“I call on Beijing to stop undermining freedom of religion, and to once and for all end the ban on Falun Gong practice. The CCP must release all individuals and practitioners who are held in prisons and in various detention centers throughout China.”

“Today, the United States designated a Chinese Communist Party official for his involvement in the arbitrary detention of Falun Gong practitioners. We will continue to promote accountability for those responsible for religious freedom [violations].”

“No matter what excuse the Chinese Communist Party uses to arrest Falun Gong practitioners, it is illegal. It has no legal basis whether it’s in China or internationally.”

“Policymakers should clearly condemn this persecution against Falun Gong and declare it a genocide.”

“Millions of people in China continue to practice Falun Gong, including many individuals who took up the discipline after the repression began. This represents a striking failure of the CCP’s security apparatus.”

“For years, the world kind of turned a blind eye to what the Falun Gong were saying about organ harvesting. But the world can no longer sit back and say… I’d rather just not know.”

“After nearly 20 years of persecution, Falun Gong survives in China: millions of Chinese still practice the discipline, including hundreds of thousands who have published online statements rescinding denunciations made under torture during ‘transformation’ efforts.”

“The crackdown is politically motivated, and the vast majority of its victims are ordinary people who merely exercised peacefully their fundamental rights to freedom of belief.”

“Falun Gong practitioners have been great witnesses of courage and peace. Many members of Falun Gong are great heroes of Internet freedom.”

“The Chinese government has arbitrarily detained millions of Falun Gong practitioners… [who] have been interred at reeducation camps, beaten, electrocuted, force-fed, sexually assaulted, starved, and tortured in countless other horrific ways…The Chinese government should immediately cease its arbitrary detention and brutalization of Falun Gong practitioners.”

“Falun Gong activities and publications are doing much to end the lying in China. Their writings are forthright, not couched in ambiguities. They call things exactly as they see them. They also espouse cures to the pathologies of communism, in the traditional Chinese values of truthfulness and human heartedness.”

“Falun Gong practitioners across China are subject to widespread surveillance, arbitrary detention, imprisonment, and torture, and they are at a high risk of extrajudicial execution.”