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February 6, 2023February 6, 2023

Students for Falun Gong Attends the 2023 International Religious Freedom Summit

Young Falun Gong practitioners from Students for Falun Gong (SFFG) and Falun Dafa Information Center (FDI) attended the 2023 International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit in Washington, D.C. from January 31st to February 1st.

The group of young practitioners traveled from California, New York, and Maryland and consisted of students and young professionals in the music, healthcare, technology, software development, and biotechnology fields. Over the 2-day conference, SFFG and FDI members clarified the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong in mainland China to conference attendees and government officials.

Multiple summit speakers and human rights experts applauded Falun Gong practitioners’ resilience and courage, and condemned the CCP for its ongoing persecution of Falun Gong.

*Grace Chen (middle), whose parents are currently imprisoned in mainland China for practicing Falun Gong, with seven members of Students for Falun Gong and Falun Dafa Information Center* at the 2023 International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, D.C.

February 6, 2021October 31, 2022

Up We Soar Screening and A Conversation with Film Protagonist, Fuyao Li

On Saturday, February 6^th, Students for Falun Gong and 14 Falun Dafa Clubs across North America hosted an online screening of the award-winning documentary Up We Soar. The event was attended by over a hundred people and featured a live Q&A with the protagonist, Fuyao Li.

April 7, 2019

Human Rights Documentary at University of Delaware

On March 14th, the Falun Dafa Club at the University of Delaware hosted a screening of award-winning film, Letter from Masanjia, chronicling China’s infamous “Reeducation through Labor” system and the story of one man, a Falun Gong practitioner, who was jailed and tortured for his faith.

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December 6, 2018

International student forms RSO for Chinese spiritual practice Falun Gong

November 7, 2018

Joint Letter to Congressmen to Aid Release of Imprisoned Falun Gong Practitioners

To Whom It May Concern:

We as Students for Falun Gong (SFFG) represent a body of bright, motivated, and civically-minded young people from across 4 continents. Though we come from different walks of life—a variety of academic disciplines and levels of education—we share in common a faith in the goodness of human potential and the democratic value of freedom of belief.

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October 12, 2018

SOS: Help Rescue Eva’s Father!

Eva Fu is a Falun Dafa practitioner at the University of Washington. Her father, Fu Xin’ge (付新革), was arrested on September 19, 2018, according to reports from Minghui.org, a website dedicated to reporting on the Falun Gong community worldwide. A major part of Minghui’s work is to track the disappearances and deaths of Falun Gong practitioners in China during this time of persecution.

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November 11, 2017

Human Harvest at the University of Washington

Source: The Daily UW

On Nov. 9, the Partnership for Community and Diversity (PCD) and the Jackson School Student Association invited the public to join the two organizations, along with Canadian director Leon Lee, in viewing Lee’s Peabody award-winning documentary, Human Harvest.

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