The year 2008 witnessed a systematic and nationwide increase in arbitrary arrests and detention of Falun Gong adherents, apparently as...

The year saw an increase in prison sentences given to adherents of Falun Gong, many of them coming after the...

Reports from China indicate that many of the Falun Gong adherents detained ahead of the Beijing Olympics were taken directly...

Falun Gong remained one of the most taboo topics of coverage for both Chinese and foreign news organizations reporting from...

Throughout the year, Falun Gong and related websites remained among the most systematically and hermetically blocked by China’s Great Firewall,...

Adherents in China, as well as several of the attorneys representing practitioners, continued to face significant difficulties obtaining permission to...

The suppression of Falun Gong in mainland China escalated sharply in 2008. A significant body of evidence—including first-hand accounts of...

The widow of a well-known musician and Falun Gong adherent who died from abuse in police custody was sentenced by...

Why are an increasing number of Chinese offi cials risking everything to defect from a "rising" China? It looks as...

A painter from Hunan province, arrested in a nationwide pre-Olympic roundup of Falun Gong adherents, died the day before the...