News and Events

December 18, 2024

Community Seminar: Updates and discussions about Dragon Springs

A panel of three experts hosted a community event in Deerpark provide the community with an update on current happenings at Dragon Springs, ongoing instances of transnational repression targeting the campus, take questions from the audience, and enjoy a little holiday cheer.

October 24, 2024

Seminar: Why CCP Targets Dragon Springs & Falun Gong?

A panel of four experts hosted a seminar event in Mt. Hope to shed light on why and how the Chinese regime targets the Dragon Springs campus as well as the broader community around Deerpark. The panel also took questions from the audience on a range of topics.

October 23, 2024

Dragon Springs Pays for Paving of Guymard Turnpike in Town of Deerpark

Dragon Springs recently paid for the repaving of close to one mile of town road outside its south gate, according to Deerpark Supervisor Gary Spears. The paving of Guymard Turnpike was completed in late August and cost nearly $117,000, according to Deerpark Highway Superintendent Raymond Cirulli.

October 10, 2024

NGO Publishes Incident Tracker Featuring Bomb & Death Threats against Dragon Springs

Throughout 2024, Dragon Springs, Shen Yun, and other Falun Gong-affiliated entities have received an increasing volume of bomb threats, death threats, and other disturbing threats. Two arrests have been made of individuals causing harm or making specific threats while near Dragon Springs, while authorities continue to track new threats.

September 27, 2024

Chinese Agent Sentenced Over CCP’s Bribery Scheme Targeting Dragon Springs

U.S. District Judge Nelson S. Roman sentenced one of the conspirators who helped advance Beijing’s transnational repression campaign in the United States targeting Dragon Springs. The

Chinese national and U.S. permanent resident, pleaded guilty in July to acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese communist regime.

September 14, 2024

Federal Judge Dismisses Frivolous Lawsuit against Dragon Springs

A New York district court judge dismissed "with prejudice" a lawsuit filed against Dragon Springs by a local environmental group with ties to China. In the court ruling, the judge rejects the plaintiffs’ suit, saying the complaint is “riddled with deficiencies,” including the failure to state what Dragon Springs “is doing wrong,” repeatedly changing accusations, and even failing to identify the alleged source of pollutants. Throughout the decision, Judge Karas uses terms like “vague,” “illogical,” and “an oxymoron” to describe the complaint’s allegations.  

August 26, 2024

10 Things to Know About The New York Times’ “Investigation” of Shen Yun, Falun Gong

After an extensive investigation, drawing on interviews with over 100 current and former Shen Yun performers, email communications between journalists and interview subjects, and leaked Chinese government information, we uncovered multiple dubious elements in the paper’s coverage. 
Mainly, theTimes used highly problematic sources with direct ties to the Chinese government, relied on a small sample size to build a particular storyline, ignored a wide-range of experts, and continued a decades-long pattern of grossly distorting the beliefs of Falun Gong practitioners.

August 13, 2024

How CCP Exports Fear, Hatred to America in War Against Faith

In the United States and elsewhere, Chinese operatives have tried every means to extinguish Falun Gong, including bribing IRS agents, disrupting Falun Gong demonstrations during high stakes Chinese official visits, spying on individuals’ activities, and in some cases, carrying out violent assaults. A 2021 report by Freedom House states that “China conducts the most sophisticated, global, and comprehensive campaign of transnational repression in the world.”

May 30, 2023

Deerpark Man Arrested for Harassing Dragon Springs

A resident of Cuddebackville, New York, has been arrested for crimes related to repeated harassment of staff at the Dragon Springs campus. The man was arrested by officers from the Deerpark Police Department for throwing screws—which caused flat tires—in the driveways of Dragon Springs and about a dozen locals associated with the campus.

May 27, 2024

Two Chinese Men Indicted for Bribery Scheme Targeting Dragon Springs

A federal court charged two Chinese agents for furthering a transnational repression campaign against Falun Gong practitioners through a bribery scheme directed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Orange County, New York. The two agents attempted to bribe a purported public official with tens of thousands of dollars under the direction of a CCP official, in attempts to “topple” the persecuted spiritual practice Falun Gong in the United States.

April 3, 2024

Bomb Threats Mark Alarming Escalation in Campaign to Silence Shen Yun

In recent weeks, Shen Yun Performing Arts has yet again been the target of a series of bomb threats and acts of vandalism. These recent incidents are the latest in an escalating campaign by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to undermine and silence the group whose headquarters is located in Orange County, New York.

January 8, 2024

New Report: Beijing Targets Shen Yun in Global Campaign to Silence and Malign

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is targeting Shen Yun Performing Arts, a U.S.-based non-profit, with the most aggressive global campaign of Beijing-driven artistic censorship documented to date, according to a policy brief published today. The effort is central to the regime’s broader transnational repression aimed at Falun Gong practitioners, their peaceful activism, and their supporters around the world. 

January 21, 2023

Falun Gong Founder Publishes 'How Human Kind Came To Be"

Mr. Li Hongzhi is the founder of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong (also called Falun Dafa). The practice combines meditation and gentle exercises with a moral philosophy centered on the tenets of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. The following article has been translated from Chinese and was originally published on FalunDafa.org