CCP human rights violations

Reported in March 2025: 61 Falun Gong Practitioners Sentenced for Their Faith

China NewsApril 16, 20250Comments

April 15, 2025 | By a Minghui correspondent (Minghui.org) A total of 61 cases of Falun Gong practitioners sentenced to prison for their faith were confirmed in March 2025. The newly-confirmed cases included one that took place in 2019, 2020 and 2021 each, two in 2023, 12 in 2024, 35 in 2025, and 9 cases with unknown…

Reported in March 2025: Thirteen Falun Gong Practitioners Die as a Result of Persecution

China NewsApril 13, 20250Comments

April 8, 2025 | By a Minghui correspondent (Minghui.org) The cases of thirteen Falun Gong practitioners who lost their lives due to the persecution were reported in March 2025. The thirteen newly-reported deaths include one each that took place in 2019, 2020, and 2023, three in 2024, and seven in 2025. Except for one practitioner whose gender…

5,692 Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested or Harassed in 2024 for Their Faith

China NewsJanuary 26, 20250Comments

Jan. 20, 2025 | By a Minghui correspondent (Minghui.org) Ms. Xie Xiaoting, an undergraduate student at the Zhongshan City campus of Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, was arrested on January 9, 2024, for removing a poster smearing Falun Gong from a bulletin board on campus. The police worked with the school leadership to interrogate her and ordered her to…

Reported in 2024: 164 Falun Gong Practitioners Die in the Persecution of Their Faith

China NewsJanuary 15, 20250Comments

Jan. 12, 2025 | By a Minghui correspondent (Minghui.org) Mr. Liu Dianyuan, a Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, resident, was sentenced to 11.5 years in 2016 at the age of 78 for practicing Falun Gong. Despite his extremely poor health, the Shenyang City First Prison still accepted him. His condition continued to decline and he passed away in…

Reported in November 2024: 64 Falun Gong Practitioners Sentenced for Their Faith

China NewsDecember 21, 20240Comments

Dec. 16, 2024 | By a Minghui correspondent (Minghui.org) According to information collected by Minghui.org, 64 Falun Gong practitioners were sentenced to prison in November 2024. The newly confirmed cases include 58 that took place in 2024 and 6 at an unknown time. With ever stricter information censorship under the Chinese Communist Party, many details about the…

Crimes of Wang Wentao, Minister of Commerce, in Persecuting Falun Gong

China NewsAugust 18, 20240Comments

Aug. 16, 2024 | By a Minghui correspondent (Minghui.org) On the 25th anniversary since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to suppress Falun Gong in July 1999, practitioners from 44 countries submitted a new list of perpetrators to their respective governments, asking them to bar the perpetrators and their family members from entry, and freeze their…

2,714 Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested or Harassed for Their Faith in the First Half of 2024

China NewsAugust 12, 20240Comments

July 31, 2024 | By a Minghui correspondent (Minghui.org) According to information collected by Minghui.org, a total of 2,714 Falun Gong practitioners were arrested or harassed for their faith in the first half of 2024. The 2,714 newly reported cases broke down to 1,470 arrests and 1,244 harassment cases. The month of April recorded the most combined…

Cases of Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in China’s Military

China NewsJuly 10, 20240Comments

July 10, 2024 | By a Minghui correspondent (Minghui.org) People from all walks of life in China, including those in the military, started practicing Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa) after it was introduced to the public in 1992. The Chinese Communist Party started the persecution of the practice in 1999, and many of them have…

Reported in April and May 2024: 24 Falun Gong Practitioners Die as a Result of Persecution

China NewsJune 12, 20240Comments

June 12, 2024 | By a Minghui correspondent (Minghui.org) The deaths of 24 Falun Gong practitioners as a result of being persecuted for practicing their faith were reported in April and May 2024. The newly confirmed deaths included one each in 2003, 2015, 2019, 2020, and 2021; four in 2023; and 15 between January and May 2024.…

Reported in February 2024: 56 Falun Gong Practitioners Sentenced for Their Faith

China NewsMarch 16, 20240Comments

March 14, 2024 | By a Minghui correspondent (Minghui.org) A total of 56 cases of law-abiding Chinese citizens sentenced for their faith in Falun Gong were reported in February 2024. The newly confirmed cases included one in 2021 and 2022 each, 34 in 2023, 11 in 2024, and 9 cases with unknown years. With ever more strict…

Crimes of Feng Guang, Director of Division One of the Ranghulu Procuratorate in Heilongjiang Province, in Persecuting Falun Gong

China NewsFebruary 7, 20240Comments

Feb. 5, 2024 | By a Minghui correspondent (Minghui.org) Twenty-four years after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Falun Gong in 1999, Falun Gong practitioners from 44 countries submitted a new list of perpetrators to their respective governments in advance of Human Rights Day, December 10, 2023, urging the authorities to hold these individuals accountable for the…

Crimes of Zhang Wenge, Former Head of the Domestic Security Office of the Hebei Provincial Public Security Department, in Persecuting Falun Gong

China NewsFebruary 7, 20240Comments

Feb. 1, 2024 | By a Minghui correspondent (Minghui.org) Twenty-four years after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Falun Gong in 1999, practitioners from 44 countries submitted a new list of perpetrators to their respective governments in advance of Human Rights Day, December 10, 2023, urging the authorities to hold these individuals accountable for the persecution…