Personal Accounts

As speakers stepped up to the podium and shared their journeys of self-improvement, many in the audience quietly wiped away tears. Many felt inspired to become better versions of themselves. “It’s so moving to see someone who is prepared to...

The Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong, now in its 19th year, has remained unabated in many regions across China. According to information collected by Minghui.org so far this year, the past eleven months have recorded 831 practitioners...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been eavesdropping on Falun Dafa practitioners' phone calls since before the persecution began in 1999. Back then, monitoring was manually controlled. Someone could spy on an area for a whole day listening to the...

A prisoner of conscience, Mr. Ren Dongsheng, endured having his hands burned with a lighter, his face slapped, and his toes stomped on until his toenails fell off. He was forced to eat food dumped on the ground, and, while handcuffed...

The night was so sweltering that the police had to open the doors of the interrogation rooms to let some air in. Zhang Hongyu was finally able to catch a glimpse of her mother, Xiu Jinqiu, in the room opposite hers. Police had...

In one of the world’s largest software companies, an Indian-born senior software engineer finds solutions to technical situations. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the prestigious Columbia University and has worked at two of the world’s top investment banks, namely...

Ms. Song Shouyun, a Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested by local police on October 24, 2016. Zhaoyan City Detention Center officials called her family on September 28, 2017, advising that she had been taken to the No. 2 Hospital in...

On May 29th, 2017, PBS News Hour aired a segment, which investigates the current state of forced organ harvesting--the horrific practice of murdering people to extract and sell their vital organs--in China. "Decades ago, China began harvesting organs from executed prisoners...

NEW YORK—Over 10,000 Falun Dafa practitioners from 57 countries and regions assembled in Manhattan on May 12 for a grand parade, the centerpiece event of World Falun Dafa Day activities in New York. Falun Dafa, or Falun Gong, is a...

Mr. Zhang Zengjun, 57, works as a network management engineer for a Silicon Valley company in California. He is very healthy and happy. It’s hard to believe that 17 years ago, Mr. Zhang suffered from terrible migraines that were thought...