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Ms. Wang Shuzhi was a 59-year-old resident of Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province. She died at the Jixi City Detention Center on July 19, 2025, less than two months after she was arrested for practicing Falun Gong.
July 20, 2025, marked the 26th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) brutal persecution of Falun Gong, a peaceful spiritual practice that once had tens of millions of followers across China. Since the crackdown began in 1999, Falun Gong practitioners have faced forced labor, imprisonment, torture, and even organ harvesting. As you are likely aware, the CCP has been escalating its efforts beyond China’s borders, increasingly relying on transnational repression tactics—including disinformation and lawfare campaigns—to silence and intimidate Falun Gong practitioners and their supporters overseas.
Mr. Zhao Jiyuan, 71, a resident of Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, passed away in Jinzhou City Prison on July 4, 2025 while serving a seven-and-a-half-year term for his faith in Falun Gong.
Mr. He Jingru, a 68-year-old resident of Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, died on May 20, 2025, while being held in a psychiatric hospital, according to Minghui.org. In 2024, officers from the State Security Brigade of the Huidong County Public Security Bureau abducted him for practicing Falun Gong and sent him to a psychiatric hospital in Huizhou.
For over 25 years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been persecuting practitioners of Falun Gong. Chinese citizens who persevere in their faith or share information about Falun Gong or rights abuses face rampant detention, torture, and extrajudicial killings. In the early years of the persecution, few could have imagined that Falun Gong would survive—or that the CCP’s violent campaign would still be ongoing 26 years later. Yet, that is the reality today. Moreover, in recent years the regime has redoubled its efforts to monitor, detain, imprison, and “transform” Falun Gong practitioners in China and to surveil, harass, silence, and malign believers around the world.
At a side event during the 59th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on June 16, 2025, survivors, medical experts, and human rights advocates spotlighted the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ongoing persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and other religious groups.
Geneva, June 16, 2025 — A high-profile side event held during the 59th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council cast renewed international attention on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) systematic persecution of religious groups—particularly the violent repression of Falun Gong practitioners and the ongoing practice of forced organ harvesting.
Mr. Yi Xiangyang (also known as Yin Xiangyang), a 76-year-old farmer from Liujia Village in Longkou City, Shandong Province, was admitted to Shandong Province Men’s Prison on June 11, 2025, according to Minghui.org and Weiquanwang.
According to the latest report as of June 3 by Minghui.org, Ms. Li Qun’e, a Falun Gong practitioner in Hunan, was transferred to Hunan Women’s Prison in February for her faith.
In a disturbing recurrence of religious persecution, mass arrests in Hunan Province— separated by fifteen years—targeted the same group of Falun Gong practitioners. These included Ms. Li Qun’e and Ms. Cao Shuiju, who have endured prolonged detention, violence, extortion, and unjust sentencing for their peaceful spiritual practice.
On May 9, Wang Yan, a 71-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, died while imprisoned at Liaoning Women’s Prison (formerly known as Shenyang Dabei Women’s Prison). Her death brings the number of confirmed Falun Gong deaths due to persecution by the Chinese Communist Party to over 5,205, according to Minghui.org.
Wang Ligong, a 76-year-old former researcher from Changchun City, Jilin Province, died in November 2024 while serving a prison term for practicing Falun Gong—a spiritual discipline persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since 1999. His death resulted from a series of violations against legal procedure and medical advice, including ignoring medical assessments deeming him unfit for detention.
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