Category: Falun Dafa

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…


Founder of Falun Gong Receives Global Greetings on Chinese Holiday

In the past days, greetings flooding to the founder of Falun Gong for Mid-Autumn Festival, a traditional Chinese holiday for family reunions which fell on Sept. 21 this year. Li Hongzhi brought an ancient Chinese spiritual practice—Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa—to the public in 1992. It helps relieve stress and increases energy with…


China’s ‘Commercialized Murder’ in Organ Transplant Industry Must End, UK Official Says

Several politicians from around the world on Sept. 19 took turns in a summit to condemn China’s continued practice of killing prisoners of conscience in order to drive its industrial-scale operations to supply harvested organs to the transplant market. “Organ donation is a precious act of saving a life, but forced organ harvesting is commercialized…


Religion a Threat to Authoritarianism

Commentary As I am an avid reader, I decided to read Jennifer Zeng’s acclaimed memoir “Witnessing History: One Woman’s Fight for Freedom and Falun Gong.” This book, published in 2005, is a well-known memoir of a member of the Falun Gong faith who was imprisoned in a Chinese labour re-education facility, tortured, and humiliated until…


‘CCP Destroys Democracy and Freedom’: President of Australian Falun Dafa Association Tells

An Australian government inquiry has heard the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) interference is threatening democracy, freedom, and human rights in Australia. Dr. Lucy Zhao, President of the Falun Dafa Association of Australia, told The Human Rights Subcommittee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade that the human rights of Australian Falun Dafa…


‘CCP Destroys Democracy and Freedom,’ President of Australian Falun Dafa Association Tells Inquiry

An Australian government inquiry has heard the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) interference is threatening democracy, freedom, and human rights in Australia. Dr. Lucy Zhao, president of the Falun Dafa Association of Australia, told The Human Rights Subcommittee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade that the human rights of Australian Falun Dafa…


Chinese Regime’s Forced Organ Harvesting Could Spread to Other Countries, NGO Director Warns

The communist regime in China would export its horrific practice of forced organ harvesting once it was able to tear down ethical standards in the transplant industry established by the West, warned Dr. Torsten Trey. Trey, founder and executive director of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH), sounded the warning during a recent interview with…


Canadian Painter Kathy Gillis’s Pure Art and Heartfelt Promises

In 1940, full of love and the innocence of childhood, Kathy Gillis vowed to be an artist. It was a profession her mother, Doris, had once aspired to. Polio robbed Doris of the chance to fulfill that dream, as the virus later spread to Doris’s brain, making her unable to function. Gillis voiced her intention…


Entire Family Dies in the CCP’s Persecution of Faith, Teen Son Orphaned

An entire family in China has been tortured to death in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ongoing persecution of faith, leaving behind a 13-year-old boy. Even before the young boy was born, his parents had been arrested and persecuted multiple times because of their faith in Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa), a traditional…


Survivor of Communist Poland Wins Human Rights Award for Supporting Falun Gong

A former survivor of the communist takeover of Poland has been awarded for his efforts promoting “freedom of belief” for Falun Gong practitioners worldwide. Australia-based Sev Ozdowski, chair of the Australian Multicultural Council and vice-chancellor’s fellow at Western Sydney University, has worked closely with Falun Gong practitioners to hold events and raise awareness around the…