Fear in the Forbidden City
Last September, the Chinese authorities sentenced ex-national police chief Fu Zhenghua and multiple other former senior officials in the PRC security establishment to lengthy prison terms; Fu and the others have known ties to the Jiang faction.
Chinese Leader Xi Jinping’s Third Term Looks Certain, But Will He Share Power?
“[This] abolished the administrative reforms that Deng Xiaoping had worked hard to implement in response to the Cultural Revolution [1966-1976], and restarted the system of lifelong party leadership begun in the Mao era, technically, Xi Jinping can now be re-elected until the end of his life,”
said Lu Chen
Falun Gong’s Xu Na Sentenced Again—to Eight Years
In 2008, as China was preparing for Beijing’s Olympics, the repression of Falun Gong intensified. After one of Yu’s concerts, he and his wife were arrested on January 26, 2008. 11 days later, Yu, who was 42, died at Tongzhou district Detention Centre.
New York: Thousand-Strong Rally Commemorates Historic April 25 Appeal
“Practitioners went to the Central Appeals Office in Beijing 22 years ago with great compassion and tolerance. But Jiang Zemin, the then head of the CCP, responded by initiating the brutal persecution. For more than 20 years, practitioners’ efforts to expose the persecution have awakened the world.”
Standing Up to Communist China: A Peaceful Appeal That Made History
“When have you seen a petition like this?” Zhang, now in the United States, said in an interview with The Epoch Times. “The pedestrian paths and the main road were all clear. There was no shouting at all, not a single scrap of paper on the ground.”
Sun Dawu: A Chinese Agricultural Entrepreneur’s 36-year Dream in the Era of Reform and Opening Up (Part Two)
As soon as Sun Dawu entered the lobby of the Hong Yan Hotel (鸿雁大酒店), where the lunch meeting was to be held, he was surrounded by several people and then dragged to the Criminal Police Department of the Public Security Bureau.
Six Early Rain Church Members Flee to Taiwan, Apply For US Asylum
Hsia Hsiao-Hwa | Radio Fre Asia Six members of the Early Rain Covenant Church that was recently raided by authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan have applied for visa extensions on the democratic island of Taiwan, pending asylum applications to the United States. Early Rain church member Liao Qiang arrived in Taiwan two […]
Missing Chinese Billionaire Agreed to Be Taken Away, Source Says
Li Lingpu and Larry Ong | Epoch Times Anti-corruption team held discussions with Xiao Jianhua before he consented to leaving Hong Kong with them HONG KONG—, the Chinese billionaire whose abrupt disappearance from Hong Kong in January made waves internationally, had engaged in a week-and-half long negotiation with Chinese anti-corruption agents before he agreed to […]
New York City: Grand March Commemorates April 25 Peaceful Appeal 18 Years Ago
Minghui.org Over 2,000 Falun Dafa practitioners gathered in Flushing, New York City on April 23, 2017 to commemorate the large-scale gathering of practitioners in Beijing on April 25, 1999, which took place three months before the persecution of Falun Gong officially began. After approximately 50 Falun Gong practitioners were illegally arrested in Tianjin in April […]
The Spirit of April 25 Will Change China and the World
Jennifer Zeng | Epoch Times On April 25 eighteen years ago, together with ten thousand-plus Falun Gong practitioners, I stood quietly on Fuyou Street outside the Zhongnanhai Communist Party leadership compound in Beijing, where the Appeals Office of the State Council is located—the office the regime has established where people could complain of official misconduct. […]