Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China

The American organization "Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China" provides assistance and support to practitioners of the Chinese spiritual practice of Falun Gong. Falun Gong is a religious movement that emerged in China in the early 1990s. It is based on Chinese qigong gymnastics combined with elements of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, as well as traditional folk beliefs. In the late 1990s, the movement was banned in the PRC. The Chinese authorities launched widespread persecution against Falun Gong practitioners.