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...
Before the persecution began in 1999, the shy yet resilient Ms. Yifei Wang worked as a senior journalist for the Chinese Communist Party. She supported her parents’ practice of Falun Gong after they became healthy for the first time in decades.
When Falun Gong prisoners of conscience like Ms. Zhenping Chen are rescued from dire situations in China, it’s usually thanks to the concerted efforts of overseas fellow adherents, rights organizations, and politicians.
While Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Sun Yi was incarcerated in China’s infamous Masanjia forced-labor camp, he began writing SOS letters about the desperate situation in the camp and hiding them inside the packaging of goods for export that he was made to work on.
“I would never forget the horrible scene: I lay on my bed, in tears, like a dead fish because of the injuries, hearing the horrible screams from practitioners being tortured! I felt like being in hell! But the most painful wound was in my heart!“
Ms. Zhu Xiumin was shocked to find herself pregnant after she ended a five-month hunger strike in protest of the arbitrary detention for her faith. She had been force-fed with psychiatric drugs during the ordeal, yet her unborn baby survived.
Helen Chen, 70, never imagined that she’d be living in Northeast Minneapolis. At one point, she didn’t even expect to live past 50. After taking up Falun Dafa, Helen’s health improved dramatically, and she found answers to many of her life’s questions.
A 64-year-old woman was severely tortured, according to her recent harrowing account, and was brought “to the verge of death” multiple times for practicing a form of meditation that is persecuted in China.
From practicing Falun Dafa, Mr. Roy Manning discovered the meaning of life. He became kinder to others and cared less about self-interest. Yet for appealing for his faith, he would face unbearable physical and mental torment.
Two years ago, Sunny Guo, a then 47-year-old Chinese housewife, came alone to America to start a new life, one free of religious persecution. She was fleeing repeated detention and torture by the Chinese Communist Party in its attempt to break her will so she would give up her faith.
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