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Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Sentenced to 4 Years Prison in Secret Trial

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, ...

Jessica Kneipp

Xu Yan protesting husband's detention.

The Making of ‘Finding Courage’

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 ...

Jessica Kneipp

A scene from 'Finding Courage.'

Chinese Regime Is ‘World’s Foremost Violator of Religious Freedom’

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 ...

Max Lu

Chinese police officers.

Award-Winning Film on Forced Organ Harvesting in China Now Free to Watch

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 ...

Armin Auctor

Forced organ harvesting in China.

Wuhan Coronavirus Update: Global Restrictions Rise as New Infections Increase

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 ...

Jack Roberts

A Chinese patient with coronavirus.

Global Community Urged to Examine Evidence of Organ Harvesting in China

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 ...

Jack Roberts

A team od doctors performing transplant surgery.

COVID-19 Update: Outbreak Continues Its Spread Across the Globe

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 ...

Jack Roberts

Workers wearing face masks against COVID-19.

As Chinese Media Brag About Lung Transplant, Others Question the Source

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 — ...

Max Lu

Double-lung transplant.

Exposed: Western Companies That Have ‘Enabled’ China’s Organ Harvesting

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 ...

Max Lu

An organ harvesting procedure.