Millions of people in
#China
have faced detention, torture—or worse for their belief in Falun Gong. Falun Dafa Information Center works to end this persecution.
The Falun Gong Protection Act, H.R. 4132 was passed unanimously in the House via a voice vote.
The timing of this bill falls one month before the 25th anniversary of the persecution on July 20.
It now heads to the Senate for consideration.
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Watch the award-winning documentary "Hard to Believe," and find out how the CCP turned medical practice into execution fields, and the human body into a multi-billion dollar business.
#FalunGong
#organharvesting
#china
He saw a young woman who had been beaten so badly in police interrogation for practicing Falun Gong that her eyes could barely open and her back was all black with two open bloody wounds, about 8 inches long. He saw the bloody steel rod another officer had used to beat her.
A 78-year-old woman died in Liaoning Province Women’s Prison in mid-January 2020, only weeks before the end of her five-year term for refusing to give up her faith in Falun Gong.
"Zheng Qiaozhi — we will call him George — still has nightmares. He was interning at China’s Shenyang Army General Hospital when he was drafted to be part of an organ-harvesting team."
#humanrights
#falungong
#china
Ms. Zhou Xiuzhen, the wife of a Falun Gong practitioner, passed away on April 19, 2020, as a result of severe physical abuse in prison and subsequent police harassment.
Her husband, Bian Lichao, had been sentenced to 12 years for practicing
#FalunGong
.
The Chinese communist government has launched a new campaign against the followers of Falun Gong, aiming to crush the faith.
The zero-out campaign aims to reduce the number of Falun Gong practitioners to zero.
What is the value of Truth?
This short documentary tells the story of six ordinary citizens in
#China
who dared to defy the barrage of fake news.
And it sparked an information revolution...
Watch full:
A school teacher in
#China
was arrested and later sentenced to prison after a thief, who stole from her, reports her for having Falun Gong materials. Her husband was later arrested and daughter fired for seeking justice for her.
In their final judgment, the Tribunal released previously undisclosed evidence to support the panelists’ conclusions... that former Chinese Communist premiere Jiang Zemin gave written orders to procure organs from
#FalunGong
practitioners.
#china
#ccp
Former CCP dictator Jiang Zemin who personally ordered the mass persecution campaign of imprisonment, torture, and killing of 100 million people who practice Falun Gong has died. His tragic legacy of atrocities continues to this day.
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Police suffocate and knock the teeth out of man for practicing Falun Gong in China.
A Nong’an County, Jilin Province Falun Gong practitioner passed away on August 26, 2020, a month and a half after being arrested in a police sweep for Falun Gong.
On the anniversary of
#FalunGong
's introduction to the public in 1992, people around the world commemorate the benefits it has brought to their lives and look forward to the day it can be practiced freely in
#China
once again.
#FalunDafaDay
Learn more:
Thank you to
@EnesFreedom
for supporting Falun Gong youth for the second year at
@IRFSummit
.
#IRFSummit2023
was a rare opportunity to share with other civil society groups and human rights advocates about the persecution of Falun Gong.
Homelessness, brainwashing, and severe torture due to Falun Gong persecution cause Wei Chunyu to lose everything.
He passed away on April 14, 2020, due to more than 18 years of persecution for practicing Falun Gong. He was 56.
Read his full story:
On the anniversary of Falun Gong's introduction to the public on May 13, 1992, people around the world celebrate to commemorate the benefits it has brought to their lives and look forward to the day it can be practiced freely in China once again.
In February, a retired couple was abducted by police in Guangxi for publicly speaking about Falun Gong. The couple were startled by a banging on their front door in the middle of the night. Police demand to “Take Their Temperatures”
27 Falun Gong practitioners are known to have passed away between January and May, 2020 in
#China
due to persecution.
17 practitioners died from injuries sustained during previous prison or labor camp sentences; 10 died from mistreatment in custody.
Untold moms in
#China
are alone today--and not because of
#coronavirus
. They were jailed for their faith.
Iris Lu's mom is one of them, given 6 yrs for practicing
#FalunGong
. Help us share her story & sign this petition to set her free.
#MothersDay
On the anniversary of Falun Gong's introduction, May 13, 1992, people around the world celebrate World Falun Dafa Day to commemorate the benefits it has brought to their live and look forward to the day it can be freely practiced in China once again.
