The Chinese Consulate in Chicago refused to renew Ms. Dongmei Wang and Mr. Jiyun Kuang’s passports and withheld the passports simply because they are Falun Gong practitioners. On March 28, US lawyer Eric Ziegenhorn wrote to Consul Saipo Zhou requesting Chinese Consulate to reconsider the withholding of Falun Gong practitioners’ passports to prevent the filing…
From April 14 to 18, the Annual General Meeting of Amnesty International US section was held at the New York Marriott in Brooklyn. Falun Gong practitioners joined the “New Idea Display” with the theme of “Petals of Peace.”
Bo Xilai, the Minister of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China, was served with a lawsuit during his visit to the United States. The complaint, brought by Li Weixum and others, alleges such serious human rights abuses as torture, genocide and other crimes against humanity carried out while persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in China.
During the 60th Human Rights Conference at the UN, Falun Gong and the NGO “International Education Development” held a forum together, the theme of which was “Chinese State Terrorism: The Persecution of Falun Gong.”
When speaking of terrorism, people often think of radical people who operate in other countries
using terrorist means such as assassination,…
Falun Gong practitioners held an experience sharing conference in New York from April 10 to April 11, 2004. On the afternoon of April 10, more than three thousand Falun Gong practitioners from all over the world staged a “Journey of Falun Dafa” grand parade in Manhattan’s Chinatown.
The Changji Labor Camp has to meet Tianshan Wooltex’s quota of Kashmir sweaters, or the guards won’t get their bonus. The Chinese “reform through labor” camps have become privatized. They are small enterprises that sign contracts with big companies and export products to overseas shopping malls.
It is a place where torturers get rich,…
The government’s use of mental hospitals and psychiatric misuse in the abuse of Falun Gong practitioners was the cause of great concern for international human rights groups, mental health organizations and professionals who are concerned with the development of psychiatry in China.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Commission should urge the People’s Republic of China to immediately stop the repression of spiritual and political groups, including but not limited to Falun Gong practitioners,
Over 100 Chinese officials could be denied entry into the United States, or face deportation if they are already here, for their “particularly severe violations of religious freedom” according to two NGOs who submitted a report on the Chinese officials to U.S. authorities.
The 2004 edition of the Falun Dafa InfoCenter’s Compassion magazine was released. The magazine provides an in-depth look at the genocide targeting Falun Gong in China, legal actions around the world to stop it as well as a nation-wide campaign of peaceful civil disobedience by millions of Falun Gong practitioners in China.
While on tour promoting his book on Falun Gong appeals in Tiananmen Square, a Canadian citizen was barred from Hong Kong.
Chinese-American Ms. Zhang, a resident in New York City, seeks support from all circles in society and requests the Chinese authorities to immediately release her elder sister Ms. Jun Zhang and Jun’s daughter Chiyue Li, who are currently imprisoned in the Beijing Chaoyang Detention Center.