Film Review: ‘Ask No Questions’: There’s Fake News and Then There’s Fake News

Film Review: ‘Ask No Questions’: There’s Fake News and Then There’s Fake News
Chen Ruichang, a former state television official and Falun Dafa practitioner, refused to recant despite the brutal torture he endured in a prison camp. Lofty Sky Pictures
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The world should be horrified by the evidence of genocide emerging from East Turkestan, but we shouldn’t be so surprised. To a large extent, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is merely repeating the game plan it used to launch its wholesale persecution of Falun Dafa (also called Falun Gong).

Today, Party propaganda tells the world that it is simply routing out terrorists. In the case of Falun Gong, it was religious extremism. Filmmakers Jason Loftus and Eric Pedicelli ask the hard questions about the incident used to justify the anti-Falun Gong campaign that the Western media should have asked, in the riveting exposé documentary “Ask No Questions,” which premiered at the 2020 Slamdance Film Festival, in Park City, Utah.

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