To revoke or not to revoke? That might be something the Pulitzer Prize board is again asking itself after the launch of a petition seeking the revoking of a 1932 Pulitzer Prize given to The New York Times journalist Walter Duranty, who tried covering up a genocidal famine in the Ukraine that killed millions. The ...
Human rights experts at the United Nations have said they’re extremely alarmed by reports of alleged forced organ harvesting in China. In a statement released June 14, the UN experts said that the minorities targeted for organ harvesting include Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims, and Christians. The experts said they had received credible information ...
Many bizarre (and horrific) things have been done in the name of communism in China. One of them was Mao Zedong’s war on sparrows, a campaign waged by the communist leader to eradicate Eurasian tree sparrows. Mao lumped the little brown bird along with rats, flies, and mosquitoes in the so-called Four Pests (or four ...
Julian O’Halloran was a BBC reporter in China covering the events around June 4, 1989, commonly known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre. O’Halloran was among those foreign journalists who managed to cover the student-led mass pro-democracy protests held in the Square since April that year. The communist regime imposed martial law in late May. Not ...
In 1949 when the communists and Mao seized power in China, propagandists painted it as an act of liberation and the country’s first steps into modernity. This year, such views are being pushed harder than usual as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) marks the 100th anniversary of its founding in July. As part of the ...
Chinese woman Liu Guiying was detained for over 20 months without trial and then sentenced illegally in 2018 to three years in prison in Chengdu City of China’s Sichuan Province. What occurred to Liu was done under the watch of a communist Chinese official named Yu Hui, who was recently sanctioned by the United States. ...
Last year, tens of thousands of Hong Kongers publicly commemorated the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre despite a ban on such efforts by police officials citing health concerns due to the pandemic. The ban has now caught up with dozens of activists, among them Joshua Wong, who, with several others, was sentenced to jail on May ...
Much can get lost in history, even massive tragedies that occurred in the not-so-distant past may not have the public understanding they deserve. One such event is the Great Famine that plagued China during the years 1958-1962. You may or may not be aware of what occurred then or about how tens of millions of ...
A list of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) fakery would be endless, but one of the latest examples is the apparent use of a fake French journalist attacking Uyghur genocide reports. In an article published by the regime’s propaganda broadcaster CGTN, a so-called French journalist identified as “Laurene Beaumond” attacked international concerns that genocide is being ...
It’s been a long, difficult road for Bao Zhouxuan, who has applied for asylum in the U.S. In March last year, the now 21-year-old arrived in California from Australia and was held in immigration detention for a month. Bao Zhouxuan was given parole and then applied for asylum and now awaits a decision from an ...
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