Tonight on America’s Hope, we look at the gripping story of how Jennifer Zeng survived torture and persecution for her beliefs.
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CCP's Lies About Xinjiang Exposed by Its Own Propaganda Video 中共關於新疆謊言被自制宣傳片揭穿
Contracting CCP media reports 自相矛盾的中共官方報導
Secretly Recorded Footage Shows Slave Labor, Effects of Torture in Chinese Labor Camp
In undercover footage shot inside China’s notorious Masanjia labor camp, prisoners are shown hunched over work tables, with piles of wire diodes—an electronic component—on either side of a rubber mat./Working silently, intently, and urgently, they take diodes from the pile on the left, rub them on the mat, straightening them, and then place them in the pile on the right.
Documenting the Persecution: Videos of Torture Victims Smuggled Out of Chinese Prison
To this day his body is still frozen and stored in the mortuary. His family has refused to cremate the body, believing that this should be kept as evidence to show that his death was caused by the beating in Benxi Prison. They want to seek justice.
Survivor of Persecution in China Warns About Regime’s Treatment of Uyghurs
A recent refugee from China has reported on what he has learned about the persecution of the Uyghur Muslim minority, telling of overstuffed prisons, abuse, torture, and the likely slaughter of prisoners of conscience through organ harvesting.
Human Rights Campaigner Illuminates Detention in China
“We can often be unaware of the plight of others, but it’s experiences shared by people like Jennifer that highlight our connectedness as human beings.”
US Human Rights Report Calls Out China, Acknowledges Organ Harvesting
The State Department’s annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, released on March 13, highlighted China as one of the worst human rights abusers and may have signaled there will be a future investigation of forced organ harvesting in the country.
Mapping a Human Rights Horror: Calculating the Detentions in Xinjiang
Through arduous searching and researching of Google Earth satellite images, a Chinese dissident was able to locate 19 possible prisons and 15 possible re-education camps in Kashgar Prefecture (also known as Kashi Prefecture), in Xinjiang, with a total possible capacity of a half-million people.
Stories of Persecution Told on Capitol Hill Before Human Rights Day
“I saw my father for the first time when I was 7, as he was sentenced to 8 years before I was born for producing Falun Gong … materials.”
Rep. Smith Urges Trump to Confront Chinese Leader on Human Rights Record
U.S. Rep. Christopher Smith (R-N.J.) is urging President Donald Trump to raise the issue of human rights directly during his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Argentina on Nov. 30.
US Should Embed Human Rights in Every Aspect of Foreign Policy: CECC Report
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) issues a report every year on human rights and rule of law in the People’s Republic of China, although the feeling at the release of this year’s report felt different.
Jennifer Speaks at the Kingston for Human Rights 2009 Annual Function
Jennifer related her experiences of being held in a forced-labour camp, and related these to Articles 3, 4 and 5 or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
My Quick Thoughts on President Trump's Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's Capital 簡評川普總統承認耶路撒冷為以色列首都
So for me, this is yet another big event in term of what's happening in our world today. 今天的事，在我看來，又是一個重要的歷史進程。很多看得見和看不見的大事正在發生……
‘Free China’: From Persecution to Hope
Summing up her feelings about the film, Zeng says, “What I can say is, as human beings, deep in our heart we all long for goodness, kindness, beautiful, and wonderful things; we all long to live at a better place, and be surrounded by kind-hearted people. That’s why many people were drawn to Falun Gong.
The Face
Zeng says Falun Gong has spread so quickly simply "because it is so good"; the positive effects on followers' physical and mental health are "so obvious". She says she wrote her book to "expose the evil" of China's labour camps and to highlight the plight of other Falun Gong inmates: "What we ask is for an end to the persecution and for the freedom to practise our own beliefs. I regard that as basic human rights -- it's not political at all."
Children Can Tell You About Human Rights
The guest speaker was Jennifer Zeng, author of Witnessing History, a book about the persecution she endured for practising Falun Gong in China.