city of Tianjin.
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