Minghui Wang is a senior at UC Berkeley. She has a remarkable story that, if Minghui said aloud in China, she could be killed for. Minghui was born under the persecution in China. During her childhood, she was separated from her mother and father because Chinese Communist Party officials frequently […]
The “Pandemic, Persecution, and Pushback” report by Falun Dafa Information Center examines the latest updates and trends related to the CCP’s anti-Falun Gong campaign from 2020-2022. Millions of Falun Gong practitioners in China remain at risk of arbitrary detention, torture, and death in custody simply for self-identifying as a believer. […]
The Hudson Institute hosted a breakout session on forced organ harvesting in China at the 2022 International Religious Freedom Summit on June 30, 2022. Host Nina Shea, senior fellow and director of the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute Guest Speakers Nury Turkel, chair of the United States […]
Livestream of the International Religious Freedom Summit 2022 panel “Pandemic, Persecution, and Pushback—Trends and Analysis from the Suppression of Falun Gong” from IRF Summit held on June 30, 2022. The Falun Dafa Information Center introduced its new special report, covering the CCP’s past two years of oppression in China and […]
The last time she saw her father, Han Yu was only 19 years old. The Chinese police had detained her father for his faith multiple times following the 1999 CCP directive to eradicate Falun Gong, but this would be the last. He died within a few months in detention, but […]
In March 2002, a state TV signal in China is hacked by members of the banned spiritual group Falun Gong. Their goal is to counter the government narrative about their practice.
NTD Television streamed the 2022 World Falun Dafa Day parade in New York on May 13. May 13 this year marked the 30th anniversary since Falun Dafa was introduced to the public in 1992, and it is also the 71st birthday of Mr. Li Hongzhi, the founder of the spiritual practice.
On May 12, the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission held a hearing on forced organ harvesting in China, hosted by TLHRC Co-Chairs and Congressmen Christopher H. Smith and James P. McGovern.
While our world seems more chaotic and stressful than ever, millions of people are rising to the challenge through the peaceful practice of Falun Gong. This video celebrates 30 years since the first Falun Gong class was given in China in 1992, which led to it becoming the most popular health and spiritual practice in the entire nation and an inspiration to millions worldwide.
In May 1992, Falun Gong, an ancient mind-body meditation practice from the Buddhist tradition, was introduced to the public in China for the first time. Its popularity quickly skyrocketed. Exactly thirty years later, tens of millions of people in China and around the world practice the discipline, all the while creatively and peacefully resisting a violent campaign launched by the Chinese Communist Party in 1999 to wipe out the group.
What’s the most effective way to change the world? Is it through tyranny? Is it through the media? Or is it when you simply touch the hearts of people through compassion and self-sacrifice…? Through civil disobedience, and peaceful activism? But can this method be effective even today?
At the beginning of 2021, singer-songwriter and human rights activist James H. White sets out for Washington, DC to write a song in protest of the Beijing Winter Olympics. After hearing the gut-wrenching story of three sisters who were tortured in China, he flies across the Atlantic to talk with several experts, hoping to shed light on the stories he heard from the three sisters.
WATCH THE FILMhere: https://tv.faluninfo.net/canaries-in-a-cold-war/ A high-profile documentary featuring foreign policy greats from the U.S. Department of State, the Canadian Parliament, Freedom House, the China Tribunal, Bitter Winter, and more will premiere this week. Synopsis: Singer-songwriter and human rights activist James H. White sets out for Washington, DC to write a […]
A new map shows just how close the competing Olympians are to detention centers. Beijing’s surrounding persecution “hot spots” and China’s appalling human rights record are coming to light again. But it is not the whole picture. We know about the Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Hong Kongers becoming targets of persecution, […]
Is terrible history repeating itself in 2022? Leading up to this year’s Olympic games The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has begun yet another round of campaigns of what the Party calls “maintaining social stability.” Current circumstances in China mirror trends seen in the 2008 Olympics. Following the 2008 Olympics, over […]
Based on true events, “Unsilenced” follows Wang, a university student in Beijing, and his friends as their carefree days are shattered by the 1999 order that banned the spiritual practice Falun Gong in China. As the state churns out lies and starts brutally suppressing voices of dissent, they cross paths with Daniel, a cynical American reporter struggling to find meaning in his profession in the country he loves. With the risk of prison, torture, and even death looming over them, they must all make a choice: to go with their conscience and speak the truth, or to remain silent as atrocious crimes go on behind closed doors.
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. Liu Yan, and persecute her until Liu renounces her faith in Falun Gong.
All Grace (Fayuan) Chen hopes for this holiday season is her parents’ safety. Her mother and father were arrested and detained by Hunan Province authorities in October 2020, on the grounds of attending a reading session of Falun Gong texts akin to Bible study. Grace hasn’t heard from them since. […]
Mr. Zhiming Hu is a Falun Gong practitioner now working in New York City, but his road to the United States was long and dangerous. In China, Zhiming was once an Air Force Major. Because of his Falun Gong faith, he was expelled from the military, kidnapped by the secret […]
DEFIANCE IN THE KINGDOM OF FAKE NEWS, 10min., USADirected by Mathias Magnason In the northeastern city of Changchun, China, a group of six ordinary people — a truck driver, a food vendor, a housewife, etc. — gathered in secret to plan an extraordinary task: to break into the television broadcasting […]
The 610 Office—the “Gestapo” of China—was created by former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin. It’s used to persecute Falun Gong practitioners in China. The director of the 610 Office oversees this extra-legal organization and commands the vast resources of the public security, state security, propaganda, and education ministries in China. Yet, it is precisely this director position that is known in China as the “death” position for a person’s political career in the Communist Party.