From Bangkok to Washington, D.C., events were held this week to commemorate nearly two decades of persecution that Falun Gong practitioners have undergone in China. Most of these simple acts of remembrance held around July 20 typically receive little media attention, much like the persecution itself — a phenomenon echoing sentiments put forward by a ...
Sun Yi took a lot of risks in helping make Letter from Masanjia, an hour-long documentary about his experiences in China’s most notorious labor camp. Not that Sun was there to watch the film’s premiere screening in Canada recently. He died last year in the Indonesian city of Jakarta where he had sought refuge after ...
As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) issued a paper describing how it protects the religious freedoms of the Chinese people, at the same time it is banning online Bible sales. The state’s April 3 release of the white paper, titled China’s Policies and Practices on Protecting Freedom of Religious Belief, came just days after mainland ...
Li Bifeng, Chinese author, poet, and activist, has been working toward democracy in China for decades, where free speech is not tolerated. He wrote a report in 1998 about a courageous sit-in of a group of textile workers on a Chinese highway. This report on the workers’ protest, along with his involvement in the Tiananmen ...
Ravage is a visceral and hard-hitting short film by Peabody Award-winning director Leon Lee and stars human rights advocate, actress, and Canadian beauty pageant titleholder Anastasia Lin. The film is just over 7 minutes in length and has all the settings of a psychological horror story as we enter the psyche of a victim of torture. ...
Split by the State is a short film about a 17-year-old refugee boy living in Australia who becomes hopeful after learning Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will visit China. He writes and hand delivers a powerful letter to him, sharing his story and pleading for the government to intervene in the case of his father — a ...
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) ...
In 1951, U.S. President Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of his post as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) in post-World War II Japan. No one initially knew about General Macarthur’s departure except for a few high-ranking Japanese officials. However, when General MacArthur left the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, he discovered over 200,000 people ...
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