China Human Rights

The Chinese Communist Party has embarked on an anti-corruption sweep of its judicial system. From mid-April to mid-May, the Party has announced internal investigations into 12 court presidents and procurator-generals—who head local prosecutor’s offices—across China. Since current Party leader Xi Jinping took power in 2012, he has launched an anti-corruption campaign to weed out misbehaving […]

During German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to China this week, she met with the wife of a currently detained human rights lawyer, Yu Wensheng, according to a Twitter post by fellow lawyer Yao Jianqing. Yao posted the message on May 24 along with a photo of the two together, noting that they spoke about “human […]

Senators in the upper house’s human rights standing committee heard on May 23 about why Canada should have its own legislation to combat organ trafficking, especially when it involves a country such as China where the state is behind forced organ removal. “Trafficking in human organs has become a global problem,” said Sen. Salma Ataullahjan […]

In a unanimous vote of 30 to 0, the Missouri State Senate passed Resolution 28 on May 18, calling on the Chinese Communist Party to end the practice of forced organ harvesting. The resolution, titled “Calls on the Chinese Government to end the practice of organ harvesting from prisoners,” was sponsored by Sen. Jill Schupp […]

When a Chinese doctor posted an online article warning people against the side effects of a brand of Chinese medicinal liquor, police were instructed to arrest him. News recently emerged that the doctor has become mentally unstable after being detained by authorities in Inner Mongolia for three months. Tan Qindong, 39, a doctor from Guangzhou […]

As the Chinese regime expands and upgrades the technology of its campaigns against internal dissent, allegations have emerged saying that Western know-how indirectly aided the communist state’s repression. On May 9, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), who also chair the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, sent a letter to the U.S. […]

A recent document being widely circulated on the Chinese internet reveals the enormous scale of corruption among Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials. An abused wife with personal grievances has blown the whistle on her father-in-law, a retired Party official, and his amassed wealth. Under the Chinese regime’s “jubao” system, a citizen or public employee can […]

Within a judicial system that lacks rule of law, a simple hearing turned violent when Chinese police prevented a Hong Kong journalist from reporting on the scene. Chui Chun-ming, a cameraman for Now TV, a paid-TV service provider in Hong Kong, was in Beijing to cover a disciplinary hearing for Xie Yangyi, one of the […]

The host organization for inviting the U.S.-based Shen Yun Performing Arts to perform in Hong Kong has been unable to rent a performance venue for 10 years. Recent revelations indicate that the Liaison Office in Hong Kong, an organ of the Chinese regime, has been the force behind efforts to prevent government- and privately-owned theaters […]

Interpol, the international police organization, is currently headed by China’s vice-minister for public security, Meng Hongwei. Since he was elected leader of Interpol in 2016, the Chinese Communist regime has used Interpol’s red notices to step up suppression of Chinese dissidents who have escaped overseas and harass their family inside China. An Interpol red notice […]

In recent weeks, veterans across China have protested to demand proper welfare benefits and other government assistance. Veterans of the Vietnam War in Leizhou City, Guangdong Province, held a demonstration on May 9 around 10 a.m. A source told The Epoch Times that more than 100 veterans dressed in military uniforms and paraded with banners. […]

May 12 marked the 10-year anniversary of a 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province in southwestern China, killing 69,227 and injuring 374,643, according to the Chinese regime’s Ministry of Civil Affairs. More than 17,000 remain missing. An estimated 7,000 school buildings in the earthquake zone collapsed. At Beichuan Middle School alone, more than […]

TORONTO—Over a thousand people gathered in downtown Toronto on Saturday to celebrate Falun Dafa Day, the 26th anniversary of the introduction of Falun Dafa to the public. Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, is a spiritual discipline that combines gentle meditation exercises with moral teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. […]

Sheng Xue, an award-winning journalist and author who fled China for Canada after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, has followed the persecution campaign against Falun Dafa since it began in China in 1999. She was an unexpected guest at the Falun Dafa Day celebrations on Parliament Hill on May 9, and said she came […]

The lawn on Parliament Hill on May 9 resembled a ray of sunlight as hundreds of adherents of Falun Dafa wearing bright yellow shirts gathered in celebration of their traditional meditation practice handed down from ancient China. The event, marking Falun Dafa Day, which is officially May 13, included demos of the practice’s meditative exercises […]

Two recently published reports detail the intensification of human rights abuses in Tibet and Xinjiang. The Chinese regime has continually cracked down on both regions, which were taken over by the Chinese Communist Party as territories of the Chinese state, but historically were home to ethnic groups with different cultural and religious traditions from those […]

The great wave of Chinese people quitting the Communist Party indicates that this foreign ideology that has killed tens of millions of people in China is certain to meet its demise, says a global centre dedicated to helping people recognize the destructive character of communism and to withdraw from the Party. “Since coming to China […]

Two days after Canadian citizen Sun Qian was arrested in China last February, her husband allegedly stole 2 billion yuan in shares that belonged to Sun from their jointly owned company and had her removed from the board by forging her signature. The husband, Shen Guangqian, is one of the witnesses appointed by the state […]

Chinese police have escalated their surveillance of an elderly doctor who once served in a Chinese military hospital.    Gu Xinfang, 75, from Nanjing City in southern China, practices Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, a meditation discipline with the fundamental tenets of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. Like many other adherents of the practice, […]

More evidence has emerged to support the widely held suspicion that China’s most popular messaging app, WeChat, is recording private messages between users, data which is then accessible by the Chinese regime, despite the app’s insistence that it is not spying on the 1 billion people worldwide who use it. In a WeChat public post […]