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Coronavirus Update: China Restricts Travel for Millions as the Death Toll Climbs

Authorities in China have imposed indefinite travel restrictions on tens of millions of people across 10 cities. This is in an unprecedented effort to contain the spread of a deadly new coronavirus, as hospitals at the epicenter of the outbreak struggle to handle a surge in new patients. The coronavirus, which was first discovered in ...

Max Lu

An isolated patient.

Nearly 100 Falun Gong Meditators ‘Persecuted to Death’ in 2019, Report Says

Nearly 100 people who practice Falun Gong in China were confirmed to have been killed by the communist authorities last year, according to a report. “Ninety-six Falun Gong practitioners in China were confirmed to have been persecuted to death for their faith in 2019, bringing the total confirmed death toll to 4,363 over the past 20 years ...

Max Lu

Falun Gong practitoners killed by the CCP.

In Colombia, Blind Women Act as Breast Cancer Detectors

Breast cancer is the most diagnosed form of cancer in the world among women, impacting over 2.1 million women annually, according to the World Health Organization.  Early detection of this deadly disease is a critical part of effective treatment. In the South American country of Columbia, some doctors have discovered an important new resource in ...

Raven Montmorency

Blind women detect cancer in Colombia.

Chinese YouTuber Detained in Thailand Fears Being Sent Back to China

A Chinese asylum seeker and YouTuber currently held in a Thai immigration detention center is afraid he’ll be deported back to China where he could once again be tortured for his faith. Leng Tao, 64, was arrested by Thai police on November 4 allegedly over his immigration status and then ordered by a local court ...

Max Lu

A video of Leng Tao playing on a smartphone.

UK Baroness Raises China’s Organ Harvesting in House of Lords

The killing of prisoners of conscience through China’s organ harvesting was raised during a debate in the UK’s House of Lords, adding further awareness to an atrocity that first came to light over a decade ago. During an October 24 debate on the ongoing Hong Kong protests, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff told the House of ...

Jack Roberts

Organ harvesting surgery.

Hong Kong Bookseller Defies Beijing From Taiwan

The Chinese Communist Party cannot take criticism and dedicates much of its ruthless machinery inside and outside of China to silencing critics. However. a Hong Kong bookseller has defied Beijing from Taiwan. Methods the Party uses against mainland critics include jail, job loss, and the developing social credit system. Historically, the death toll for critics ...

Max Lu

Lam Wing Kee.

Video: The ‘Unmatched Wickedness’ of Organ Harvesting in China

This short film above covers key findings made by an independent tribunal in London into claims that the Chinese state has been engaged in state-sanctioned organ harvesting from a number of prisoners of conscience to take their bodily organs. The China Tribunal in June delivered its judgment, which stated it was proven beyond doubt that ...

Jack Roberts

An organ harvesting operation.

China Organ Harvesting Fears Lead to Retraction of Medical Studies

Fifteen medical studies were retracted from two journals in August over concerns that their authors used organs from the organ harvesting of executed prisoners in China. The medical journals, Transplantation and PLOS ONE, pulled the studies that they had published from 2008-2014, the blog Retraction Watch reported. The report said that two of the studies ...

Max Lu

Organ harvesting.

Tribunal: World Needs Action to End Organ Harvesting in China

It has been proven beyond doubt that the Chinese state is killing large numbers of prisoners of conscience for their organs and the world must act to end it were part of a final judgment made by an independent tribunal. These statements were part of a conclusion from the China Tribunal’s final judgment delivered by ...

Jack Roberts

Sir Geoffrey Nice QC.