‘I condemn today’s sentencing of veteran Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu to seven years in prison on espionage charges,’ the U.S. ambassador to China said.
Wei Shuyuan was sentenced to three years behind bars for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that the CCP has brutally persecuted since 1999.
Hong Kong sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists to up to 10 years in prison, in the largest single prosecution under the CCP-imposed national security law.
The spiritual practice’s three principles should be a ‘beacon of light’ for humanity, said Hsiao Sung-shan, chairman of Taiwan’s Falun Dafa Association.
The aim is not to align religions with Chinese principles but to subvert religions by forcing them to adhere to the regime’s Marxist doctrines, say analysts.
The whistleblower’s father said his son, a hospital intern, refused to source child donors and thus may have been murdered, according to an Epoch Times source.