The family of Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng has learned that he has been secretly sentenced to four years in jail for “inciting subversion of state power.” Yu’s wife, Xu Yan, received a phone call from the People’s Procuratorate of Xuzhou City on June 17, said a joint statement from rights and civic groups, ...
In many ways, the documentary Finding Courage is an accidental film. Its director, Kay Rubacek from Swoop Films, initially never sought to make it a full-length feature. Having just finished producing the award-winning Hard to Believe documentary — about forced organ harvesting in China — Kay was looking to make her directorial debut with a ...
It’s “absolutely inexcusable” that China’s communist government has been allowed to “play by its own rules,” said a commissioner from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). “There is no question that China is the world’s foremost violator of human rights and religious freedom,” said USCIRF Commissioner Johnnie Moore in comments included in ...
An award-winning documentary about forced organ harvesting in China can now be watched for free online. The team at Swoop Films has made Hard to Believe available in response to the pandemic now sweeping the world — one now being labeled by Nspirement as the ‘CCP virus’ due to the regime’s coverups and corruption that ...
What we know about the coronavirus impact: More than 169,387 global cases with at least 6,513 deaths Germany closes the border it shares with five other countries U.S. authorities advise against gatherings of more than 50 people (update: 10 people) Stock markets slump despite action from central banks Countries closed borders, cities from New York ...
Since the year 2000, the organ transplantation system in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has rapidly expanded. The executive summary from a new report published by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation about organ harvesting in China offers an insight into how rapid that growth actually has been. “Over the four-year period from 2000 to ...
More than 108,000 people had been infected with COVID-19 as of Sunday, March 8. There have been more than 3,700 deaths. More than 80,700 of those cases have been in mainland China, where 3,100 have died. But the number of new infections there is decreasing by the day, according to Chinese authorities. China reported 99 ...
The Chinese Communist Party’s Global Times ran an article on March 1 about “the world’s first double-lung transplant” for somebody sick with the coronavirus. The lung transplant, the paper said, was of “great significance in reducing critical cases” of the virus, which is believed to have killed many thousands in China. While Global Times — ...
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continued its spread across the globe during the first week of March, despite travel restrictions aimed at curtailing its spread. As the global death toll reached over 3,000, South Korea said Monday it has confirmed 599 new cases, far higher than the daily tally reported in China. With 4,335 confirmed infections ...
By now, enough research on the crime of organ harvesting in China has been published that most people looking into the issue accept that large numbers of unwilling prisoners of conscience have been killed for their body parts by the Chinese state. Now, some researchers are broadening their investigations, looking into other aspects of the ...