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Lawmakers at the UK Parliament heard evidence from leading investigators at an April 17 briefing about forced organ harvesting in China. The investigators pieced together the evidence that they say shows that organs are being forcibly extracted from prisoners of conscience in China and then sold for profit on an “industrial” scale. “This is thousands upon […] -
Nineteen years ago, on April 25, more than 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered in Beijing for one purpose: to ask authorities to uphold their constitutional right to freedom of belief. Little did they know that their peaceful appeal would become a peaceful protest that continues nearly two decades later, in all parts of the world. […]
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In a three-day operation, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested 33 fugitives who committed human rights crimes, including four Chinese nationals involved in forced abortions and sterilizations in China. ICE said in its public notice that Operation No Safe Haven IV began on April 16 and resulted in the arrests of 33 foreign […]
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BEIJING—A senior U.S. State Department diplomat said punitive measures could be taken to condemn the Chinese regime’s further crackdown on Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the far-western region of Xinjiang. Laura Stone, the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, told reporters in Beijing on April 18 that the recent mass […]
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In advertisements for Italian toy brand My Doll on its website, blonde-haired young girls are holding rosy-cheeked dolls with stringy hair and innocent smiles. The image belies the cruel reality of how the dolls were made. According to a newly published report by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), My […]
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Shen Baozhong, deputy president of the Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences and president of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University (HMU), has been placed under investigation by Chinese communist authorities on suspicion of “seriously violating Party discipline,” state-run news agency Xinhua reported on April 7. The turn-of-phrase is an oft-used euphemism for corruption. […]
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When news emerged last July that residents in Xinjiang, located in the northwestern frontiers of China, were required to install a surveillance app on their mobile phones, it drew the attention of the Open Technology Fund (OTF), a U.S. government-funded program that researches and develops internet freedom technology. On April 9, the OTF published an […]
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Former justice minister Irwin Cotler is calling for the immediate release of Canadian citizen Sun Qian, who has been illegally detained in Beijing for more than a year because she practises the traditional discipline of Falun Gong. “We call on the Chinese authorities to cease and desist from this arbitrary and illegal assault on Sun […]
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BEIJING/HONGKONG—Chinese authorities are holding the wife of a detained Chinese rights lawyer in her Beijing home after they cut short her protest march aiming to force authorities to explain his arrest, a friend said on Wednesday. Li Wenzu’s husband, Wang Quanzhang, who took on sensitive cases of complaints of police torture and defended practitioners of […]
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A Danish radio station reported Feb. 18 that the Royal Danish Theater in Copenhagen caved in to pressure from the Chinese embassy to turn down Shen Yun Performing Arts, a classical Chinese dance and music company based in New York. In addition to portraying legends from ancient China, Shen Yun tells stories from contemporary life, […]
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The global movement of Chinese people renouncing their ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) reached an important milestone last month. On March 24, the number of Chinese who publicly revoked their membership in the CCP or its affiliated organizations reached 300 million. For comparison, the Chinese Communist Party currently has about 90 million members. […]
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In an intensifying crackdown on Christianity and religious freedom, the Chinese regime is now banning sales of the Bible, leading online retailers across China to pull it and other Christian books from their stores. It was reported on April 3 that Chinese Christians had noticed that all the online bookstores accessible from within mainland China […]
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Canadian citizen Sun Qian, currently detained in Beijing for practising Falun Gong, was recently forced to undergo brainwashing sessions aimed at coercing her to renounce her beliefs, The Epoch Times has learned. Meanwhile, the Vancouver resident was given a court date of April 9, just after she finally got a new lawyer when her three […]
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BEIJING—The wife of a detained Chinese lawyer set off on Wednesday on a march of more than 60 miles, from Beijing to Tianjin city, where she believes her husband is being held incommunicado, in a bid to force authorities to explain his arrest. Lawyer Wang Quanzhang, who took on sensitive cases of complaints of police […]
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Senior Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi recently missed a major appointment to become a vice premier—signaling that the faction Yang belonged to, the faction loyal to former Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin—is further waning in power. The Jiang faction makes up the main opposition force to current leader Xi Jinping. But a recent Hong Kong […]
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China has developed a new voice recognition system, connecting speakers’ voice features to their identification information for the purpose of building a database of “voiceprints.” The system will be used for authentication of people’s identities on the internet, as well as in the areas of medical treatment, education, financial services, transportation, and tourism, according to […]
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China’s systematic and state-sanctioned organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience has been condemned by the Georgia state government. Georgia’s lower House of Representatives unanimously passed House Resolution 944 on March 19, to express concerns over forced organ harvesting in China. In 1999, the former leader of the Communist Party, Jiang Zemin, began a nationwide persecution […]
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The Chinese Communist regime has significantly weakened, if not abolished, the power of one of its most deadly and notorious agencies: the “610 Office,” an extra-legal party organization similar to the Nazis’ Gestapo. The move was part of a broad set of structural reforms that were passed during the Party’s recent rubber-stamp parliament sessions. The […]
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The global movement of Chinese people renouncing their ties to the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organizations has reached an important milestone. The trend began soon after the Chinese edition of The Epoch Times published a nine-part series, “Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party,” in November and December 2004. The series dissected the […]
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A celebrated doctor at an affiliated facility of Fourth Military Medical University in Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi Province, has committed suicide, according to a March 19 Twitter post from user Fan Xiaoke. Chinese authorities have not yet confirmed his death. According to the post, Li Jinge jumped from the 30th-floor window of his apartment. The […]
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Amidst an escalating diplomatic and economic standoff between the United States and the Chinese communist regime, the U.S. Congress has approved a massive spending bill that includes $17 million that will be used to support Tibetans in and out of Tibet. This includes the Tibetan government-in-exile, which is vehemently opposed by the Chinese regime that […]
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OTTAWA—Two lawyers representing Sun Qian, a Canadian citizen detained in China, have withdrawn from the case due to pressure from the Chinese authorities, leaving Sun unrepresented since last week. A Chinese-Canadian businesswoman from Vancouver who became a citizen in 2007, Sun was detained by the Chinese authorities in February 2017 for practising the traditional spiritual […]
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In a move condemned by a transplant ethics group, the Vatican has granted legitimacy to China’s organ transplant system by inviting the head of the Chinese communist regime’s official transplant registry to speak at a Vatican panel earlier this month. For the past two decades, patients in desperate need of an organ transplant have traveled […]
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A new report says that the Chinese regime continues to tighten its grip on the internet and impose ever more aggressive censorship on Chinese social media while jailing those who dare to express dissent. The report, “Forbidden Feeds: Government Controls on Social Media in China,” compiled by PEN America and released on March 13, documents […]
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The number of people who have withdrawn from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations is estimated to reach 300 million by the end of this month. To commemorate this milestone, more than 700 Hong Kong and Taiwan citizens held a rally and parade on March 18. The rally began at 10 a.m. […]
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A recent comment by a senior official from China’s highest court has riled up Chinese citizens. During a March 9 interview with Hong Kong media Now News, the vice president of China’s Supreme People’s Court, Jiang Bixin, made a bold statement: “In the past 10-plus years in China, there has not been a wrongful case […]
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WeChat is one of China’s most popular social media platforms, with 494.3 million individual users within China’s borders, at last count. For some, though, using it can be considered a crime. Six practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual meditation discipline that is severely persecuted by the Chinese regime, were recently arrested and detained for posting […]
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