Falun Gong In New York Have Been Attacked

Yesterday's Epoch Times reports that adherents of Falun Gong in Flushing, New York met this week with representatives of the New York Police Department to discuss physical and verbal attacks that have been directed at the Falun Gong. The paper says that China has spread false rumors, through its state-controlled media in the United States and in China, that Falun Gong practitioners have been blocking donations from getting to earthquake victims in Sichuan Province. Late last month, the Epoch Times reported that attacks on Falun Gong in New York occurred after reports spread through the Chinese community that Falun Gong was celebrating the deaths in the earthquake. The newspaper claims that the Chinese Consulate in New York was implicated in encouraging the attacks.