(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioners in 45 countries submitted another list of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials who participated in the persecution of Falun Gong in July 2025, 26 years after the CCP ordered the persecution. The practitioners demand their governments to hold the perpetrators accountable, barring them and/or their family members from entry and freezing their assets.
These 45 countries include The Five Eyes (United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand), all 27 countries in the European Union (EU) and 13 countries on other continents. The EU countries are Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Belgium, Ireland, Austria, Denmark, Romania, Czechia, Finland, Portugal, Greece, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Croatia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Latvia, Estonia, Cyprus, and Malta. The remaining 13 countries are located in Asia, Europe, and the Americas: Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Israel, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, the Dominican Republic, and Paraguay.
According to a report published by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), the CCP highlighted a goal in a May 2024 meeting organized by the Ministry of Public Security, “Pay special attention to the cooperation between Falun Gong and Western politicians to sanction high-level Chinese leaders. Stop such behavior at all costs.”
Among the perpetrators listed was Li Yanqun, Party secretary and warden of Shandong Province Women’s Prison.
Perpetrator Information
Full Name of Perpetrator: Li (last name) Yanqun (first name) (李延群)Gender: MaleCountry: ChinaDate/year of Birth: UnknownPlace of Birth: Unknown
Title or Position
Prior to October 2023: deputy secretary and political commissar of the Party Committee of Zoucheng Prison in Shandong Province
October 2023 – Present: Party secretary and warden of Shandong Province Women’s Prison
Main Crimes
Since Li Yanqun was promoted to the Party Secretary and Prison Director of Shandong Women’s Prison in 2023, he has actively enforced the CCP’s persecution policy against Falun Gong. At least four practitioners were tortured to death during this period, including Ms. Lin Jianping, Ms. Li Fengying, Ms. Wang Yuling, and Ms. Xu Haihong.
As soon as the practitioners are admitted to the prison, they are forced to go through various physical examinations. Over 90% of them would be found to have “many diseases” they had never had before and then forced to take medications and be on dietary restrictions. Some weren’t allowed to eat steamed buns or rice congee for years and could only eat cornbread. If the practitioners refused to take the drugs, the guards would instruct the inmates to add the drugs to the practitioners’ food without their knowledge.
Those who refuse to renounce Falun Gong would be held in a dark room of less than 10 square meters (about 100 square feet) and not allowed to have contact with others or file complaints with the prison leadership. The inmates assigned to monitor them didn’t allow them to talk, wash themselves, or walk around. They had to write a formal application and admit that they were criminals if they needed to use the restroom. For one and a half months, each person was only given one roll of toilet paper bought with their own money. Some practitioners were forced to relieve themselves in their pants and not allowed to change or take showers.
Sometimes the guards and inmates would grab the practitioners’ hands and forced them to write statements to renounce Falun Gong. To prevent the practitioners from calling for help, the guards pulled their hair backward. A guard once said to the practitioners, “You should know that as long as you are here, the transformation rate is 100%.”
The 11th Division in Shandong Women’s Prison is specially used to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. It is the only division surrounded by barbed wire fencing and a power grid. A handful of inmates are instigated by the guards to persecute practitioners.
Select Death and Torture Cases
Case 1: Tortured to Serious Condition After Four Months in Prison, 63-Year-Old Woman Dies Two Weeks After Medical Parole Release
Ms. Lin Jianping, of Qixia City, was taken back into custody in mid-October 2024 to serve the three-year prison term she was sentenced to in March 2023 for practicing Falun Gong. She was abused in prison and in serious condition. The prison authorities released her on medical parole on January 30, 2025, and she died on February 13. She was 63.
Ms. Lin Jianping
Ms. Lin’s death capped her decades of suffering at the hands of the CCP because she upheld her faith. She was arrested on September 26, 2004, and given three years of forced labor. After her term expired, she was taken straight to prison to serve a three-year term without due process. She was brutally tortured while she was incarcerated.
After another arrest on February 6, 2022, Ms. Lin was put on house arrest and released on the same day. She was sentenced to another three years with a 5,000-yuan fine on March 29, 2023. Her appeal was rejected by the Yantai City Intermediate Court. She was not immediately jailed due to health reasons.
The police pried open Ms. Lin’s door in September 2024 and took her to a hospital for a physical examination. She was still deemed unfit for detention and sent home. Around mid-October 2024, the police tried again and managed to have her admitted to the Shandong Province Women’s Prison located in the capital city of Jinan.
Due to the abuse she was subjected to in prison, Ms. Li was in serious condition, disoriented, and confused. The prison notified her family on January 30, 2025 (the second day of the Chinese New Year) to pick her up. Her family drove her straight to a hospital for emergency treatment. She died at 2 a.m. on February 13, 2025. It’s not clear whether she died in the hospital or at home.
Case 2: Cancer Patient Released from Prison in Critical Condition, Dies Four Months Later
Ms. Li Fengying, a 52-year-old resident of Wulian County, died around 4 a.m. on December 31, 2024, four months after she was released from prison in critical condition.
Ms. Li was arrested on October 10, 2022 for talking to people about Falun Gong. She was sentenced to eight years with a 20,000-yuan fine on May 15, 2023. Despite her poor health as a result of torture at the detention center, the judge ordered that she be transferred to the Shandong Province Women’s Prison on August 8, 2023.
