China Human Rights

WASHINGTON—U.S. companies came under sharp criticism for helping the Chinese Communist Party build surveillance infrastructure used for the detention of hundreds of thousands in concentration camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, at a hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. An expert said the repression in Xinjiang likely includes mass, forced organ harvesting from […]

WASHINGTON—The first ever U.S. Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom officially launched at the State Department in Washington on July 24, with more than 40 foreign ministers and representatives from 80 countries attending. In his opening remarks, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback said, “We must commit to using all the might, the machinery, […]

Falun Dafa adherents across Canada are using the occasion of the 19th anniversary of the start of the persecution of Falun Dafa in communist China to ask for the release of their fellow peers who, even against the Chinese regime’s own laws, are imprisoned for their beliefs. Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, is […]

Falun Gong practitioners from Hong Kong and other areas of Asia held a rally and march in Hong Kong on July 22, calling attention to 19 years of ongoing persecution of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong by the Chinese communist regime. On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party launched an unprecedented persecution against Falun […]

LONDON—Practitioners of the ancient spiritual practice Falun Gong marched through the streets of London on July 21 to call for an end to 19 years of persecution by the Chinese communist regime. The march began with a rally opposite the Chinese Embassy in central London. Speaking at the rally was Minghui Yu, whose father was […]

In recent days, practitioners of Falun Gong have been rallying across Canada and around the world to commemorate July 20, 1999. On that day, the Chinese Communist Party launched a far-reaching campaign of persecution against adherents of the traditional spiritual discipline that teaches following the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance. In the 19 years […]

The smiling, joyful faces of twin sisters Annabel and Joanna transcend the challenging childhood they experienced in China practicing Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa. Falun Gong is a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline consisting of moral teachings, meditation, and qigong-like exercises. The practice grew in popularity through the mid-to-late 1990s, reaching 70 million to […]

The night was so sweltering that the police had to open the doors of the interrogation rooms to let some air in. Zhang Hongyu was finally able to catch a glimpse of her mother, Xiu Jinqiu, in the room opposite hers. Police had relentlessly interrogated Zhang and Xiu for hours. Zhang could see that her […]

NEW YORK—As sunset slowly approached on a hot summer’s evening on July 16, candles were lit, one by one, in commemoration of those who have lost their lives to a brutal persecution. Just across the street from the Chinese Consulate, on the edge of the Hudson River, music tinged with sorrow played as practitioners of […]

As doctors in the organ transplant profession convene for a global conference in Spain this week, one Chinese surgeon scheduled to speak has been called out for his violations of ethics. Zheng Shusen, a top surgeon specializing in liver transplants and the president of the Zhejiang Medical University’s First Affiliated Hospital, has performed thousands of […]

Human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong has been forced to take a mysterious medication while imprisoned in a Chinese jail, according to his wife, Jin Bianling, in an interview with Radio Free Asia (RFA). Jiang was arrested in November 2016. Prosecutors charged him with “attempting to overthrow the socialist system” and “seriously harming state security and social […]

WASHINGTON—For the last 13 years, Gao Weiwei has come to Washington to remember her late sister, Gao Rongrong, who was severely tortured for her faith and died of her injuries in 2005. Gao Rongrong was a practitioner of Falun Gong, a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline with tens of millions of adherents. Also known as Falun […]

China’s tourist hotspot Hainan has quickly backtracked on its announcement that it would allow foreigners visiting the island province to access Western social media sites that are blocked in China. Originally intended to boost tourism, the move instead ignited an outburst among Chinese netizens, as many took the opportunity to express outrage at the extensive […]

Recent media reports on the Chinese authorities’ tactics to quell protests have revealed a new level of brutality. In a June 23 report, Taiwanese newspaper The Liberty Times revealed that last April, “anti-terror” SWAT police in the Jing’an district of Shanghai were dispatched to stop a family who was protesting the local authorities’ decision to […]

WASHINGTON—The friendship between David Kilgour and David Matas goes back decades to their days in Winnipeg, where they were both born and raised. Kilgour, who went on to become a member of Parliament and Canada’s secretary of state for Asia-Pacific, and Matas, an internationally recognized human rights lawyer, both went to the University of Manitoba, […]

Sixteen years ago on the afternoon of Nov. 20, 2001, 36 Westerners from 12 countries quietly appeared on Tiananmen Square—the symbolic heart of China—with a simple message that shocked all those at the Square that day. Their unprecedented protest soon made international headlines. After group photos, most of the 36 Westerners from Europe, Australia, and North America sat […]

The Oregon mother who found a chilling S.O.S. letter hidden inside a Halloween “graveyard” kit has finally found the man who wrote the note. The letter, hidden inside toys made in a Chinese labor camp, made headlines back in 2012. Now, this man’s fate has come to light. Julie Keith purchased the Halloween “graveyard” decorations […]

Sixteen years ago on the afternoon of Nov. 20, 2001, 36 Westerners from 12 countries quietly appeared on Tiananmen Square—the symbolic heart of China—with a simple message that shocked all those at the Square that day. Their unprecedented protest soon made international headlines. After group photos, most of the 36 Westerners from Europe, Australia, and North America sat […]

A group of Taiwanese-Canadians gathered in front of Air Canada’s headquarters in Montreal on Thursday to protest the airline’s move to list Taiwan as part of China on its website. The airline is one of several other airlines around the world that followed a demand by the Chinese communist regime to remove any references on […]

On the anniversary of the Chinese regime’s crackdown on student protests at Tiananmen Square, the United States has urged Beijing to “make a full public accounting of the event” that took place 29 years ago. Chinese activists overseas marked the anniversary with protests and a new think tank dedicated to exposing the regime’s misdeeds and […]