Dec. 26, 2024 | By Minghui correspondent Li Jingfei (Minghui.org) New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts kicked off its 2025 world tour on December 23, 2024, in Nagoya, Japan, and Atlanta, Georgia, the United States. This is Shen Yun’s 19th tour season since its founding. This year, Shen Yun’s eight touring companies are scheduled to present …
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Feb. 8, 2024 | By Minghui correspondents Li Jingfei, Li Ruoyun, and Ming Yue (Minghui.org) During the week of January 29–February 4, Shen Yun’s eight touring companies shared China’s pre-communist culture with cities in the United States, Japan, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom. “I Enjoyed it Thoroughly” U.S. Representative Ken Buck from Colorado saw …
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April 30, 2023 | By Minghui correspondent Gao Siyu (Minghui.org) During mid-to-late April 2023, Shen Yun Performing Arts continued to tour globally with performances in New Zealand, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, with frequent sold-out performances. Italian Local Officials Welcome Shen Yun With Special Reception Stefano Allasia, president of the Piedmont …
March 17, 2023 | By Minghui correspondents Xue Li and Li Ruoyun (Minghui.org) During the week of March 6–13, 2023, Shen Yun Performing Arts presented 31 performances in Aarhus, Denmark; Sevilla, Spain; Prague, Czech Republic; Calgary, Canada; and the American states of California, Colorado, and Florida. “An Incredible Performance, Truly Artistic” Bernadette Geronazzo, the executive …
March 11, 2023 | By Minghui correspondents Ji Zhenyan and Jing Ruyu (Minghui.org) Shen Yun Performing Arts continued to tour Europe and North America from February 27 to March 5, 2023 with performances in Bydgoszcz and Lublin, Poland; Logroño, Spain; and the American states of South Dakota, California, Illinois, North Carolina, Montana, and Indiana. The company …
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Feb. 25, 2023 | By Minghui correspondent Xue Li (Minghui.org) During the week of February 14–19, 2023, Shen Yun Performing Arts presented 34 performances in Paris, France; Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany; and Texas, California, Arizona, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Idaho in the U.S. “A Performance That Truly Displayed Deep Divinity” Stefan Gaßmann, the spokesperson of …
June 8, 2022 | By Minghui correspondent Xue Li _________________________________ (Minghui.org) Shen Yun Performing Arts presented fourteen performances on May 31 through June 5, 2022, in five cities in Italy, Germany, and the United States. A number of audience members spoke about feeling impressed by Shen Yun’s artistic talents as well as its messages of …
2009 marked the 10th anniversary of the government’s formal ban on Falun Gong, a spiritual movement based on the teachings of its founder, Li Hongzhi,and Chinese meditative exercises called qigong. Viewing the 10th anniversary as sensitive, the central government held fast in 2009
with its 2008 pre-Olympics efforts to ferret out and punish Falun Gong practitioners. Authorities conducted propaganda campaigns that deride Falun Gong, carried out strict surveillance of practitioners, detained and imprisoned large numbers of practitioners, and subjected some who refuse to disavow Falun Gong to torture and other abuses in reeducation through labor facilities.
In the past year, allegations of organ harvesting from nonconsenting Falun Gong prisoners have emerged again, further raising concerns about possible abuses in China’s organ transplant industry. In December 2008, the UN Committee against Torture (UNCAT) indicated in its report on China that the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Manfred Nowak, had noted ‘‘an increase in
organ transplant operations coincides with the ‘beginning of the persecution of [Falun Gong practitioners],’ ’’ and had urged the Chinese government to provide ‘‘a full explanation of the source of organ transplants.’’
September 29, 2006, the United States Congress held its first hearing on allegations of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners. Four witnesses testified at the hearing. More than 100 people, including House representatives, legislative assistants, officials and advisers from the US government, and reporters attended the hearing.
