Ottawa Festival Apologizes for Telling Man to Remove Falun Dafa Shirt to Appease Chinese Embassy

Published on November 17, 2023

The Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival (ODBF) has apologized after its CEO in 2019 asked a Falun Dafa adherent to remove a shirt he was wearing with words related to his belief of Falun Dafa, saying the Chinese embassy is a sponsor of the festival. The City of Ottawa has also issued a statement saying event organizers can’t engage in discrimination. Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, is currently being persecuted in China, with adherents being held in captivity, tortured, and in many cases killed by the Chinese regime. Gerry Smith, a practitioner of Falun Dafa, was peacefully doing the practice’s exercises and distributing flyers outside the festival grounds at Mooney’s Bay Park in Ottawa on June 22, 2019. At approximately 3 p.m. he entered the festival grounds to buy lunch for his friend’s son whom he was babysitting....

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