Foreign Minister Urged to Demand Answers From Beijing After Falun Gong Practitioners Attacked Outside Toronto Consulate

Falun Gong practitioners and their supporters are calling on Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand to condemn the recent attack against practitioners of their spiritual faith outside the Chinese Consulate in Toronto and to raise the issue with Beijing. “This attack is not an isolated event,” said Falun Gong practitioner Kathy Gillis at a rally outside the Global Affairs Canada building in Ottawa on Sept. 28, reading from a statement issued by the Falun Dafa Association of Canada (FDAC). “For more than two decades, Falun Gong practitioners in Canada have reported harassment, surveillance, intimidation, threats, and assaults linked to the Chinese Communist Party’s campaign against their faith.”