Falun Gong practitioners paraded through London to mark 25 years of persecution by the Chinese Communist Party, calling for freedom of belief and an end to the regime’s repressive campaign against them.
A speech by China’s ambassador to the United States on Saturday was disrupted by activists and students opposed to the communist regime’s human rights abuses. During the speech at the Harvard Kennedy School’s China Conference, the ambassador, Xie Feng, found his opening remarks repeatedly derailed as protesters stood up to denounce the regime’s repression in […]
NEW YORK—In the years before leaving China, Chen Weijie relished writing one message more than any other. On rocks, trees, and chairs, he left his penmark visible everywhere. “Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance is good.” Mr. Chen doesn’t practice Falun Gong, the faith featuring the three aforementioned values, which the Chinese Communist […]
Downing Street said the UK government is “deeply concerned” as the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China has lasted for 25 years. Benedict Rogers, co-founder and deputy chair of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, said the persecution of the spiritual practice shows the communist regime can not be a reliable business partner, and […]
Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed legislation into law aiming to ensure that residents are not unknowingly complicit in China’s state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience. As of July 1, it will be illegal in Idaho for health insurers to cover an organ transplant or post-transplant care performed in China or any country […]
The Chinese Communist Party and its sinister crime of murdering innocent people to sell their organs took center stage yesterday at a documentary screening and panel discussion. Panelists explained that most of the victims of this crime are practitioners of the Falun Gong cultivation practice. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual […]
NEW YORK—Han Guangzi pried open her eyes when her phone lit up unusually early with a beep. The next moment, she was wide awake, trying to take in the news she most dreaded. On her phone was one line from her mother: “Your dad was arrested again.” “It’s the nightmare all over again,” she told […]
State legislatures in Arizona and Idaho have passed legislation that aims to combat the horrific practice of forced organ harvesting in communist China, where many prisoners of conscience have been killed for their organs to serve a lucrative transplant trade. The Idaho bill (HO670) and the Arizona bill (HB2504) are now waiting to be signed […]
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has planned to collect information on Falun Gong practitioners overseas, infiltrate them, and sow discord from within, according to a confidential CCP directive obtained by NTD. Authorities specifically mentioned mobilizing influential Western journalists to push narratives in line with Beijing.
On Jan. 18, Liu Yuying witnessed her adult son being dragged away by the police, along with two other Chinese citizens targeted by the Communist regime in its unprecedented repression of faith. Twenty-six days later, she lost her daughter-in-law, Xie Shuhua, who had been paralyzed for years when over a dozen police raided their home […]
The New York Times has ignored, downplayed, or misrepresented large swaths of human rights abuses in China, a new report says, arguing the paper’s sins against journalistic integrity have likely cost lives by skewing policy debate and propping up the regime’s dehumanizing propaganda. “Not only are the victims’ plights typically treated with silence and indifference, […]
WASHINGTON—Lawmakers leading a congressional panel on China are calling for the State Department to set up rewards seeking first-hand evidence to help hold accountable perpetrators of Beijing’s forced organ harvesting. Chairs of the bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), will write to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, […]
WASHINGTON—Researchers are calling for U.S. authorities to curb the flow of Western transplant-related technologies going to China, pointing to the state-sponsored scheme of killing for organs in the country that could expand further with such aid. Matthew Robertson, a China studies research fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, suggested the measure as among […]
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China heard testimony Wednesday on the “systematic, widespread, and nonconsensual removal of human organs for transplantation, or ‘organ harvesting,’” in China. Titled “Stopping the Crime of Organ Harvesting—What More Must Be Done?,” the hearing examined the evidence on China’s organ harvesting industry provided by previously detained Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, and […]
Lawmakers in Utah are advancing a bill aimed at keeping Americans from unwittingly becoming involved in a heinous crime taking place overseas. The bill bars insurance companies from paying for organ transplants performed in China, where the ruling Chinese Communist Party kills prisoners of conscience before stealing their organs to support its organ transplant industry. […]
A Utah Senate committee has advanced a bill aimed at combating one of the Chinese regime’s most horrific crimes: forced organ harvesting. The Utah Senate Health and Human Services Committee passed the Organ Transplant Amendments, SB 262, on Feb. 21, bringing it one step closer to becoming a law. The new legislation, introduced by state […]
PHOENIX, Ariz.—A Republican-sponsored bill in Arizona seeks to combat forced organ harvesting in communist China, where prisoners of conscience have been killed for their organs on a large scale for more than two decades. At a press conference in Phoenix on Feb. 5, House Majority Leader Leo Biasiucci (R), the bill’s sponsor, said HB2504 would […]
At least 209 Falun Gong practitioners were persecuted to death by the Chinese Communist regime in 2023, according to a new report from Minghui.org—a US-based information website that keeps track of the persecution of the spiritual meditation practice. Over half of the victims were seniors. The youngest was only 23 years old. Reports say they […]
A coalition of 110 lawmakers, doctors, academics, and civil groups are calling on the United Nations to establish an international criminal tribunal to investigate crimes of forced organ harvesting in China. Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) issued the call this January ahead of the U.N.’s upcoming review of China’s human rights record on Jan. […]
A conference addressing pressing human rights issues in China was held at the United Nations in Geneva on Jan. 22. The focus of this event revolved around the impending Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of China, with particular attention to the ongoing persecution and forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners. The past five years have […]
