Copyright © 2025 American Thought Leaders This is the full version of Jan Jekielek’s interview with Justin Butterfield and Lea Patterson. The interview was originally released on Epoch TV on July 10, 2025. For years, Jan Jekielek has been reporting on the ways the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) crushes the […]
Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Raymond Zhang follows the story of two families in China embarking on a perilous twenty-year journey searching for their missing family members. Along the way, they uncover a harrowing government-run organ harvesting operation that is destroying the lives of thousands of innocent victims, and still occurring to […]
American Thought Leaders The Chinese communist regime has “created a market in the organs of their political enemies,” says Matthew Robertson, a researcher who has been investigating China’s organ transplant system for more than a decade. Fluent in Mandarin, Robertson is a China studies research fellow at the Victims of […]
A world-class American dance company is under attack with bomb threats and media smears all traced back to the Chinese regime. Discover why Beijing is so desperate to silence Shen Yun and what it reveals about the Chinese Communist Party’s influence in the U.S. Featuring news clips, leaked Chinese government […]
Since August 2024, the New York Times has published a series of articles on the Shen Yun dance company, founded by people who practice Falun Gong, and on Falun Gong itself. The articles falsely portray Shen Yun as an abusive environment that treats performers as “expendable” while others benefit financially […]
As a lawyer and long-time reader of the New York Times, John found the recent attacks on Shen Yun “inexcusable.” He calls for a fair and truthful re-assessment of Shen Yun and Falun Gong practitioners, starting with four major examples of the Times’ failures in their coverage. Read more on […]
A personal message from Ben, the Director of Digital Outreach at the Falun Dafa Information Center, addressing recent coverage by The New York Times on Falun Gong and Shen Yun. For more information, read our press statement here: https://faluninfo.net/new-york-times-continues-unfounded-attack-on-falun-gong-shen-yun
FDIC Digital Outreach Director Ben Maloney joins NTD Evening News on January 1, 2025, to discuss the recent New York Times coverage of Falun Gong and Shen Yun.
At an event hosted by the Falun Dafa Club at Harvard Griffin GSAS, Falun Dafa Information Center researcher Cynthia Sun shared her personal experiences and research on the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong. She highlighted how Falun Gong practitioners in the U.S. and around the world are targeted through surveillance, […]
Dr. Larry Liu, deputy director of the Falun Dafa Information Center, sat down with American Thought Leaders to discuss dissent in China and the role that Falun Gong practitioners are playing. A grassroots, underground movement of Chinese has been cutting through the communist regime’s censorship and propaganda machines—one pamphlet at […]
Ahead of the U.S. House of Representative’s passage of the Falun Gong Protection Act on June 26, 2024, Cynthia Sun, a researcher at the Falun Dafa Information Center, discussed the significance of this legislation and the extent of the atrocities the bill aims to combat.
In an interview with NTD News, Levi Browde, Executive Director of the Falun Dafa Information Center discusses the significance of the U.S. House of Representatives passing the Falun Gong Protection Act, the first bill to specifically address the rights abuses faced by people who practice Falun Gong in China.
Not long after the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, Lihua Chi’s husband, Xu Dawei, was imprisoned for his faith. The detention center prevented their family from visiting him. When Lihua discovered she was pregnant, she couldn’t share the news with her husband in person. Her husband was sentenced […]
May 13 is World Falun Dafa Day, a day that celebrates the introduction of the spiritual practice to the world on May 13, 1992. Levi Browde, executive director of the Falun Dafa Information Center, joins NTD to share how everyone can celebrate this day because Falun Dafa’s teachings of truthfulness, […]
April 25 marked the 25th anniversary of Falun Gong practitioners’ appeal to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to exercise their faith freely. The event was a “peaceful appeal,” not a protest or occupation of the government complex as the CCP alleges. Levi Browde, executive director of the Falun Dafa Information […]
On May 4, a Moscow court ordered a female Falun Gong practitioner to be put in jail for 2 months pending and investigation for organizing activities for an “undesirable organization,” a classification given to independent media, journalists, and US think tanks. Ms. Natalya Minenkova was among three Falun Gong practitioners […]
Today marks 25 years since over 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners held a historic appeal in Beijing for the right to freely practice their belief. The appeal was prompted by a period of growing repression and the arrest of 45 Falun Gong practitioners in the city of Tianjin, raising nationwide concerns […]
Secret Chinese police stations, paid influencers on social media, targeted cyberattacks, diaspora surveillance, and physical violence. For more than 20 years, the long arm of Beijing has targeted Falun Gong in the United States and around the world in an illicit and increasingly sophisticated campaign to malign and silence. This […]
Certain Western media outlets are publishing content in line with propaganda from a tyrannical regime: the Chinese Communist Party. At the center of that problem is the New York Times—at least when it comes to a major human rights violation, committed against practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual movement inside […]
On January 30, 2024, Levi Browde joins the China Unscripted podcast to explore the Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing attacks on Shen Yun, why it’s such a target, and the insidious ways China’s propaganda is getting into the media and college campuses. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/930752563
When she was just four years old, Lucy was abducted from her daycare and held as ransom by Chinese police. They wanted to find her mother, Mrs. Yan Liu, and persecute her until Liu renounces her faith in Falun Gong. Now Lucy is 25 years old, and an award-winning animator […]
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