Persecution
By the end of the 1990s, a hundred million people were practicing Falun Gong. Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline's growing popularity as a threat to the CCP's atheistic ideology and on July 20, 1999, issued an order to ban the practice. Since then, thousands of practitioners have been confirmed to have died as a result of the persecution, and many more have been imprisoned, tortured, and even killed for organs.
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March 10, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionLiaoning Woman Faces Prosecution in Jilin Province for Practicing Falun Gong
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March 10, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionArrested Ahead of Military Parade, Three Shandong Residents Sentenced to Prison for Practicing Falun Gong
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March 10, 2026 | Accounts of Persecution73-Year-Old Man Experiences Dramatic Weight Loss While Detained for His Faith
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March 9, 2026 | Accounts of Persecution79-Year-Old Woman Repeatedly Arrested and Harassed for Her Faith in Falun Gong
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March 9, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionShandong Man Given Second Four-Year Prison Term for Practicing Falun Gong
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March 9, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 26, 2026 (4 Reports)
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March 9, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 27, 2026 (4 Reports)
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March 8, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 25, 2026 (9 Reports)
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March 8, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 25, 2026 (9 Reports)
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March 7, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionShandong Man Subjected to Three Years of Mistreatment in Prison for Practicing Falun Gong
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March 7, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionSix Hebei Residents Jailed in Shandong Province for Their Faith in Falun Gong
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March 7, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 23, 2026 (2 Reports)
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March 6, 2026 | Accounts of Persecution38-Year-Old Hebei Man Files Motion to Reconsider Case After Losing Appeal of Second 5-Year Prison Sentence for Practicing Falun Gong
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March 6, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 24, 2026 (6 Reports)
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March 5, 2026 | Persecution Outside ChinaFalun Gong Practitioners Attacked by Pro-CCP Agents in London and New York, Police Open Criminal Investigations
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March 5, 2026 | Accounts of Persecution65-Year-Old Fujian Woman Sentenced Five Times to a Total of Nearly 21 Years Since 2000 for Practicing Falun Gong
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March 5, 2026 | Accounts of Persecution77-Year-Old Woman’s Whereabouts Unknown Since a Court Hearing in 2020
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March 5, 2026 | Accounts of Persecution57-Year-Old Woman Serving Second 5-Year Prison Term for Her Faith Forced to Work Long Hours, Now Emaciated and Frail
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March 5, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 22, 2026 (4 Reports)
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March 4, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionShandong Man, Around 51, Jailed for Four Years Because of His Faith in Falun Gong
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March 4, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionInner Mongolia Woman, Around 67, Gets Another 2 Years for Her Faith, Previously Sentenced to 7 Years
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March 4, 2026 | Accounts of Persecution67-Year-Old Jilin Woman Missing for at Least a Month, Likely Detained Again for Her Faith in Falun Gong
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March 4, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 21, 2026 (5 Reports)
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March 3, 2026 | Deaths Due To PersecutionShanghai Woman Dies at 75 After Being Imprisoned for More Than 12 Years Behind Bars for Practicing Falun Gong
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March 3, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionThrice Jailed a Total of 11.5 Years, 73-Year-Old Shanxi Woman Gets 3.5 Years for Practicing Falun Gong
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March 3, 2026 | Accounts of Persecution54-Year-Old Hebei Woman Faces Trial Because She Practices Falun Gong
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March 3, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionYunnan Woman Admitted to Prison to Serve a Second Jail Term for Practicing Falun Gong
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March 3, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 17, 2026 (4 Reports)
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March 2, 2026 | Accounts of Persecution52-Year-Old Heilongjiang Man Faces Harassment and Surveillance After Four Years in Prison for Practicing Falun Gong
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March 2, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionFormer Attending Physician Recounts Latest Arrest That Led to Four Years of Prison Abuse
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March 2, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAfter 8.5 Years Behind Bars, 58-Year-Old Liaoning Woman Gets Another 3.5 Years for Practicing Falun Gong
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March 2, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 19, 2026 (3 Reports)
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March 1, 2026 | Psychiatric TortureShandong Woman Recalls How She Was Drugged at a Forced Labor Camp and Suffered a Mental Collapse
