Authorities in China’s Hubei Cremate Body of Dissident With No Autopsy

Qiao Long  |  Radio Free Asia Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hubei on Thursday cremated the body of a dissident who ‘died suddenly’ in prison last month, in spite of repeated calls for an autopsy from his family. The U.S.-based family of Peng Ming, who died Nov. 29 at the age of 58 […]

Chinese Labor Camp Victim-Turned-Activist Dies in Police Custody

Qiao Long and Yang Fan  |  Radio Free Asia A rights activist who spoke out about abuses she suffered inside the notorious police-run Masanjia labor camp has died in the custody of authorities from the northeastern Chinese province of Liaoning, raising suspicions she was murdered. Chen Shenqun, 58, had been detained while petitioning in Beijing […]

‘I Can’t Enjoy the Free World’ Says Former Prisoner of Conscience

Cat Rooney  |  Epoch Times I want to shout to people: Stop the persecution SAN FRANCISCO—Two years ago, Sunny Guo, a then 47-year-old Chinese housewife, came alone to America to start a new life, one free of religious persecution. She was fleeing repeated detention and torture by the Chinese Communist Party in its attempt to break […]

610 Office, ‘China’s Gestapo’, Is Criticized by Party Investigators

Larry Ong  |  Epoch Times Working with the Chinese police, agents of the “610 Office” would break into the homes of Falun Gong practitioners, ransack the place, and make arrests. Judges would convict the peaceful meditators at the word of a 610 agent. In detention facilities, it’s the 610 agents who oversee the forced ideological conversion […]

“Crooked Beam” Xie Yanyi

Liang Xiaojun  |  China Change This article was first published on chinachange.org on July 25, 2016 Xie Yanyi is a human rights lawyer, and one of the 709 detainees. – The Editors It was probably somewhere around the end of 2008 that I started receiving occasional group emails from someone writing under the name Liang Buzheng —“Crooked […]

Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested for Filing Lawsuits Against Jiang Zemin

<!–[CDATA[Minghui.org As more and more Falun Gong practitioners sue Jiang Zemin for initiating the persecution of their spiritual belief, local police from different parts of China have stepped up their efforts to investigate and even arrest plaintiffs for filing lawsuits against the former Chinese dictator.  According to the latest reports compiled by Minghui, over 80 […]

21st Century Slaves: China

<!–[CDATA[By Yves Dumas, the Tuidang Center At different times in history, slavery in China was abolished by the Emperor — the 14th century, the 18th, and again in the 20th. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took power in 1949 slavery was reinstated on a never-before-seen industrial scale in the form of ‘reform through labor’ […]

Torture Camp Rebranded in China

Her family was distraught, extremely scared, and could not guess what torment she had been put through.
The Masanjia Women’s Labor Camp was supposed to be closed down, but now it simply has two names

Chinese Labor Camp Whistleblower Escapes, Vows to Pursue Lawsuit

After Liu Hua was freed this week from detention after exposing widespread abuses at the Masanjia women’s labor camp, she was placed on house arrest. She escaped and wows to pursue lawsuit
In Du BIn film, Liu had detailed a regime of daily torture and abuse, failure of medical care, and grueling overtime at Masanjia,