Tag: Falun Gong

Human Rights Is the ‘Canary in a Coal Mine’: Nadine Maenza; China’s Human Rights Violations

We take a look at China’s human rights violations. I speak with Katrina Lantos Swett, president of the Lantos Foundation, and Nadine Maenza, president of the International Religious Freedom Secretariat. The two human rights champions discuss the crimes of forced organ harvesting committed by the Chinese Communist Party against prisoners of conscience, the genocide against…


Exclusive Interview With Director of Canada’s First Mandarin-Language Submission for Oscars

The production of award-winning documentary “Eternal Spring,” which has been selected to represent Canada in the Oscars, faced pressure from the Chinese communist regime, said the film’s director, whose family also received threats from Beijing. The film, directed by Torontonian Jason Loftus, is based on the true stories of 18 brave individuals who in 2002 tapped…


Parade in San Francisco Celebrates Over 400 Million Quitting CCP

SAN FRANCISCO—Hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners from around the San Francisco Bay Area held a parade in San Francisco on Aug. 20 to celebrate millions of people quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). “I’m very happy. Now there’s 400 million people quitting the CCP,” Hong Zhang, a Falun Gong practitioner, told NTD, sister media outlet…


‘What My Family Has Been Through Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg’: A Young Woman’s Journey Through Fear

Hongyu Zhang will never forget the day in 2014 when she escaped China leaving her father behind, alone. Just 6 months prior, she lost her mother who died of torture in police custody.  Zhang, now a permanent resident of the United States, said that her biggest fear is losing connection with her father in China….


CCP Develops ‘Torture Toolbox’ to Persecute Female Prisoner of Conscience, Husbands Calls for Immediate Release

MELBOURNE, Australia—The husband of a female Falun Gong practitioner has called on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to immediately release his wife following an horrendous account of sexual torture used against her and other Falun Gong adherents by CCP “trained personnel.” Speaking at a press conference outside the Chinese Consulate in Melbourne on Aug. 15,…


CCP Develops ‘Torture Toolbox’ to Persecute Female Prisoner of Conscience, Husband Calls for Immediate Release

MELBOURNE, Australia—The husband of a female Falun Gong practitioner has called on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to immediately release his wife following an horrendous account of sexual torture used against her by CCP “trained personnel.” Speaking at a press conference outside the Chinese Consulate in Melbourne on Aug. 15, the women’s husband Qi Xiong…


Former Chinese Journalist Exposes Torture of Religious Minority in China

Commentary In an award-winning Epoch Cinema Original documentary, a former journalist for the Communist Party of China, Yifei Wang, tells the true story of her family’s persecution for being part of the religious minority of Falun Gong in China. In 1999, the Chinese Communist Party ordered the eradication of the meditation practice called Falun Gong….


Sydney’s City2Surf Fun Run Delivers Public Support for Falun Gong ‘End CCP’ Campaign

End CCP (Chinese Communist Party), a global petition started by Falun Gong practitioners, won the support of Australian runners in one of the world’s largest annual charity runs in Sydney. On Aug. 14, more than 60,000 people showed up for the 50th annual City2Surf,  a 14 km long-run fund-raising event from  Sydney’s CBD to Bondi. This is…


CCP Develops ‘Torture Kit’ and a New Agency to Persecute Falun Gong

While the brutality in the campaign to persecute Falun Gong has been gradually exposed to the outside world over many years of victim testimonies, a recent report revealed that the regime has developed a “kit” for “trained personnel” to specifically use on Falun Gong adherents. Jiang Yongqin, a female practitioner, has been imprisoned multiple times…


400 Million Cut Their Ties With the CCP in Defiance of Communist Control

NEW YORK—Chinese entrepreneur Chen Quanhong had one message he wanted to tell to the world: “Tuidang.” It’s a Chinese phrase—and it means “quit the Party.” The words were emblazoned on a yellow flag Chen was carrying at a parade in Washington on July 21 to highlight the Chinese communist regime’s myriad human rights abuses. Chen…