A veteran police officer in China who once followed the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) orders to persecute Falun Gong adherents nearly lost his life on facing the same persecution after he began practicing the peaceful meditative system himself. Before his release, the prison authorities injected him with a nerve-damaging drug in their last-ditch effort to…
Policeman Involved in Religious Suppression Embraces the Persecuted Faith, Gets Tortured and Injected With Drugs
Falun Dafa Practitioners Hold Parade in San Francisco to Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day
SAN FRANCISCO—Approximately 400 Falun Dafa practitioners participated in a grand parade in San Francisco on May 6, celebrating the upcoming World Falun Dafa Day on May 13. May 13 is the anniversary of the day the Chinese spiritual practice Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong) was introduced to the public in 1992. It is…
Beijing Human Rights Lawyers Experience Repeated Eviction
It’s been eight years since the Chinese Communist Party carried out a massive wave of arrests on July 9, 2015, incarcerating hundreds of human rights lawyers and activists in what became known as the 709 Crackdown. Today, victims of the Crackdown still face oppression by the regime—even after they have been released from jail. Recently,…
Jobs Denied, Personal Property Seized: Chinese Regime’s Way of Eradicating Faith
The world is condemning the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Christians, Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghur Muslims, and Buddhists. The coercive means used to transform these people of faith are gross and inhumane such as unlawful imprisonment, extreme torture methods, sexual abuse, psychiatric abuse, and forced organ harvesting. However, the persecution is not just confined to the CCP’s labor…
Toronto Falun Gong Practitioners Mark 24th Anniversary of Historic 10,000-Strong Appeal in Beijing
Toronto Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside the Chinese Consulate on April 25 to commemorate the anniversary of a historic peaceful appeal by adherents in Beijing 24 years ago. On April 25, 1999, more than 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside the Chinese regime’s headquarters in the heart of Beijing to appeal for fellow adherents who had…
Bay Area Falun Gong Practitioners Commemorate 24th Anniversary of April 25 Appeal in China
SAN FRANCISCO—Hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners from the San Francisco Bay Area meditated in Harry Bridges Plaza on April 22. This was the first in a series of events held to commemorate the 24th anniversary of a peaceful appeal made in Beijing on April 25, 1999. Falun Gong, also called Falun Dafa, is a Chinese…
Remembering an ‘Iconic’ Act of Courage in Beijing, 24 Years Later
On the evening of April 24 more than two decades ago, Shao Changyong, a Falun Gong practitioner, went to his daily gathering with fellow adherents as usual. His group had about 10 members, and one woman offered her home in Beijing as a meeting place. They usually read from a book on Falun Gong, a…
Remembering an ‘Iconic’ Act of Courage in Beijing, 24 Years On
On the evening of April 24 more than two decades ago, Shao Changyong, a Falun Gong practitioner, went to his daily gathering with fellow adherents as usual. His group had about 10 members, and one woman offered her home in Beijing as the meeting location. They usually read books of Falun Gong, a spiritual practice…
The CCP Harms Itself With the Persecution of Falun Gong
Commentary On April 25, Falun Gong practitioners mark the 24th anniversary of their peaceful protest against repression in China. On that day in 1999, approximately 10,000 practitioners of the spiritual practice appealed to the central government in Beijing for relief from slanderous comments on state-controlled television and publications, and for the release of approximately 45…
Pro-CCP Attackers Sentenced to 9 and 15 Weeks in Prison for Sabotaging Falun Gong Sites/Attacking Falun Gong in Hong Kong
Hong Kong pro-CCP attackers Hu Aimin and Chow Wing-lam were charged with two counts of criminal sabotage on Falun Gong’s “truth-clarification” sites in 2021. Magistrate Frances Leung Nga-yan of the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Court ruled on April 21 that the two were found guilty. Hu Aimin was sentenced to 15 weeks imprisonment, and Chow Wing-lam,…
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