Virginie Stanley of Hollis and Scott Brown of South Portland greet the day’s first light on the Eastern Promenade in Portland on Aug. 5. They are performing the exercises of Falun Gong, a spiritual practice introduced in China in 1992, but now banned by the Chinese Communist Party, which is accused of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.


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