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Reported in February 2024: 10 Falun Gong Practitioners Die as a Result of Persecution

China NewsMarch 13, 20240Comments

March 13, 2024 | By a Minghui correspondent (Minghui.org) Another ten deaths of Falun Gong practitioners as a result of the persecution of their faith were reported in February 2024. The newly confirmed death cases included one case each in 2014 and 2017, three cases in 2023, and five cases in 2024. Due to the communist regime’s…

19 Years of Imprisonment and Torture for Tapping into TV Network to Spread the Truth (Part 3)

China NewsJanuary 8, 20230Comments

Jan. 7, 2023 | By a Minghui correspondent in Heilongjiang Province, China (Minghui.org) (Continued from Part 2.) Another Round of Coercive Transformation In January 2009, I was taken back to solitary confinement for two weeks. Even though the temperature was below freezing, the guards turned off the heat and only gave me a very thin blanket.…

At Least 32 Falun Gong Practitioners Still Jailed in Jiangxi Province Women’s Prison

China NewsDecember 22, 20210Comments

Dec. 22, 2021 | By a Minghui correspondent in Jiangxi Province, China _________________________________________________ (Minghui.org) Jiangxi Province Women’s Prison has been participating in the persecution of Falun Gong since the Chinese communist regime launched a nationwide campaign against the mind-body practice in 1999. Many female Falun Gong practitioners, one group after another, have been incarcerated there. The prison guards…

Belated News: Labor Camp Guard Tan Qingyue Responsible for Ms. Tang Meijun’s Torture Death

China NewsNovember 11, 20210Comments

Nov. 10, 2021 | By a Minghui correspondent in Chongqing, China (Minghui.org) Chinese Name: 唐梅君 Gender: Female Age: 49 City: Province: Chongqing Occupation: Operator of Chongqing Railway Company Date of Death: December 30, 2003 Date of Most Recent Arrest: December 10, 2003 Most Recent Place of Detention: Chongqing Women’s Forced Labor Camp Ms. Tang Meijun. Ms. Tang Meijun, an operator of Chongqing Railway Company,…

Torture I Suffered in Chinese Detention Centers and Prison

China NewsOctober 11, 20210Comments

Oct. 7, 2021 | By Jiang Guobo, a Falun Gong practitioner in Weifang City, Shandong Province, China (Minghui.org) Editor’s note: Mr. Jiang Guobo, a former county-level government official, recalls his experience both before and after practicing Falun Dafa and how he changed from being a corrupt official to living as an honest and upright person…

Torture and Death of Falun Gong Continue, Say Submissions to United Nations

Events, Main Page, Media ReleaseNovember 11, 20080Comments

Human rights groups’ statements submitted to the United Nations Committee against Torture prior to the body’s review of China on Friday highlight the continued torture and death in custody of Falun Gong adherents.

In April 2007, Twenty-One Confirmed Deaths of Practitioners Due to Torture (Photos)

China News, Events, Main Page, Media ReleaseMay 11, 20070Comments

In April 2007, an additional twenty one deaths of Falun Gong practitioners in China due to torture were confirmed. Among them, sixteen practitioners died between January and March in 2007 and five died in April 2007. Eight practitioners, 38 percent, were females, and thirteen, 67 percent, were seniors over fifty years old.

Prominent Falun Gong Practitioner Dead from Torture

China News, Events, Main Page, Media ReleaseNovember 5, 20060Comments

Zhang is one of nearly 3,000 Falun Gong practitioners whose deaths due to torture and abuse by police in China have been documented.

Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai Visits Australia and is Sued for Torture (Photos)

Australia News, Events, Main Page, Media ReleaseApril 6, 20060Comments

Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai, who is accompanying Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to visit Australia, has been sued for torture and genocide by Falun Gong practitioners in Australia. This is another lawsuit filed against Bo when he visited foreign countries, following the lawsuits against him in the US, the UK, Ireland and Russia.