China lashes out at U.S. resolution on Falungong

“The U.S. House of Representatives passed a so-called resolution on Falungong which made groundless accusations and confuses right and wrong,” foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang told reporters.

“China is firmly against such a resolution.”

The House voted nearly unanimously on Tuesday to call on China to free thousands of members of the movement who are said to be imprisoned and to abolish a government office tasked with fighting the Falungong.

The resolution, which is not legally binding, asked China to “immediately cease and desist from its campaign to persecute, intimidate, imprison and torture Falungong practitioners.”

Falungong — loosely based on Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian philosophies — enjoyed growing popularity among Chinese in the 1990s.

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