Infiltration of International News Media by the Chinese Communist Party

Zhong Sheng | Minghui In recent years, more and more people have gained a better understanding of the international reach of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s propaganda. In fact, the CCP has invested 45 billion yuan since 2009 to expand propaganda outside of China in order to control public discourse and expand its brainwashing tactics […]

The April 25 Appeal in China: The Calm Before the Storm in 1999

Leo Tim | Vision Times Most people are familiar with the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre when thousands of Chinese college students demonstrating for democratic rights and clean government were slaughtered en masse by the People’s Liberation Army in the center of Beijing. Widely seen as a turning point in China’s “reform and opening up” era, […]

Tribunal: Forced Organ Harvesting in China Occurring ‘Beyond Reasonable Doubt’

VISION TIMES Substantial numbers of prisoners of conscience in China have had their organs harvested was the unanimous finding made by an independent people’s tribunal in England. Speaking after three days of hearings and evaluating evidence, former English judge Sir Geoffrey Nice QC said that the China Tribunal’s interim judgment was one beyond reasonable doubt. […]

Lawyers Seek to Hold Murderers Behind China’s Organ Harvesting Accountable

James Burke  |  Vision Times Washington-based law foundation has called for those suspected of being involved in abusive transplant practices in China to be held accountable. Led by a group of high profile lawyers, the China-focused Human Rights Law Foundation (HRLW) released a statement outlining why action against Chinese officials is required by first explaining […]

Vatican’s China Moves Stun Chinese Catholics

James Burke  |  Vision Times Not long after taking power in China, the officially atheist Chinese Communist Party (CCP) broke off ties with the Vatican, but now, ongoing back-room negotiations between officials from the Holy See and Beijing could change that, much to disillusionment of many Chinese Catholics. As part of the Vatican’s 4-year-long efforts […]

Canada: Senator Hopes to Fast-Track ‘Important’ Organ Trafficking Bill

Joan Delaney  |  Epoch Times Legislation would make it a criminal offense for Canadians to procure an organ abroad that was taken without the donor’s consent A bill almost identical to a private member’s bill to combat organ trafficking that was first introduced by an MP earlier this year has been crafted by a senator in […]

Beauty Queen Calls for Release of Imprisoned Canadian in China

Irene Luo  |  Epoch Times Anastasia Lin, the reigning Miss World Canada, and human rights activist, is calling for the immediate release of a Canadian citizen who was imprisoned and brutalized in China for her spiritual beliefs. At a United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on June 19, Lin described the case of Sun […]

Human Rights Lawyers Shine in China, But Need the World to Notice

Stephen Gregory  |  Epoch Times Rep. Chris Smith seeks to marshal U.S. support for rights defenders WASHINGTON—Four Chinese women sat at a long oaken table in a hearing room on Capitol Hill on the afternoon of May 19 and asked the world to pay attention. Their husbands have been detained in China because of their […]

Films on China’s Organ Harvesting Screened by Canadian MPs on Parliament Hill

Jonathan Zhou  |  Epoch Times One feature film and one documentary, both about organ harvesting in China, were recently screened in Ottawa. The screenings, sponsored by two Canadian members of parliament and the Canadian Bioethics Society, highlighted one of the most egregious, and ongoing, human rights violations in the world today. “The Bleeding Edge” is a […]

A Conspicuous Apology

Leo Timm  |  Epoch Times China in Context by Epoch Times Issue 25 Guo Wengui, the Chinese billionaire-in-exile with close connections to officials in the upper echelons of the Communist Party, recently stepped out of obscurity to give lengthy video interviews with overseas Chinese media.   In the interviews, Guo stated that he had chosen to […]