2 Men Plead Guilty to Acting as Illegal Chinese Agents in Plot Against Falun Gong

Published on July 26, 2024

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—Two men have pleaded guilty to acting as illegal Chinese agents in helping Beijing to further its suppression of the faith group Falun Gong in the United States. The pair, John Chen and Lin Feng from California, worked for months in 2023 with a Chinese official in a scheme to bribe the IRS to revoke the nonprofit status of a New York-based organization run by Falun Gong practitioners. Falun Gong—a spiritual practice featuring meditative exercises and teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance—has faced a brutal suppression campaign in China at the hands of the Chinese communist regime. Millions of practitioners have experienced detention and torture, with an unknown number killed from state-directed forced organ harvesting....

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