Category: Falun Gong

National Republican Assembly Passes Resolution to End Organ Harvesting of Prisoners in China

The National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) passed a resolution on Oct. 9 urging state officials and Congress members to work to stop organ harvesting of prisoners in China during a meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona. The resolution was submitted by Norman Reece, president of the Solano Republican Assembly. The resolution calls for an immediate end…


China Fails to Address UN Questions on Forced Organ Harvesting, Rights Groups Say

The International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC) and two other U.S. rights groups have criticized China for its “inadequate and misleading” responses over credible allegations of the state-sanctioned practice of forced organ harvesting. The questions were raised in June by nine Special Rapporteurs to the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for…


China’s Gestapo-like Office Sought to ‘Eradicate’ Spiritual Group Worldwide, Report Says

For nearly two decades, a secretive agency has worked in the shadows to carry out orders from the top leadership of the Chinese Communist Party: to “eradicate” a group of spiritual believers deemed as a threat to the atheist regime. Known as the “610 Office,” the group was set up in 1999 as an “extra-legal”…


Former Chinese Justice Minister with History of Human Rights Violations Under Investigation

The Chinese communist regime has placed Fu Zhenghua, a longtime official in China’s public security sector, under investigation. While the regime has not disclosed details of the investigation, Fu is known to have committed human rights violations for years. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, a party organ for policing corruption, issued a short statement…


The Chinese Regime’s Billion Dollar Organ Harvesting Operation

Commentary Since coming to power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party has only ever focused on one goal: profit. During the early years of the party, then-leader Mao Zedong set forth ambitious “5-year plans” that solely emphasized economic growth. These “5-year plans” featured wildly unreasonable production targets, which caused government officials to utilize unethical methods…


NGOs Launch Declaration on Preventing Forced Organ Harvesting

U.S.-based advocacy group Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) and four other NGOs are calling on governments and the public to support a new initiative to end China’s state-sanctioned practice of forced organ harvesting. Together the groups launched a declaration (pdf) entitled the “Universal Declaration on Combating and Preventing Forced Organ Harvesting” on Sept. 26,…


Beijing Responsible for ‘Largest Transnational Crackdown in the World’ to Muzzle Diaspora, Report Finds

The Chinese regime has mounted the “largest transnational crackdown in the world” to ensure that Chinese communities globally toe the Party line, according to a recent report. The expansive campaign targets dissidents who fled China and those who hold a different point of view from the regime. Beijing’s tactics include spying, threats, harassment, physical assaults,…


Falun Gong Practitioners Gather Outside UN Building to Protest Against the CCP’s Crimes

NEW YORK—As world authorities gathered in Manhattan to participate in the 76th session of the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly at its headquarters this week, a group of Falun Gong practitioners quietly meditated and held banners raising awareness about their persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is…


CCP Is Carrying out ‘Cold Genocide’ Against Falun Gong, Professor Says

The atrocities committed by the Chinese regime in its decades-long persecution against Falun Gong practitioners amount to a “cold genocide,” a Canadian professor said. Maria Cheung, associate dean at the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Manitoba, spoke at the fifth session of the World Summit on Combating and Preventing Forced Organ Harvesting…


US Rights Group Calls on UN to Address China’s Forced Organ Harvesting

U.S.-based advocacy group Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) is calling on the United Nations to take action against China’s state-sanctioned practice of killing prisoners of conscience to supply organs for its lucrative transplant market. “The failure of the United Nations to address and thoroughly investigate the forced organ harvesting from living people in China…