(Minghui.org) The documentary Free China: The Courage to Believe was shown by the Falun Dafa Club and other student organizations at Tucson's University of Arizona College of Public Health on October 24, 2014.
Free China is an award-winning documentary about the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong in China. Many students attended the film and discussion. A few Chinese students showed up early for the best seats to watch the film, which is banned in China.
The documentary features the stories of two individuals who were arrested and tortured for their belief in Falun Gong, while drawing upon China experts and witnesses to reveal the broad scope of the persecution.
During the discussion after the film, a student asked if the Internet was still censored by the Chinese government. A Falun Gong practitioner confirmed it was true, but shared the hopeful news that software has been developed to enable Chinese citizens to break through the blockade and find out the most recent and accurate information from overseas.
A graduate student named Sam was infuriated by the Chinese Communist Party's exploitation of Falun Gong practitioners to make cheap products, a serious violation of human rights.
A teaching assistant named Johnson said he had heard his professor bring up the question to his class as to how Chinese hospitals could announce that organs would be available for transplant at 9 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This meant that someone died a few hours before each scheduled organ transplant surgery, because a human organ can only live a few hours outside of the body. The surgery had to be done within these few hours. These organs must have come from an illegal source, concluded the professor. He also expressed suspicion as to why imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners were given blood tests and physical exams, and felt there was a connection.
Free China provided the answers to the questions raised by the professor with footage of China experts explaining their findings on the Chinese Communist Party's organ harvesting from Falun Gong prisoners of conscience.
An Asian student expressed support for Falun Gong. She had seen Falun Gong practitioners protest organ harvesting on several occasions. However, this was the first time she learned that Falun Gong is an ancient cultivation practice of mind and body based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. She was interested in the practice asked for some introduction materials.