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March 1, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionSentenced to Four Years on Shaky Evidence, Heilongjiang Man Appeals Wrongful Conviction
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March 1, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 18, 2026 (4 Reports)
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Feb. 28, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionTen Years After Husband’s Passing, Jiangxi Woman Also Dies in the Persecution of Their Shared Faith
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Feb. 28, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionBelated News: Hebei Woman Dies After Suffering Two Decades of Complications from Toxic Shots Given at a Psychiatric Hospital
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Feb. 28, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionOnce Jailed for 11 Months, 48-Year-Old Heilongjiang Woman Gets Another 4 Years for Practicing Falun Gong
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Feb. 28, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionHubei Man Remains Detained for His Faith, Distraught Mother Passes Away
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Feb. 27, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionCrimes of Zhang Fengwu and Huang Yanchun of Linghai City Court and Ma Liang of Linghai City Procuratorate in Persecuting Falun Gong
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Feb. 27, 2026 | Deaths Due To PersecutionBelated News: 86-Year-Old Sichuan Woman Dies in 2024, Months After Finishing a Three-Year Probation for Practicing Falun Gong
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Feb. 27, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionRetired College Professor’s Requests for Pension Reinstatement Repeatedly Denied, No Retirement Benefits for 14 Years Prior to Her Death
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Feb. 27, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 16, 2026 (2 Reports)
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Feb. 26, 2026 | Perpetrators Involved in Persecution of Falun GongCrimes of Zhou Jiong, Party Secretary and Warden of Yongchuan Prison in Chongqing, in Persecuting Falun Gong
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Feb. 26, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionSichuan Woman Secretly Sentenced to One Year for Raising Awareness About the Persecution of Falun Gong
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Feb. 26, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionGuangdong Couple Face Trial for Practicing Falun Gong
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Feb. 26, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 14, 2026 (7 Reports)
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Feb. 26, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 15, 2026 (7 Reports)
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Feb. 25, 2026 | Perpetrators Involved in Persecution of Falun GongCrimes of Li Jiashu, Director of the Gansu Provincial Prison Administration, in Persecuting Falun Gong
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Feb. 25, 2026 | Deaths Due To PersecutionMore Information About 83-Year-Old Chongqing Man Who Died Serving Time for Practicing Falun Gong
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Feb. 25, 2026 | Accounts of Persecution72-Year-Old Woman Arrested After Two Years on the Run, Secretly Sentenced to Two Years
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Feb. 25, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionHunan Woman, Around 62, Faces Indictment for Her Faith, Previously Jailed for 7 Years
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Feb. 25, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 13, 2026 (9 Reports)
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Feb. 24, 2026 | Perpetrators Involved in Persecution of Falun GongCrimes of Jiang Zhongping, Former Deputy Secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Political and Legal Affairs Committee, in Persecuting Falun Gong
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Feb. 24, 2026 | Deaths Due To PersecutionTortured to Critical Condition While Serving Five Years for Her Faith, Jilin Woman, 56, Dies Two Months After Being Released on Parole
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Feb. 24, 2026 | Deaths Due To PersecutionAdditional Information About Abuse of Hunan Man Who Died While Serving Eight Years for Practicing Falun Gong
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Feb. 24, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Information About How Falun Gong Practitioners Are Abused in Heilongjiang Province Women’s Prison
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Feb. 24, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionHeilongjiang Woman Sentenced to Five Years for Practicing Falun Gong
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Feb. 24, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionHebei Man Sentenced to 4.5 Years in Inner Mongolia for Practicing Falun Gong
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Feb. 24, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionBelated News: 62-Year-Old Jilin Woman Imprisoned For More Than Three Years for Practicing Falun Gong
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Feb. 24, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 12, 2026 (15 Reports)
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Feb. 23, 2026 | Peaceful Appeal of April 25, 1999The Power of Genuine Kindness: How a Major Slaughter Was Avoided in Beijing 27 Years Ago
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Feb. 23, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionSichuan Woman Sentenced to Prison, Pension Suspended Because of Her Faith in Falun Gong
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Feb. 23, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 10, 2026 (7 Reports)
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Feb. 23, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionGuangdong Woman in Her 60s Faces Trial for Practicing Falun Gong, Previously Jailed for 6 Months
