Category: Falun Gong

CCP Intent on Eliminating Dissenting Voices in Overseas Chinese Communities: Canadian Government Report

From identifying “enemies” and monitoring dissidents to manipulating local organizations, Beijing is using every means in its toolbox to silence those in overseas Chinese communities, including in Canada, it views as a threat, according to a government report. The report showed that China is actively engaged in a “systematic campaign of intelligence-gathering, persuasion, influence, and…


Hell, No, We Shouldn’t Go—to the Olympics

Commentary Evidently, Team USA has been advised to leave their cellphones at home when they travel to China for the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing next month. In an email from his CAVPAC political action committee, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo writes: “That Team USA is telling our athletes to use burner phones and…


Film Review: ‘Unsilenced’–Risking Life When Lies Silence a Nation

Commentary The film “Schindler’s List” reminds the audience of the crimes that took place at the Auschwitz concentration camp, and imprints historical events and figures on their minds with vivid images. After World War II, the Nuremberg trials exposed the Nazis’ crimes and the international community promised multiple times to not let the evils of…


‘Abusive Intolerance’: Lawmakers Denounce Beijing’s Jailing of 11 Who Shared Pandemic Photos With The Epoch Times

Lawmakers and advocates have rebuked the sentencing of the 11 Chinese citizens imprisoned by Chinese authorities after they supplied materials to The Epoch Times shedding light on the toll of the pandemic in China. The 11, who are all adherents of the persecuted spiritual group Falun Gong, took photos to document life in the early…


Human Rights Advocates Condemn CCP for Imprisoning 11 Falun Gong Practitioners Ahead of Beijing Winter Olympics

Human rights advocates are condemning the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for sentencing 11 Falun Gong practitioners to up to eight years in prison just weeks before the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics on Feb. 4. The heavy-handed sentences on Jan. 14 again draw attention to the regime’s human rights abuses as it seeks to…


New Movie ‘Unsilenced’ Brings Hope to Southern Californians

PASADENA, Calif.—Cheers accompanied tears from the audience at Pasadena’s Laemmle Playhouse 7, where the award-winning “Unsilenced” just screened, telling the true story of how a group of carefree youths with promising futures from a top university in China became ostracized outlaws risking their lives every day to expose a series of government propaganda and lies when the…


Capitol Report (Jan. 24): Thousands March Against Mandates in DC

In the heart of the nation, a massive and diverse crowd marched for freedom from the mandates. We spoke to attendees and speakers to find out why they’re opposed to unilateral mandates for masks and vaccines. There were many highly respected doctors at the “Stop the Mandates” rally in Washington, D.C. We caught up with…


China Continues Suppression of Falun Gong, with 16,413 Arrests and Harassment Cases Confirmed in 2021: Report

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continued arresting and harassing Falun Gong adherents during 2021, as part of its nationwide suppression campaign launched more than two decades ago against the spiritual discipline. According to a report from Minghui.org, a U.S.-based website that tracks the persecution of Falun Gong in China, 5,886 arrests and 10,527 harassment cases…


State Department Condemns Beijing for Imprisoning 11 Falun Gong Practitioners Weeks Before Olympics

The U.S. State Department on Jan. 21 condemned the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for sentencing 11 Falun Gong practitioners to prison terms as long as eight years for exercising their religious beliefs. The Jan. 14 sentences were handed down just weeks ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The State Department is calling on…


Sheridan’s Award-Winning 3D Animation Student Calls for Release of Mom Jailed in China

An award-winning young digital animation student whose family has suffered spiritual persecution for decades in China arrived in Canada in August 2020 to avoid harassment and secure her future. But nearly a year later, she learned her mother was, once again, placed in detention. This is her story. The talented 24-year-old student at world-renowned Sheridan…