A 13-year-old boy in Suizhong County, Liaoning Province became an orphan after his mother died on November 2, 2020 from the persecution of Falun Gong. The boy had earlier lost his father and maternal grandparents to the persecution.
#China
#FalunGong
A 73-year-old woman is sentenced to seven years while another gets six years without a hearing for practicing
#FalunGong
.
From Jan-April 2020 a total of 89 practitioners have been sentenced for their faith in Falun Gong.
#China
#humanrights
22 years ago today, the Chinese Communist Party banned the meditation practice of Falun Gong, launching a violent campaign against 100 million peaceful believers. Who are they? What has happened to them since? Why should we care?
#china
#22YearsTooLong
The Falun Dafa Information Center researchers have mapped the relative proximity of Olympic venues to persecution hotspots, allowing you a glimpse inside the places the Chinese Communist Party does not want you to see.
Access it now:
#Beijing2022
On April 25, 1999, 10,000
#FalunDafa
practitioners peacefully gathered in
#Beijing
to appeal for their right to practice their faith. However, the then Chinese leader, Jiang Zemin, accused Falun Gong of conspiring against the government without evidence and initiated a policy of
What is one place on Earth that is more authentically Chinese than
#China
? Many would argue it’s
#Taiwan
.
But there’s one very big difference China is ruled by the Chinese Communist Party whereas Taiwan is now a democracy.
How does each treat Falun Gong?
For tens of millions of people, June 10th marks a dark anniversary. It was today in 1999 that former Chinese Communist Party leader, Jiang Zemin, established a shadowy security force that has terrorized its citizenry with impunity ever since.
#China
Full:
1/6 This New York Times article propagates false narratives and inaccuracies about Falun Gong, as well as a striking trivialization of the nature and scale of human rights abuses faced by people in China.
On
#HumanRightsDay
we want to bring attention to the tens and tens of millions of Falun Gong practitioners whose lives have been torn apart in the past 23 years by the brutal persecution by the Chinese Communist Party.
Evidence:
On October 16, 2020, Mr. Zhang Huaping, a librarian at Hubei University of Technology, was illegally arrested for practicing Falun Gong. He has since been held at The Hubei Province Brainwashing Center in Wuhan City.
#China
Five women. Five provinces in
#China
. All separated from their families, one permanently. All punished just for practicing
#FalunGong
.
Let's not forget all the moms persecuted for their faith. There are too many to count.
#MothersDay
Read their stories.
In a 1998 clip, China’s state-controlled TV openly promotes Falun Gong, declaring “100 million people around the world are learning Falun Dafa.” A year later the CCP launched a brutal persecution campaign which continues to this day.
#21YearsTooLong
Today marks the anniversary of Falun Gong practitioners' historic appeal for the right to freely practice Falun Gong.
This massive, yet incredibly peaceful demonstration of Chinese liberties was later portrayed as a violent siege and used to justify a violent persecution.
Lucy Liu is an award-winning animation student at
@sheridancollege
in Ontario, Canada. Most recently her mother, Mrs. Liu Yan, was arrested on September 30, 2021 and detained at the Kunming Detention Center.
Sign the petition:
#SaveLucysMother
In Feb 2020, whistleblower Fang Bin was disappeared for uploading Wuhan hospital footage to
@YouTube
.
Nearly 2 years later, he is reportedly alive in Jiang'an Detention Center. He was previously detained 4+ years and tortured for his faith in Falun Gong.
URGENT ACTION:
The mother of 2 US citizens, Aihua Liu, was sentenced in China to 4 yrs in connection to her faith in Falun Gong. Steven and Lydia are calling for their mom's release and need your help.
Please sign and share their petition:
#FreeAihua
Covid whistleblower and Falun Gong believer, Fang Bin, is forced to wander the streets of Wuhan after his release.
His family members are pressured not to take him in, and he is under constant surveillance to prevent him from speaking with reporters.
606 lawmakers from 30 countries and across party lines has issued a joint statement calling on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to immediately stop the “systematic and brutal campaign to ‘eradicate’ the spiritual discipline of Falun Gong.”
