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...
“My name is Winston Liu. I work as a computer control engineer at a chemical plant in Wyoming. How I got here is a story fraught with danger.”
Determined to expose the persecution of Falun Gong, Mr. Lizhi He sent letters his colleagues and friends telling them the truth about Falun Gong. He had no way of knowing that police officers had been watching him as he mailed the letters. The retribution came quickly.
For dissiminating truthful information about Falun Gong, Dr. Sa Geng and his wife were brutally tortured. His wife was persecuted to death in custody in 2003; Geng later escaped to the U.S. in 2015.
Mr. Bu Dongwei (David Bu), was assigned to two-and-a-half years to Re-education through Labour on June 19, 2006, for his faith in Falun Gong. Through efforts from Amnesty International’s pre-Olympic prisoner campaign in 2008, Bu was freed in July 2008.
Instead of relaying the usual announcements, to which all 30,000 employees at the Shengyang Heavy Machine Factory were duty-bound to listen, the company loudspeakers blared the screams of “Traitor!” and “Evil!”. The object of their malice was junior sales manager Li Weixun. The workers who knew her could not believe their ears.
The police escorted Mr. Shenli Lin and his wife hand in hand, down the hall to the top of the stairs. Jinyu wasn’t allowed to go any further. As Shenli turned his head and smiled goodbye, it would be two years before they saw each other again.
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