(Minghui.org) A 49-year-old middle school teacher in Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, was arrested on the evening of February 3, 2026, because he practices Falun Gong.

Mr. Xu Tong was arrested at home by approximately 20 officers from the Chikan District Police Department and the Cunjin Police Station. His Falun Gong books, computer, printer, and cell phone were confiscated. He is currently held at the Zhanjiang City Detention Center.

Mr. Xu, a teacher at the Chikan District 17th Middle School, discovered Falun Gong in 2012 and identified with its principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. He realized that the practice was nothing like the slanderous propaganda depicted by the Chinese Communist Party, but rather an ancient spiritual discipline that teaches people to be a good. As he strove to live by Falun Gong’s principles, his outlook on the world changed. He focused on eliminating his jealousy and short temper. Some of his chronic diseases also disappeared.

Prior to his latest persecution episode, Mr. Xu was arrested one other time, on the evening of August 6, 2018. The next morning, Huang Zuhua, the head of the Chikan District 610 Office led eight officers to ransack his home, and they confiscated his computer and other personal items. Mr. Xu was held at the Zhanjiang Brainwashing for four months. He was eventually released after he started a hunger strike to protest. Upon returning home, he still faced constant harassment. That same year, the Chikan District Political and Legal Affairs Committee forced his school to withhold his annual bonus, under the pretext that he had been detained.

During the “Zero-Out” campaign in 2020, the Chikan District Political and Legal Affairs Committee repeatedly harassed Mr. Xu and ordered him to sign statements to renounce Falun Gong. When he refused to comply, the authorities pressured his school again to withhold his annual bonus, claiming that he failed the annual performance review.