Tag: persecution

The ‘Most Dangerous Country’ to Be a Christian: North Korea and Its War on Faith

The “hermit kingdom” of North Korea has willfully walled itself into isolation, making it difficult for other free societies to know what is happening inside the secretive state sitting on the east coast of communist China. It is often through defectors that the world gets glimpses inside a country ruled by a totalitarian regime, including…


Beijing Targets Falun Gong Refugees in US, Tracking Their Whereabouts

NEW YORK—Chinese authorities are attempting to track down Falun Gong practitioners who fled the regime’s persecution by collecting their overseas address and other personal data, a number of adherents told The Epoch Times. Harassment of the Falun Gong community in China by the communist party has been commonplace since the regime began a decades-long eradication…


Beijing Targets Falun Gong Expats in US, Tracking Their Whereabouts

NEW YORK—Chinese authorities are attempting to track down Falun Gong practitioners who fled the regime’s persecution by collecting their overseas address and other personal data, a number of adherents told The Epoch Times. Harassment of the Falun Gong community in China by the communist party has been commonplace since the regime began a decades-long eradication…


Chinese Police Force Paralyzed Woman to Sign Statement Renouncing Her Faith

A 68-year-old Falun Gong practitioner who suffered two decades of torture leading to paralysis was forced to sign a statement to renounce her faith when police raided her home last year. The practitioner died on Jan. 29 after asking her fellow practitioners to let the world know that she was made to sign the statement…


Elderly Deprived of Pensions to ‘Dead-End’ Those Who Uphold Belief

Many retirees in communist China have had their pensions suspended for upholding their faith in Falun Gong, a spiritual practice based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. The CCP has no legal basis to deprive any citizen of their pensions, aiming to eradicate the group, a former lawyer commented. In 2020, at least…


Chinese Woman Dies After 10 Years of Constant Torture Because She Wouldn’t Renounce Her Faith

A 59-year-old woman who suffered over 20 different tortures during 10 years of imprisonment and frequent harassment at her home for her religious beliefs passed away on March 12, according to a report on Minghui.org, a U.S.-based website recording the persecution of the Buddha-school practise Falun Gong in China. Wang Sumei, from Shenyang City of northeastern…


China’s Top ‘Gestapo’ Officer First ‘Tiger’ Sacked After Two Sessions

The Chinese regime announced on March 13 that Peng Bo, deputy director of China’s “Gestapo”—secret state police—had been dismissed and is under investigation. Peng has become the first high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official, known as “tigers,” to be ensnared in party politics after the regime’s most important annual political conference, its Two Sessions meeting,…


Woman in China Imprisoned for the Third Time for Her Belief

The Chinese regime has sentenced a woman to two-and-a-half years in prison for practicing the spiritual discipline Falun Gong—marking the third time the woman has been imprisoned over her faith. Cumulatively, the woman had already spent more than a decade in prison since 2007, according to Minghui.org, a U.S.-based website that reports on the persecution…


Chinese Regime Detains Man Over His Faith, Holds Him for Months in Secret Location

A Chinese man was “disappeared” by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) last October over his belief in spiritual practice Falun Gong. His mother was only notified of his whereabouts in early February, months after his initial detention. Li Zhigang, a private tutor from the City of Changsha in central China’s Hunan Province, was arrested by…


Chinese City With History of Committing Human Rights Abuses Becomes COVID-19 Hotspot

Commentary At the start of the new year, a new wave of COVID-19 outbreak in China’s northeastern Hebei Province unexpectedly made a little-known city the focal point of public opinion. Incidentally, this city has a very dark history, and this pandemic is an opportune time for reflection. On Jan. 2, a case of the CCP…