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May 13 this year was the 30th anniversary of Falun Dafa’s introduction to the world and also the 23rd World Falun Dafa Day. More than one thousand elected officials in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and Taiwan issued proclamations, citations, and congratulatory letters to Falun Dafa and its founder Mr. Li Hongzhi. They praised…

A Yongtai County, Fujian Province, resident has been taken to the Fujian Province Women’s Prison (福建女子监狱) to serve three years and ten months for speaking up for her faith. Ms. Guo Xiuhai, a 59-year-old retired employee of the Yongtai County Health Bureau, was reported on February 11, 2020, for talking to two young people about…

In May 2022, 17 Falun Gong practitioners were reported to have passed away due to the persecution, bringing the total confirmed death cases this year to 81. Of the cases reported in May: 1 practitioner died in 2018, 1 in 2020, 4 in 2021, and 11 in 2022. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa,…

Forty-two cases of Falun Gong practitioners sentenced for their faith were reported in May 2022. Two were sentenced in 2020, seven in 2021, and 33 in 2022, including two in January, four in February, one in March, six in April, 19 in May, and one with an unknown sentencing month. Falun Gong, also known as…

On March 28, 2021, Chinese Communist officials arrested Ms. Ma Qin, a 53-year-old former schoolteacher for practicing Falun Gong. She was arrested near her home in Pingdu City, Shandong Province. Since then, she has been held at the Qingdao City No.2 Detention Center. The Huangdao District Court heard Ms. Ma’s case on May 13, 2022…

57 Falun Gong practitioners were confirmed to have been sentenced for their faith in April 2022, including 1 case that took place in 2019, 2 cases in 2020, 7 cases in 2021, and 47 cases in 2022 (including 4 in January, 11 in March and 32 in April).  Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa,…

Ms. Li Shuang, a Hebei Province native working in Beijing, has been detained incommunicado for nearly three years for practicing Falun Gong. It was also reported that Ms. Li, who is approximately 30 years old, has developed an unspecified medical condition. Her family is calling on the authorities to release her immediately. Ms. Li worked…

The month of April 2022 confirmed 19 additional cases of Falun Gong practitioners persecuted to death for upholding their faith. Out of 18 deaths, one took place in 2016, one in 2018, six in 2021, and ten in 2022. The exact month and year of the last practitioner’s death has yet to be disclosed. Falun…

The West Kowloon Court in Hong Kong announced a verdict on January 26th for a crime committed in 2019 in which two men brutally beat a Falun Gong practitioner.  Ke Yanzhan was sentenced to two years and nine months for acting as a lookout during the attack. Two suspects believed to be the assailants Mr. Ke…

In March 2022, 74 Falun Gong practitioners were reported to have been sentenced for their faith. The newly confirmed cases include 1 in 2013; 2 in 2014; 1 each in 2016, 2017, and 2018; 24 in 2021; and 44 in 2022. Of the 44 cases in 2022, 1 was sentenced on January, 13 in February,…

On April 2, the American Journal of Transplantation published an article on organ harvesting in China titled “Execution by organ procurement: Breaching the dead donor rule in China.” The article documents 71 instances of dead donor rule (DDR) violations described in Chinese research articles on organ transplantation. The DDR is an internationally recognized ethical guideline that…

The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) released its 2021 Annual Report on March 31, 2022. The report details ongoing human rights violations in China including the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. “The Chinese government’s horrific abuse of human rights and trampling of human dignity make it more important than ever that the Congressional-Executive Commission on…

Since 1999, the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of Falun Gong has taken on various forms of physical and mental torture, including the use of psychiatric drugs and toxic substances in attempts to break the will power of Falun Gong practitioners. Below is a first-hand account of what a Falun Gong practitioner in the Shandong Women’s…

Ms. Guan Fengxia and her husband, Mr. Dai Zhidong, died less than one year apart for their shared faith in Falun Gong. Ms. Guan, of Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, took up Falun Gong in 1995. After witnessing how she improved as a person, her husband, Mr. Dai, began to practice a year later. Their peaceful…

After losing both of her parents to the Chinese regime’s persecution of Falun Gong, Ms. Sun Yujiao (30) was imprisoned with a 7-year term for her faith. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual practice that has been targeted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since 1999. Ms. Sun was arrested at…

When the pandemic began to spread in early 2020, an average citizen by the name of Fang Bin took up the helm and exposed the hidden truth arising out of the chaos within Wuhan, China to the entire world. Covered by the likes of BBC, CCN, New York Times, Human Rights Watch, Radio Free Asia,…

Two Jiangxi Province residents in their 60s were sentenced to prison on February 24, 2022 for talking to people on a bus about Falun Gong. Ms. Lai Huanping, 67, was sentenced to three and a half years. Due to a health condition, Lai is now serving time at home and is not allowed to go out. Ms. Wu Zhiping,…

A Beijing award-winning elementary teacher Ms. Gong Ruiping (45) was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison and fined 11,000 yuan (~1,700 USD) on February 21, 2022, for talking to a young man about Falun Gong. That young man, Qu Yili, reported Ms. Gong to Chinese communist officials on July 3, 2021. Police tracked Ms. Gong’s…