BEIJING—A Chinese court sentenced two prominent human rights lawyers on Monday to jail terms of more than a decade each, a relative and rights groups told Reuters. Xu Zhiyong, 50, and Ding Jiaxi, 55, went on trial behind closed doors in June last year on charges of state subversion at a court in Linshu county…
China Jails Man for 9 Years in ‘Chained Woman’ Scandal
April 9, 2023
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A Chinese man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for the abuse of a female victim of human trafficking. In early 2022, the mother of eight was found chained in a hut in eastern China. The “chained woman” scandal has shocked both China and the international community. Dong Zhimin, a 56-year-old villager from…
Texas Senate Unanimously Passes Measure to End Complicity in Beijing’s Forced Organ Harvesting
April 8, 2023
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A bipartisan measure has unanimously passed the Texas Senate as lawmakers advance steps to prevent their state from aiding in the Chinese regime’s forced organ harvesting. Senate Bill 1040, with companion House Bill 2025, would bar health benefit plans from paying for organ transplants originating in a country “where the risk is extremely high that…
Christians Fleeing Persecution in China Arrive in Texas for Easter
A group of more than 60 fleeing Christians have arrived safely in the United States after escaping severe religious persecution in communist China, according to a U.S. lawmaker. The refugees are members of the Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church, also known as the “Mayflower Church.” They fled China in 2019 and traveled to Thailand in August 2022 from…
Mother of New York Dancer Sentenced to Prison in China for Her Faith
April 7, 2023
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NEW YORK—For the past 15 years, a cell phone was the only thing that held together Steven Wang and his family, who are an ocean away in China. It was over a phone call that Wang found out about his father’s death in 2009—of kidney failure resulting from years of torture detained in a Chinese…
Mother of Shen Yun Dancer Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison in China for Her Faith
April 7, 2023
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NEW YORK—For the past 15 years, a cell phone was the only thing that held together Steven Wang and his family, who are an ocean away in China. It was over a phone call that Wang found out about his father’s death in 2009—of kidney failure resulting from years of torture detained in a Chinese…
Beijing Attempts to Reverse China’s Population Decline by Softening Barbaric One-Child Policy Slogans
April 7, 2023
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News Analysis Many local authorities in China have recently issued notices to revise the one-child policy slogans on billboards. The slogans, often gruesome and brutal, reflect the horror and inhumanity of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) policy over the past few decades. On March 27, the Health Commission of Fengjie County in Chongqing Municipality issued…
The US Needs to ‘Take Greater Steps’ to Stop Forced Organ Harvesting in China: Economist
April 6, 2023
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Lucia Dunn, a professor of economics at Ohio State University, told The Epoch Times she strongly supports the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act because she believes live organ harvesting is “one of the greatest crimes of humanity our civilization has ever seen,” and people should do everything they can to stop it. The U.S. House…
US Congress Should Recognize Genocide Against Tibetans, Falun Gong Adherents: Expert
April 6, 2023
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The U.S. Congress should label the crimes the CCP commits against Falun Gong adherents and Tibetans as genocide, according to Anders Corr, publisher of the Journal of Political Risk and columnist for The Epoch Times. “The U.S. Congress and the U.S. State Department have already recognized the genocide of the Uyghurs; we need to acknowledge…
Lawyer Exposes Tortures the CCP Uses to Extract Confessions
A lawyer in Hebei Province, northern China, used his social media, Weibo, to expose how police extracted a confession from a prisoner using horrific torture methods. Followers found the techniques cruel, and one viewer commented, “It looks like what Falun Gong has been saying is real.” Li Zhuang, once a Beijing lawyer, posted a video…
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