Tag: persecution

Mother of Shen Yun Dancer Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison in China for Her Faith

NEW YORK—For the past 15 years, a cell phone was the only thing that held together Steven Wang and his family, who are an ocean away in China. It was over a phone call that Wang found out about his father’s death in 2009—of kidney failure resulting from years of torture detained in a Chinese…


The US Needs to ‘Take Greater Steps’ to Stop Forced Organ Harvesting in China: Economist

Lucia Dunn, a professor of economics at Ohio State University, told The Epoch Times she strongly supports the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act because she believes live organ harvesting is “one of the greatest crimes of humanity our civilization has ever seen,” and people should do everything they can to stop it. The U.S. House…


Lawyer Exposes Tortures the CCP Uses to Extract Confessions

A lawyer in Hebei Province, northern China, used his social media, Weibo, to expose how police extracted a confession from a prisoner using horrific torture methods. Followers found the techniques cruel, and one viewer commented, “It looks like what Falun Gong has been saying is real.” Li Zhuang, once a Beijing lawyer, posted a video…


Pro-Beijing Attackers Guilty and Jailed After Cell Phone Proves Premeditated Attacks on Falun Gong in Hong Kong

In April 2021, Falun Gong members and their street stalls in Hong Kong were attacked many times by a group believed to belong to the CCP. The police later arrested eight people. Four admitted to the crime of criminal damage and were sentenced to eight months in prison, while one person was not prosecuted. The…


US Moves Closer to Holding CCP Accountable With House Passage of Anti-Forced Organ Harvesting Bill: Lawmakers

“Murderous,” “grotesque,” “immoral,” “barbaric.” The Chinese Communist Party’s forced organ harvesting has appalled Washington and united lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. As a bill seeking to end the atrocity continues to advance—having passed the House by a vote of 413-2—members of Congress cheered the development and reaffirmed their determination to hold the regime…


Young Chinese Lady Finds Her World Revived in the US

Su Biwen is a confident young lady from Fujian on China’s southeastern coast. She’s well aware of the pervasive communist brainwashing in China, she’s against the forced military reunification of Taiwan with the Chinese mainland, and she’s made a clear distinction between herself and China’s young cyber-nationalists. Within a few months of her arrival in…


Bipartisan Senate Bill Aims to Punish Beijing for Forced Organ Harvesting

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Senate is aiming to hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for forcibly harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience. S.761, also dubbed the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act, would authorize the State Department to deny or revoke passports and visas to anyone involved in forced organ harvesting. It would…


‘Shocking and Horrifying’: Attacker of Anti-CCP Protester Sentenced in Australia

A Chinese national who attacked a Falun Gong practitioner in Australia’s capital city of Canberra last year has apologised to his victim and been fined $3,000 (US$1,973.59) by the ACT Magistrates Court. Kang Zhao, 30, was arrested by police after trying to leave the country in December 2022. He pleaded guilty to all charges, including…


A Family of Three in China Die From Persecution One After Another

Zhang Jiuhai, a Beijing resident, died in early 2023, about one and half years after he was released from serving a 4-year term for practicing Falun Gong. He was 56. When Zhang was first arrested in 2000 for practicing Falun Gong, he was only 33. Zhang was predeceased by both of his parents. After the…


Christians and Falun Gong Adherents Get Jail Terms for Posting Religious Messages Online

As people worldwide are awakening to growing threats to freedom of speech, citizens of a communist country like China are already living the nightmare of totalitarian state control. In China, it amounts to risking one’s life to express any views that don’t follow the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) narrative. Something as simple as revealing your…