Twenty-three attorneys general across the United States filed an amicus brief (pdf) supporting a petition made by Falun Gong practitioners in a high-profile religious freedom case before the Supreme Court. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The AGs called for the highest court to revert a lower court decision that was “wrong on an issue of…
‘An Issue of National Importance’: 23 AGs Write to SCOTUS Supporting Falun Gong Practitioners
June 23, 2022
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40,000-Character Manifesto From the CCP Blaming the US; David Satter on Communism: ‘False Religion’
June 23, 2022
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A 40,000-character manifesto from the Chinese regime has been released. They are furious the Biden administration gave a China speech. We are going to fact-check some of it and explain to you why the CCP is willing to lie. Plus, I speak with David Satter, a scholar and author on communism and Russia, to get his…
Shanghai Tech Expert and Fiancée Detained by CCP Over Allegedly Helping Develop Firewall Circumvention Tool
He Binggang, 46, is the owner of a computer and electronics firm in Shanghai. Since October last year, He and his fiancée, Zhang Yibo, a former business manager at Siemens Shanghai, have been detained for allegedly helping the Chinese public gain access to uncensored information by circumventing the communist regime’s internet firewall. Their alleged crime,…
GOPers See Big Win for Religious Freedom If House Keeps ‘Charitable Choice’ in Fed Grants
First Amendment religious freedom advocates cheered on June 21 when the Supreme Court struck down a Maine law denying faith-based school funding options to parents who see public education failing their children. Another such big win could come on June 22 in the House of Representatives. The occasion is the House taking up H.R. 7666,…
Arrest of 90-Year-Old Catholic Cardinal in Hong Kong Signals Beijing’s Increasing Persecution: Former US Ambassador
Hong Kong’s arrest of 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen in May signals Beijing’s growing oppression of religious freedom in Hong Kong amid its widening clamp down on freedoms in the financial hub, according to Andrew Bremberg, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Hong Kong police on May 11 arrested 90-year-old Zen, former head of the…
China Names New Chief of Religious Affairs Bureau Who Envisions the ‘Obliteration of Religion’
June 16, 2022
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The Chinese regime has announced a new director of religious affairs. Cui Maohu was named on June 7 to take over from Wang Zuoan, who had been director since September 2009. Prior to that, Wang served as deputy director under former director Ye Xiaowen, who was in charge of the bureau from March 1998 to September 2009….
CCP Uses Disinformation to Fuel Human Rights Abuses: Documentary Filmmaker
June 12, 2022
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China leverages disinformation to inflame its repression of target groups, including the spiritual group Falun Gong, according to Peabody award-winning film director Jason Loftus. “Disinformation has been used to fuel atrocious human rights abuses like imprisonment and torture,” Loftus recently told Epoch TV’s “American Thought Leaders” program. “It’s essentially a bully tactic of repressing people…
‘Pawns’ for Beijing: CCP Pressures US Officials to Tilt Policies in China’s Favor
June 7, 2022
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It was late February 2020, as the pandemic was heating up in the United States, when a request from China caught Wisconsin state senator Roger Roth’s attention. It was an email from Wu Ting, wife of the Chinese consul general in Chicago. Wu wanted Roth to help pass a resolution “in support of China’s fight…
China Remains a ‘Glaring Example’ of Religious Repression: US State Department
June 2, 2022
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The Chinese Communist Party continues to be a “glaring example” of a regime that represses its citizens from exercising religious liberty, according to Rashad Hussain, the U.S. Ambassador-At-Large for International Religious Freedom. “Far too many governments remain undeterred of their repression of their citizens. It comes as no surprise that the People’s Republic of China…
Ohio Legislature Endorses Resolution to Place Canada on Watch List for ‘Violations of Religious Freedom’
A resolution recently endorsed by the Ohio state legislature is urging the U.S. government to place Canada on a special watch list of countries for “violations of religious freedom.” The Ohio House State and Local Government Committee voted 8-2 on May 18 to endorse House Resolution 194, urging action to address the “abuses of religious liberty” it says…
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