European and Japanese legislators call for the release of a Chinese citizen arrested for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual practice heavily persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Ding Yuande and his wife, Ma Rumei, were illegally detained on May 12 in Shandong Province along with roughly 70 Falun Gong practitioners. The detentions were part of a mass arrest campaign for the 24th anniversary of World Falun Dafa Day, celebrated annually on May 13, according to the Falun Dafa Information Center. Their son, Ding Lebin, a Berlin resident, immediately started an advocacy campaign for the release of his parents. The International Society for Human Rights—a nongovernmental organization in Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council—wrote to the Chinese ambassador to Germany, the former Chinese foreign minister, and CCP officials, urging for the release of the couple. Volunteers with the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) also called the detention center, requesting they be freed....Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/falun-gong/international-campaign-seeks-the-release-of-persecuted-falun-gong-adherent-in-china-5501950
Canadian research programs have now been cleared of security risks posed by China, a university association executive told MPs at a House of Commons committee. This claim follows security alerts about research partnerships with Chinese technology firms and a military academy. “We hear about potential threats, we hear about attempts to influence and so on and we take them very, very seriously,” said Chad Gaffield, chief executive officer of U15, an association representing Canada’s top 15 research universities. During his testimony at the House science committee, he further asserted that the measures implemented to mitigate security risks associated with Beijing “are working,” according to Blacklock’s Reporter.... 
China’s communist regime is effectively using a “misinformation campaign” to put a patina of palatability on its genocide, according to Omer Kanat, the executive director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project. The misinformation includes scripted foreign dignitary visits to what the regime calls the “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region” and a trickle of visits abroad by muzzled Uyghurs who are instructed only to say good things about Xinjiang. Meanwhile, the regime is relocating hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs from reeducation camps, where they are put through a brainwashing program, to state prisons and forced labor factories where they can work over 10 hours per day in addition to political indoctrination sessions....
Meta shut down over 8,000 social media accounts covertly run by China which targeted the UK, a new EU transparency report has revealed. The Facebook and Instagram profiles were part of network being coordinated in Bejing, according to the data disclosed by the social media giant. “One or more” of the 930 Facebook pages identified by Meta had amassed more than 560,000 followers, according to its report published by the European Commission. Over 7,700 Facebook accounts were identified and shut down by Meta from April to May this year, along with 15 groups and 15 Instagram accounts for “inauthentic behaviour.” Meta said in its EU report: “This network originated in China and targeted many regions around the world, including Taiwan, the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan, and global Chinese-speaking audiences....