Personal Stories
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Meet Stephane: Bringing Wild Plants to Haute Cuisine
Stephane Meyer, known as the “Druid of Paris,” translates his respect of nature to ingredients for the finest kitchens of Europe.
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An International Student Recalls China’s Education Machine
Ryan is currently working in exports and living in Los Angeles. This is his story. I am from Xi’an city in Shaanxi province. When I was 6 years old, I entered first grade in elementary school. My mother, just like many other moms, took me to Trimathalon-style math training. I went there 3 to 5 […]
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A Falun Gong Family’s Daring Escape From China
Photo caption: Minghui Wang (center) with her parents at a candlelight vigil commemorating Falun Dafa’s 20 years of peaceful resistance to the Chinese communist regime’s persecution, July 20, 2019, La Jolla, California. Minghui Wang is a student at a San Diego High School and will start attending college in the fall. This is her story. A […]
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Resisting Indoctrination: A Teacher’s Account of China’s Education System
Vivian is an elementary school teacher living in Minnesota. Her experience shows how students and teachers alike are forced to participate in the persecution of Falun Gong in an education system structured to reinforce communist party control in China. Here is her story. I was in middle school during the beginning of the persecution. All […]
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Lori’s Story: Brainwashing in China’s Schools
Lori, who currently lives in Minnesota, recalls her experiences in China’s school system. As a young Falun Gong practitioner, she had to choose between excelling in China’s Party-controlled society and holding true to her values. This is her story. When I was in high school, my head teacher suggested that I join the Chinese Communist […]
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A New Yorker’s SOS Letter for His Mother
Dear Congressmen / Congresswomen, My name is Zhang Yi. I am from Shengli Oilfield, Shangdong Province, China. Before fleeing to the United States in July 2016, I was persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party in China because of my belief in the spiritual practice of Falun Gong. I currently reside in Flushing, Queens, New York. […]
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Mothering Based on Falun Dafa’s Principles
This year World Falun Dafa Day and Mother’s Day are both on May 13th, so we’ve decided to celebrate both! We asked some mothers who practice Falun Dafa how they approach motherhood based on Falun Dafa’s principle tenets: Truth, Compassion, and Tolerance. Meiling L., Mother of 3 Q: What do you do? I’ve “retired” from […]
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Blue Valentine: How The Persecution Affects Couples in China
One often overlooked aspect of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong (aka Falun Dafa) is its effect on the family – especially how it interferes in marriages. In some cases Chinese officials coerce spouses of Falun Gong practitioners to divorce them; other cases involve employers pressuring employees to divorce those who refuse […]
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Vivian’s Story: The Persecution Turned My Friends into Bullies
I was 13 years old when I started practicing Falun Gong. My mom started practicing in 1998. She became kinder and more patient. My dad and I saw a difference in her and the improvement in her health, so in early 1999 we started practicing too. Before the persecution, I was very happy. My family […]
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Serena’s Story: The Chinese Regime Labeled Me ‘anti-government’ in 3rd Grade
I was six years old when my mom started to practice Falun Dafa meditation (also known as Falun Gong). She is a doctor, but she had some genetic disease and had to take medicine. After practicing Falun Gong, she didn’t have to take any medicine anymore. When she introduced Falun Dafa to me, I didn’t […]
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Grady’s Story: ‘Because my parents practice Falun Gong, I was persecuted too’
I was about three or four years old when my parents were arrested. When the persecution [of Falun Gong] started, all the journalists and all the newspapers in the world reported what the Chinese government said, which was fake. So my parents contacted Western journalists who came to China to do interviews with other Falun Gong […]
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The Tragic Life of a Musical Genius
Ms. Wang Bo, at about six feet in height, is an intelligent and good-natured music student who had diligently practiced piano since she was quite young. Wang Bo had passed the highest exam, Piano Exam Level X. The Central Conservatory of Music had admitted her based on her outstanding musical achievements and high college entrance […]
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Auntie Chen’s Story: Letter from Minnesota Senators Freed this Chinese Prisoner of Conscience
If you’ve ever doubted whether your support can help Chinese prisoners of conscience, this woman is living proof that you truly can.
