Category: Falun Gong

Infographic: Beijing’s 22-Year-Long Persecution of Falun Gong

For 22 years, the communist regime in China has deployed a comprehensive campaign of repression against adherents of the spiritual group Falun Gong. Millions of Falun Gong practitioners have suffered detention, torture, harassment, forced labor, and organ harvesting. How the persecution started and how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has executed this expansive campaign is…


20 July—Anniversary of a Persecution Targeting the World

In the West, we have all heard of persecution, but it usually happens to someone else. In China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses people’s fear of becoming the “someone else” as a tool of repression and control. On July 20, 1999, the communist regime launched its brutal campaign to eliminate Falun Gong, casting tens…


Detained While Pregnant, Families Torn Apart: Two Women Recall Torment of Being Targets of CCP’s Persecution

BROOKLYN, N.Y.—The two women’s lives paralleled each other despite them having never met. Both were born in China and later fled to New York after nearly two decades of sustained harassment and arrests. Both were detained while pregnant and were threatened with forcible abortion. And both declined the one thing the authorities wanted them to…


Detained While Pregnant, Families Torn Apart: 2 Women Recall Torment of Being Targets of CCP’s Persecution

BROOKLYN, N.Y.—The two women’s lives have run in parallel with each other, despite their never having met before. Both were born in China and later fled to New York after nearly two decades of sustained harassment and arrests. Both were detained while pregnant and were threatened with forcible abortion. And both declined the one thing…


Detained While Pregnant, Families Torn Apart: Two Women Recall Horrors From Being Targets of CCP’s Persecution

BROOKLYN, N.Y.—The two women’s lives paralleled each other despite having never met. Both were born in China and later fled to New York after nearly two decades of sustained harassment and arrests. Both were detained after having just become pregnant and were threatened to have their babies forcibly aborted. And both declined the one thing that…


Toronto Vigil: Falun Gong Adherents Mourn 22 Years of Persecution by Communist China

Falun Gong adherents held a vigil in front of the Toronto Chinese Consulate on July 15 to mark 22 years of persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and to memorialize fellow adherents who have been persecuted to death in China since 1999. “I’m here today to be a voice for the people who has…


Communist China’s Repression on Faith Group “Must End,” Irish Lawmakers Demand

DUBLIN, Ireland—Meditation, faith, and self-determination are rights bound to people “from the womb to the tomb,” but those upholding the fundamental freedoms in China suffer persecution, says an Irish politician. Waving hands to people in symbolic yellow T-shirts at a rally, Independent TD (Teachta Dála, member of the lower house of Irish Parliament) Mattie McGrath…


22 Years of ‘Horrific Abuses’: Faith Group Demands End to Communist China’s Repression

WASHINGTON—Fang Siyi can’t remember how many times she was arrested before she escaped communist China. A 51-year-old practitioner of Falun Gong, a spiritual practice known for its core tenets of “truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance”, she lost two siblings to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sweeping persecution targeting her faith since 1999. One was beaten to…


Photo Gallery: Falun Gong Practitioners March in DC Calling for End to 22-Year-Long Persecution in China

WASHINGTON—On July 16, around 1,500 Falun Gong practitioners congregated in the nation’s capital to call for an end to the Chinese communist regime’s decades-long persecution of the spiritual practice. On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party launched a massive campaign to eradicate the faith group after the practice gained tens of millions of adherents…


‘End CCP’: Alberta Premier Voices Support for Global Movement Countering Chinese Communist Party

When Calgarian Guo Wenwen went downtown to raise awareness of her cause on July 11—as a volunteer of a global grassroots effort to end the communist regime in China—little did she expect she would have a chance to meet Alberta Premier Jason Kenney himself, a major supporter of that cause.   It was a sunny afternoon…