Threats of mass shootings. Bomb detonations. Systematic hacking. At a rate of roughly one threat every two days over the past two months, threats in Chinese have been directed to the inboxes of journalists, theaters, the police, and local lawmakers, mostly based in the United States and Taiwan. The threats have one goal: to stop […]
TAMPA, Fla.—A Florida engineer was given a four-year prison term for helping the Chinese regime collect intelligence on Chinese dissidents, such as practitioners of the persecuted faith Falun Gong. The man, Li Ping, is a naturalized U.S. citizen who had worked for Verizon for 30 years. He had acted on behalf of a Chinese intelligence […]
NEW YORK—A film that highlights the state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting in China, “State Organs,” has received an award for its efforts in raising awareness on the abuse. Martha Flores Vasquez, Democrat district leader for the 40th district of the New York State Assembly, presented the award during a screening of the film at Cinema Village […]
In recent weeks, dozens of Canadian Members of Parliament have submitted and read petitions regarding the brutal persecution, torture, and organ harvesting that members of the peaceful spiritual practice of Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong) face in China.
Known as the world’s largest manufacturing hub, China remains a dominant player in the global supply chain. But what happens under the radar is institutionalized forced labor, oftentimes involving prisoners of conscience. A central victim of all of this is Falun Gong: a spiritual practice based on the teachings of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance.
The New York Times has once again attacked Shen Yun Performing Arts in another hit piece. The article targets Shen Yun’s practicum program, which is approved by the New York State Department of Education. Levi Browde, executive director of Falun Dafa Information Center, said the Times’ narrative parrots Chinese Communist Party propaganda against a Chinese […]
RIO DE JANEIRO—Brazilian Falun Gong practitioners, who were peacefully demonstrating against the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights abuses during the G20 summit on Nov. 17, were harassed by counterprotesters upon the arrival of the Chinese delegation, according to video footage and witnesses who spoke to The Epoch Times. The Falun Gong practitioners were demonstrating on […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan—About 5,300 individuals dressed in color-coordinated clothing put together a giant display on the island’s iconic Liberty Square on Nov. 17 in an event aimed at inspiring people around the world to embrace the goodness in human nature. Three giant Chinese characters in bright yellow, each formed by more than 400 participants, represented the […]
Having already endured the loss of three family members due to the Chinese communist regime’s persecution, Sun Caiyan became, once again, ensnared in its brutal campaign. Sun has been detained since May 12 after local police plucked her from the street in the northern Chinese city of Dalian for practicing the meditative practice of Falun […]
The British government must take a strong stand against the Chinese Communist Party’s forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners, says British politician Lord David Alton. He spoke at a human rights panel in Britain’s parliament last week, raising awareness of how Western medical organizations could be inadvertently complicit in the Chinese regime’s practice of […]
NEW YORK—Audience members who attended a weekend screening of a documentary about forced organ harvesting said more people should learn about the sinister state crime that’s happening in China. Nabil Hamati, a Brooklyn resident working in the medical field, told The Epoch Times that the film, which played on Nov. 9 at Village East by […]
A Chinese exile living in Japan is calling for the release of his mother, who is locked up in a Chinese detention center on Article 300 charges, a vague law passed in China in October 1999 to justify the regime’s persecution of Falun Gong. Yao Jiaxiu, a 57-year-old Falun Gong practitioner, was detained on Sept. […]
HOCKESSIN, Del.—A viewing of the film “State Organs” was held at the Hockessin Public Library in Delaware on Oct. 21. The 76-minute documentary details the Chinese regime’s transplant industry fueled by forced organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners of conscience. It tells the harrowing tale of two families who embark on […]
Jewish Canadian lawyer David Matas has spent a large part of his life advocating for those facing human rights violations around the world. A documentary was shown recently in Toronto to honor him and his work—and especially his cooperation with former MP David Kilgour, which aimed to bring the crime of forced organ harvesting in […]
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—U.S. District Judge Nelson S. Roman on Sept. 26 sentenced one of the conspirators who helped advance Beijing’s transnational repression campaign in the United States to 16 months in prison. Lin Feng, a 44-year-old Green Card holder based in California, pleaded guilty in July to acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese […]
At the U.N. General Assembly in New York this week, world leaders gathered together to speak on global issues. At the same time, hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners staged a peaceful petition outside the U.N. headquarters. They were calling for the end to communist China’s 25-year-long persecution against the faith group.
Practitioners of the spiritual practice Falun Gong on Friday called on EU leaders in Brussels to help protect their freedom to believe and end the Chinese communist regime’s decades-long persecution against Falun Gong’s teachings of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. Falun Gong practitioners have suffered brutal persecution at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) […]
Local lawmakers condemned the actions of a man who allegedly assaulted multiple Falun Gong practitioners during and after a Mid-Autumn Festival parade in Brooklyn over the weekend. “I welcome the Falun Gong members marching in the parade on Saturday peacefully as they have every right as Americans to do so and they have the necessary […]
NEW YORK CITY—An Asian man attacked two female Falun Gong practitioners during a parade for the Chinese Mid Autumn Festival holiday in Brooklyn’s Chinatown neighborhood on Sept. 14, according to witnesses. The parade was organized by the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP, a New York-based organization that helps Chinese people renounce their ties […]
