H. Res. 605 
In the House of Representatives, U. S., 
March 16, 2010. 
Whereas Falun Gong is a traditional Chinese spiritual dis-
cipline founded by Li Hongzhi in 1992, which consists of 
spiritual, religious, and moral teachings for daily life, 
meditation, and exercise, based upon the principles of 
truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance; 
Whereas according to the 2008 Annual Report of the Con-
gressional-Executive Commission on China, ‘‘tens of mil-
lions of Chinese citizens practiced Falun Gong in the 
1990s and adherents to the spiritual movement inside of 
China are estimated to still number in the hundreds of 
thousands despite the government’s ongoing crackdown,’’ 
and other estimates published in Western press place the 
number of Falun Gong adherents currently in China at 
the tens of millions; 
Whereas in 1996, Falun Gong books were banned in China 
and state media began a campaign criticizing Falun 
Gong; 
Whereas in 1999, Chinese police began disrupting Falun 
Gong morning exercises in public parks and began 
searching the homes of Falun Gong practitioners; 
Whereas on April 25, 1999, over 10,000 Falun Gong practi-
tioners gathered outside the State Council Office of Peti-
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tions in Beijing, next to the Communist Party leadership 
compound, to request that arrested Falun Gong practi-
tioners be released, the ban on publication of Falun Gong 
books be lifted, and that Falun Gong practitioners be al-
lowed to resume their activities without government inter-
ference; 
Whereas on the same day, immediately after then-Premier 
Zhu Rongji met with Falun Gong representatives in his 
office and agreed to the release of arrested practitioners, 
Communist Party Chairman Jiang Zemin criticized Zhu’s 
actions and ordered a crackdown on Falun Gong; 
Whereas in June 1999, Jiang Zemin ordered the creation of 
the 6-10 office, an extrajudicial security apparatus, given 
the mandate to ‘‘eradicate’’ Falun Gong; 
Whereas in July 1999, Chinese police began arresting leading 
Falun Gong practitioners; 
Whereas on July 22, 1999, Chinese state media began a 
major propaganda campaign to ban Falun Gong for ‘‘dis-
turbing social order’’ and warning Chinese citizens that 
the practice of Falun Gong was forbidden; 
Whereas in October 1999, Party Chairman Jiang Zemin, ac-
cording to western press articles, ‘‘ordered that Falun 
Gong be branded as a ‘cult’, and then demanded that a 
law be passed banning cults’’; 
Whereas Chinese authorities have devoted extensive time and 
resources over the past decade worldwide to distributing 
false propaganda claiming that Falun Gong is a suicidal 
and militant ‘‘evil cult’’ rather than a spiritual movement 
which draws upon traditional Chinese concepts of medita-
tion and exercise;
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Whereas on October 10, 2004, the House of Representatives 
adopted by voice vote House Concurrent Resolution 304, 
which had 75 bipartisan co-sponsors, titled ‘‘Expressing 
the sense of Congress regarding oppression by the Gov-
ernment of the People’s Republic of China of Falun Gong 
in the United States and in China,’’ and that the text of 
this resolution noted that ‘‘the Chinese Government has 
also attempted to silence the Falun Gong movement and 
Chinese prodemocracy groups inside the United States’’; 
Whereas, on October 18, 2005, highly respected human 
rights attorney Gao Zhisheng wrote a letter to Chinese 
Communist Party Chairman Hu Jintao and Premier Wen 
Jiabao calling for an end to the persecution of Falun 
Gong and Chinese authorities, in response, closed his law 
office and took away his law license, with Chinese secu-
rity forces suspected of being directly involved in Mr. 
Gao’s disappearance on February 4, 2009; 
Whereas Gao Zhisheng’s family has subsequently been grant-
ed political asylum in the United States; 
Whereas the United Nations Committee Against Torture in 
its fourth periodic report of China, issued on December 
12, 2008, stated that ‘‘The State party should imme-
diately conduct or commission an independent investiga-
tion of the claims that some Falun Gong practitioners 
have been subjected to torture and used for organ trans-
plants and take measures, as appropriate, to ensure that 
those responsible for such abuses are prosecuted and 
punished.’’; 
Whereas the Amnesty International 2008 annual report 
states that ‘‘Falun Gong practitioners were at particu-
larly high risk of torture and other ill-treatment in deten-
tion * * * during the year 2007 over 100 Falun Gong
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practitioners were reported to have died in detention or 
shortly after release as a result of torture, denial of food 
or medical treatment, and other forms of ill-treatment.’’; 
Whereas according to the 2008 Department of State’s 
Human Rights Report on China, ‘‘Some foreign observers 
estimated that Falun Gong adherents constituted at least 
half of the 250,000 officially recorded inmates in re-edu-
cation through labor (RTL) camps, while Falun Gong 
sources overseas placed the number even higher.’’; 
Whereas according to the 2008 Annual Report of the Con-
gressional-Executive Commission on China, ‘‘The (Chi-
nese) central government intensified its nine-year cam-
paign of persecution against Falun Gong practitioners in 
the months leading up to the 2008 Beijing Summer 
Olympic Games.’’; 
Whereas Falun Gong-related websites remain among the 
most systematically and hermetically blocked by China’s 
Internet firewall; and 
Whereas, according to an April 2009 New York Times report, 
‘‘In the past year, as many as 8,000 (Falun Gong) prac-
titioners have been detained, according to experts on 
human rights, and at least 100 have died in custody’’: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) expresses sympathy to Falun Gong practitioners 
and their family members who have suffered persecution, 
intimidation, imprisonment, torture, and even death for 
the past decade solely because of adherence to their per-
sonal beliefs;
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(2) calls upon the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China to immediately cease and desist from its 
campaign to persecute, intimidate, imprison, and torture 
Falun Gong practitioners, to immediately abolish the 6- 
10 office, an extrajudicial security apparatus given the 
mandate to ‘‘eradicate’’ Falun Gong, and to immediately 
release Falun Gong practitioners, detained solely for 
their beliefs, from prisons and re-education through 
labor (RTL) camps, including those practitioners who 
are the relatives of United States citizens and permanent 
residents; and 
(3) calls upon the President and Members of Con-
gress to mark the 11th anniversary of Chinese official 
repression of the Falun Gong spiritual movement appro-
priately and effectively by publicly expressing solidarity 
with those practitioners in China persecuted solely be-
cause of their personal beliefs, and by meeting with 
Falun Gong practitioners whenever and wherever pos-
sible to indicate that support for freedom of conscience 
remains a fundamental principle of the United States 
Government. 
Attest: 
Clerk.