Freedom House's 2017 report on Falun Gong and religious freedom in China, stating that "a reasonable estimate of the minimum number of people in China practicing Falun Gong today would fall in the range of 7 to 10 million, while overseas Falun Gong sources have estimated that the total is 20 to 40 million."
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Reliability Tier2
An established human rights research organization's field-researched report, offering its own reasoned minimum estimate alongside overseas advocates' considerably higher claim, both stated as estimates rather than counts; independent of both the Chinese government and the Falun Gong movement itself, though methodologically an analytical estimate rather than a census or survey. Citation
PublisherFreedom House
Publication Year2017
URLhttps://freedomhouse.org/report/2017/battle-china-spirit-falun-gong-religious-freedom
Source TypeReport
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Claims Backed By This Source (15 claims)
This source backs 15 claims across the atlas. As facts: 11 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Religions, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Religious Events, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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