#21YearsTooLong
Lydia Wang spoke at a rally of over 4,000 Falun Gong practitioners and local New Yorkers to call for the release of her mother, Aihua Liu, who was unjustly sentenced for possessing Falun Gong books.
Sign Lydia’s petition here:
#FreeAihua
In a clear and explicit recording, Bai Shuzhong, former head of the Health Division for Chinese PLA, stated that forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners was first ordered by Jiang Zemin.
Secret Chinese police stations, paid influencers on social media, targeted cyberattacks, diaspora surveillance, and physical violence...
For more than 20 years, the long arm of Beijing has targeted Falun Gong in the United States and around the world in an illicit and
How does the CCP shut down criticisms of its human rights abuses or warfare against America?
Gen.
@robert_spalding
explains in a congressional hearing on April 17, 2024.
For more on how the CCP's propaganda is being amplified in American media:
Today, we'd like to honor the fathers who can't spend Father's Day with their families due to the persecution.
@ding_lebin
's dad was sentenced to 3 years in prison and fined $2,100 USD for practicing Falun Gong.
@ipacglobal
@CECCgov
@committeeonccp
Yesterday, the East flag at the US Capitol was raised in honor of World Falun Dafa Day. Thanks to Congressman
@RepBrianFitz
from PA for requesting this, and for the support it shows to the millions of practitioners of
#FalunGong
still undergoing brutal persecution in
#China
.
Lunar New Year greetings from
@HRActionGroup
David Matas at
@UN_HRC
: "I promise you I will continue in these efforts—to try to end the persecution of Falun Gong and killing of Falun Gong for their organs, until these atrocities end and the perpetrators are brought to justice."
When the CCP launches a brutal crackdown against 100 million citizens, a jaded American reporter and a team of innocent college students risk everything to expose the deadly propaganda and fight for freedom.
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Leon Lee.
1998 Liaoning Province, practitioners introduce the meditation and carry a banner that reads "Falun Gong." It was widely embraced in
#China
then.
After the persecution in 1999, Liaoning became one of the deadliest provinces for Falun Gong practitioners.
#21YearsTooLong
Vodafone is blocking access to and other Falun Gong-related websites that British residents have been using for almost 20 years. When Vodafone's WiFi router customers attempt to visit they're shown a warning for "adult content."
Ms. Gao Rongrong, a 37-year-old accountant at an art college in Shenyang, China had a radiant smile, and joyful disposition. All that changed when she was unlawfully detained and tortured as part of the nation-wide campaign to crush Falun Gong. 2/2
Fang Bin, citizen journalist and Falun Gong practitioner, arrested for sharing pandemic videos, was released on 4/30.
Concerns about the extent of his freedom and calls to release the 11 other citizen journalists who practice Falun Gong continue.
REAL LIFE HALLOWEEN SCARE: in 2010 a woman in Oregon found a letter in Halloween decorations she just bought. The letter was written by a Falun Gong practitioner held at a labor camp known for torture. What came next changed the labor camp system in China
Before 1999, hundreds of practitioners would gather in parks to do the Falun Gong exercises and meditation, with millions practicing across China.
Today, they have to gather in the privacy of their own homes and even then are at risk of being arrested.
(Guangzhou, 1998)
A woman in
#China
was seized by a group of military soldiers on June 28, 2020, after being reported for possessing Falun Gong literature. She was taken to an empty house and viciously beaten and tortured. She died on July 13 as a result of her injuries.
Last week, Berlin resident
@ding_lebin
went to Paris to advocate for his father's release during Xi's visit.
Today, May 12, marks 1 year since Chinese police stormed his parents' tea farm in Shandong and placed them in detention.
👉
#RescueMyFather
URGENT APPEAL 🔊
4 Falun Gong practitioners were detained in Russia for allegedly conducting activities for an “undesirable organization.”
We urge
@Europarl_EN
, the US
@StateDept
, and other governments to call for their immediate release.
Read:
🧵(1/5)
Xu Na lost her husband, folk musician Yu Zhou, during the 2008 Beijing Olympic crackdown of Falun Gong practitioners. Two weeks before the 2022 Beijing Olympics, she herself has been sentenced to 8 years in prison.
Tap to learn more:
#BeijingOlympics
All Grace (Fayuan) Chen hopes for this Christmas is her parents' safety. You can grant her this wish by writing a letter to them- it may save their lives.
