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 […]

An official associated with China’s organ donation system has been sentenced for corruption. Xie Xianci, deputy director of the organ donation management center in southeastern China’s Jiangxi Province was sentenced by the People’s Court in Qingyunpu District, located in the Jiangxi capital of Nanchang City. Xie was sentenced to two-years imprisonment, with reprieve for two […]

Lu Yuanfeng fell into a coma and died just three weeks after he’d been released from a prison in China’s northeast. Lu had managed to survive three years in Benxi Prison, Liaoning province, but what he was forced to endure had already taken its toll. When the 63-year-old’s family picked him up from the prison […]

The Chinese Communist Party has persecuted the spiritual practice of Falun Gong for over 18 years, and the torture and killing of its practitioners continue to be carried out in secrecy in black jails, prisons, and detention centers. As of Dec. 17, 29 Falun Gong practitioners are confirmed to have died in 2017 due to […]

The Taiwanese government took a big step forward in protecting human rights when it recently denied entry to at least three human rights violators from China who were planning to visit Taiwan. On Dec. 10, the Taiwanese newspaper the Liberty Times reported on its website that a joint task force consisting of different Taiwanese government […]

One of the largest civil rights movements is currently taking place around the world, with the goal of putting former Chinese regime head Jiang Zemin on trial for his brutal crimes against humanity. As of Dec. 8, over 2.6 million people from 31 countries have signed a petition calling on China’s judicial bodies to prosecute […]

China’s human rights lawyers, despite suppression, are continuing to take on the toughest cases, defending Falun Gong practitioners. In China in July 2015, hundreds of human rights lawyers were swept up by an unprecedented crackdown, and many of those lawyers are still in prison and facing torture. Yet, in 2017, lawyers have defended hundreds of […]

A provincial official responsible for persecuting the spiritual practice of Falun Gong was taken down last week. On Dec. 1, the Hubei Province anti-corruption watchdog agency announced that Cheng Ying, deputy director of the Social and Legal Affairs Committee within Hubei’s Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), was given “shuanggui,” an abusive interrogation of Party […]

Former MP and justice minister Irwin Cotler, who is acting as legal counsel for Canadian citizen Sun Qian, says the Chinese authorities should abide by their own laws and release Sun, currently in detention in Beijing. “We call on the Chinese authorities to honour their own rule of law, to cease and desist from persecution […]

TAIPEI, Taiwan—The National Taiwan University Sports Center was packed on Nov. 26, with more than 7,500 people from all walks of life, hailing from a dozen countries and regions. They had gathered together not because of a sporting event, but rather to learn from each other how to be a better person, and how to […]

TAIPEI, Taiwan—Clad in black, yellow, blue, and white clothing, thousands of people assembled in Taipei’s iconic Liberty Square to form a massive image—measuring 158 feet by 184 feet—of a serene-looking woman sitting in meditation with her right palm lifted. Over three days of intensive labor, more than 100 local residents first laid down color-coordinated mats that […]

OTTAWA—Former Liberal MP and justice minister Irwin Cotler is pleased to finally see passed into law legislation that he pioneered as a private member’s bill back when he was a parliamentarian. Cotler was among the dignitaries who welcomed Sergei Magnitsky’s widow and son to Ottawa on Nov. 1 to mark the passing of the legislation […]

For years the Chinese regime has claimed it will respect and enforce the rule of law with legal reforms. But because there is no true independent judiciary, the relationship between lawyers and judges, who are appointed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is often contentious. Human rights lawyer Wang Lie was recently denied the right […]

China’s 19th National Congress came to an end on Oct. 24, concluding a week of political horse-trading to determine the new generation of Party leadership. 204 Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members were chosen to sit in the high-ranking Central Committee. Those high-profile party members who were conspicuously left out had one thing in common—their political […]

Oct. 4 is the Mid-Autumn Festival (or Moon Festival) in China, a joyful tradition and time for family reunions. Across the nation people are celebrating their good fortune and sharing appreciation for their family members. Some people are also considering the plight of fellow Chinese who cannot find so much to celebrate. In China, every […]

  Chinese Communist Party official Zhang Yijie had been completely free to teach the spiritual practice Falun Gong to her co-workers in the company basement and share the practice’s books in her co-workers’ mailboxes in 1998. A year later, the communist regime declared that Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, and all of its books, […]

EDMONTON—”It was a day when goodness truly triumphed.” That’s how Michael Cooper, MP for Edmonton-St. Albert, described the April 25, 1999, event in which an estimated 10,000 Falun Dafa adherents gathered in Beijing to peacefully protest the hardening tone of state-run media against their practice and the wrongful arrest of their fellow practitioners in nearby […]

Strapped for cash, Western media turns to China for revenue, and agrees to run Communist Party propaganda.

This is a story of a loving family sticking together, of a young college girl forging a path to spiritual freedom, and in doing so, strengthening her voice to dispel the lies against Falun Gong.

The character formation seeks to raise awareness of the ongoing genocide that his happening in China.