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Mr. Yu You, a 64-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang Province, died on August 28, 2026, seven days after Tailai Prison released him unconscious, two days before his three-year sentence was due to end. One month earlier, his brother had visited and found him healthy and in good spirits.
Between May 29 and October 14, 2026, 17 of Taiwan’s 22 city and county councils passed motions to combat transnational repression (反跨境鎮壓). The motions were a direct response to a campaign of bomb threats against screenings in Taiwan of State Organs, a documentary on forced organ harvesting in China. Their official wording attributes the threats to foreign forces (境外勢力), and some go further: the New Taipei and Kaohsiung texts name the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as does Taoyuan’s, according to news reports.
On Saturday, October 17, the Falun Gong community at Dragon Springs welcomed more than 100 guests, including government officials, business leaders, media, attorneys and artists.
On Sept. 24, as President Trump hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the White House, hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners from across the United States
Ms. Xu Yanhua, a 73-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Changchun City, Jilin Province, died in September 2026 while serving a five-year sentence for her faith. Guards transferred her from Jilin Province Women’s Prison to a designated hospital after she became severely ill, and she died there shortly afterward. She was two months short of her 74th birthday. Her case was reported by Minghui.org on October 2.
A week before Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington, religious freedom advocates gathered at the Museum of the Bible on September 16 with one immediate
Erping Zhang, spokesperson for Falun Gong, testified before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) on September 22, telling lawmakers that the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) campaign to
Ms. Cao Ping (曹萍), a 74-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Ankang City, Shaanxi Province, died in Shaanxi Province Women’s Prison in April 2026, two years after she entered the prison to serve an eight-year sentence for her faith. Her family has not been told how she died. They were permitted only a brief viewing of her body, during which they saw large bruises on her legs, and were then pressured into agreeing to an immediate cremation. Her case was reported respectively by Minghui.org and Weiquanwang on September 6.
Nine residents of Dashiqiao City, Liaoning Province, were sentenced on August 11, 2026, to prison terms ranging from six months to nine years. Eight were sentenced for practicing Falun Gong. The ninth does not practice and was convicted because he is the son of two of the defendants. The heaviest sentence went to a 71-year-old man who by the time of his trial was blind, unable to walk, and had to be wheeled into the courtroom.
Ms. Liu Shuling(刘淑玲), a Falun Gong practitioner in her late seventies from Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, died on June 23, 2026, just 27 days after being released from a five-year prison sentence served for her faith. She had entered prison able to speak and walk; she left it incapacitated, unable to talk, and, as a hospital later discovered, with several ribs and a thigh bone broken. Her case was reported by Minghui.org on August 09.
Ms. Liu Huiju, an 84-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province, died in Heilongjiang Province Women’s Prison on May 7, 2026, nine months after authorities forced her—by then wheelchair-bound and in severely poor health—to begin serving a sentence handed down more than three years earlier. Her case was reported by Minghui.org on July 23 and by Weiquanwang on July 24.
Ms. Chen Yan, a 45-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Benxi City, Liaoning Province, died on November 8, 2025—just three days after being admitted to Liaoning Province Women’s Prison to serve a five-year sentence for her faith. The Falun Dafa Information Center reported her death on December 2, 2025, describing how she was transferred to the prison unable to walk after 16 months of abuse in detention, and died within days. This report follows up with new details that have since emerged about the authorities’ handling of her death and their obstruction of an independent autopsy.
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