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Feb. 22, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionFamily of Wrongfully Convicted Woman Ordered to Pay Back 650K of Her Pension
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Feb. 22, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAfter Being Jailed for 11 Years, Heilongjiang Man Sentenced to Another Five Years for Practicing Falun Gong
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Feb. 22, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 8, 2026 (6 Reports)
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Feb. 21, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionBelated News: Two Sisters Die Eight Years Apart Due to Persecution of Their Shared Faith
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Feb. 21, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionYinchuan, Ningxia: New Information about Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested During Police Sweep in November 2025
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Feb. 21, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 7, 2026 (11 Reports)
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Feb. 20, 2026 | Deaths Due To PersecutionHubei Man Dies Less Than Two Years After Serving a 3-Year Term for Practicing Falun Gong
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Feb. 20, 2026 | Deaths Due To PersecutionBelated News: Inner Mongolia Man Dies in Late 2022 While Serving a 9-Year Prison Term for His Faith in Falun Gong
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Feb. 20, 2026 | Accounts of Persecution78-Year-Old Woman Detained for Her Faith in Falun Gong, Health Quickly Declines
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Feb. 20, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionSocial Security Bureau Defies Court Order to Reinstate Elderly Woman’s Pension Because She Still Practices Falun Gong
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Feb. 20, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 9, 2026 (11 Reports)
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Feb. 19, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionOnce Jailed for 4 Years, 77-Year-Old Liaoning Woman Stands Trial Again for Practicing Falun Gong
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Feb. 19, 2026 | Accounts of Persecution59-Year-Old Jilin Woman Barred from Calling Family, While Serving a 3.5-Year Term for Practicing Falun Gong
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Feb. 19, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionFalun Gong Practitioner Recounts Suspicious Blood Draws Before and After Being Admitted to Liaoning Province Women’s Prison
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Feb. 18, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionWuhan, Hubei Province: Two Women Detained Incommunicado for Their Faith in Falun Gong
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Feb. 18, 2026 | Deaths Due To PersecutionBelated News: The Last Hours of Heilongjiang Man Tortured to Death in Custody at 44 in 2005
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Feb. 18, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionMentally Healthy Man Held in Psychiatric Ward for Two Years and Eight Months, Threatened with Live Organ Harvesting
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Feb. 18, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 5, 2026 (9 Reports)
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Feb. 17, 2026 | Accounts of Persecution85-Year-Old Woman Given Third Prison Term for Practicing Falun Gong
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Feb. 17, 2026 | Accounts of Persecution61-Year-Old Shandong Woman Faces Indictment for Practicing Falun Gong
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Feb. 17, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionMiddle School Teacher Arrested for Practicing Falun Gong
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Feb. 17, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 4, 2026 (14 Reports)
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Feb. 16, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionChinese New Year Is Here, But These Innocent Elderly Are Still Suffering
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Feb. 16, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Details Regarding the Court Hearing of Three Shandong Women for Their Shared Faith in Falun Gong
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Feb. 16, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionPreviously Jailed for One Year, Shandong Man Faces Indictment for Practicing Falun Gong
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Feb. 16, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 6, 2026 (6 Reports)
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Feb. 15, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionDongning City, Heilongjiang Province: Four Falun Gong Practitioners Sentenced to 4.5 to 9 Years
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Feb. 15, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionFlour Factory Owner Tried for Practicing Falun Gong
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Feb. 15, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 2, 2026 (9 Reports)
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Feb. 15, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 3, 2026 (8 Reports)
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Feb. 14, 2026 | Accounts of Persecution74-Year-Old Woman Given Fifth Prison Sentence for Her Faith in Falun Gong
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Feb. 14, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionQingdao, Shandong Province: Over 10 Residents in Same District Arrested in Mid-January 2026 for Their Faith in Falun Gong
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Feb. 14, 2026 | Accounts of PersecutionAdditional Persecution News from China – February 1, 2026 (7 Reports)
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Feb. 13, 2026 | Deaths Due To PersecutionBelated News: Heilongjiang Woman, 67, Dies in December 2000 After Constant Surveillance and Harassment for Her Faith
