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Dictator’s Order to Eliminate all Sparrows Failed Horribly—Instead, 78 Million Starve to Death
Team | Epoch Times In Chinese culture, the little sparrow has been looked upon with much affection, and the bird has been depicted in Chinese paintings as a symbol of hope and happiness for hundreds of years. One misguided dictator decided to decimate them, and as a result, millions of people died from the domino effect. The Great […]
Printer-Friendly VersionNew U.S. House Resolution Introduced to Expresse Solidarity with the Tuidang Movement
Li Jingfei | Minghui.org Dana Rohrabacher, a member of the U.S House of Representatives from California, introduced H.Res.932 on June 8, 2018. The resolution expresses solidarity with the Tuidang Movement, which encourages individuals to renounce the oaths they made to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. It also calls for an immediate end to […]
Nearly Half of Xinjiang Village’s Residents Sent to ‘Political Re-Education Camps’: Official
Shohret Hoshur | Radio Free Asia Authorities in Qaraqash (in Chinese, Moyu) county, in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), have detained nearly half of the population of a village in “political re-education camps,” according to a local official. Beginning in April 2017, Uyghurs accused of harboring “strong religious views” and “politically incorrect” views […]
Peppa Pig Banned by Douyin in China
Kris Wen | Vision Times Peppa Pig, a British cartoon favorite, has been banned by China’s top video platform Douyin. It appears that the website became wary of the growing popularity of the cartoon, especially, among young Chinese adults, which resulted in this ban. Nevertheless, many were surprised with the ban, as Peppa Pig has […]
Australia to Ban Chinese Technology Giant From Mobile Data Project
Phil Mercer | Voice of America SYDNEY — National security concerns are likely to result in Chinese telecom giant Huawei being blocked from a major 5G mobile wireless project in Australia, according to local media reports. They say that intelligence sources believe the company is a ‘cyber espionage risk’. Analysts believe the move could further aggravate […]
Concerns Grow Over Chinese Political, Media Influence Far Beyond Its Borders
Jia Ao, Lin Ping, and Wen Yuqing | Radio Free Asia The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is increasingly making its influence felt in European and North American countries, through the “manipulation of information and foreign institutions,” U.S. politicians and commentators have warned. In a letter to senior officials in President Donald Trump’s administration, 12 U.S. […]
The Death of a Chinese Official Exposes Long-Standing Human Rights Abuse in China
Frank Fang | Epoch Times 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 […]
Hearing from Taiwan about the Situation in Mainland China
Minghui I am a Tuidang volunteer from Changchun, China, and I have interacted with Taiwan practitioners for 20 years. I am impressed by their dedication and wish that we could have an open cultivation environment like they do. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) banned Falun Dafa in 1999. We could no longer openly practice Falun […]
Localist Edward Leung Sentenced to Six Years in Jail Over Mong Kok Unrest Participation
Karen Cheung | Hong Kong Free Press Localist Edward Leung has been sentenced to six years behind bars in connection with rioting over the Mong Kok unrest in 2016. Leung and four others faced trial for their involvement in the protests that broke out during Lunar New Year, triggered by authorities’ attempt to clear street […]
Former Police Chief of China’s Kunming City Sentenced to 11 Years for Corruption
Frank Fang | Epoch Times 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 […]
Who are China’s political prisoners? A human rights assessment, 29 years after Tiananmen
Pong Lai | Global Voices On June 4, 1989, 29 years ago, Chinese army forces repeatedly opened fire on a student-led movement demanding freedom of expression and political reform away from corruption and single-party rule. At the time, the Chinese Red Cross estimated that 2,700 civilians were killed, but other sources point to a much […]
China Slaps Prominent Human Rights Lawyer With Effective Travel Ban
Gao Feng and Wong Lok-to | Radio Free Asia Chinese authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia have refused to issue a passport to a prominent human rights lawyer detained in a recent crackdown, effectively banning her from leaving the country. Human rights lawyer Wang Yu and husband Bao Longjun were both detained in […]
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New U.S. House Resolution Introduced to Expresse Solidarity with the Tuidang Movement
Li Jingfei | Minghui.org Dana Rohrabacher, a member of the U.S House of Representatives from California, introduced H.Res.932 on June 8, 2018. The resolution expresses solidarity with the Tuidang Movement, which encourages individuals to renounce the oaths they made to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. It also calls for an immediate end to […]
Washington, D.C.: Forum on Tuidang, Quitting the Chinese Communist Party Held in Congressional Office Building
Jingfei Li | Minghui A forum on the milestone of 300 million quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations was held in a congressional office building in Washington, D.C. on May 9, 2018. Since the editorial Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party was published by the Epoch Times at the end of […]
South Australia: March and Rally Support 300 Million Withdrawals from Chinese Communist Party
Minghui “Disintegrating the Persecution and Supporting 300 Million Withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party” was the theme of a march and rally held in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, on April 28. Falun Gong’s Tian Guo Marching Band led the march, which stepped off from the Government House and ended in Chinatown. The groundswell […]
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Tuidang Event at Carnegie Mellon University
Tuidang Center A Tuidang event, called “Peacefully Disintegrating the Chinese Communist Party”, was held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania on April 29, 2016. Organized by the Falun Dafa Student Club together with the Amnesty International Student Organization, many teachers and students attended. In the middle of the campus is a fence that holds the […]