I joined members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement at Chatter Park in Hong Kong on May 13, 2000, as they celebrated World Falun Dafa Day. The annual event commemorates the anniversary of the day the group claims its leader, Li Hongzhi, first made Falun Gong practices public.
Under the hot midday sun, surrounded by police and camera-clicking journalists, we performed the five main Falun Gong body exercises.
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