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,…
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.
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…
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…
I am not a Falun Gong practitioner. However, any difference in opinion over spiritual matters is, I feel, of little import when it comes to human rights.
As some see it, Nostradamus’s most famous quatrain, predicting that the King of Terror would descend in July 1999, failed to come true, costing the prognosticator his credibility. To millions of Falun Gong practitioners in China, however, that prophecy has fulfilled itself with terrifying precision.
Jailed for joining Falun Gong, forced to pack 8,000
chopsticks daily. Xiong Wei spent two years in a Chinese
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A human body is composed of cells, including the cells of the immune system. Cells are also tiny beings living in a community. After one practices Falun Gong and follows the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance to become selfless, the cells inside the person’s body may change accordingly.