Category: Falun Gong

GOP Lawmaker Condemns China’s Unjust Detentions During Winter Olympics

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) condemned Beijing’s “gross” arrests ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics targeting those who speak against the Chinese regime’s rule, saying such a move “deserves the scorn of every freedom-loving nation.” “These latest arrests are the latest example of Beijing’s willingness to silence and imprison religious minorities and political dissidents,” Scott said…


Athletes Competing Just Miles Away From Persecution ‘Hot Spots’ Near Beijing 2022

A new map shows just how close the competing Olympians are to detention centers. Beijing’s surrounding persecution “hot spots” and China’s appalling human rights record are coming to light again. But it is not the whole picture. We know about the Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Hong Kongers becoming targets of persecution, but not much has been mentioned…


‘Ashamed:’ Lawmaker Slams IOC for Turning Blind Eye to Genocide, Organ Harvesting in China

Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) criticized the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for allowing the Chinese regime to host the Winter Games in Beijing, even as the Communist Party is engaging in genocide and forced organ harvesting against persecuted groups. “The International Olympic Committee should be embarrassed in picking the PRC, China, in the first place when…


The Beijing Olympics Will Embolden the CCP, Just as the Berlin Games Emboldened Hitler

Commentary The Winter Olympics, or as some prefer, “the Genocide Games,” are in progress in Beijing, with participation from 91 countries. I generally eschew hyperbole, but my mind keeps straying to the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, the first time in Olympic history that a boycott was proposed—but failed to launch—on human-rights abuse grounds. Hitler…


Founder of Falun Gong Receives Greetings From Mainland Chinese People on Chinese New Year

The founder of Falun Gong, Li Hongzhi, has received a large amount of greetings from people in mainland China over Chinese New Year, the most important holiday for Chinese families. Li brought the ancient spiritual practice of Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, to the public in 1992. It helps relieve stress and increase…


‘Shame on the IOC’: China Should Not Be Olympics Host, Former US Ambassador Says

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) should never have allowed the Chinese regime to host the Olympic Games in China, said Andrew Bremberg, a former U.S. representative to the Office of the United Nations. “What else does a country need to do in terms of terrible human rights abuses and bad behavior to merit a response…


‘Shame on the IOC’: China Shouldn’t Be Olympics Host, Former US Ambassador Says

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) should never have allowed the Chinese regime to host the Winter Olympic Games, according to Andrew Bremberg, a former U.S. representative to the Office of the United Nations. “What else does a country need to do in terms of terrible human rights abuses and bad behavior to merit a response…


‘Genocide Games’: Coalition of Human Rights Groups Holds Alternative Olympics Opening Ceremony

As the opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics was taking place in Beijing on Feb. 4, a coalition of human rights groups held their version of a ceremony outside the Chinese embassy in Ottawa on the same day, calling the international sporting event the “Genocide Games.” The half-hour ceremony, co-organized by advocacy groups such as…


Human Rights Groups Protest Outside of Chinese Consulate on Eve of Beijing Olympics

LOS ANGELES—A crowd of human rights activists chanted “Free Tibet, free Uyghur, free Taiwan, free Hong Kong, free East Turkestan” in front of the Chinese Consulate in downtown Los Angeles on the eve of the Beijing Olympics. On Feb. 3, a coalition of 15 human rights groups gathered outside 443 Shatto Place, one of China’s…


Olympic Venues ‘Right Alongside Prison Camps’: Torture, Detention Occurring Miles Away From Beijing Games

NEW YORK—The opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics contained all the pageantry that one might expect from an authoritarian regime eager to use the event to burnish its global image: hundreds of children holding dove-shaped props formed the shape of a heart as they danced on a star-lit stadium, as green and white fireworks…