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Winston’s Story: Our Newlywed Life Ended When we Became Targets of Genocide
On new year’s day, 2001, policemen broke into my house in the early morning, arrested my wife and me, and confined us in a detention center.
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Life After Torture
A family seeks normalcy after enduring a decade of extraordinary persecution in China.
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Roy’s Story: Forced Out of My Teaching Job and Into Labor Camp
During the one and a half years of imprisonment, I was forced to keep seated on a small hard stool, about 15 hours a day for over half a year.
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Danshan’s Story: For Years, Mother Suffered in a Labor Camp
Danshan is currently a student at Arizona State University. This is her family’s story of persecution under the Chinese Communist Party.
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‘I Can’t Enjoy the Free World’ Says Former Prisoner of Conscience
Sunny Gao fled repeated detention and torture by the Chinese Communist Party in its attempt to make her give up her faith.
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A Former Chinese Hospital Worker’s Account of Organ Harvesting
I’m currently living in mainland China. Once, I worked at the organ transplant center in Tianjin First Central Hospital. What I’ve learned could perhaps serve as a rare warning to those who persist in persecuting Falun Gong. It’s also a cautionary tale for my fellow countrymen with a conscience.
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American Tries to Rescue Father-in-Law After 16 Years of Prison Abuse, Stopped by Chinese Authorities
Jeff never had the chance to meet his father-in-law until now. Just as they were bonding as a family, they were so unceremoniously dashed apart again.
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Naturopathic Doctor By Day, Transplant Ethics Advocate By Night
Dr. Churchill works as the West Coast Delegate for DAFOH, a network of physicians against the Chinese communist regime’s unethical harvesting of organs.
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Oncologist Helps Turn the Tide Against Forced Organ Harvesting
Dr. Gilcrease is the Deputy Director of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH), a consortium of physicians who gather to raise awareness and advocate for the end of such brutal practices
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Taiwan: Two Brothers Find Falun Dafa on the Road to Success
But seeing the positive impact practicing Falun Dafa had on Xiaowei, who graduated with a master’s degree in civil engineering, Weiming became curious. He started to read Falun Dafa books and also became a practitioner.
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“Falun Gong Enriches Our Lives”–Three Norwegians Feel Especially Grateful at Chinese New Year
Three Norwegian Falun Gong practitioners, a 26-year-old Norwegian man who began practicing Falun Gong at 18, his wife who learned the practice from him, and an 80-year-old woman who learned the practice only a few years ago, share how Falun Gong has enriched their lives.
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Fogarty to present film on persecution of Falun Gong practitioners
Fogarty has been a practitioner of Falun Gong for the last 14 years. He attributes his calmness and peace of spirit to his practice of Falun Gong. He says that its biggest benefit for him has been helping him “find his way.” Fogarty also said, “The more I practice, the more I realize how much further I have to go.”
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An Undergraduate Student from India: The Most Precious Gift of My Life
“Falun Dafa is the most precious gift of my life.” said Aishwarya Sai, a nineteen-year-old undergraduate student from Hyderabad, India. She has practiced Falun Gong for 13 years.
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Tranquil amidst the Hustle and Bustle of Life: How Falun Dafa Helped a College Student from Canada Find His Path
A graphic designer at a global media company and a resident of Toronto, Dan has been practicing Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong) for five years. We were curious to find out how a young person who had just graduated from university a year ago became interested in this practice and what major benefits he gained from it.
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UK: A Famous Drummer participates in a Protest Opposite the Chinese Consulate
Sterling Campbell was a drummer for the late David Bowie
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Doctor of Bioengineering: Being a Cultivator Makes Me Very Happy
Fengtao is a Falun Dafa practitioner and successful Vietnamese scientist who holds a doctorate in bioengineering. He’s a research institute manager for a multi-national corporation.
