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John Moolenaar: “Unrecognized groups like the Falun Gong, the Church of the…”

Featuring: John Moolenaar, Republican | U.S. House Michigan, 2nd Congressional District

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Representative John Moolenaar's Remarks for USCIRF's Hearing on State-Controlled Religion in China

Published | Video Starts at 01:58

High tech surveillance now watches over every place of worship, tracking who prays and who preaches, and even following exiles abroad. New laws make it nearly impossible to operate unregistered churches or host foreign missionaries. Unrecognized groups like the Falun Gong, the Church of the Almighty God, face detention, torture, and there are even reports of forced organ harvesting. And in Xinjiang, more than half a million Uyghur Muslims remain in camps, victims of an ongoing campaign of genocide and and forced assimilation. These are not isolated incidents. (01:58–02:09)

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Asserts that unrecognized religious groups in China face severe persecution, including detention, torture, and forced organ harvesting.

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