County in Xinjiang Completely Closed Off, Residents Describe a ‘Living Hell’

ChinaAid Tacheng, Xinjiang- Authorities in China’s far western Xinjiang region have completely isolated an entire county, with armed police restricting travel in and out in order to stop news of the ongoing crackdown from getting out. In an escalation of an ongoing crackdown in Xinjiang, a large desert region on China’s western border, police have […]

Chinese Dissident Hu Jia ‘Critically Ill’ in Beijing Hospital

Xin Lin  |  Radio Free Asia A Chinese rights activist and former winner of the European Union’s Sakharov human rights prize is critically ill in hospital after being admitted last weekend. Hu Jia, 43, was taken to Beijing’s You’an Hospital on Saturday with acute pancreatitis, and is critically ill, he told RFA. “I have been […]

People’s Armed Police in China Updates on Its Exit From Hospital Industry

Larry Ong  |  Epoch Times The Chinese regime’s paramilitary force has started giving up its business projects—a move that could have a consequential impact on a severe human rights violation that is still on-going in China. On November 15 in the city of Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province in eastern China, the People’s Armed Police […]

Letter from Former Insider at Chinese Hospital Reports Detail About Organ Harvesting

Epoch Times Staff A foreign patient receives a life-extending organ transplant in a Chinese hospital. Feeling grateful, he asks a hospital staff who the donor was so that he may give thanks and repayment. But no one at the hospital—not even the transplant doctor—knows the donor’s identity. Before his flight home, the patient is issued […]

Sister of Chinese Political Prisoner Guo Feixiong Denied Prison Hospital Visit

Goh Fung  |  Radio Free Asia The sister of prominent Chinese political prisoner Guo Feixiong has been denied permission to visit him in hospital following his transfer to another prison and the ending of his 100-day hunger strike, prompting further concerns about his well-being. Guo, whose birth name is Yang Maodong, is currently in the […]

Tibetan Film-Maker in Hospital After Injuries in Police Detention

Qiao Long  |  Radio Free Asia An award-winning Tibetan film-maker is receiving treatment in a hospital in the western Chinese city of Xining after “suffering serious injury” while in police detention, an industry association said on Wednesday. Pema Tseden, who directed the films “Tharlo” and “Old Dog,” was sent to hospital after being detained at […]

A Hospital Built for Murder

Matthew Robertson and Sophia Fan  |  Epoch Times Tens of thousands may have been killed so the Tianjin First Central Hospital in China could transplant organs for profit By 2006, from his base at the Tianjin First Central Hospital, Dr. Shen Zhongyang had performed over 1,600 liver transplantations, boastful Chinese media reports say. Tianjin First, a hospital […]

Former Chinese Hospital Intern Recounts a Live Organ Harvest

<!–[CDATA[Yi Ling |  Epoch Times TORONTO—Mr. Wang (an alias) has lived in Canada for years, but only recently came forward with a harrowing episode he experienced around two decades ago in China: forced participation, as a young intern, in the extraction of organs from a still-living person. Chinese authorities, in particular the medical−military system, have for […]