
124 Falun Gong Practitioners Reported Dead from Persecution in China in 2025
In 2025, at least 124 Falun Gong practitioners in China were reported to have died as a result of the ongoing persecution, according to information compiled by Minghui.org.
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In 2025, at least 124 Falun Gong practitioners in China were reported to have died as a result of the ongoing persecution, according to information compiled by Minghui.org.

An 81-year-old Falun Gong practitioner in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, died under suspicious circumstances after being illegally detained for less than 20 days, raising serious concerns about the treatment of elderly prisoners of conscience in China.

On International Human Rights Day, December 10, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) released its Annual Report, again spotlighting the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) continued

On September 29, more than thirty Falun Gong practitioners in Jinan were arrested for their faith in Falun Gong. At least 16 remain in detention at the time of writing, according to a Nov.13 report by Minghui.org.
Similarly, on Nov. 12, 2025, ten Falun Gong practitioners in Changde City, Hunan Province, were sentenced to prison for practicing their faith.

A 45-year-old woman jailed for practicing Falun Gong died on Nov. 8—just three days after being admitted to the Liaoning Province Women’s Prison—according to Weiquanwang, a website aggregating grassroots accounts of human rights abuses in China. Minghui.org reported that her body bore signs of severe mistreatment, and authorities have refused to release the autopsy results to her parents.

Newly obtained video footage and family accounts indicate that Chen Zhongli (陈忠丽), a veteran advocate and elderly mother, was detained in Shanxi and remains held

Thanksgiving is usually a holiday for celebrating family, crowded around the dinner table with loved ones. But for many Falun Gong families separated by religious

Men Yulin (門玉林), a 74-year-old resident of Yi County, Liaoning Province, passed away on Oct. 21, 2025, just four days after being released from a seven-year prison sentence for practicing Falun Gong.

Mr. Zhiwen Wang, a former volunteer contact person of the Falun Gong Research Association and one of the most well-known victims of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution campaign against Falun Gong, passed away at the Capital Medical University Affiliated Beijing Shijitan Hospital on October 16.

The Chinese communist regime has “created a market in the organs of their political enemies,” says Matthew Robertson, a researcher who has been investigating China’s organ transplant system for more than a decade.

A 52-year-old woman, Ms. Zhang Fengxia (張鳳霞) from Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, died on Aug. 17, just seven days after being arrested for her faith in Falun Gong, a spiritual practice based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since 1999.

A 70-year-old woman in Baiyin City, Gansu Province, died on Sept. 12, while serving a three-year-nine-month prison term for her faith in Falun Gong.

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