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 * In October 1999, four months after the ban, legislation was created to outlaw "[|heterodox] religions" and applied to Falun Gong retroactively.
 * Party leaders in mid-1999 panicked at seeing practitioners engaging publicly in a form of exercise which had an underlying belief system different from communism.
 * //If 100 million people are practicing it [Falun Gong], that's 100 billion Yuan saved per year in medical fees.//
 * Falun Gong practitioners continue to levy charges against the CCP, lobbying Western governments and handing out information about the ill-treatment of practitioners, highlighting arbitrary arrests and imprisonment, [|organ harvesting], forced labor, and torture at the hands of the Chinese security forces.[|[][|19][|]][|[][|20][|]][|[][|21][|]] Falun Gong practitioners have founded media outlets (the [|Epoch Times] and [|New Tang Dynasty Television]), to publicize their cause and criticize the Chinese government, and the group has emerged as a prominent voice opposing the CCP