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…
The persecution of Falun Gong targeted 100 million people in China, and decimated countless families and communities across China. These are their stories…
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.
“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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