Category: Falun Gong

Hundreds Gather in New York’s Chinatown to Highlight Ongoing Abuse in Communist China

MANHATTAN, New York—Hundreds paraded in lower Manhattan through one of America’s oldest Chinese communities to protest ongoing abuses in communist China that the international community has described as “crimes against humanity.” It marked the first time in almost five years the participants were back to Chinatown, the lively New York City neighorhood packed with bubble…


Hundreds Gather in New York’s Chinatown to Highlight Ongoing Persecution of Falun Gong in Communist China

MANHATTAN, New York—Hundreds paraded in lower Manhattan through one of America’s oldest Chinese communities to protest ongoing abuses in communist China that the international community has described as “crimes against humanity.” It marked the first time in almost five years the participants were back to Chinatown, home to one of the densest Chinese immigrant populations…


CCP Funds Front Group to Carry Out Disruptive Activities in Taiwan, Group Member Admits

A pro-Beijing group founded in Taiwan by a mainland Chinese immigrant took funds from the Chinese regime to carry out disruptive activities in the island nation. Members of the Patriot Alliance Association (PAA) have been charged with violations of Taiwan’s Anti-Infiltration Act and National Security Act. The Taipei Prosecutor’s Office said that the secretary general…


Witness Exposes China’s Organ Harvesting; Ethan Gutmann Details New Organ Harvesting Findings

A witness of China’s organ harvesting, a former gang member from Japan told The Epoch Times exclusively what he saw in a Chinese transplant hospital, as well as the execution of prisoners of conscience for their organs and China’s sudden boom in organ transplants. I spoke with Ethan Gutmann, a long-time investigator of China’s organ…


CCP Increased Persecution of Falun Gong to Prevent Uncovering of COVID Situation in China: Report

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) increased its persecution against a spiritual group amid the pandemic to prevent its adherents from exposing to the world the COVID-19 situation within China, according to a report released by Falun Dafa Information Center. The report explores the latest updates and trends in the persecution against Falun Gong, a spiritual…


Evidence Shows China Ramps Up Forced Organ Harvesting From Uyghurs: Expert

New evidence has emerged pointing to the Chinese regime’s ongoing organ harvesting crimes, Ethan Gutmann, China studies research fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, told the International Religious Freedom Summit 2022 in Washington on June 28-30. Gutmann reported his latest finding: a compound containing a hospital surrounded with a labor camp of 33,000…


Fight to Control COVID-19 Narrative Sees Intensified Persecution of Falun Gong in China: Nonprofit Director

One way the Chinese regime has maintained control over the COVID-19 narrative is by imprisoning more people who practice Falun Gong, a nonprofit director told a religious freedom summit on Thursday. China’s ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) declared war on China’s independent journalists, doctors, and citizen journalists during the pandemic, including Chinese who practice Falun Gong…


Forced Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Adherents Should Be Focus in Human Rights Talks With China: Advocates

July 20 marks the 23rd year of the Chinese regime’s persecution of Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline with meditative exercises and moral teachings. It grew in popularity during the 1990s with up to 100 million people practicing in China by the end of the decade. Perceiving this to be a threat, the Chinese regime in…


International Religious Freedom Summit 2022: The Persecution of Falun Gong in China

The Epoch Times will livestream the International Religious Freedom Summit 2022 panel “Pandemic, Persecution, and Pushback—Trends and Analysis from the Suppression of Falun Gong” on June 30, 2022, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. ET. Access the livestream on this page, and also at EpochTV. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is an ancient mind-and-body meditation practice…


Chinese Regime Killed Falun Gong Adherent for His Liver, Says Former Japanese Gang Member

A former Japanese criminal gang member said he was witness to China’s live organ trade, having seen an anesthetized Falun Gong adherent—with tendons cut to prevent his flight—shortly before the man was placed on an operating table to have his liver carved out. That was 15 years ago in August 2008 when Ushio Sugawara, now…