(Minghui.org) The International Commission for Human Rights and Religion Freedom (ICHRRF) held its annual convention in Lorton, Virginia, on October 10 and 11, 2025, to discuss global atrocities targeting women. Dr. Sen Nie, a researcher at the Human Rights Center and Professor Emeritus of Engineering at the Catholic University of America, spoke about the ongoing persecution of female Falun Gong practitioners in China by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The ICHRRF is a nonprofit organization based in the United States and is dedicated to upholding human rights and religious freedom through ongoing monitoring, policy intervention, and collaboration. Participants at this year’s meeting came from across the United States.
Dr. Sen Nie, Professor Emeritus of Engineering at the Catholic University of America, speaks at the ICHRRF convention.
Dr. Nie said, “For 26 years, the CCP has persecuted millions of Falun Gong practitioners. The CCP has employed over 100 torture methods, including incarceration in mental hospitals, injection of anesthetic drugs, electric shocks, long-term imprisonment, torture, and even live organ harvesting. Female Falun Gong practitioners suffer even more brutal persecution, often being sexually assaulted while illegally detained in prisons or labor camps. The CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong is the largest, most brutal, and most evil human rights atrocity in the 5,000-years of China’s history.”
Dr. Nie introduced Falun Gong and described the CCP’s state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting from practitioners, as well as the CCP’s transnational repression of Falun Gong, including its lawfare and public opinion and disinformation campaigns in the United States.
Dr. Nie explains how female Falun Gong practitioners are persecuted by the CCP.
Dr. Nie cited the cases of three female Falun Gong practitioners. Ms. Gao Rongrong, a finance department employee at the Luxun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, was illegally detained in Longshan Forced Labor Camp and subjected to prolonged electric shocks, leaving her disfigured. After the incident was exposed internationally, the CCP, in an effort to silence her, imprisoned Ms. Gao in Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. She starved to death in Shenyang University Hospital in 2005 at the age of 37.
Masanjia Forced Labor Camp also repeatedly placed female Falun Gong practitioners in male prison cells and subjected them to group sexual assault to force them to renounce their faith. One of the victims, Ms. Yin Liping, who now lives in the Washington DC area, was imprisoned in Masanjia three times and subjected to humiliation. In Masanjia, she endured not only slave-like labor but also brainwashing, corporal punishment, having needles stabbed into her wrists, solitary confinement with excessively loud noises, brutal force-feeding, electric shocks, and denial of family visits. She was also injected with unknown drugs, which, temporarily, caused her to lose her memory and made her blind. Ten Falun Gong practitioners she knew were tortured to death.
Practitioner Xu Dawei, husband of Ms. Chi Lihua, another resident of the greater Washington DC area, was held in four prisons because he refused to renounce Falun Gong. He was imprisoned for eight years, left battered and bruised all over, and passed away 13 days after he was released. Ms. Chi Lihua’s father, brother, and mother also died. In 2013, with nowhere to hide, Ms. Chi and her daughter, Xu Xinyang, were forced to flee China.
Attendees Stunned by the CCP’s Persecution
Ms. Chi Lihua shows photos of her husband after he was tortured by the CCP.
Ms. Chi attended the convention to show photos of her husband Xu Dawei, emaciated, covered in injuries, and near death after being tortured by the CCP.
“Shocked. I felt disbelief. It’s very painful. I feel for my sister, who is here, bearing with us, for her loss,” said Meg Flanagan, an attendee. She hugged Ms. Chi, tears streaming down her face.
Meg Flanagan (right) and Ms. Chi Lihua
Flanagan said it was the first time she’d heard of Falun Gong and the CCP’s cruel persecution, which was unbearable.
“I think that each of us, each individual person, has to take a stand and…it sounds overly simplistic, but, to make a choice. And to understand that, to do nothing, is a choice. And also to understand that humanity is a collective, and when people are degraded, damaged, hurt, killed…it degrades all of us. And it will cause the decline of our entire species.”
Falun Dafa Must Be Protected by Governments and the World
Ripudamam Pachauri
Ripudamam Pachauri from Missouri was sad to hear how Ms. Chi has suffered due to the persecution. He said, “People are suffering for a long, long, long time. And the world is silent, they’re not paying attention. But, for humanity, whatever we can do, we should do.
“The brutality of the [CCP] government, in this case, is incomprehensible. It should not be tolerated. And whoever has the capacity to do anything about it, they should do, whether it’s activism, whether it’s monetary help, whether it’s emotional help.
“[Falun Dafa] is an ancient religion. It has to be protected, not only by the community, but the governments around the world, by all the humanity.
“As human beings, as humanity, and for the sake of the future of humanity, we should educate our friends, our communities. It doesn’t matter which religion they practice…what they practice, what they believe in…but we should focus their attention on this issue. And they should interact, even, with the Falun Gong people, and the small groups here in the United States. And probably, there should be a long term strategy to help people,” he said.
Ankush Bhandari
Ankush Bhandari works in an IT company in New Jersey. He said this was the first time he’d heard of the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong, “[Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance] is very good. It improves your mind. When your mind is improved, the body improves itself.
“This is the first time I’ve heard that all these people are being killed just because their values don’t match [the CCP’s] ideology.
“That’s not the way it should be. God, whichever one you believe in, whatever it is, you should have dignity, human dignity. You should always see that, if you have the right to speak, the other person also has the same right. He also has the same liberty as you have, right?” “If somebody doesn’t agree, or disagrees with you, you are just going to take his or her life, which is against the law of God, against the law of humanity, against the law of nature.”
Condemning the CCP’s Forced Organ Harvesting
Dr. A. Adityanjee, founder and chairperson of the board of directors of ICHRRF, physician and psychiatrist by profession in the US.
Dr. A. Adityanjee, a physician and psychiatrist by profession the US and the founder of ICHRRF, talked about the “hot mic” incident when Chinese President Xi Jinping recently spoke with Russian President Putin about prolonging life via organ transplants before a military parade in Beijing. Many overseas media reported on the incident.
“They were talking about prolonging the lives of geriatric elites by harvesting organs from from younger people. I think it’s shameful, it’s really, really shameful. This organ harvesting is not from organ donors. This organ harvesting is organ theft. And innocent people, the majority of them are Falun Gong practitioners, are the victims of state sanctioned organ theft by an immoral and inhumane regime.”
Dr. Adityanjee said that the solution was to put sanctions on the CCP. He also called on the US government to protect its citizens and legal residents and counteract the CCP’s transnational repression. “That is not acceptable. And we would demand that not just the U.S. government but also the media organizations and international organizations take note of this and denounce this practice.”
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