Falun Gong practitioners are marking ten years since China banned the spiritual and exercise movement as a national security threat, in the wake of a mass demonstration by adherents in Beijing in April of 1999. Thousands have since been detained, tortured and killed. Advocates say the bodies of dead Falun Gong practitioners remain the key…
In a groundbreaking case, following a two-year investigation, a Spanish judge has accepted charges of genocide and torture in a case filed against five high-ranking CCP officials for their role in the persecution of Falun Gong.
This historic decision by a Spanish judge means that Chinese Communist Party leaders responsible for brutal crimes are…
At 6 a.m. on October 1, 2009, after being long term harassed, threatened, and cruelly persecuted, Ms. Yang Xiaojing died while her husband Mr. Cao Dong who has met with European Parliament Vice President Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott in Beijing on 21 May 2006, remains in Gansu Province Prison located in Tianshui City.
The man in charge of forced labor camps in China’s Guangdong province was served yesterday with a lawsuit while visiting Manhattan. The complaint, filed on behalf of two female refugees now residing in Queens and other victims still in China, urges that the camp system superintendent be held liable for torture, illegal deprivation of liberty,…
2009 marked the 10th anniversary of the government’s formal ban on Falun Gong, a spiritual movement based on the teachings of its founder, Li Hongzhi,and Chinese meditative exercises called qigong. Viewing the 10th anniversary as sensitive, the central government held fast in 2009
with its 2008 pre-Olympics efforts to ferret out and punish Falun Gong…
In the past year, allegations of organ harvesting from nonconsenting Falun Gong prisoners have emerged again, further raising concerns about possible abuses in China’s organ transplant industry. In December 2008, the UN Committee against Torture (UNCAT) indicated in its report on China that the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Manfred Nowak, had noted ‘‘an increase…
On July 20, 1999, the then leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Jiang Zemin, banned the Falun Gong spiritual practice. At the beginning of the suppression, Jiang intended to eradicate Falun Gong in “three months.” Intelligence agents locked onto Falun Gong practitioners whom they thought to be “leaders,” and its propaganda machinery prepared potent…
Lao Zi was a great philosopher, thinker, educator, and the founder of the Daoist school of thought in ancient China.
“Dao,” frequently written as “Tao,” literally means “The Way,” “The Great Ultimate,” or “The Secret of the Universe.”
Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) first launched its campaign in 1999 to “eradicate Falun Gong,” it has often taken incidents of injustice or violence in China and through state-run media, either framed them on Falun Gong or used them to incite hatred against Falun Gong.
Chen Yunchuan was a Falun Gong practitioner in Canfangying Village, Beixinpu
Township, Huailai County, Hebei Province. The plight of Mr. Chen’s family
is one of the cases the United Nations has paid close attention to.
53-year-old Ms. Wang Huilan from China’s northeastern Hebei Province has died in police custody six days after being taken from her home.
Practitioners of Falun Gong were forbidden to communicate openly. Yet as the guards motioned for them to begin walking, Wang felt the group fall into step like a gentle migrating herd. He looked down at the red earth, streaked with straw and human waste, to the barren mountains on the horizon. Whatever lay ahead, Wang…