Just days into her prison admission, Ms. Li had to be rushed to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with lymphoma (cancer in the lymph system) and uterine cancer. Her request to be released on medical parole was denied. Both she and her family declined chemotherapy, but the prison hospital forced her to undergo the treatment anyway. She became weaker by the day. When her family visited her, it took her over one hour to walk a short distance to the meeting room.
As Ms. Li’s condition kept worsening, the prison eventually released her on parole on August 23, 2024. She died four months later.
Case 3: Drugged and Tortured in Prison, 74-Year-Old Woman Dies Less Than Two Years After Being Released
Ms. Wang Yuling, a Zibo City, resident passed away on October 7, 2024, less than two years after she completed a prison term for practicing Falun Gong. Due to the physical torture and forced drug administration she experienced in prison, she struggled to recover and was in extreme pain before she died. She was 74.
After the Chinese communist regime began to persecute Falun Gong in July 1999, Ms. Wang was repeatedly targeted for upholding her faith. Because she went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong in 1999, she was held in a psychiatric hospital, where she was injected with toxic drugs and subjected to electric shocks.
In September 2002, two months before the CCP’s 16th National Congress, Ms. Wang was arrested and again held in a psychiatric hospital, where she was again injected with and force-fed toxic drugs. The authorities later transferred her to the Zhangdian Detention Center and gave her a three-year labor camp term. While serving time at the Wangcun Forced Labor Camp, she was held in solitary confinement for an extended period of time, deprived of sleep, and forced to watch propaganda materials that slandered Falun Gong.
Ms. Wang was arrested again in late August 2021 for talking to people about Falun Gong. The police extorted 2,000 yuan from her before releasing her and putting her on house arrest. Her home was also ransacked.
Ms. Wang’s last arrest was in July 2022, which resulted in a 1.5-year prison sentence. Because she refused to renounce Falun Gong, she was held in solitary confinement for five months at the Shandong Province Women’s Prison. Four inmates took turns monitoring her around the clock. They also ordered her to write articles to denounce Falun Gong every day. When she refused to comply, they grabbed her hand and forced her to write.
The guards also forced Ms. Wang to take unknown medications three times a day. The inmates force-fed her if she did not comply. Instigated by the guards, the inmates beat and verbally abused her at will. She was often forced to sit on a small stool motionless for hours and was not allowed to use the restroom.
After Ms. Wang was released on January 30, 2023, she was very weak and struggled with severe complications from being drugged in prison. The suffering often worsened at night, sometimes causing her to scream in pain.
Ms. Wang suddenly passed out on August 31, 2024, and she was taken to the hospital for emergency treatment. The doctor said she had multiple organ failure. She died two months later on October 7, 2024.
Case 4: Woman Gets Three Years for Mailing a Letter to New Police Chief Urging Him Not to Persecute Falun Gong
Ms. Duan Guixiu, of Qingdao City, was arrested on November 29, 2021, for mailing a letter to the new police chief, urging him not to persecute Falun Gong. She was released on bail on January 7, 2022. The local court sentenced her to three years with a 20,000-yuan fine on March 17, 2023. She was taken back into custody on the same day.
Within two months of her prison admission, she was tortured to the point that she had difficulty walking. During a family visit on September 5, 2024, Ms. Duan had to be brought to the visitation room in a wheelchair. Her body was shaking uncontrollably, and she kept vomiting throughout the visitation meeting.
Case 5: Woman Force Fed and Forced to Sit on Small Stool with Grid Surface
Ms. Huang Chunling, of Jining City, was arrested on September 24, 2019, less than six months after she finished serving a previous five-year term for practicing Falun Gong. She was sentenced to another three years by the Rencheng District Court on October 22, 2020.
While serving time at the 11th Division in the prison, she refused to renounce Falun Gong and was brutally tortured. When she started a hunger strike to protest the persecution, the division head Xu Yumei ordered several inmates to press her against the ground and force feed her. The inmates pried open her mouth with spoons and jab her mouth and teeth with the spoons, for over 40 minutes. Her mouth was severely injured and she spit out a lot of blood.
After the 2023 Chinese New Year, the guard instigated the inmates to verbally abuse Ms. Huang and forced her to sit on a small plastic stool with thin grid on the surface. Once an inmate pushed the grid against Ms. Huang’s knee and the pain was likely her knee was being cut by a knife. Another time the inmate made a long cut on Ms. Huang’s calf and put her hands under the stool. The stretcher on the stool pushed against her wrists and left deep mark on them.
Case 6: 71-Year-Old Woman Wrongfully Sentenced to Over Seven Years and Severely Tortured in Prison
Ms. Song Aiyu, a 71-year-old Linyi City, resident, was arrested in October 2022, after being followed by the police for distributing informational materials about Falun Gong near the Lanshan District Police Station. She was sentenced to seven years and eight months at the end of 2022 and soon admitted to prison. When her family visited her on an unknown date, she was in very poor shape due to severe torture. Her back was nearly 90-degree hunched and she weighed less than 40 kg (88 lbs).
Case 7: Woman Serving Eight Years for Her Faith Denied Medical Parole Despite Severe Condition
Ms. Zhang Xiulan, a Jiaozhou City, resident, was transferred from the Jimo Detention Center to the prison in 2022 to serve an eight-year term. When her family visited her in June 2024, she was in poor health condition and emaciated. Two inmates pushed her out in a wheelchair. She was so weak that she couldn’t remain seated by herself. One inmate had to support her back and the other one held the microphone for her. Her voice was very low and she told her family that she felt uncomfortable after eating a little. Despite her condition, the prison refused to release her on medical parole.
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