torture

In-depth Reports 03/21/22, 22:35

Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took power by force in 1949, all religions and spiritual beliefs were one of its main targets of repression. In its obsession to break with the faith-based tradition of the Chinese people and impose atheism, the CCP had no choice but to resort to ...

Australia & Oceania 01/18/22, 19:57

Concerns are growing over the health condition of Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun, who was detained in China three years ago on charges of espionage by the Chinese Communist Party in a closed-door trial, as is common under the totalitarian regime. The 56-year-old Yang Hengjun, who has again pleaded not guilty to ...

California 11/30/21, 16:27

Following allegations made by many women against rock star Marilyn Manson for sexual abuse and physical violence, including cases of torture and unlawful deprivation of liberty, authorities raided the musician's home this Monday, Nov. 29, in search of evidence. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Secretary Eva Jimenez told the media that a search warrant ...

China 11/16/21, 16:53

Mihrigul Tursun is a Muslim woman from the Uighur minority. She currently resides in the United States, after escaping from the Chinese regime in 2018 where she was repeatedly imprisoned simply for practicing her religion. During an interview, she recounted in detail her ordeal in concentration camps where she was ...

Europe 08/30/21, 02:43

More than 500 migrants crammed themselves into a single boat and had to be rescued on Aug. 28. The Italian coastguard intercepted the fishing vessel struggling to carry 539 people off the shore of Lampedusa. Authorities discovered evidence of torture on at least 20 survivors, who came from North Africa, West Africa, and ...

Middle East 08/25/21, 16:40

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid on Tuesday, August 24, admitted its fighters were following its old path in committing crimes against women, saying they would need some time to get used to new policies.  “We are worried our forces who are new and have not been yet trained very well may mistreat ...

China 06/22/21, 20:54

An award-winning Chinese artist, poet, and independent painter who has been persecuted, abducted, and tortured by the Chinese Communist Party solely for persisting in her spiritual belief, has declared—among other things—that she cannot remain silent to protect her own interests and that the persecution must end. Xu Na has been practicing ...

China 06/15/21, 22:54

Mr. Li Hongwei, a Falun Dafa spiritual discipline practitioner who lived in Liaoning Province, China, died on June 8, 2021, three and a half years after being released from prison. He was just 58 years old. The website Minghui, which is dedicated to documenting first-hand information about the abuses suffered by ...

New York 06/07/21, 00:15

A Republican from the U.S. Western Pacific Commonwealth island recognized one of the world's fastest-growing meditation movements for flourishing despite suffering decades of persecution. The Municipality of Saipan has awarded a special plaque to help mark their 22-year anniversary of World Falun Dafa Day. "This plaque of recognition of the 22nd year ...

China 06/02/21, 19:04

A Chinese citizen decided to expose in a letter to the website Minghui.org, which exposes the biggest religious persecution of these times, the poisoning of a Falun Dafa practitioner in a prison hospital in Guangxi province. Falun Dafa—also known as Falun Gong-is a spiritual discipline of the Buddha School that teaches ...

China 05/31/21, 00:35

Accessing Falun Gong websites in China is a herculean and dangerous task, and it has just been made even more difficult by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). One man from Panzhou city, Guizhou province, has been imprisoned for sharing the app known as “Shenzhou Mingmei” with his WeChat friends online on ...

China 05/10/21, 01:52

A Northern Virginian governing body completely censured a regime that allegedly profits from killing its own people to sell organs to U.S. citizens and others worldwide. Madison County unanimously passed Resolution 2021-6, which strongly denounces the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) forced organ harvesting practices. Peaceful Falun Gong meditation adherents arguably represent ...

China 04/25/21, 19:58

An executive department that advises the president on foreign affairs will punish anyone who infringes on the civil liberties of vulnerable Americans. The U.S. Department of State will penalize the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for the decades-long persecution of Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa) adherents and other sickening human ...

China 02/26/21, 17:37

Female detainees in forced labor camps run by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Tibet are "routinely raped" by their guards, Bitter Winter, a human rights journal, reported on Thursday, Feb. 25. Muslim women in Xinjiang, also suffer this inhumanity—evidence of a "rape culture" in CCP prisons. According to Bitter Winter's ...

China 01/19/21, 16:09

Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng was arrested in Beijing in 2018 and tried secretly by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was sentenced to 4 years in prison on charges of "inciting state subversion." According to his wife, Wensheng's state of health is deplorable, and he appears to have ...

China 10/26/20, 04:42

A northern Californian advocacy wants the nation's highest court to use every legal avenue to stop American-owned enterprises that profit from helping international human rights abusers. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court to urge the judicial authority to hold businesses accountable if they ...

China 08/17/20, 03:37

A top Republican who advises the president on foreign policy was implored to take tougher action to end the 'horror' victims experience every day at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). A total of 49 members of the Virginia General Assembly have signed a written order for Secretary of ...

Australia & Oceania 11/24/19, 15:49

Being able to prebook an organ transplant is real—in China. Organs on demand is happening; innocent people are constantly being arrested, blood typed, organ checked and kept on demand for a needy patient desperate and willing to pay big money for a new body part. Here is the story of one ...

U.S. 10/01/19, 13:44

A judge told a Louisiana woman she was the "monster" in her 2-year-old son's life and sentenced her to life in prison for starving and beating her son to death. The Jefferson Parish District Attorney's Office said in a news release that Judge Danyelle Taylor sentenced Twyena Thomas, 29, on Monday, ...

U.S. 08/02/19, 19:24

A $50 million lawsuit was lodged against the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services on behalf of Anthony Avalos's family, a Lancaster child who died after being tortured and supposedly abused last year by his mom and her boyfriend, an attorney said. Attorney Brian Claypool, who represents Anthony's ...