Human rights

China 09/16/18, 07:21

Gao Rongrong, a former staff member of the Luxun Institute of Fine Arts in Shenyang City, suffered tremendously from torture by the CCP, and died at the age of 37. Mrs. Gao died in an emergency treatment room in the First Hospital affiliated with the China Medical University in Shenyang ...

China 09/11/18, 09:27

Prestigious international journal publishes article characterizing Chinese regime's long-running Falun Gong persecution as a ‘cold genocide’. What’s the difference between a cold genocide and a hot genocide? That’s one of the weighty issues discussed in a peer-reviewed article headed by a Canadian researcher published recently in the world’s top journal on ...

China 08/26/18, 09:08

Recent media reports on the Chinese authorities’ tactics to quell protests have revealed a new level of brutality. In a June 23 report, Taiwanese newspaper The Liberty Times revealed that last April, “anti-terror” SWAT police in the Jing’an district of Shanghai were dispatched to stop a family who was protesting the ...

China 08/26/18, 09:05

GENEVA—A U.N. human rights panel said on Friday that it had received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uighurs in China are held in what resembles a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy.” Gay McDougall, a member of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, cited ...

China 08/26/18, 08:59

The former president of a Chinese hospital has been charged with bribery. Fang Yibing, who served as president of Hunan Provincial People’s Hospital from 2005 to 2010 and most recently served as deputy director of Hunan Province’s Health and Family Planning Commission, was charged by prosecutors in Zhuzhou City, according to ...

China 08/26/18, 08:55

WASHINGTON—The first ever U.S. Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom officially launched at the State Department in Washington on July 24, with more than 40 foreign ministers and representatives from 80 countries attending. In his opening remarks, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback said, “We must commit to using all ...

China 08/26/18, 08:52

A reporter and a freelancer for Voice of America (VOA), a U.S. government-funded international radio broadcaster, were released unharmed after about six hours of detention by Chinese police, VOA said. VOA reporter Feng Yibing and freelance reporter Allen Ai had been taken into custody on Aug. 13 while interviewing Sun Wenguang—a ...

China 08/14/18, 08:44

GENEVA—A U.N. human rights panel said on Friday that it had received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uighurs in China are held in what resembles a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy.” Gay McDougall, a member of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, cited ...

China 08/14/18, 08:43

Even amid recent trade tensions between China and the United States, it seems Chinese citizens are enamored with the idea of living in the United States—so much so that they wish to be reincarnated there. A widely circulated online post published on Aug. 6 claimed that an ancient Buddhist place of ...