China's CCP in Canada increasingly targeting Falun Gong practitioners and dissidents

Report from Amnesty International Canada: The Chinese Communist Party Continues to Harass Overseas Falun Gong Practitioners

Amnesty International Canada released a report on May 12, 2020, highlighting the increasing human rights violations of Chinese officials living overseas. The report documented many incidents in Canada where Falun Gong practitioners, dissidents, or democracy advocates were harassed.

Titled “Harassment & Intimidation of Individuals in Canada Working on China-Related Human Rights Concerns,” the report was a joint effort between the Canadian Coalition on Human Rights in China and Amnesty International in Canada.

“Human rights defenders increasingly face threats, intimidation over China advocacy,” the report stated.


A report released recently by Amnesty International Canada and the Canadian Coalition on Human Rights in China.

This is an update of an earlier report by the two organizations published in 2017 that described organized attacks on activists who advocate for China-related human rights issues.

“This deeply worrying trend is clearly part of a longstanding and systematic campaign to silence public debate on serious human rights concerns in China which increasingly extends far beyond China’s borders,” said Alex Neve, Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada’s English Branch.

“The Chinese government has long pursued a strategy of extending political and cultural influence abroad, with the goal of suppressing dissidents and mobilizing overseas Chinese communities to act as agents of China’s political interests,” the report stated.

Such activities in Canada include putting pressure on elected officials, Chinese-Canadian media outlets, social media, and academic institutions.

The report called on Canadian officials to take immediate action to address this issue. Such organized attacks have taken place on college campuses and secondary schools across Canada. The victims include Hong Kong democracy advocates, Falun Gong practitioners and various minority groups.

Falun Gong Practitioners Targeted
“Since 2017, practitioners of Falun Gong have continued to be targeted in Canada through incidents of harassment that appear to be linked to the Chinese state apparatus,” the report wrote, “There have been a number of incidents in Ottawa, Calgary, and Winnipeg involving threats, bullying, and harassment of Falun Gong practitioners, as well as false correspondence, a hallmark of the Chinese government, sent out in the alleged-name of Falun Gong in efforts to discredit them. The Falun Gong group in Ottawa has observed that these are not isolated cases, but rather part of a longstanding pattern of persecution by Chinese state authorities.”

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