* FDIC: Falun Gong adherents sentenced to long prison terms in Hunan, Liaoning * Washington Times: Chinese Spy who Defects...

• FDIC Urgent Appeal: “Elderly Tianjin Resident Sentenced to Labor Camp for Distributing Falun Gong Leaflets, at Risk of Torture”...

A 40-year-old female Falun Gong practitioner in Hunan province has died in custody, apparently due to psychiatric torture, the Falun...

Chinese security forces’ severe torture and disappearance of leading human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Gao Zhisheng highlights...

The year saw an increase in prison sentences given to adherents of Falun Gong, many of them coming after the...

Reports from China indicate that many of the Falun Gong adherents detained ahead of the Beijing Olympics were taken directly...

Falun Gong remained one of the most taboo topics of coverage for both Chinese and foreign news organizations reporting from...

A number of Falun Gong adherents were denied entry to the territory in the weeks surrounding the Olympic games and...

Chinese government efforts to suppress Falun Gong outside of China, and particularly in the United States, increased in 2008. Pro-communist...

• London Telegraph: Seven key dates for China in 2009 • Freedom House: “Escalated persecution of minorities” in China in...