Sources

NAME: Ethan Gutmann

EXPERTISE: Investigative journalist and author

LOCATION: Home, London

YEAR: 2008

QUOTE: "...we have a Genocide, in slow motion, taking place in China...”

BACKGROUND: Completing a book on the conflict between Falun Gong and the Chinese State; author of award-winning “Losing the New China”, which received the “Spirit of Tiananmen” award and “Chans Journalism” award, along with the New York Sunʼs “Best Book of 2004”; the bookʼs seminal research was influential in Washington, and contributed to US Congress cross-examining Cisco, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft over collusion with Chinese censorship and surveillance; directed the AV networkʼs television documentary series and served as a foreign policy analyst at the Brookings Institution; given congressional testimony, briefed the CIA, and the State Department on China trade policy; fellow at the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies, and formerly a Senior Counsellor for APCO China; written for the Asian Wall Street Journal, National Review, Investorʼs Business Daily and many other publications.

NAME: Jonathan Mirsky

EXPERTISE: Journalist and historian

LOCATION: Home, London

YEAR: 2008

QUOTE: “...people feel that if they criticise China something bad will happen to them.”

BACKGROUND: China correspondent of The Observer [London] and East Asia Editor of The Times [London]; in 1989, was named the British editors' International Journalist of the Year for his reporting from Tiananmen. Former resident of China.

NAME: Dr. Herman Salton

EXPERTISE: International Human Rights lawyer

LOCATION: Oxford University, UK

YEAR: 2008

QUOTE: “...if you are a leader of an authoritarian country, regime, you don't really want to have growing numbers of people going into the Millions of people who believe in Truth, Compassion and Forbearance.”

BACKGROUND: Author of 'Arctic Host, Icy Visit: China and Falun Gong Face Off in Iceland'; published ʻIndependent People? Iceland, Falun Gong and the Visit of the Chinese President in 2002.'; educated at the Universities of Trento (Italy), Auckland (New Zealand) and Oxford (UK); visiting researcher at Sciences-Po, Paris and TUJ, Tokyo; an officer at the Icelandic Human Rights Centre, Reykjavik; associate with the Office of the Under-Secretary-General, UN Headquarters, New York.

NAME: Dr Chan Shun Hing

EXPERTISE: Associate Professor, Religion and Philosophy, Baptist University

LOCATION: Office, Baptist University, Hong Kong

YEAR: 2006

QUOTE: “...I do not find any substantial evidence to prove that Falun Gong is a 'evil cult', I would rather say Falun Gong is a spiritual movement...”

BACKGROUND: B.A. (Hons.), M. Div., Ph.D., Chinese University of Hong Kong. M. Th., University of Edinburgh. Published author. Currently researching why & how Falun Gong became a global spiritual practice.

NAME: Haflidi Helgason

EXPERTISE: Editor and Journalist

LOCATION: Reykjavik, Iceland

YEAR: 2008

QUOTE: “But in this case I think obeying orders from the Chinese government was going much too far.”

BACKGROUND: Awaiting confirmation.

NAME: Jeff Priore

EXPERTISE: Campaigner

LOCATION: Hong Kong Park, Hong Kong

YEAR: 2006

QUOTE: "If you really analyse it, we're just trying to save people. Save people from being killed. I think it's that simple.”

BACKGROUND: Born and raised in New Jersey. Formerly practiced Yoga, Tai Chi and Kung Fu. Lived in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Other relevant information revealed in the film.

NAME: Dr Charles Lee

EXPERTISE: Survivor

LOCATION: NTDTV Studios, New York

YEAR: 2007

QUOTE: "...because I was an American citizen, I was not treated like that; tortured to death, you know, I was able to get out of the prison with my body intact."

BACKGROUND: Relevant information revealed in the film.

NAME: He Bin

EXPERTISE: Survivor

LOCATION: Home, London

YEAR: 2006

QUOTE: “...I was to go to Tiananmen square to appeal for Falun Gong because I, as I said, from our experience I know Falun Gong is very good, and all the government, all the TV stations, what they have said is totally wrong and untrue.”

BACKGROUND: Relevant information revealed in the film.

NAME: The Honourable David Kilgour

EXPERTISE: Former Canadian Secretary-of-State for Asia-Pacific & Lawyer

LOCATION: Wing Tak Mansion, Hong Kong & Foreign Press Association, London

YEARS: 2006 & 2007

QUOTE: "...there has been, and continues today to be large scale organ seizures from unwilling Falun Gong practitioners."

BACKGROUND: Author of ʻBloody Harvest: The killing of Falun Gong for their organsʼ; former crown attorney to Canadian Cabinet Minister; July 2006, with co-investigator lawyer David Matas, published a "Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China."; visited more than forty countries raising public awareness of findings in report; member of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong; May 2006, received honorary Doctor of Divinity for his commitment to human rights.

NAME: Edward McMillan-Scott MEP

EXPERTISE: Former Vice-President of the European Parliament

LOCATION: UK Office of European Parliament, London

YEAR: 2007

QUOTE: "...even though the tyranny of Germany and it's effect on the world through WWII was massive by comparison, the fact is that internally in China today, the situation is actually worse..."

BACKGROUND: MEP for York Euro-constituency; well-known for his active role in human rights and democracy in China; undertaken personal fact-finding missions to the Mainland; currently working to establish an impunity register for confidential denunciations of human rights abuses, modelled within the legal framework of the EU and the International Criminal Court; European Parliament's rapporteur on relations with China (1996-1997); first politician to visit Tibet after a 1993 embargo; founding member of the Washington-based International Movement of Parliamentarians for Democracy; Patron of the BBC World Service Trust.

NAME: Robin Munro

EXPERTISE: China Human Rights researcher, campaigner & author

LOCATION: School of Oriental and African Studies, London

YEAR: 2007

QUOTE: “Large numbers of Falun Gong sent to mental hospitals, falsely accused of being mentally ill, and forced to take electric shock treatment, psychotropic drugs, all the rest of it.”

BACKGROUND: Researcher and author of Dangerous Minds: Political Psychiatry in China Today and it's Origins in the Mao Era; Director of Hong Kong Human Rights Watch and principal China researcher 1989-1998; Senior Researcher at the Law Department and Centre of Chinese Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies; member of SOAS Law and Public Health in Developing Countries Research Group. Formerly of Amnesty International. Establisher of China Labour Bulletin. Present during the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Former resident of China.

NAME: Annie Yang

EXPERTISE: Survivor

LOCATION: Foreign Press Association, London

YEAR: 2007

QUOTE: “...at the beginning I thought they care of our body and later on I understand and I heard the news from the internet: they want our organ to take away.”

BACKGROUND: Relevant information revealed in the film.

NAME: Gao Zhisheng

EXPERTISE: Lawyer

LOCATION: China

CURRENT STATUS: Unknown

BACKGROUND: Self-taught lawyer. Author of 'A China More Just'. Famed for taking pro-bono cases. Other relevant information revealed in the film.

NAME: Hu Jia

EXPERTISE: Human Rights campaigner and Blogger

LOCATION: Beijing

CURRENT STATUS: In jail

BACKGROUND: Parents persecuted during the Anti-Rightist movement. Graduated from Beijing School of Economics in 1996, majoring in Information Engineering. Buddhist of the Tibetan tradition. Made an Honorary Citizen of France in 2008. Winner of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 2008.