Press Releases

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...

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...

News on Falun Gong and the Persecution in China Every other week, the Falun Dafa Information Center produces a newsletter with the latest updates on Falun Gong-related stories around the world, with an emphasis on the on-going persecution inside China. Below is...

A 56-year-old man from Tianjin in China has died in police custody with signs of abuse visible on his body. Mr. Yang Yuyong was detained in December for practicing Falun Gong and had told his lawyer he was being tortured,...

NEW YORK, NY -- Falun Gong adherent Ms. Ma Hui and her 8-year-old daughter, Ma Jing, were seized on Tuesday by Russian Immigration officers at their St. Petersburg residence and forcibly put on a plane to China, sources from Russia...

Thank you for having me as a part of this important hearing. While I am grateful to be here to speak, I am also heartbroken because it means the persecution against Falun Dafa has not ended and my father, Zhiwen...

Wall Street Journal: China’s Olympic Prisoners (August 9, 2016)The Epoch Times: US Officials to China: Let Long-Suffering Falun Gong Practitioner Meet Family in America (Aug. 11, 2016)The Australian: China’s organ harvest furore (Aug. 24, 2016)The Epoch Times: Ending Organ Tourism...

NEW YORK—Danielle Wang, a U.S. citizen, and her American husband returned from China Tuesday empty-handed and dismayed that the Chinese government did not allow her father Wang Zhiwen—one of the most well-known Falun Gong practitioners in the country—to leave China,...

NEW YORK—Eight years after the Beijing Olympics and as the world prepares to watch the 2016 Games open today in Brazil, thousands of Falun Gong practitioners and their families in China are living with the aftermath of a Communist Party...

New York—On this day in 1999, the Chinese Communist Party turned the lives of tens of millions of Chinese people upside down, banning their peaceful spiritual practice and unleashing a campaign of persecution that has spawned horrific human rights atrocities...