The Congressional-Executive Commission on China has demanded that the Chinese communist regime end its decades-long persecution of the peaceful meditation practice Falun Gong as the group marks the 25th anniversary of its appeal to the regime in Beijing for the right to freely practice their faith. “25 years ago today, Falun Gong practitioners gathered peacefully […]
April 25 marks the 25th anniversary of the peaceful mass petition of Falun Gong practitioners in Beijing. Adherents around the world have been holding commemorations of the event since the weekend. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, was introduced to the public in Changchun city of Jilin Province in 1992 by Li Hongzhi. It’s […]
An award-winning film depicting a nationwide persecution in China was screened on Capitol Hill on April 23. Based on true events, “Unsilenced” tells the story of a group of university students who risked their lives to expose a brutal campaign by the Chinese regime. The film follows the footsteps of Wang—a Falun Gong practitioner—and a […]
Falun Gong practitioners in Washington rallied outside the Chinese embassy on April 20, to commemorate the peaceful appeal that took place in Beijing 25 years ago. April 25 will mark the 25th anniversary of a peaceful appeal in Beijing. On that day, tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners lined up outside the Chinese Communist […]
The State Department highlighted the Chinese regime’s extensive operations to silence its targets in the United States and elsewhere, deploying tactics such as stalking, forced disappearances, and projecting police power overseas. The groups the regime goes after include persecuted minority groups, dissidents, Chinese students abroad, and adherents of spiritual faiths, according to the department’s April […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Utah has signed into law a bill to combat the Chinese regime’s horrific practice of forced organ harvesting, making it the second U.S. state to take legislative action against the abuse. As of May 1, it will be illegal in the state for health insurance providers to cover organ transplant or post-transplant care from China […]
Utah’s state legislature has unanimously passed legislation aimed at tackling the bloody practice of forced organ harvesting in communist China, the second U.S. state to do so as the horrors of the abuse gain growing recognition. S.B. 262, a bill that prohibits health insurers from covering a human organ transplant from or post-transplant care performed […]
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 […]
