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Journalist's Corner
2009/09/27
Why doesn’t Falun Gong feature in the news more often?
If the rights abuses are so widespread and severe, why doesn’t Falun Gong feature in the news more often?
2009/09/27
Why is the Chinese Communist Party persecuting Falun Gong?
On July 22nd, 1999, Falun Gong was officially banned by the Chinese Communist Party, thus beginning a protracted and violent campaign of persecution. The complex rationale behind the campaign can be broken into four elements: Falun Gong’s popularity, the role of Jiang Zemin, conflicting ideology, and the nature of the Chinese Communist Party’s system.
2009/09/27
Characterizing Falun Gong – and the Human Costs of Getting It Wrong
Over the years, the Falun Dafa Information Center has noticed a consistent and disturbing trend in international media coverage of Falun Gong. While reports on the nature of the rights abuses suffered by practitioners have become increasingly precise and based on informed sources, labels used to refer to the practice itself remain grossly inaccurate, often involving derogatory terms such as “sect” or “cult” that originate in Chinese Communist Party propaganda.
2009/09/27
How Do We Know the Persecution is Brutal and Ongoing?
Over the past decade, a wide range of international human rights groups, Chinese lawyers, former prisoners of conscience imprisoned with practitioners, United Nations Rapporteurs, and U.S. government reports have documented and recounted the systematic rights abuses – including torture and deaths in custody - suffered by those who practice Falun Gong in China. Below is a small sample of such statements for your reference with corresponding links to other pages on this site that include more extensive compilations.
2009/09/22
Press Statement for Rally in Front of United Nations Headquarters in New York City
Earlier this month, a 53-year-old woman from northeast China was taken from her home by police. Six days later, she was dead from torture. Her name was Wang Huilan.