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The Chinese government officially banned Falun Gong in July 1999 after the movement experienced rapid growth, attracting tens of millions of practitioners. Following a massive, silent demonstration by followers outside the leadership compound in Beijing, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) declared it an illegal, heretical organization. The government viewed the movement's massive scale and independent organizational capability as a potential threat to state control, leading to a long-running crackdown that has been widely documented and condemned by international human rights organizations.