On September 28, dozens of human rights and religious groups rallied outside the United Nations Headquarters urging world leaders attending the 62nd Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, and all people of conscience, to take joint action to end the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong and other religious groups.
More than 26 million people have quit the Chinese Communist Party, the Communist Youth League and the Young Pioneers. The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party is attracting an ever-increasing readership and is having a huge impact. More than 80,000 copies of the Nine Commentaries were distributed in one city in Shandong Province alone.
The 65th Annual International Council of Psychologists Conference was held at the Westgate Hotel in San Diego from August 11 to 14, 2007. Psychologists from around the world shared their results probing the relationship between mental health and environment. The scope of research is to promote multi-cultural relations and peace between ethnic groups, as well…
Global Human Rights Torch Relay will travel through 100 cities around the world. Its purpose is to call on the international community to focus on brutal violations of human rights and the Olympics spirit by the Chinese Communist regime, in order to stop such crimes and not let the 2008 Olympic Games that symbolizes peace…
Falun Dafa Associations from twenty-two countries joined forces to send a joint statement condemning Hong Kong’s refusal of entry and forced deportation of hundreds of Falun Dafa practitioners, most of whom were from Taiwan. Practitioners were traveling to Hong Kong to participate in demonstrations marking the tenth anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong from…
On June 26, 2007 Falun Gong practitioners in Hong Kong gathered at Charter Gardens to strongly protest the Hong Kong authorities’ use of a blacklist provided by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), to refuse entrance of Taiwanese human rights lawyer Theresa Chu and other Falun Gong practitioners. The practitioners were also treated with violence during…
New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV), with its headquarters in New York City (NYC), will host the International Chinese Classical Dance Competition at New York University from July 6 to 8 in 2007. Due to the independent and outspoken nature of NTDTV, as well as its long-term focus on human rights issues in China, including the…
At a press conference held at the Canadian Parliament on May 30, 2007, acclaimed Jewish scholar and chairman of the Organ Donation Committee of the Kidney Foundation for Eastern Ontario, and the chair of the “Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China” (CIPFG), Rabbi Reuven Bulka, declared that boycotting the Olympic Games…
A total of twenty UK parliamentarians have written to the Chinese communist regime or the UK Foreign Office since Wenjian Liang, her husband Zhiyong Lin and six other Falun Gong practitioners were detained in February, and sentenced to labor camps without trial in March. Amnesty International issued an “urgent action” and the UK media also…
Early this year, UN refugees Ms. Ma Hui and her daughter were unlawfully abducted and deported by the Russian Government. On May 13, another UN refugee was abducted and deported from Russia. Falun Gong practitioner Gao Chunman is a professor from Tsinghua University, forced to flee China because of the persecution.
On May 10th, 2007, ten human rights organisations, including Human Rights Without Borders, International Human Rights Association, the Uygur World Congress and the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG), held a joint press conference at the headquarters of the European Union (EU) in Brussels, Belgium, to expose the CCP’s human…
May 13, 2007 marked the Eighth World Falun Dafa Day. 5000 Falun Gong practitioners from Taiwan assembled in front of Chiang-Kai-shek Memorial Hall to celebrate Falun Dafa Day, forming Chinese characters, which read “Happy Birthday, Master” and “May 13–World Falun Dafa Day.”