falun gong persecution

Reported in January 2025: 13 Falun Gong Practitioners Die as a Result of Persecution

China NewsFebruary 12, 20250Comments

Feb. 10, 2025 | By a Minghui correspondent (Minghui.org) Thirteen cases of Falun Gong practitioners losing their lives to the persecution of their faith were reported in January 2025. The thirteen newly-reported deaths included one that took place in 2020, eleven in 2024, and one in 2025. Due to strict information censorship, the persecution of Falun Gong…

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…

European Parliament Passes Resolution Demanding CCP Immediately End the Persecution of Falun Gong

World NewsJanuary 24, 20240Comments

Jan. 20, 2024 | By Minghui correspondent Xue Li (Minghui.org) Members of the European Parliament (MEP) passed the 2024/2504 (RSP) resolution with a majority vote on January 18, 2024 at the Parliament’s Headquarters in Strasbourg, France. The procedure was initiated by members from different parties and Member States. The resolution condemns the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ongoing…

Reported in March 2023: 116 Falun Gong Practitioners Sentenced for Their Faith

China NewsApril 15, 20230Comments

April 14, 2023 | By a Minghui correspondent in China (Minghui.org) A total of 116 cases of Falun Gong practitioners sentenced for their faith were reported in March 2023. Among the newly documented cases, 2 took place in each of 2016 and 2020, 8 were in 2021, 40 in 2022 and 64 in 2023. The 2023 cases…

Reported in January and February 2023: 624 Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested or Harassed for Their Faith

China NewsMarch 19, 20230Comments

March 17, 2023 | By a Minghui correspondent (Minghui.org) A total of 624 incidents of Falun Gong practitioners being arrested or harassed for their faith were reported in January and February 2023. Among the 380 arrest cases, 2 took place in 2021, 144 were in 2022 and 234 happened in 2023. The 244 harassment incidents included 108…

Reported in January 2023: 117 Falun Gong Practitioners Sentenced for Their Faith

China NewsFebruary 11, 20230Comments

Feb. 11, 2023 | By a Minghui correspondent (Minghui.org) A total of 117 cases of Falun Gong practitioners sentenced for their faith were reported in January 2023. Among the newly confirmed cases, 11 took place between 2015 and 2020, 19 were in 2021, 61 in 2022, and 26 in January 2023. The delay in reporting is caused…

Reported in 2022: 172 Falun Gong Practitioners Die in the Persecution of Their Faith

China NewsJanuary 8, 20230Comments

Jan. 7, 2023 | By a Minghui correspondent (Minghui.org) The deaths of 172 Falun Gong practitioners as a result of the persecution of their faith were reported in 2022, including 30 deaths (17%) that occurred between 2007 and 2020, 41 (24%) in 2021 and 101 (59%) in 2022. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a…

How Many Falun Gong Practitioners Have Been Beaten to Death in Custody?

China NewsDecember 17, 20220Comments

Dec. 16, 2022 | By a Falun Dafa practitioner in China (Minghui.org) After Jiang Zemin, the former head of the Chinese communist regime ordered the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, he mobilised the entire society, including law enforcement, procuratorates, courts, detention facilities, schools, and businesses, to carry out his eradication policy to “Destroy them [Falun Gong…

Reported in September and October 2022: 2,054 Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested or Harassed for Their Faith

China NewsNovember 27, 20220Comments

Nov. 24, 2022 | By a Minghui correspondent in China (Minghui.org) 2,054 incidents of Falun Gong practitioners being arrested or harassed for their faith were reported in September and October 2022. Out of the 2,054 newly-reported incidents, 659 were arrests, including 34 cases that took place in 2021, 248 between January and August 2022, and 377 in…

Reported in October 2022: 28 Falun Gong Practitioners Sentenced for Their Faith

China NewsNovember 12, 20220Comments

Nov. 7, 2022 | By a Minghui correspondent (Minghui.org) Twenty-eight cases of Falun Gong practitioners being sentenced for their faith were reported in October 2022. Except two cases that took place in 2014 and 2021, respectively, the remaining 26 happened in 2022, including one in May and June each, six in July, two in August, and eight…

Falun Gong Practitioner Disappearance Cases

China NewsOctober 26, 20220Comments

Oct. 22, 2022 | By a Minghui correspondent (Minghui.org) This past September marked the 20th anniversary of Mr. Yang Aijin’s disappearance. Since the then-33-year-old man was arrested on September 6, 2002, for doing the Falun Gong meditation outdoors, his family has never heard from him again. Similar to Mr. Yang, countless other Falun Gong practitioners have also…

Reported in January 2022: 132 Falun Gong Practitioners Sentenced for Their Faith

China NewsFebruary 19, 20220Comments

Feb. 14, 2022 | By a Minghui correspondent ______________________________ (Minghui.org) The first month of 2022 recorded 132 Falun Gong practitioners sentenced to prison for their faith, including 8 cases that took place in 2020, 88 cases in 2021 and 36 cases in 2022. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted…