(Minghui.org) The Congressional Executive Commission on China (CECC) released its annual report on human rights day December 10, 2025. The report criticized the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for its ongoing persecution of Falun Gong and interference in performances by Shen Yun Performing Arts.
CECC Chair Sen. Dan Sullivan (left) and Co-Chair Rep. Chris Smith (right) issued a statement on December 10, 2025 criticizing the CCP for violating human rights.
CECC Chair: CCP Agents Stalk and Threaten People on American Soil
“This year’s report lays bare how the Chinese Communist Party keeps breaking its word—to its own people and to the world,” said CECC Chair Senator Dan Sullivan.
“Beijing signs human rights conventions, promises autonomy for Hong Kong and Tibet, and pledges to play by global trade rules, then jails dissidents, runs forced-labor factories and illegal fishing fleets, and even dispatches agents to stalk and threaten people on American soil.
“This report doesn’t just catalog those abuses; it gives Congress, the administration, and our allies a blueprint to stand with victims of atrocities, defend our workers and supply chains—including our fishing and seafood industries—from slave labor, and make sure the Chinese Communist Party, not American families, pays the price for Beijing’s broken promises.
CECC Co-Chair: The CCP Imposes Tyranny on the Rest of the World
“Sadly, the People’s Republic of China under the Communist Party has proven time and again that it seeks hegemony in order to impose the same tyranny it afflicts its own citizens with upon the rest of the world,” said CECC Co-Chair Representative Chris Smith.
“China is not a responsible member of the community of nations, for it is run by the Communist Party for the benefit of the Communist Party—a Party State which does not honor the treaties to which it is a State Party.
“The PRC is thus more than simply a strategic rival to the United States and the rest of the free world, as it is a systemic rival which seeks to undo the stable international order to which the United States has been guarantor since the end of the Second World War. How can a predatory, mercantilist nation that utilizes forced labor, steals intellectual property and massively subsidizes state-owned enterprises be a member of the World Trade Organization or any rules-based order? The answer is that it cannot be, so long as the Communist Party maintains its monopoly on power.”
CCP Engages in Illegal Harvesting of Organs
The report stated: “A particularly egregious violation is state-sanctioned harvesting of human organs, a practice reported extensively among Falun Gong practitioners and more recently among Uyghurs.
“Testimony and evidence provided to Congress include troubling allegations that the PRC engages in systematic and illegal harvesting of organs—in blatant violation of human rights and medical ethics—including by targeting specific ethnic, linguistic, or religious minorities held in detention.”
It was recommended in the report that, “Congress should pass the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act (H.R. 1503) to expand annual reporting by the State Department on forced organ harvesting globally and to give needed authorities to stop ‘organ tourism’.”
Report Lists Cases of Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners
In the section referring to Falun Gong in the report, “The Chinese Communist Party and government have continued to direct considerable resources and attention toward the suppression and persecution of Falun Gong, which they have designated a “cult organization”, a historical term that the Party has appropriated to refer to new religious movements it deems threatening to its rule.
“Authorities have most often detained, charged, and prosecuted Falun Gong practitioners under Article 300 of the PRC Criminal Law, which criminalizes ‘organizing and using a cult to undermine implementation of the law.’ The Falun Gong-affiliated website Minghui reported the deaths of dozens of Falun Gong practitioners due to mistreatment while in custody and hundreds of cases of Falun Gong practitioners being sentenced by authorities in 2024. Examples of detentions during the reporting year follow:
• In February 2025, Minghui reported that Zuo Hongtao of Qinhuangdao municipality, Hebei province, had died in prison the previous year while serving a 13-year sentence, reportedly for his involvement with Falun Gong. In July 2024, prison officials at Baoding Prison, Hebei, brought Zuo to the hospital after he became critically ill, returning him to the prison after he was discharged. In August, Zuo died, with Minghui reporting that prison officials prevented his family from seeing the body and cremated Zuo without their consent.
• According to international human rights NGO Rights Defense Network (RDN), the Qindu District People’s Court in Qindu county, Xianyang municipality, Shaanxi province, sentenced food inspector Gao Xiaoying to seven years in prison for propagating information about Falun Gong online. Gao’s family reported being turned away multiple times while attempting to visit him in detention and were ultimately only allowed to see him briefly before his March 2024 trial, which they were prevented from attending.
• In November 2024, Minghui reported that the Haizhu District People’s Court in Guangzhou municipality, Guangdong province, sentenced Zhao Ying, a Falun Gong practitioner in her eighties, to three years and six months in prison despite her age and serious health conditions, including bladder cancer, a heart condition, and diabetes. RDN additionally reported that Zhao is dying in prison.”
Transnational Repression by the CCP
“The People’s Republic of China (PRC) continued a multifaceted campaign of transnational repression against members of the Chinese diaspora and critics of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to intimidate individuals and stifle dissent. The Commission observed the use of tactics ranging from verbal and online harassment to lawfare, as well as physical intimidation such as through overseas police ‘service stations.’”
“Cases of transnational repression this reporting year include the issuance of HK$1,000,000 (US$129,000) bounties on six overseas activists, passport cancellations for activists with existing bounties, threats against Uyghurs attending an international conference, and harassment of Falun Gong practitioners.”
“U.S. federal authorities prosecuted various perpetrators of PRC-led transnational repression, including two prominent leaders in U.S.-based pro-democracy groups, as well as 12 Chinese nationals responsible for a vast cyber-hacking campaign targeting critics of the CCP. Three individuals were sentenced for acting as illegal agents of the PRC.
“The PRC continued to exert malign influence abroad by attempting to target foreign politicians and governments, influence democratic processes abroad, and shape public opinion about the CCP and PRC government. Notable examples include the use of Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices to spread propaganda and promote CCP policies, covertly gaining access to high-level figures in the U.K. government, spreading disinformation among voters about the U.S. elections, and influencing sub-national politics in the U.S. through political aides.”
CCP Issues Bomb Threats Targeting Shen Yun
“Shen Yun Performing Arts, a classical dance company founded by Falun Gong practitioners known for depicting ‘China Before communism,’ received dozens ofbomb threats against shows across the U.S. and globally. Falun Gong supporters claim these threats came from the CCP.
“Also, the U.S. Department of Justice sentenced one man, Chen Jun, in November 2024 for acting as an unregistered agent of the PRC and bribing an Internal Revenue Service agent in connection with a plot to target U.S.-based practitioners of Falun Gong.”
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