Falun Dafa in India
Indian practitioners hold free, volunteer-run practice sessions in cities across the country, and Indian media have covered the practice at community events for years, from Mumbai's Equal Streets to Bengaluru's Happy Streets. (Times of India, Mumbai) (Times of India, Bengaluru)
Locations and volunteer contacts are listed at falundafaindia.org; activities are free of charge.
August 2026: the BRICS media-access reports
On 3 August 2026, ThePrint reported that senior Chinese Embassy officials in New Delhi had raised concerns about media organisations linked to Falun Gong and Tibet gaining access to question the Chinese delegation during the forthcoming BRICS summit. (ThePrint) Outlook India and others followed. (Outlook India)
There is no publicly established evidence that India accepted the reported request. That distinction matters, and every account on this site preserves it.
But the reports raise a question that goes beyond any one group: who determines which journalists may question a visiting foreign government on Indian soil?
How Indian and international media covered it
Should a Foreign Government Have a Say in Who Questions Its Leaders on Indian Soil?
Press freedom, sovereignty and strategic autonomy
Governments, courts and researchers in other democracies have documented attempts to extend the CCP's political red lines beyond China's borders, from Iceland's 2002 entry restrictions, later examined by its own parliament, to U.S. federal prosecutions of individuals acting as illegal PRC agents against a Falun Gong-linked entity. (Icelandic Parliament) (U.S. DOJ)
When such pressure touches journalists, public institutions or civil society in another country, it becomes a question of press freedom, freedom of belief, foreign influence and national sovereignty, questions India can weigh on its own terms, without importing anyone else's red lines.
Transnational repression, explained
India Can Engage Beijing Without Importing Beijing's Red Lines
Falun Dafa in India: A Practice Beijing Banned, Indians Are Free to Learn