Category: Falun Gong

At All Costs: A CCP Leader’s War Against Faith

For as many as 100 million Chinese, the year 1999 was a watershed moment in their lives. That year, a massive nationwide persecution began under the orders of Jiang Zemin, then the Chinese Communist Party boss, a campaign that indiscriminately targeted adherents of the spiritual practice Falun Gong. Jiang, described by some rights advocates as…


MPs Reiterate Commitment to Vote in Favour of Senate Bill to Combat Forced Organ Harvesting and Trafficking

MPs of all political stripes reiterated their stance to vote in favour of a Senate bill that would create new offences in relation to forced organ harvesting, as their second debate on the bill’s third reading concluded in the House of Commons on Dec. 7. Should it pass Parliament on Dec. 14 and receive royal…


Killing for Profit: Prisoners of Conscience Feed China’s Vast Organ Transplant Industry

Four soldiers carried a wounded young man from prison at night. White-clad doctors in a military van waiting nearby then work to work: one used a scalpel to open the entire abdominal cavity, while others quickly took out two kidneys and put them in a container. After gouging the two eyeballs out, the corpse was…


Persecution of Falun Gong Laid Groundwork for China’s Digital Totalitarianism

News Analysis Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin recently passed away, leaving behind a legacy that includes ushering China into a modern surveillance state. “Jiang took critical steps in the early days of the internet in China to build the system today known as the Great Firewall, cutting off Chinese users from the rest of the…


CCP Continues to Persecute Falun Gong Adherents: US Religious Freedom Commission

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released a new report and a list of victims of religious persecution around the world. The report states the Chinese communist regime continues to persecute Falun Gong adherents by targeting them with charges relating to the practice of faiths deemed unacceptable to the atheist Communist Party. USCIRF…


China’s Gestapo-Like Agency Under Scrutiny After Death of Its Founder

Nazi Germany’s infamous Gestapo secret police are long gone but its crimes have not been forgotten. But what’s less known is that the communist regime in China also has a Gestapo-like agency whose sole mission is to brutalize and persecute innocent civilians deemed enemies of the state. The agency, called the “610 Office,” has been…


Alleged Attacker of Anti-CCP Protester Arrested in Australia

Australian police have arrested a man connected with an assault on protestors against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Kang Zhao, 30 years old, was arrested by authorities on Dec. 5 at Sydney Airport and extradited from New South Wales and will face the ACT Magistrates Court today on Dec. 7, according to a statement by Australian…


Death of Former CCP Leader Signifies End of ‘Horrific Era’: Rights Advocate

While held at a Chinese labor camp, Henry Yue was forced to wind metal coils used in television sets, day in and day out. The grueling conditions were such that blood would sometimes gush out from Yue’s nose, leaving large crimson patches on his blue-and-white striped prison uniform. The first time it happened, Yue held up…


Former CCP Leader Jiang Zemin’s Campaign of Repression Laid Groundwork for China’s Digital Dictatorship: Experts

Former Chinese communist leader Jiang Zemin presided over an extraordinary clampdown on faith groups, particularly the spiritual group Falun Gong, during which the regime deployed tools and tactics that laid the groundwork for the development of China’s modern digital authoritarianism, according to experts and advocates. Jiang died on Nov. 30 at the age of 96…


Jiang Zemin’s Political Legacy: Crimes and Corruption

News Analysis Jiang Zemin, the former leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), died of illness in Shanghai on Nov. 30, 2022, at the age of 96, according to an official announcement. Jiang wielded considerable control of China for more than 20 years, leaving behind a lasting political legacy characterized by crimes and corruption. Alleged…