A Congressional Research Service report on Falun Gong and its suppression in China, stating that pre-ban estimates of its membership ranged from 3 to 70 million including several thousand practitioners in the United States, and quoting then-Vice President Hu Jintao's 1999 statement that the group had 2.1 million known members, one third of whom belonged to the Chinese Communist Party.
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A nonpartisan U.S. Congressional Research Service report prepared for members of Congress, compiling the range of membership estimates in circulation before the 1999 ban and quoting then-Vice President Hu Jintao's own 1999 government figure directly; a scholarly-grade secondary compilation of primary claims rather than a primary claim itself, cited here for both its range and its direct quotation. Citation
PublisherCongressional Research Service
URLhttps://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/RL33437.html
Source TypeGovernment report
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This source names Falun Gong directly: "Research Service report on Falun Gong and its suppression in China, stating that pre-ban estimates of its membership ranged from 3 to 70 million including several thousand practitioners in the..."
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- Religions, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 holds.
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