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NEW YORK -- Practitioners of Falun Gong will mark April 25 this Thursday with candlelight vigils around the world, remembering the thousands who have been killed in China as well as the millions who have faced harassment and abuse. It...

For many years, the Falun Dafa Information Center has noticed a disturbing trend in international media coverage of Falun Gong: the echoing of characterizations against Falun Gong formulated by the Chinese Communist Party like, “political,” “anti-china,” or “cult,” in an...

Top U.S. officials and a U.S. lawmaker have called out China in recent days for its treatment of ethnic Uyghurs in the country’s northwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), slamming Beijing for what they said was a systematic effort to...

Severe abuses continue in China's organ transplant system—including the sourcing of organs from prisoners of conscience on a large scale—despite Chinese government assertions of reform, finds a new study by the China Organ Harvest Research Center. The report was released at...

Yang Jianli is founder and president of Initiatives for China. He was imprisoned in China from 2002 to 2007 for attempting to monitor labor unrest. On Feb. 15, Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang turned 42. It was the 951st...

When Chinese leader Xi Jinping took over as the head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Nov. 2012, he began a relentless anti-corruption campaign to root out his political enemies in the opposition faction. It is still going strong....

For the past few years, one foreign government, an autocratic adversary in all but name, has jailed the families of American journalists, unleashed hackers and social media trolls by the tens of thousands, and injected a campaign to silence critics...

One of the largest civil rights movements is currently taking place around the world, with the goal of putting former Chinese regime head Jiang Zemin on trial for his brutal crimes against humanity. As of Dec. 8, over 2.6 million people from...

One of Australia’s most prominent public intellectuals, Charles Sturt University professor Clive Hamilton, claims the Chinese Communist Party is inserting “agents of influence” at all levels of Australian political life. Professor Hamilton, whose forthcoming book on Chinese foreign influence was...

What we know about the pillaging of vital organs from still-living prisoners in the People’s Republic of China, and the sale of their livers, lungs, hearts and kidneys, is that it is a widespread, outrageous and lucrative business and one...