Address: No. 1736, Yuanda 2nd Road
Quantang Town, Hunan Province, 410131,
China
#SaveThemForGrace
This Father's Day, Florida resident You Zhou, continues to call for his father, Deyong's, release.
Deyong was arrested in a police sweep with 10 other Falun Gong believers and their family members in 2021 and was recently sentenced to 8 years.
Researchers released a report based on testimony from a Chinese doctor and comments made to her by a Falun Gong practitioner who briefly survived organ removal.
Within hours of publication, their website was targeted with denial of service attacks.
More:
A retired military officer passed away on September 1, 2020, after enduring two decades of persecution for his faith in Falun Gong in China.
Police ransacked his home, forced him into a brainwashing session, and ordered him to renounce Falun Gong.
Next Monday is World Falun Dafa Day, the 32nd annual celebration of the spiritual practice.
This weekend, look out your window for parades, colorful performances, as well as greetings and well-wishes from many government officials in over 100 countries.
Twenty-eight cases of Falun Gong practitioners being sentenced for their faith were reported in October 2022. 26 cases happened in 2022, while the other 2 are belated reports from 2014 and 2021.
It was the spring of 1999.
#China
was transforming. A cultural renaissance inspired by an ancient spiritual practice was flourishing, signaling a healthier and more hopeful future for the Chinese people.
Then, came April 25th.
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“Russia joins communist China as the only other country where a judge has incarcerated a citizen simply for...aspiring to live by Falun Gong’s teachings of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance,” said
@FalunInfoCtr
exec director
@LeviBrowde
.
Latest:
BREAKING: Local Falun Gong practitioners were detained by Serbia police during Xi's visit this week.
After Xi left Belgrade, they were released.
A head police officer told them, “I know that you guys are good people. But the district attorney asked us for 48 hours detention.”
Happy World Falun Dafa Day!
32 years of Falun Gong, 100+ countries, millions of practitioners.
We celebrate today to mark the anniversary of its public introduction as well as Teacher Li Hongzhi’s birthday.
Don't miss our special-edition newsletter:
An eye-opening mini-documentary reveals just how far the Chinese Communist Party will go to silence narratives on Falun Gong, and what it means for freedom more broadly in the West.
WATCH the documentary here:
Today marks 25 years since the 610 Office, an extra-legal police task force, was created to carry out the CCP's mission of eliminating Falun Gong.
Watch our 8-min documentary "Unmasking China's Gestapo" here:
#25YearsTooLong
Our recent report found 4 striking persecution trends:
1. Attacks on U.S. Soil
2. "Zero-Out" Campaign
3. Surveillance State
4. Forced Organ Harvesting
Policy recommendation:
Support the Falun Gong Protection Act and Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act.
Today, the US House took a historic step with the passage of the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act.
H.R. 1154 marks the 1st legislative action taken to counter the CCP's forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong and other prisoners of conscience.
First premiered this week at the
#IRFSummit
, Yu Han’s story is now available for the public.
Yu Han was 19 when her father was last detained and killed for his faith. The family has evidence to suspect he was a victim of forced organ harvesting.
While orginating in China, Falun Gong is practiced worldwide by people of all backgrounds, transcending class, ethnicity, and education levels.
Hear from Falun Gong practitioners as they reflect on the meaning of the practice in their lives.
Today marks 1 year since Ms. Meng Zhaohong, the mother of a US resident, was arrested for talking about the persecution of Falun Gong at a local fair in Hebei.
Her daughter,
@KevinKileyCA
, and
@StateDept
official call for her release.
👉
#25YearsTooLong
Hong Kong current affairs show host Rachel Wong was recently threatened by police from Mainland China for exposing forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners on one of her YouTube channels.
#China
#hongkong
#humanrights
31
#teachers
in China were persecuted to death between 2018 and 2021 for practicing Falun Gong. For simply meditating, they were forcibly incarcerated by the
#CCP
and suffered unfathomable torture in custody until their last breath.
Read the highlights:
Over 100 Falun Gong practitioners appealed in San Francisco during last week's meeting between
@POTUS
and CCP leader Xi Jinping.
Multiple incidents involving CCP supporters vandalizing or obstructing Falun Gong banners were reported to
@FalunInfoCtr
.