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Millionaire Family Loses Wealth and Freedom after Suing Jiang Zemin
A well-known, prominent Chinese family selflessly stands up to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as the persecution of Falun Gong begins to unfold in China. Putting their names on the line and following the CCP’s own legal procedures, the family files a lawsuit against the three senior CCP officials most responsible for the persecution, and […]
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Silicon Valley Engineer Blessed With Good Health Thanks to Falun Gong
Mr. Zhang Zengjun, 57, works as a network management engineer for a Silicon Valley company in California. He is very healthy and happy. It’s hard to believe that 17 years ago, Mr. Zhang suffered from terrible migraines that were thought to be incurable.
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A Documentary Producer’s Cultivation Story
[Photo Caption: Documentary Producer Alejandro Nadal] (Minghui.org) Justice has always meant everything to Alejandro Nadal. Even as a child, he would stand up for other kids being bullied and couldn’t understand why someone would want to pick on others. He always sided with the American Indians while watching American Western movies and imaged himself jumping […]
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Three Individuals Share How Falun Dafa Has Benefited Them
Falun Dafa brings about the improvement of people’s moral standards. Those who attend Falun Dafa experience sharing conferences seek to improve themselves further by listening to others.
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TV Producer: Finding Where I Belong
(Minghui.org) Olga, a TV producer, was looking for direction in life for many years, “I always felt I was lost like a child. I did not know where I belonged when I was young. My parents treated me strangely. I didn’t feel like I belonged there. I liked traveling and meeting new people. I attempted to […]
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Imprisoned in China for Practicing Falun Gong, Wife Tortured to Death in Labor Camp
[PHOTO CAPTION: Dr. Sa Geng speaks at a rally in front of the old court in St. Louis on July 20, 2015 about the criminal complaint he filed against former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, the architect of the persecution of Falun Gong. Dr. Geng was three times imprisoned in China for his belief. His wife […]
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From Drugs and Despair to Finding a True Cultivation Way
(Minghui.org) When he was a boy in Poland, Mateusz believed in the existence of a wonderful realm, transcending all the pain and suffering of the world. He looked for the spiritual power that would lead him to that place, without success. Eventually, Mateusz became a hoodlum on the streets, addicted to alcohol and drugs, until […]
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Former Judge Tells About Being Persecuted in China
Ms. Li Huiying, was a judge in Dalian City, China, until she, herself, became the victim of the unlawful, state-launched persecution, sent to a labor camp without trial, while authorities forced her husband, a surgeon, to divorce her.
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Pan Qi and Tian Yunhai: A Decade Later
Pan Qi, a New Yorker of six years who fled from China to escape persecution, received a phone call this summer that would change her life: “Tian Yunhai is released.”
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OSU Professor Improves Work, Family and Health with Falun Gong
Ohio State economics professor Lucia Dunn discusses her experiences practicing Falun Gong and her efforts to raise awareness about atrocities and human rights abuses taking place in China. Transcript My name is Lucia Dunn. I’m a professor of economics at Ohio State University in Colombus, Ohio. I’ve been a Falun Dafa practitioner for almost 15 […]
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Jason and Christine: Brother and Sister Take a Stand
Two Canadians Step Forward to Help End the Persecution of Falun Dafa in China
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Li Weixun: Rescued from Hell
After years of persecution in Mainland China, Li Weixun is enjoying her freedom as a UN refugee in the U.S.
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Shenli Lin: Unbreakable Spirit
Two Years of Torture in a Chinese Forced-Labor Camp Couldn’t Erase Shenli’s Smile
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Christina Yuan: Harvard Graduate Seeks to Rescue Mother from Torture in China
Christina Yuan continued to press for freedom for her mother, Benlan Yu
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