Zhang Jiuhai, a Beijing resident, died in early 2023, about one and half years after he was released from a 4-year prison term for practicing Falun Gong. After Zhang was released from prison in May 2021, he struggled with poor health from the long-term torture he had endured while in custody, according to a Minghui.org […]
NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.—Hundreds of Falun Gong adherents paraded down the streets of Brooklyn’s Chinatown area to highlight communist China’s abuses, including its actions targeting residents on U.S. soil. A week earlier, David Fang, a Falun Gong practitioner, was attacked by a pro-Beijing man at an information booth in New York’s Flushing. The assault left […]
The State Department has condemned the Chinese Communist Party following the death of a jailed journalist who wouldn’t give up his faith. The victim, Pang Xun, a radio host for state-owned Sichuan Radio and Television, died at the age of 30 in December in a Chinese prison notorious for its brutality toward adherents of the […]
A brutal persecution that began two decades ago is still happening today in mainland China. The victims are followers of a spiritual practice called Falun Gong. According to U.S.-based Falun Gong information website Minghui, 117 practitioners were sentenced for their beliefs in January this year. Among them, more than 30 were over 60 years old. […]
As Beijing staged a dazzling $100 million spectacle hosting the Winter Olympics last year, Ji Yunzhi lay dying up north in a Chinese hospital. She had a mere breath left after the rounds of torture inflicted on her meant to scare her into renouncing her faith. Iron ankle fetters and handcuffs chained her to the hospital […]
The International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit 2023 will be held from Jan. 31 to Feb. 1 in Washington, D.C. The summit is intended to create a powerful coalition of organizations that operate together for the cause of religious freedom around the world. The summit is also held to increase public awareness and political strength for […]
Jiang Zemin, the former top leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), died last month. But ‘don’t mourn’ him—That’s the message from the Digital Outreach director of the Falun Dafa Information Center, Ben Maloney. He says the ex-CCP head was responsible for “one of the largest persecutions in world history.”
A rally promoting human rights in China took place in Nuremberg, Germany, a city known as the hub of human rights because that’s where the famous Nuremberg Trials were held. Past and present converged in the heart of Nuremberg. Here, human rights defenders raised their voices against the decades-long persecution of Falun Gong in China. […]
The United States has sanctioned a Chinese official for his role in persecuting the faith group Falun Gong, which the communist party ruling China has targeted in an unrelenting eradication campaign for more than 23 years. Tang Yong, formerly a deputy director of the Chongqing Area Prisons in southwestern China, is now designated a gross […]
Former Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin is widely known to have started the persecution of Falun Gong, which is considered to be one of the most horrific human rights abuses in modern times. NTD spoke to Levi Browde, executive director of Falun Dafa Information Center, for more details.
