Category: religious freedom

Comic Artist Details ‘Hijacking Broadcast’ in China; 100,000 People Meeting to Rescue Economy in China

China’s second in command talks with 100,000 people over the failing economy. Is he splitting from Xi Jinping or simply doing his part? We analyze why COVID-19 is causing a diverging opinion among top leadership inside the Communist Party. I speak with comic artist Daxiong, who escaped China after the Chinese Communist Party began a…


Shocking Photos Inside Uyghur Concentration Camps: China’s Persecution and Human Rights Abuses

On China Insider, we take a look at the thousands of photos of Uyghur detainees—the youngest just 15 years old to as old as 73—from the Xinjiang police files, which also contain images of police drills and internal documents—and a shoot-to-kill order for anyone who attempts to escape. We speak with the Victims of Communism…


Uyghur Women Subjected to Sexual Violence in CCP’s Xinjiang Repression: US Religious Freedom Commissioner

Uyghur women are victims of sexual violence under the Chinese regime’s campaign of repression in Xinjiang, regardless of whether they are detained in an internment camp or not, according to Nury Turkel, vice chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. “They think all the sexual violence that they’re subjecting Uyghur women to, this…


US Should Get Tougher on Chinese Regime Over Its Persecution of Falun Gong: Advocate

A human rights advocate has called on the United States to take stronger action against the Chinese regime over its rampant persecution of the spiritual group Falun Gong. “There are acts before our Congress right now to try and put an end to [the persecution], and that kind of legislation, something that really has teeth,…


Award-Winning Documentary ‘Eternal Spring’ Finishes Screening in NYC

The award-winning documentary “Eternal Spring” had two sold-out screenings in New York this week. It will be screened in Poland at the end of May and will return to the United States in June in New Jersey and Los Angeles, California. “Eternal Spring” was screened at the 2022 Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New…


Leak of Xinjiang Police Files Provides ‘Absolutely Shocking’ Evidence of Mass Persecution: Former US Ambassador

A report released by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, presenting leaked documents from the files of the Xinjiang police, offers “absolutely shocking” evidence of the chronic abuse and brutality inflicted on the Uyghur population in China’s far west region, according to Andrew Bremberg, the foundation’s president and a former U.S. ambassador to the United…


59-Year-Old Falun Gong Practitioner Dies After 14 Hours in Detention

In the early morning of March 28, 2022, Niu Lanyun, a female Falun Gong adherent, rappelled down her rental dwelling but was soon apprehended by the police and taken away. At about 6 a.m., a witness saw Niu climbing down a rope from the third floor, but the rope broke before she got to the…


Falun Gong Remains the Prime Target of Chinese Regime: Leaked Document

Leaked documents from the Political and Legal Affairs Committee (PLAC) in Tieling county of China’s northeastern Liaoning Province reveal that the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) effort to “transform” or “zero out” Falun Gong remains the prime target of the regime. One of the documents titled “Progress Report Submitted to the Provincial PLAC Inspection Group” said…


Biden Admin Needs to Be ‘Much More Active’ in Opposing China’s Forced Organ Harvesting: Rep. Chabot

The Biden administration needs to be “much more outspoken, much more active” in opposing the “barbaric” forced organ harvesting that the Chinese regime has industralized to kill and profit off innocents, according to Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio). “This is probably one of the most heinous barbaric practices that’s occurring on the earth today. It really…


Colorado Graphic Designer Fears for Her Life as Religious Freedom Case Heads to Supreme Court

Lorie Smith left the corporate world in 2012 to form her own website design firm, 303 Creative, which soon flourished. But in 2016 she was asked to create a design conveying a message about marriage that flatly violated her deeply held Christian faith. Smith declined. The requester complained to Colorado authorities, who made clear that…