Tag: Falun Gong

Prisoner of Conscience Recounts Being Subjected to Sexual Torture in China

Editor’s note: This article contains graphic details of torture and sexual assault.  A prisoner of conscience, recently released from a 7-year term at a notorious prison in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, has described being subjected to a range of brutal torture methods, including sexual assault. Zhou Xiangyang, a 49-year-old Falun Gong practitioner and…


China ‘Continues to Commit Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity’: Blinken

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on April 12 of carrying out genocide and crimes against humanity throughout 2021. “The Chinese government continues to commit genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, against predominately Muslim Uyghurs among other minority groups,” Blinken said. Blinken delivered the remarks at a briefing…


Efforts to End Forced Organ Harvesting in China Lead to Unanimous Resolution in Virginia House

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.—When the TV screen inside Virginia’s General Assembly showed the vote of 82-0 on Feb. 11, Wang Chunyan, a 66-year-old Chinese refugee who just became a U.S. citizen a year ago, stood in silence. The vote in question was a House resolution condemning the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) more than two-decades-long persecution of…


Matas: David Kilgour’s Fierce Devotion to Principle and Profound Empathy for Rights Abuse Victims Will Endure

Commentary I have known David Kilgour all my adult life. From the get-go, I could see that he had a friendly, outgoing, gregarious personality. David was an undergraduate at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg in the early 1960s the same time as I. He was a bit ahead of me, but as active in…


Former City Councilor: Powerful Film ‘Unsilenced’ Should be Shown in China

After watching the premiere of the award-winning film “Unsilenced” in Auckland, New Zealand on Mar. 31, Tony Brunt, former city councilor of New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, said it is a “powerful” film that should be shown in China. “I wish that one day this powerful film can be shown in China,” Brunt told Director Leon Lee at…


Underground Media Movement in China Aims to Dismantle CCP Propaganda: New Short Documentary

A grassroots civil disobedience movement led by a persecuted faith group aims to dismantle Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda, according to a new short documentary released by Falun Dafa Information Center. The peaceful movement, led by adherents of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong, emulates the spirit of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., and ranks…


Chinese Regime Further Eroded Freedom in Hong Kong: US State Department

Freedom continues to deteriorate in Hong Kong as the Chinese regime tightens its grip on the global financial hub, “directly threatening U.S. interests” in the city, the State Department said in the annual report released on March 31. “Over the past year, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has continued to dismantle Hong Kong’s democratic…


‘World Needs to Wake Up’: Kanter Freedom Calls for ‘Solid Action’ to Punish Communist China for Abuses

Basketball player Enes Kanter Freedom believes it’s time for the world to “wake up” and take action in the face of a belligerent communist China persecuting its own people and exporting its abuses to other parts of the world. “We need to wake up, the world needs to wake up,” he told NTD, an affiliate…


‘Disgusting and Inhumane’: Sen. Scott Condemns CCP Over Death of Falun Gong Practitioner While in Custody

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla) has condemned the Chinese communist regime for its persecution of a 66-year-old Falun Gong practitioner and mother, who died in custody after being arrested simply for practicing her religious belief. Ji Yunzhi died on March 21 after being tortured while in custody. The 66-year-old died 48 days after she was put…


The US Govt Should Get Tougher on Crimes Against Falun Gong by the CCP

News Analysis Is the U.S. government revealing bias in the kinds of laws it enforces against the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) violence and hate crimes on American soil? The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) unveiled three cases involving five alleged Chinese spies on March 16. The charges include not only spying but the harassment and…