Tag: persecution

Opinion: 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…


Chinese Regime Burns Religious Books, Jails Believers in War Against Faith

China’s communist party has continued its broad attack on faith through the pandemic, burning and trashing religious books while jailing spiritual adherents for possessing religious literature. While the officially atheist Chinese regime formally recognizes five religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism, and Christianity, it imposes strict rules over how these religious organizations should operate, and often…


In War Against Faith, Chinese Regime Burns Religious Books, Jails Believers

China’s communist party has continued its broad attack on faith through the pandemic, burning and trashing religious books while jailing spiritual adherents for possessing religious literature. While the officially atheist Chinese regime formally recognizes five religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism, and Christianity, it imposes strict rules over how these religious organizations should operate, and often…


Third Virginia County Passes Resolution to Condemn China’s Organ Transplant Abuses

Another Virginia county has adopted a resolution to curb organ transplant tourism to China, making it the third one since January to take a stance against Beijing’s forced organ harvesting practices. “It’s a travesty and completely unacceptable,” said Yesli Vega, supervisor for Coles district in Prince William County, who initiated the bill. Allegations that the…


Falun Gong Practitioner Dies After Becoming Comatose in Chinese Prison

A Falun Gong practitioner has died in China after falling into a coma during incarceration, the most recent known victim under the Chinese regime’s relentless persecution of the spiritual faith. Yao Xinren, from China’s eastern province of Shandong, was arrested in July 2019 from his workplace. He suffered a brain hemorrhage in April 2020 while…


For Millions in China, Persecution Casts a Shadow on New Year Celebration

NEW YORK—Around this time every year, what Gao Hongmei looks forward to the most is a phone call. In a conversation that would sometimes stretch for hours, she would exchange Lunar New Year greetings with her mother in China—whom she last saw face-to-face 12 years ago before she left the country— and chat about other…


Chinese Regime Raids More Than 1,000 Falun Gong Practitioners in January, Ahead of Chinese New Year

As traditional Chinese New Year approaches, Chinese families expect happy year-end reunions and preparations for holiday celebrations. However, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues its persecution of millions of Falun Gong practitioners in China, who, along with their families, still suffer from the pain and fear caused by kidnappings, harassment, and illegitimate judicial punishments. Falun…


I Was Persecuted by the Chinese Regime After Meeting the Son of Pro-Democracy Figure Zhao Ziyang

Commentary Jan. 17 marks the 16th anniversary of the death of former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Zhao Ziyang. When the democratic protest movement occurred in 1989, he stood on the side of the people. Consequently, Zhao was purged from the Party, but he became a symbol of democracy. Zhao, who was the general secretary…


Woman Almost Killed for Her Faith Recalls Horrors of ‘Living Under the Communist Terror’

Having fled communist China, a woman who was almost killed for her faith 20 years ago is now on a mission to expose the gross injustices dictated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). She is one of the countless innocent citizens who were suddenly viewed as “state enemies” overnight and a threat to the communist…