The persecution of Falun Gong targeted 100 million people in China, and decimated countless families and communities across China. Below, we offer a glimpse into the human cost of this persecution with up-close and personal stories of those who were killed, those who survived, and those struggling to the freedom of others. These are their stories…
Dear Reader,In a tragic milestone, the total number of Falun Gong believers documented to have died due to persecution has surpassed 5,000. The first practitioner killed was 17-year-old Ms. Chen Ying, a model student in Heilongjiang, who’s case was documented in August 1999. Nearly 24 years later, retired professor An Fuzi died in Jilin Province...
In a tragic milestone, last month, the total number of Falun Gong believers documented to have died due to persecution surpassed 5,000. The first practitioner killed was 17-year-old Ms. Chen Ying, a model student in Heilongjiang, documented in August 1999. Nearly 24 years later, retired professor An Fuzi died in Jilin Province Women’s Prison on...
Judge Gao Aiping of Wanbolin District sentenced Mr. Hou Lijun, a 52-year-old from Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, and the nephew of U.S. citizen Karen Kang, to ten years in prison on May 12, 2023 for escaping from detention in 2003 and for his civil disobedience efforts that lead to his previous detention. Hou was arrested on...
Many in the Falun Gong community are first generation Chinese who fled religious persecution in China. Having lived through the tyranny of a communist regime, many not only embrace the liberties of the United States, but have made a study of and embrace the American Ideal. Each year, they are proud to participate in July...
He Binggang and his fiancée, Zhang Yibo, were sentenced to six and five years, respectively, on June 12, 2023. The couple’s conviction stems from their alleged involvement in developing and maintaining the firewall circumvention software oGate, according to the Minghui website and acquaintances of the couple in the United States. Their joint verdict on file...
Dear Reader,As people around the world celebrated Father’s Day, many families in China were forcibly separated because of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution. Here we highlight three families where fathers have been persecuted in China for disseminating Falun Gong flyers or possessing Falun Gong texts.Other stories in today’s newsletter include:1. Over 200 troll accounts on...
In April and May, Falun Gong practitioners in China documented 261 cases of believers sentenced to prison and 45 deaths, and relayed them to the overseas Minghui website, which reviewed, verified, and published the accounts. The youngest adherent sentenced was 35 years old and the longest was handed down a nine year sentence. The sentenced...
A new law in Texas combats forced organ harvesting through insurance policy protocols and prevents Texas residents from unknowingly involving themselves in organ tourism. Forced organ harvesting, a practice attributed to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the involuntary organ removal from a living person. In legislation, it is defined as “the removal of one...
The Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of Falun Gong has separated families for nearly 24 years now. Countless adherents were placed in detention and many have been sentenced or killed for their beliefs. On Father’s Day 2023, the Falun Dafa Information Center highlights three fathers and the tragedies that the Chinese regime has brought upon their...
People from all around the world who practice Falun Dafa (a.k.a. Falun Gong) have been informing the public about the spiritual practice and raising awareness about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ongoing persecution against adherents since 1999. In Geneva’s Old Town in Switzerland, Falun Dafa practitioners held activities in the lower arcade hall of a...
The persecution of Falun Gong targeted 100 million people in China, and decimated countless families and communities across China. These are their stories…
Dear Reader,In a tragic milestone, the total number of Falun Gong believers documented to have died due to persecution has surpassed 5,000. The first practitioner killed was 17-year-old Ms. Chen Ying, a model student in Heilongjiang, who’s case was documented in August 1999. Nearly 24 years later, retired professor An Fuzi died in Jilin Province...
In a tragic milestone, last month, the total number of Falun Gong believers documented to have died due to persecution surpassed 5,000. The first practitioner killed was 17-year-old Ms. Chen Ying, a model student in Heilongjiang, documented in August 1999. Nearly 24 years later, retired professor An Fuzi died in Jilin Province Women’s Prison on...
Judge Gao Aiping of Wanbolin District sentenced Mr. Hou Lijun, a 52-year-old from Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, and the nephew of U.S. citizen Karen Kang, to ten years in prison on May 12, 2023 for escaping from detention in 2003 and for his civil disobedience efforts that lead to his previous detention. Hou was arrested on...
Many in the Falun Gong community are first generation Chinese who fled religious persecution in China. Having lived through the tyranny of a communist regime, many not only embrace the liberties of the United States, but have made a study of and embrace the American Ideal. Each year, they are proud to participate in July...
