Category: Falun Gong

Multiple Falun Gong Practitioners Die in Police Custody in China

Multiple practitioners of Falun Gong lost their lives while in police custody in China since May, according to reports from Minghui.org, a U.S.-based leading website that documents the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) persecution of Falun Gong. The practitioners were prisoners of conscience, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been carrying out systematic persecution against believers…


‘Lose Your Mind or Your Life’: Chinese Believer Was Told During 9 Years in Jail

Gong Ruiping tried to find out where she was and what had happened to her, but all memories faded after a guard grabbed her hair and repeatedly banged her head against the wall. “I later found out that my knees were bleeding and my face was swollen,” Gong said later in a statement. It happened…


After 3 Years of Imprisonment, Released Chinese Woman Faces New Form of Persecution

On Aug. 26, a Chinese court live stream of a pension suspension case was abruptly cut off in the middle of the proceedings. Tang Yuehua, the plaintiff, sued local authorities for withholding her pension after she was released from jail. Tang was imprisoned between 2015 and 2018 for her belief in Falun Gong. There were…


Chinese Authorities Illegally Suspend Pensions, Lawyer

On Aug. 26, a Chinese court live stream of a pension suspension case was abruptly cut off in the middle of the proceedings. Tang Yuehua, the plaintiff, sued local authorities for withholding her pension after she was released from jail. Tang was imprisoned between 2015 and 2018 for her belief in Falun Gong. There were…


Anti-Forced Organ Harvesting Groups to Launch Global Summit

Five non-governmental organizations (NGO) are planning webinars about battling organ transplants from non-consenting detainees, primarily from Falun Gong adherents, during the coming UN General Assembly in September. The World Summit on Combating and Preventing Forced Organ Harvesting is set to hold six webinars on two consecutive weekends. The first session starts on Sept. 17. Discussions will…


US Urges Beijing to Release The Epoch Times’ Sources Detained for Supplying Information on COVID-19

The U.S. State Department has expressed concern for the 11 Chinese citizens detained for providing information relating to the pandemic to the Chinese-language edition of The Epoch Times. It also demanded that Beijing cease stifling truthful reporting in the country. “The United States calls on the PRC [People’s Republic of China] government to release journalists…


For Sanctity of Life, ‘Move the 2022 Games,’ Olympian Once Arrested in Beijing Says

When an Australian Olympian ran into Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 2002 waving a 1964 Tokyo Olympic banner with the words “truthfulness, compassion, tolerance” written on it as a stand against human rights abuses in China, she already knew that the communist country had been awarded the 2008 Summer Olympics. Five years later, in 2007,…


Canada Should Ramp Up Private Sponsorship of Those Fleeing CCP Persecution: Tory MP

Canada’s refugee program needs to better support private sponsors who are helping victims of the Chinese communist regime abroad—especially human rights defenders and refugees at imminent risk of persecution, says Conservative MP Garnett Genuis. In particular, Canada should not limit the number of private sponsors who want to help refugees, Genuis said at an ethnocultural…


Canada Should Ramp Up Private Sponsorship of Those Fleeing CCP Persecution: Tory Candidate

Canada’s refugee program needs to better support private sponsors who are helping victims of the Chinese communist regime abroad—especially human rights defenders and refugees at imminent risk of persecution, says Conservative candidate Garnett Genuis. In particular, Canada should not limit the number of private sponsors who want to help refugees, Genuis said at an ethnocultural…


Journalist Group Calls for Release of 11 in China Who Supplied Pandemic Photos to The Epoch Times

A journalist group is calling for the release of 11 Chinese citizens who were detained after providing photos to the Chinese-language edition of The Epoch Times shedding light on the pandemic. The 11 are all adherents of the Falun Gong, a spiritual practice that has been heavily persecuted by the communist regime for decades. They…