As awareness of the persecution against Falun Gong advances worldwide, the urgency of taking a stand on the matter cannot be overstated. Eventually, the persecution in China will come to an end, after which point the opportunity to champion the side of right will be no more.

In drawing a sobering parallel, let us remember that during World War II, “President Roosevelt, under pressure from the public, agreed to issue a statement condemning the German government for its genocidal...

The United States and Western countries have criticized “China’s ongoing problematic human rights record,” in an unprecedented joint statement issued Thursday during a United Nations Human Rights Council session in Geneva.  

A U.S. State Department official told VOA this joint statement is “the first collective action taken regarding China at the Human Rights Council since its inception in 2007.”

The joint statement called recent cases of unexplained...

While most knew him for his music and performance art, Friends of Falun Gong

will remember David Bowie’s unfailing support of Falun Gong practitioners’

A rally to support lawsuits against Jiang Zemin was held at Belmore Park, Sydney, Australia earlier this month.

The following is a speech by Bob Vinnicombe of the China Information website:

Today we rally for justice for all persecuted people in Communist China, by supporting the lawsuits filed by Falun Gong practitioners and their family members against former Communist Party boss Jiang Zemin. But our enemies are not only the Chinese Communist Party. Our

The United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) has concluded its review of the Chinese regime's compliance with the Convention against Torture.

In its document,

The following is a recent speech given at a presentation titled, "The Future of Human Rights in China," by Peng Yongfeng a lawyer who practiced in China before coming to the United States. He currently works for the Human Rights Law Foundation in Washington, D.C..


You probably have read from newspapers that China has...

This past summer, party-state President Xi Jinping launched an all-out attack on China’s fragile human rights legal community. Since taking the Communist Party leadership in 2013, Xi has increasingly cracked down on what he views as western-style freedoms in China. The hopes of the Chinese people and their friends around the world for gradual reform, leading to the rule of law, a sustainable natural environment, and democracy-no doubt one with very Chinese characteristics-have been set...

The US Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department are investigating a California firm whose U.S. radio broadcasts are backed by a subsidiary of the Chinese government.

Both investigations come come after a recent Reuters...

Friends of Falun Gong published a full page open letter to China's Xi Jinping in the New York Times on September 28, the day of Xi's address to the United Nations General Assembly.

Friends of Falun Gong (FoFG.org) is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization of concerned Americans that supports the freedom of belief of persons who practice Falun Gong.

The complete text of the open letter follows:

Independent Australian Senator Jacqui Lambie has warned in a speech in the Australian Senate on the 8th September that China's actions in the South China Sea compromised Australia's national security and sovereignty.

She said that in May. media articles described the reactions of two cabinet ministers to China's relationship with Australia: "Firstly, we have...

On Tuesday 12th August an extremely importing briefing was held in the
Waratah Room NSW Parliament house relating to the killing of political
prisoners in China for the purpose of selling their organs.

Eminent speakers were Dr Sophia Bryskine of Doctors Against Forced Organ
Harvesting (DAFOH), Andrea Tokaji, lawyer from Fighting for Justice
Foundation (who knows about communism first hand as her family escaped
from Ceaucescu’s Romania in 1987) and...

A joint letter has been sent today to members of the International Olympics Committee calling on them to reject Beijing’s bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. The letter is signed by the president of the World Uyghur Congress, the director of the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center, the president of Initiatives for China and a former Tibetan political prisoner, jailed and tortured for actions related to the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008.

The IOC will announce...