December 16, 2013 CNN The report said interviews with petitioners and Falun Gong practitioners revealed abuses were continuing despite the...

The authorities continued to pursue a systematic, nationwide, often violent campaign against the Falun Gong, a spiritual group banned since...

Vague regulations were used to tightly control publication of politically sensitive material, including references to the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations,...

The severe and systematic 10-year campaign against Falun Gong continued […] Freedom of expression […] As the internet was increasingly...

The Olympic Games in Beijing brought heightened repression throughout the country as authorities tightened control over human rights defenders, religious...

Growing numbers of human rights activists were imprisoned, put under house arrest or surveillance, or harassed.[…] Falun Gong practitioners were...

Repression of spiritual and religious groups The government continued to crack down on religious observance outside officially sanctioned channels. Thousands...

Repression of spiritual and religious groups Religious observance outside official channels remained tightly circumscribed. In March, the authorities promulgated a...

Political crackdowns continued on specific groups, including the Falun Gong spiritual movement, unofficial Christian groups, and so-called “separatists” and “religious...

Repression of spiritual and religious groups Members of unofficial spiritual or religious groups, including some Qi Gong groups and unregistered...