<div><p>Hundreds of supporters of the Falun Gong spiritual movement have rallied in Washington ahead of the 10th anniversary of its ban by China, with a special push to free a prominent rights lawyer.</p><p>China banned Falun Gong, whose Buddhist-inspired teachings focus on exercises, on July 20, 1999. Beijing ...

<div><p>Slovak police detained nine people on Thursday after a scuffle broke out during a human rights protest against visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao, a local news agency and witnesses said.</p><p>SITA news agency quoted a police spokesman as saying authorities had detained "nine people, including six Slovaks and ...

<div id="subtitle">China's campaign to wipe out Falun Gong drives tenacious movement underground</div><div><p>A musician dies in police custody, a lawyer is beaten, an aid worker abandons China after 10 years of persecution — the stories are the human toll behind China's decade-long campaign to wipe out ...

<div><p>Despite demonstrations around Asia, Beijing was quiet Saturday a decade after the spiritual group Falungong was outlawed as an evil cult and made the subject of a brutal crackdown.</p><p>On April 25, 1999, over 10,000 Falungong members surrounded Communist Party headquarters in central Beijing in a demonstration ...