Serbia Doing ‘Bidding of China’ by Detaining Falun Gong Practitioners Raises Concerns in US

Published on May 23, 2024

Serbia’s decision to detain practitioners of a persecuted faith in alignment with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has raised alarm in the United States, with one religious freedom watcher calling it a “Faustian deal.” Just before the head of Chinese regime, Xi Jinping, visited to Belgrade in early May to much fanfare and conducted dozens of deals with Serbian officials, six practitioners of the meditation group, Falun Gong, along with two family members were detained under the accusation that they posed a “serious threat to persons under international protection.” The detainees, including an 80-year-old woman, were released only after Xi left the country....