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How true are the reports about treatment of Falun Gong?

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18062476 and marked it off-topic.

Perhaps, but the parent was talking about enormous amounts of people being detained without charge in China. Falun Gong seem to be a very egregious (organ harvesting and tortured to death!) example of this.

It appears that they are treated horrifically by the Chinese Communist Party. Falun Gong was founded in the 1990s as a Buddhist sect, and it grew rapidly. The CCP doesn't tolerate ideological rivals or power structures it doesn't control, so it banned them and propagandised them as an evil and dangerous cult, which is how they're widely seen in China today. Hundreds of thousands have been detained, and thousands have died in custody. There are reports of widespread organ harvesting:

Lavee describes how his attitude changed dramatically when a patient told him he was travelling to China for a scheduled heart transplant. This idea was shocking to Lavee, because the circumstances of death that allow heart donation cannot be predicted.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4919373/

The CCP claimed that they stopped using organs forcibly taken from prisoners in 2015, but not everybody is convinced by that claim.

Overall, they are treated as inhuman. There's also the photo on the Wikipedia page for cattle prods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_prod

Wow, tough to read but thank you for bringing this to my attention.

It’s really awful Western countries just put up with it because they’re afraid of offending China. Not even the Soviets thought to make such use of the millions of people they executed.

The Soviets did a lot of human experimentation.

Oddly enough this very thread got detached for being "off topic."

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