Rayburn House Office Building evacuated over alarm during forum discussing Chinese repression

The Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill was evacuated Friday over an "audible alarm," while a forum on the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) repression tactics was underway, witnesses claimed.

The Epoch Times described the forum, which it held, as being "set to expose [the] CCP’s infiltration [and] manipulation of US institutions."

The United States Capitol Police issued the evacuation order internally at approximately 4 p.m. Eastern. It is not clear if the order has been lifted.

"INCREDIBLE: We were ordered to evacuate in the middle of a CCP Transnational Repression forum (being live-streamed) in the Rayburn Congressional House Office Building, right when powerful testimony exposing the Chinese regime was being given," Epoch Times editor Jan Jekielek posted to X. "While I don’t know the reason, the CCP orchestrating exactly these sorts of tactics to silence dissent was part of the discussion."

The alarm went off approximately one hour into the forum.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.