At a convention in Washington this past weekend, the International Commission for Human Rights and Religious Freedom sought to raise awareness about genocides that have taken place around the world—as well as some that continue to this day. University professor Sen Nieh walks NTD through the Chinese Communist Party’s past—and ongoing—genocides.
Gan Jing World, a new online platform based in New York, was attacked by hackers from the Chinese communist regime while airing a livestream of a Falun Gong parade. The hackers tried to spread hate messages against the spiritual practice. Falun Gong practitioners held a rally and parade to commemorate the 24th anniversary of the […]
Twitter is going private. Elon Musk is now the owner of the social media company. He gave some suggestions for how he’d like to start changing the company. A solemn anniversary was held over the weekend. We’ll look at what brought out thousands of people over the weekend. California signed an agreement with China on […]
At least 140 retirees in China had their pensions suspended last year—a punishment for refusing to give up their faith. All of them practice Falun Gong, a spiritual meditation system based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. The data comes from Minghui.org, a U.S.-based website dedicated to recording the persecution of Falun Gong […]
Award-winning Director Leon Lee has a new film, a drama based on true events called “Unsilenced: When Lies Silence A Nation.” It takes us back to China in 1999, to the moment when the Chinese Communist Party suddenly bans a popular meditation practice, Falun Gong. Across the country, practitioners are arrested; media channels broadcast lies […]
The 70-year history of the Chinese Communist Party leaves a long trail of Human Rights abuses. We talk to Charles Lee, an American citizen who tried to expose those abuses in China and ended up in jail for three years. There are three more interviews in this deep-dive look at China: China’s Impact on the […]
Warning: Contains a graphic photo A mother in her 70s in Central China struggles to cope after the loss of her youngest son during the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ongoing persecution of Falun Dafa, shortly after having buried her second son less than a year before—both sons were a target for harassment, torture, and imprisonment […]
The U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom called on governments to release their religious prisoners amid the current pandemic. One of the countries singled out by the ambassador was China.
WASHINGTON—The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation released a new report that aims to address the failure of institutions and governments to come to terms with 14-year-old allegations of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China.
A Chinese prisoner of conscience who was severely tortured to the point of losing consciousness was taken to a quarantine facility for coronavirus patients, according to a website that documents the persecution of the meditation group Falun Gong in China.
SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco Falun Gong practitioners held their local remembrance of the persecution that started exactly 20 years ago on July 20. The parade made its way from City Hall to Chinatown. It concluded with a peaceful rally at Portsmouth Square, where people spoke to raise more awareness of the issue. Paul Taylor, former candidate […]
LONDON—Twenty years ago, the Chinese communist regime’s appalling human rights record reached a new low. On July 20, 1999, then leader Jiang Zemin ordered a brutal campaign to eradicate Falun Gong, an ancient Chinese meditation practice centered on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. Falun Gong practitioners went London’s No. 10 Downing Street and […]
SAN FRANCISCO—An anti-torture exhibit at San Francisco City Hall on July 16 raised awareness of the 20 years of persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. “When you see some of the pictures of the … images that I’ve come across, you think in the States that we have a voice, we’re listened to, and […]
This year marks the 32nd anniversary of one of the most famous and historically impactful speeches delivered in American History. On June 12th, 1987, President Ronald Reagan gave his famous address in front of the Brandenburg Gate, between East and West Germany, at the Berlin Wall. The Victims Communism Memorial Foundation hosted the twelfth wreath-laying […]
Practitioners of Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, from various countries gathered in the center of Kyiv, Ukraine, on June 1 to share the beauty of the practice and present traditional Chinese culture to locals. As passersby looked on, dozens of practitioners clad in bright yellow shirts passed out informative leaflets and demonstrated the […]