He Binggang and his fiancée, Zhang Yibo, were sentenced to six and five years, respectively, on June 12, 2023. The couple’s conviction stems from their alleged involvement in developing and maintaining the firewall circumvention software oGate, according to the Minghui website and acquaintances of the couple in the United States. Their joint verdict on file...
Dear Reader,As people around the world celebrated Father’s Day, many families in China were forcibly separated because of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution. Here we highlight three families where fathers have been persecuted in China for disseminating Falun Gong flyers or possessing Falun Gong texts.Other stories in today’s newsletter include:1. Over 200 troll accounts on...
In April and May, Falun Gong practitioners in China documented 261 cases of believers sentenced to prison and 45 deaths, and relayed them to the overseas Minghui website, which reviewed, verified, and published the accounts. The youngest adherent sentenced was 35 years old and the longest was handed down a nine year sentence. The sentenced...
A new law in Texas combats forced organ harvesting through insurance policy protocols and prevents Texas residents from unknowingly involving themselves in organ tourism. Forced organ harvesting, a practice attributed to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the involuntary organ removal from a living person. In legislation, it is defined as “the removal of one...
The Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of Falun Gong has separated families for nearly 24 years now. Countless adherents were placed in detention and many have been sentenced or killed for their beliefs. On Father’s Day 2023, the Falun Dafa Information Center highlights three fathers and the tragedies that the Chinese regime has brought upon their...
People from all around the world who practice Falun Dafa (a.k.a. Falun Gong) have been informing the public about the spiritual practice and raising awareness about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ongoing persecution against adherents since 1999. In Geneva’s Old Town in Switzerland, Falun Dafa practitioners held activities in the lower arcade hall of a...
Mr. Zhou Deyong, a senior geological engineer in Shandong Province, was arrested in a police sweep with 10 other Falun Gong practitioners and their family members on April 23, 2021. He has since been held at the Binhai Detention Center.
Steven Wang, a principal dancer in New York, remembers when he received news of his father’s passing in 2009. His parents both practiced Falun Gong, a spiritual Buddhist faith that is now being persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party. In 2016, his widowed mother attempted to visit him in New York for his wedding but Chinese authorities blocked her from leaving due to her faith in Falun Gong.
On Chinese New Year (three days before the Beijing Winter Olympics’ Opening Ceremony), police arrested and detained Ms. Yunzhi Ji. Authorities attempted to silence her because she was previously found with paper notes, stickers, and materials printed with Falun Gong information in her home. After two weeks in detention, she fell into a coma due to the abuse and passed away 49 days after her initial arrest.
Amy Yu, a fashion designer in London, has not seen her parents in 22 years. In 2016, Amy’s parents attempted to visit her in London but Chinese authorities blocked them. After rejecting their passport and visa applications, her parents were told they would never become passport holders because of their faith in Falun Gong.
Lucy’s mother, Liu Yan, was arrested by Chinese authorities on Sept. 30, 2021, in Kunming, the capital city of Yunnan Province in southwest China, and has been detained there ever since. Prior to this recent arrest, both of Lucy’s parents were sentenced to several years in prison where they were “tortured, brainwashed, and forced into slave labour,” according to Lucy.
In October of 2020, Grace Chen’s parents were studying the teachings of Falun Gong with other Falun Gong practitioners in Changsha city when police broke in and arrested them all. Subsequently, they have been detained and denied communication with family. 16-year-old Grace, who is studying in New York, calls upon all kindhearted people to help rescue her parents.
On February 5, 2020, Mr. Xie and his wife, Zhao, were arrested by the police from Guilin Qixing police station in the name of “checking body temperature.” The officers confiscated Falun Gong books and other related paraphernalia. On February 8, 2020, the police admitted that they were arrested for handing out Falun Gong materials. Ms. Zhao’s older sister, Wendy Zhao, currently resides in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Remembering persecuted families this Mother’s Day This Mother’s Day, families around the world are separated because of the pandemic, but untold thousands of mothers in
Family repeatedly targeted by the persecution, Zhang Hongyu managed to escape to the U.S. in 2014, after her mother died from the persecution. Zhang’s father, however, has been again arrested, and risks “constantly facing the dangers of torture and even organ harvesting”.
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