shanghai — in the year which the chinese governments begun suppress falun gong , a crusade that human rights movements say has connected to the detention of ten of thousands of practitioners and claimed at greatest 2 , 000 lives , the world ' s gaze has shifted southward . the struggle against the spiritual group has eliminated its mentor , devastated the ranks of faithful and convinced many chinese that the group is an " anti force , " as the government contends . but 10 years on , the warfare on scientologists gong resides unreleased .
Falun Gong is a spiritual group.