Persecution of Falun Gong Adherents Continues as Thousands Reported Imprisoned, Tortured This Year

_{Supporters of Falun Gong display a banner near Chinatown in Sydney, on July 20, 2005, showing torture re-enactments. Greg Wood/AFP/Getty Images}

More than one hundred died in 2024 because of torture and abuse.

More than 25 years after China outlawed Falun Gong, the regime’s persecution of the spiritual movement continues unabated, with thousands of Falun Gong adherents arrested, imprisoned, and tortured for their beliefs.

Minghui.org, a U.S.-based website documenting the persecution of Falun Gong, reported on Nov. 7 that almost 5,000 adherents were detained and tortured by the regime in the first ten months of this year. Of those, almost a thousand were jailed, and 117 died as a result of their treatment.

In a Nov. 5 report, Bitter Winter—a human rights publication based in Italy—raised concerns about the mistreatment of Falun Gong practitioners in Chinese prisons. The report detailed the sentencing of two Falun Gong practitioners from Inner Mongolia. Sun Wentian and Guo Changsuo were sentenced to seven and seven-and-a-half years in jail, simply for having Falun Gong literature in their homes…. continue reading

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