China’s Crackdown on Falun Gong

I was emailed a link to a piece called China’s Crackdown on Falun Gong after posting about the chilling report that China is ‘harvesting’ organs from prisoners:

Nearly a decade after it was outlawed in China, the mysterious movement known as Falun Gong is struggling to survive government persecution. What is the movement about – and why does it frighten Chinese authorities?

The article goes into some detail about the movement’s origins, current status in China, and its philosophy, which is something like a mixture of traditional kung-fu (or tai chi, or qi-gong) and Scientology. It’s worth the read.