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Drawings Tell of Now-Deceased College Professor’s Sufferings for Her Faith in Falun Gong

China News, World NewsAugust 28, 20160Comments

[Editor’s note: Ms. Li Li used to be an associate professor at National Prosecutors College of the P.R.C., but she was fired shortly after the Chinese communist regime launched the persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999. She was sentenced to a 9-year prison term in 2004 for refusing to renounce Falun Gong. She was…

Sydney: National car tour to 100 cities kicks off ahead of G20 Summit calling for Falun Gong persecution to stop

Australia NewsAugust 26, 20160Comments

Falun Gong practitioners in Sydney will commence a 100-city car tour on August 29, as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull prepares to go to China for the G20 Summit. The aim for the car tour is to raise awareness amongst Australians about the ongoing 17-year long persecution in China. In particular Falun Gong practitioners will…

Informing Spectators of the Rio Olympics About the Persecution in China

World NewsAugust 21, 20160Comments

Besides watching the Olympic games, sports fans and tourists may have also come across Falun Gong practitioners in Rio and other Brazilian cities this summer. The Falun Gong group there has been actively holding various events to raise awareness and collect signatures against the persecution in China. Practitioners re-enact tortures that Falun Gong practitioners face in…

Introducing Falun Gong at Toowoomba Languages and Cultures Festival

Australia NewsAugust 21, 20160Comments

Falun Gong practitioners in Toowoomba, Australia, participated in the 9th Toowoomba Languages and Cultures (TLC) Festival on August 14, 2016. This multicultural event in the “Garden City” attracted more than 10,000 people in the area. Many visitors stopped at the Falun Gong booth for informational materials or to find out how to learn the practice.…

Taipei, Taiwan: City Council Passes Resolution Supporting Lawsuits Against Former Chinese Dictator

World NewsAugust 21, 20160Comments

A human rights resolution “Supporting the lawsuits against Jiang Zemin and calling for an immediate end to the persecution of Falun Gong” was recently passed unanimously by the Taipei City Council in Taiwan. This marked the 11th local council in Taiwan to have passed a resolution supporting the lawsuits being filed against former Chinese Communist…

Sydney, Australia: Participants in World’s Largest Charity Fun Run Support Falun Gong’s Peaceful Resistance

Australia NewsAugust 21, 20160Comments

Runners in the annual Sydney “City2Surf” road race, besides enjoying a day of fun and camaraderie, had the opportunity to learn about Falun Gong and the brutal persecution of this peaceful cultivation practice in China. As the largest charity fundraising race in the world, the City2Surf fun run attracted 80,000 runners last Sunday. Local Falun…

Northeast India: “May Falun Dafa Continue to Flourish and Make the World a Better Place”

World NewsAugust 21, 20160Comments

“May Falun Dafa continue to flourish and make the world a better place,” wrote a young Catholic nun in a letter to two Falun Dafa practitioners who presented several exercise instruction sessions to her 2,100 students in a remote area in Northeast India in July. Bringing Information to the Hills of Northeast India Two practitioners…

Family Denied State Compensation for Xinjiang Engineer’s Unnatural Death

China NewsAugust 21, 20160Comments

The family of an imprisoned woman who died an unnatural death has been denied state compensation. Ms. Zhao Shuyuan’s son filed an appeal to the Xinjiang Province Prison Management Bureau the day after she died, but it is unclear whether he had received a response before his mother’s body was forcibly cremated by the authorities…

Germany: “I Must Sign Your Petition to Help End These Organ Harvesting Atrocities!”

World NewsAugust 17, 20160Comments

“They have endured too much. It is so painful. I must sign your petition to help end these organ harvesting atrocities,” said a woman visiting the Falun Gong booth setup on Munich’s Marienplatz on August 13. She had just learned how prisoners of conscience, most of whom practice Falun Gong, are custom-killed for their organs…

U.S. Report on International Religious Freedom for 2015: Persecution of Falun Gong Continues in China

Media Reports, World NewsAugust 17, 20160Comments

The “International Religious Freedom Report for 2015,” published by the U.S. Department of State on August 10, 2016, said China still exercising state control over religion and restricting freedom of religious belief. In particular, Falun Gong, Catholics, human rights lawyers, and some other groups are among the main targets. The report also mentioned Wang Zhiwen,…

China’s State-Sanctioned Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Gong Practitioners Stuns Mainstream Australians

Australia NewsAugust 17, 20160Comments

China's state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience has drawn the attention of mainstream Australia, especially after the release of the new investigation report by David Kilgour, former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific; human rights lawyer David Matas; and senior reporter Ethan Gutmann in late June 2016. People are calling on the Australian…

Australia: Sharing Experiences and Inspiration at Falun Dafa Conference in Queensland

Australia NewsAugust 12, 20160Comments

Child rearing, clarifying the facts, and learning to look inward – these were some of the topics covered at the annual Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference in Queensland last weekend. Dafa practitioners met to share with one another how they incorporate the teachings of Falun Dafa in their daily lives and in reaching out…