STATEMENT FROM SHEN YUN PERFORMING ARTS
RE: SHEN YUN FORCED TO CANCEL HONG KONG SHOWS
NEW YORK, January 24, 2010 – Shen Yun Performing Arts regrets to inform that seven sold out shows in Hong Kong have been cancelled due to Hong Kong authorities’ last-minute denial of entry visas to several of our key production staff. Continue reading
Introduction
“Which is the world’s largest group of prisoners of conscience – that is, peopled jailed for their beliefs or views?†Few educated media consumers in the West know the correct answer. It is Falun Gong adherents jailed in China; and it’s not even close. Continue reading
ESCONDIDO, California–What’s an Israeli doing in a Chinese show? I’m asked this almost as often as I’m asked, when checking in at the airport alongside a hundred Chinese dancers and musicians – “Are you part of this group?â€
The answer to the latter question is: “No, and yes.†
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The Olympics are over, but don’t look away from China just yet. The fates of thousands of ordinary Chinese arrested ahead of the Games hinge on what we do this autumn.
For people like my Chinese-American friend Si Yang, these roundups have struck too close to home. In April, Si called his parents in Hebei province only to discover that 20 officers had shown up and taken away his father and sister. Continue reading
Posted by Leeshai Lemish – 18 August 2008 10:16
Often in the news but rarely understood, Falun Gong is regularly associated with Chinese human rights issues. Leeshai Lemish gives his understanding of what Falun Gong practitioners actually believe
I would have laughed if ten years ago you told me that my search for a meditation practice would land me on Beijing’s blacklist. Continue reading
Leeshai Lemish looks at the history and causes of the Chinese Communist Party’s campaign against Falun Gong
‘If Falun Gong is benign, why is the Chinese government afraid of it?’ After nine years of persecution this basic question remains common. I’ll try answering it here. Continue reading
Posted by Leeshai Lemish – 20 August 2008 10:11
Leeshai Lemish tells of his and Ethan Gutmann’s journey into the persecution of Falun Gong
It was 2:00 am and we were sitting on the floor of a Bangkok slum. We had a flight to catch the next morning, but after interviewing Falun Gong refugees for a week we still couldn’t pull away from what they were telling us.
‘At first I thought it was just me. But then, one after another, more Falun Gong practitioners were brought into our cell’, Chen Jie said. ‘Their bellies, chest and backs were also covered with black bubbles from Continue reading
Posted by Leeshai Lemish – 21 August 2008 10:01
Leeshai Lemish talks about Falun Gong’s resistance and the complicity of the West
If this persecution is so severe, why is it so rarely in the news and why isn’t more being done about it? Continue reading
‘Unworthy’ victims? Chinese suffering in Western media, by Leeshai Lemish
Leeshai Lemish
10/16/2004
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Christian, a Falun Gong practitioner, and a Tibetan Buddhist are sitting in a restaurant. It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but it’s not funny to the three refugees who abandoned China in search for a persecution-free country and ended up in Cambodia. Take one young man, for example. When I met him in Cambodia for the first time, he looked like he would have a nervous breakdown if someone didn’t get him out to a safer place soon. Continue reading
