Human Rights

Scale of Organ Harvesting in China Is Enormous, Says Academic

An Australian academic has likened the large-scale killing of prisoners of conscience for organ harvesting in China to crimes committed by the Nazis during World War II. “I’m a professor of ethics and medicine; the parallels to what was happening to Jewish prisoners and others in Nazi concentration camps in Germany were too obvious to ...

James Burke

Being the Child of a Rights Lawyer in China Is Brutal

Grace Gao is the brave daughter of a brave man, Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng. It’s not easy being the child of a rights lawyer in China. In the video from the Oslo Freedom Forum, Grace recently described how her family was torn apart by China’s ruling communists because of her father’s rights work. ...

James Burke

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Whatsapp Undergoing Censorship in China

Whatsapp is now undergoing the same censorship in China as Gmail. A few years ago, a woman who lives in Switzerland traveled to China to see her mother. She sent an email to a friend of hers in China asking that friend to contact her after she arrived so they could see each other. The ...

David Jirard

The last major instant messaging app available for use in China had some of its features blocked on July 19. (pixabay.com)

Daughter Wishes to See Her Mother Released From Prison

Iris Lu’s parents lived in the rural province of Yunnan. In the 1990s, her mother, Deng Cuiping, started practicing Falun Gong to help relieve stress and insomnia. This was at a time before the persecution began in China, and the parks were packed with people doing the exercises. Falun Gong, (also known as Falun Dafa) ...

Jessica Kneipp

Tiananmen Square Massacre: The Great Unknown for China’s Youth

June 4 is the 28th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre where untold numbers of pro-democracy activists were killed by soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army. Yet awareness of what occurred in 1989 is unknown to many of China’s youth, says Wei Jingsheng, a veteran activist best known for his involvement in China’s democracy movement. ...

Rory Karsten