Publications, Press Releases

  • The Times (United Kingdom): Child Slave Labour Revelation CCP Officials Involved

    "More than 1,000 children may have been kidnapped and sold into slave labour in a brutal human trafficking ring that has shocked and outraged China. The children, some as young as eight, worked in brick kilns for sixteen hours a day with meagre food rations. They were guarded by fierce dogs and thugs who beat their prisoners at will. Many were abducted right off the streets of cities in the region and sold to factories and mines for as little as 400 Yuan (£27). The unfolding scandal, involving negligent law enforcement and even collusion between government officials and slave masters, burst into the open this week".
  • French Falun Dafa Association: On the Eve of the Olympic Games, the General Manager of the French PCM Company is Being Illegally Detained and Tortured in Beijing

    Paris, June 14th, 2007, Association Falun Gong France – According to Mrs. Yao Lian, Ma Jian’s wife, presently residing in Canada, on May 17th 2007, Ma Jian was transferred to the special torture unit of the labour camp (Beijing Labour Camp Inmates Dispatching Unit) before going into the forced labour camp in Beijing where he has been illegally condemned for 2,5 years. In the beginning of June 2007, when Ma Jian’s family visited him at the special unit, he was described as ‘visibly emaciated’. At the end of April, his family received a judiciary notification informing them that Ma Jian was convicted due to the fact that he was in possession of Falun Gong related documents.
  • Dnevni Avaz (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Newspaper Reports on the Activities in Sarajevo for World Falun Dafa Day

    "The practitioners of this discipline claim that by practising the Falun Gong exercises one can achieve improvement to one's health, reduce stress and that one can also gain inner peace and harmony. It also allows the practitioner to obtain better concentration and increases mental capacity ... The demonstration of the exercises actually represented a peaceful appeal and to publicise the brutal persecution suffered by Falun Gong practitioners in China."
  • Nexus (Croatia): Genocide under the Olympic Flag

    Nexus, a Croatian magazine for alternative medicine and spirituality, in its issue, no. 18, April - May 2007, published an article entitled "Genocide under the Olympic Flag: Horrible Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in China." The author of the article asks why China's government started the persecution against Falun Gong in 1999 and why are practitioners today subjected to arrests and torture, despite the fact that many practitioners have been cured of chronic sicknesses, became healthy and have raised their spirituality according to principles of Truth, Compassion and Tolerance.
  • Turkish Magazine Interviews Practitioner About Falun Gong and the Persecution in China

    "Today in China, people who practise Falun Gong are not accepted to schools and universities, they are fired from their jobs, and their houses are ransacked and phones tapped. Women and men are kidnapped, given electric shocks and are not allowed to sleep, and they are exposed to all kinds of torture methods and persecution. Over three thousand have been confirmed tortured to death, but it is believed that the real number is more than ten thousand. There are also hundreds of thousands of people in jail and prison camps, and most of these people are innocent Falun Gong practitioners."
  • Falun Dafa News (Austria): A country choked by propaganda

    The board of the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced at the end of last year that it had issued nine new digital channels to TV stations of the People’s Republic of China. Some of the Canadian media, along with various members of Parliament openly disagreed with the CRTC’s decision because the same stations, which are controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), are known to spread slander and hate propaganda against Falun Gong as well as other groups persecuted by the regime.
  • URGENT ACTION: 73-Year-Old U.N. Refugee Seized in Russia, Believed at Imminent Risk of Repatriation to China

    An ethnic Chinese adherent of the Falun Gong, Mr. Gao Chunman, has been seized by Russian authorities and is believed to be at imminent risk of deportation to China, the Falun Dafa Information Centre has learned. Gao, age 73, was taken from his St. Petersburg home on Sunday by Russian immigration officers, who entered his home on false pretences and cut telephone lines. It is believed Russian authorities were acting at the behest of China’s communist regime, raising fears for Gao’s safety and welfare; if returned to China, Gao will likely face imprisonment and possible torture.
  • Die Welt (Germany): Two Canadians Accuse China of murder and illegal organ harvesting

    Canadians David Matas and David Kilgour do not look like two men who would pose a threat to any state, let alone one as powerful as China. The tall and slender Kilgour (64) smiles a lot and his bright blue eyes sparkle. Matas (66) who is smaller in stature, talks softly and quietly. He regards everyone seriously through his metal-rimmed glasses. They look like an unequal pair.
  • Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (Germany): “Unfortunately the conclusion indicates that the allegations are true”

    On April 5th, the daily newspaper “Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung” in northern Baden Württemberg carried a special report on the Chinese Communist regime’s systematic harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, with the headline “Harvesting Organs is Lucrative in China.”
  • Wiesbadener Kurier (Germany): Living people selected for their organs and their bodies burned to destroy the evidence

    The seminar mentioned that the Olympics will be held in Beijing in 2008. It is written in the article: ‘‘Peter Kutilek who comes from the German Czech Olympic watch stressed that the principle of the Olympics can not be separated from human rights issues. So officials of the international and national Olympic committee have the responsibility of urging China to respect human dignity and to honour freedom of speech and freedom of the press. But the appeal of the Olympic committee has been ignored. He was not positive about China’s situation.
  • Austrian and Hungarian Media Reports on New Evidence Regarding the CCP's Trade in Organs Harvested from Living People

    On April 2nd, 2007, by invitation from Austria’s International Society for Human Rights and the Hungarian Amnesty International, Canadian human rights lawyer Mr. David Matas attended a press conference at the Hungarian Reporters Association in Budapest to disclose new-found evidence in the report written together with co-investigator Mr. David Kilgour about the Chinese Communist Party’s harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. Many media from Austria and Hungary wrote reports on this afterwards.
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany): Organs from executed prisoners are not sufficient for transplants

    While patients in other countries have to wait for up to ten years, the waiting time to obtain an organ in China is unusually short because a large number of human organ banks exist, which makes the supply possible. "[Kilgour and Matas] said: Only those who have a greater and stable source of organ supply without depending on organ donations can do this.”
  • Sunday Herald (Scotland): Pressure on UK government to act over Chinese organ harvesting?

    A SENIOR EXPERT on Asia has demanded Britain "take action now" against China, which he says is continuing to harvest organs "� la carte" from practitioners of the suppressed Falun Gong movement who are executed in prison. David Kilgour, Canada's former secretary of state for Asia-Pacific, who will visit the Houses of Parliament this week, told the Sunday Herald that Britain is leaving the issue of organ harvesting unchecked and allowing Chinese officials to kill prisoners for their organs with impunity.
  • Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (United Kingdom): The Falun Gong, organ transplantation, the holocaust and ourselves

    "As the allegation unfolds, the story seems horrific to the point of being beyond belief. So alarmed was I on learning of this allegation that I struggled to make sense of it. The element of the story that horrifies me most, if it is true, is that it is my medical colleagues, the doctors, who perpetrate these acts. This is the only element that I have the capacity to address. While I cannot get more evidence than has already been offered I can at least test this allegation for credibility."
  • Danish Newspaper Publishes Statement from an NGO Condemning the Brutal Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Harbin

    "On January 23rd of this year, we in the Network for Human Rights in China sent a letter to the Lord Mayor of Aarhus, Nicolai Wammen, urging him to freeze the cultural exchanges with Harbin, Aarhus’ chinese twinned city, until the Harbin authorities stop the torture and killings of Falun Gong practitioners held in the city’s many labour camps and detention centres. We are happy to see that Lord Mayor Wammen has taken the case seriously and asked the Foreign Ministry to investigate the matter. It is also encouraging to see that many of the City Council’s members are taking the case seriously."