On Tuesday night, a crowd gathered in Victoria’s Parliament House to watch a compelling film that exposes the true intentions of the “wolf in sheep’s clothing” that is the Chinese Communist regime’s global language and culture program, known as the Confucius Institute. The audience watched intently as the story of Sonia Zhao, a Chinese-born former […]

Su Shulin, the former governor of Fujian Province, one of China’s wealthiest regions, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for taking bribes and “abuse of power,” according to Chinese state media Xinhua. The Shanghai Second Intermediate People’s Court issued the sentence on July 26, along with imposing a 3 million yuan (about $442,000) fine. […]

CHICAGO—What started as a rainy, gloomy morning on July 21 turned into a mild and sunny afternoon.  Practitioners of Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong) from all over the Midwest gathered in Chicago’s Chinatown.  At about noon on this Saturday, their parade began and almost immediately the rain stopped. Falun Dafa is a peaceful […]

It has been described as the David and Goliath battle of our time. July 20 marks 19 years of brutal persecution suffered by practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual practice in Communist China. On July 20, 1999, nearly 1 in 10 Chinese citizens became enemies of the state solely because they wished to live their […]

China says that since 2015, it has transitioned its organ transplantation system from using prisoners’ organs to relying solely on those from citizen volunteers who die from natural causes—like in developed countries. These claims have largely been accepted by international medical organizations like the World Health Organization and The Transplantation Society. But experts on China’s system […]

The U.S. State Department issued its annual International Religious Freedom Report for 2017 on May 29. The report detailed the case of a man who was sexually assaulted and tortured in prison, eventually leading to his death—highlighting the severity of the Chinese regime’s ongoing persecution of religious dissidents. Yang Yuyong, 56 and a resident of […]

Friends of Falun Gong concluded its third annual poetry contest, which attracted over 150 participants from around the globe. The contest was co-hosted by the Society of Classical Poets, an online journal dedicated to the revival of traditional English poetry. Friends of Falun Gong is an American nonprofit organization formed by citizens concerned about the […]

WASHINGTON—When Brian Witt, a candidate for a California congressional seat, heard on June 19 about the Falun Gong rally and march to be held the next day on Capitol Hill, he boarded a red-eye flight from LAX at midnight and arrived in Washington on the morning of June 20, ready to take part. Witt, who […]

WASHINGTON—On the afternoon of June 21 at the Capital One Arena, Mr. Li Hongzhi addressed more than 9,000 Falun Gong practitioners attending an experience-sharing conference. Mr. Li is the founder of Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa. In an environment complicated by the Chinese Communist Party’s unremitting hostility toward the spiritual practice, he rarely […]

As all mothers do, Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Yu wanted to protect her child. But she couldn’t—not in China, she explained. Speaking to The Epoch Times, Wang recounted how the Chinese authorities tried to silence her by threatening her son’s well-being, an experience she calls “the most terrifying experience” of her life. In 2008, […]

In the span of two weeks, two Chinese officials from a provincial prison management bureau have been placed under investigation for human rights violations.  Gao Qi, current deputy inspector with the prison management bureau in northern China’s Shanxi Province, was placed under investigation by the province’s discipline and supervision commissions, reported People’s Net, the online […]

The recent slaying of a Chinese official by his subordinate is the latest in a long, bloody trail of human rights violations committed by an extralegal Party organization. Sun Hengshan, 57, the current director of the 610 Office in northeastern China’s Jilin Province, was stabbed a dozen times by his subordinate at around 2:25 p.m. […]

A former rising cadre of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), who was appointed as deputy head of a major city police station at the age of 35, recently received a heavy prison sentence for his corruption charges. However, he has committed a more egregious crime that the Chinese authorities failed to mention, according to a […]

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 […]

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 […]

Thousands of people tuned in on Saturday, March 4, to watch NTD’s Facebook Live screening of “Hard to Believe,” an award-winning documentary that exposes the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) sordid practice of killing prisoners of conscience for their organs. From how the CCP got one doctor in China to kill a person for their organs […]

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 […]

When Chinese leader Xi Jinping took over as the head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Nov. 2012, he began a relentless anti-corruption campaign to root out his political enemies in the opposition faction. It is still going strong. Recently, the high-profile investigation of former internet censorship czar, Lu Wei, proved that Xi hasn’t […]

The increasing suppression and surveillance faced by the Uyghur minority in China may include a deadly element: systematic, forced organ harvesting. Speaking before the UK Parliament on Dec. 13, Dolkun Isa, president of the World Uyghur Congress, raised concerns that the Chinese regime may be targeting Uyghurs for organ harvesting and trafficking.  “We are also […]

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 […]