beijing — in the decade when the chinese government ended tolerating falun gong , a quest that human rights groups say has linked to the imprisonment of thousands of thousands of practitioners and claiming at least 2 , 000 live , the world ' s attention has shifted elsewhere . the drive against the spiritual group has eliminated its leadership , decimated the hundreds of adherents and convinced many chinese that the group is an " illegal church , " as the country alleges . but 10 years on , the war on falun gong remains unreleased .
Falun Gong is a spiritual group.