NEW YORK—Chinese authorities are attempting to track down Falun Gong practitioners who fled the regime’s persecution by collecting their overseas address and other personal data, a number of adherents told The Epoch Times. Harassment of the Falun Gong community in China by the Communist Party has been commonplace since the regime began a decades-long eradication campaign against the faith group, subjecting millions to various abuses including torture, imprisonment, forced labor, and even forced organ harvesting. According to its website, Falun Gong is a self-improvement practice rooted in Buddhist traditions. It promotes the values of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. In the past few weeks, especially around the convening of China’s politically sensitive “Two Sessions”—the regime’s most important annual meeting—police pressed for personal information of some U.S. Falun Gong practitioners from their families in China, obstructing their normal activities if they refused to comply. When Ling Jilei’s parents were selling their house …
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