Press Releases

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...

Washington D.C.—The United States House of Representatives unanimously passed an unprecedented resolution Monday, condemning forced organ removal from Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners of conscience in China. House Resolution 343 (full text) was co-sponsored by 185 Democrat and Republican...

NEW YORK -- As Chinese Communist Party head Xi Jinping visits the United States this week, pressure is gaining at home for him to bring former leader Jiang Zemin to justice for launching the persecution campaign against Falun Gong.  Over...

The Falun Dafa Information Center applauds the recent decision of the Thai Justice system to allow Falun Gong to legally register in the country. Last week, Thailand's Supreme Administrative Court overturned a 2006 decision by a lower court that barred...

NEW YORK – Over 34,000 legal complaints have been filed with Chinese courts charging former Chinese leader, Jiang Zemin, with unlawful imprisonment, torture, corruption, abuse of power, and more than a dozen additional crimes. “This wave of filings is significant for...

NEW YORK – The family of Ms. Anastasia Lin, the newly crowned Miss World Canada and avid campaigner for human rights in China, was recently harassed and threatened by Chinese security. Lin, a University of Toronto student and budding actress, was crowned...

Three individuals with family connections in Canada were sentenced to prison in April for speaking out against the Chinese government’s persecution of Falun Gong. Ms. Chen Yinghua is the daughter of Calgary residents Jinling Huang and Chen Zhiming.She was arrested...

NEW YORK – As many as thirteen Falun Gong practitioners residing in Thailand under the protection of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have been detained by Thai police raising concerns Beijing is, again, pressuring southeast Asian countries...

NEW YORK – The Chinese government’s announcement that they would end the practice of harvesting organs from executed prisoners is a propaganda ploy to pacify growing international criticism, and it ignores the evidence that shows a majority of harvested organs...

NEW YORK – After serving 15 years in prison, Mr. Zhiwen Wang, a coordinator for the Falun Dafa Research Association in Beijing, was released on Saturday. However, local police immediately sent Mr. Wang to a brainwashing center in the Changping...