In Episode 05 of the Falun Gong Bulletin, we cover the reintroduction of a forced organ harvesting bill in the United States, and two incidents of transnational repression in New York City and Canberra, Australia. The episode’s deep dive shares three family rescue cases from the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, with resources for how view…

In Episode 04 of the Falun Gong Bulletin, we'll cover the 5 key trends for 2023 listed in our latest report. We'll also recap the 2023 International Religious Freedom Summit and share the top three takeaways. Read our 2023 report here: https://library.faluninfo.net/the-persecution-of-falun-gong-key-trends-from-2022-and-what-to-watch-for-ahead/ Watc…

In Episode 03 of the Falun Gong Bulletin, we'll cover surveillance giant Hikvision's role in enabling police to track Falun Gong practitioners. We discuss Canada's new bill to combat organ trafficking, and updates to one of our Family Rescue cases, the mother of Amy Yu. For our deep dive, we will discuss one of the largest civil disobedience moveme…

The US State Department’s sanctions against a Chinese Communist Party official for “gross human rights violations” against Falun Gong. We will hear the personal story of an accountant who has suffered for her faith at the hands of the CCP, a former Deputy Director of China’s Gestapo-like 610 Office sentenced to 14 years in prison, and a UK anti-org…

The 2022 CECC Annual Report that just came out and what it means for the Falun Gong community, and a nurses Summit that happened to help stop forced organ harvesting in China. For our feature story, we will do a deep dive about a heroic Chinese citizen nicknamed Big Truck who helped to pull off one of the most courageous acts in modern Chinese hist…

Just seven years after being introduced to the public in China, Falun Gong went from being widely popular throughout the country to becoming the number one enemy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). But why? What led up to the brutal crackdown? There were four main factors that gave rise to this tragedy. Falun Gong’s Massive Popularity and Rapid G…

If 100 million people were targeted in a violent campaign consisting of illegal abductions, imprisonment, torture, and killing, we’d know about it right? Especially in the modern, interconnected world of endless cell phone-captured videos and instant messaging, surely, evidence of such a campaign would make headlines around the world. Tragically, t…

There have been a series of news and magazine articles published in the U.S. recently that grossly distort the teachings and beliefs of Falun Gong. In fact, these articles mimic with shocking similarity the hate-filled propaganda prominent in communist China, which fuels terrible persecution of people who practice Falun Gong there. What exactly is …

The remarkable and largely untold story of how practitioners of Falun Gong went from being the pride of a nation to "public enemy number one" -- all in the span of several months. And how all this was just the beginning of a global struggle for the conscience of the world. Originally embraced by the government and civil society alike, Falun Gong wa…

What is one place on Earth that is more authentically Chinese than China? Many would argue it’s Taiwan. The island of Taiwan sits off the coast of Mainland China. Taiwan and China share the same ethnicity, same culture, same history, and same language. But there’s one very big difference: since 1949, China has been ruled by the Chinese Communist Pa…

For more than a decade, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been systematically killing innocent people on a large scale, and extracting their vital organs to fuel a multi-billion dollar organ transplant industry.A vast majority of the victims are Falun Gong practitioners, who have been detained by the CCP simply because of their faith. Both the …

It’s an early Sunday morning at Veterans Park in Otisville, upstate New York. At a time of year when the trees are still green, but the mornings start to have a slight chill in the air. People of various ages, ethnicities and backgrounds slowly begin to fill up the otherwise empty park. They move quietly into a circle. With their eyes closed, they …

UNDER THE VEIL OF DARKNESS across China, on July 20, 1999, police dragged Chinese citizens from their beds. It was the beginning of an unprecedented, nationwide persecution. The CCP ordered nationwide book burnings and ransacking of homes to destroy all Falun Gong instructional materials. Corporations, schools, and government offices held mandatory…

Falun Gong (also called Falun Dafa) is an ancient spiritual practice in the Buddhist tradition. Falun Gong combines meditation and gentle exercises (similar to yoga or tai chi) with a moral philosophy centered on the tenets of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance (or in Chinese, Zhen 真, Shan 善, Ren 忍). Falun Gong practitioners aspire to live by …