(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 Liu Hui, member of the Standing Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee, secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee (PLAC), and director of the Provincial Party Committee’s Office for Rule of Law.

Perpetrator Information

Full Name of Perpetrator: Liu (last name) Hui (first name) (刘惠)Gender: MaleCountry: ChinaDate/year of Birth: September 1966Place of Birth: Unknown

Title or Position

January 2016 – September 2016: member of the Standing Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Party Committee, secretary of Inner Mongolia Autonomous PLAC

September 2016 – September 2021: member of the Standing Committee of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection

September 2021 – December 2022: member of the Standing Committee of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee and executive vice governor

December 30th, 2022 – Present: member of the Standing Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee, secretary of the Provincial PLAC, director of the Provincial Party Committee’s Office for Rule of Law

Main Crimes

The PLAC is given superior authority to oversee public security and the judicial system. Since the CCP began persecuting Falun Gong in 1999, it has served as the central command office, implementing institutional and systematic persecution policy.

Heilongjiang is one of the provinces in China where the persecution of Falun Gong is the most severe. Among 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, Heilongjiang ranks first in confirmed death cases of the practitioners.

Since Liu took over as secretary of the Heilongjiang PLAC in 2022, he continues to implement the persecution policy. At least 21 practitioners have died from the persecution during his tenure, including Ren Changbin (2024), Li Yuzhen (2024), Dong Wencheng (2024), Yang Jie (2024), Ren Rujie (2024), Guo Zongying (2024), Zhang Guifang (2024), Liu Xiang (2024), Tian Ziqiang (2024), Zhang Zhimin (2024), Wei Wenchen (2024), She Huaizhong (2024), Li Changan (2023), Mou Yongxia (2023), Guan Hongyan (2023), Teng Shuli (2023), Wang Yudong (2023), Tang Chunhua (2023), Wang Maojie (2023), Chen Lihua (2023), and Ma Chengxiang (2023).

Persecution in 2023

In 2023, 118 practitioners were sentenced in Heilongjiang Province, 366 practitioners were arrested, and 180 were harassed.

On May 18, 2023, the police in Daqing City arrested at least 18 practitioners. Ms. Yao Qingyun, Ms. Zhang Guixiang, 65, and Ms. Tian Yingchun, 66, were beaten by the police because they resisted the arrests.

In Zhaodong City, more than 50 practitioners were arrested on September 4, 2023. Two of them have since passed away, five sentenced to prison and another two faced re-arrest or harassment.

Persecution in 2024

In 2024, 60 practitioners in Heilongjiang were sentenced, 185 were arrested, 213 were harassed.

Eighteen practitioners in Ning’an City were arrested on May 9, 2024. Two practitioners were released shortly after due to their advance ages and poor health. All other practitioners were taken to the Mudanjiang City Detention Center, either on administrative detention or criminal detention. Mudanjiang oversees Ning’an City.

According to an insider, all of the arrested practitioners had been monitored by the police for some time before the mass arrest. Some were arrested at home, while others were arrested while out talking to people about the persecution.

On May 11 and 12, 2024, more than 30 practitioners were arrested in Suihua. The police sweep was directly ordered by the Heilongjiang Provincial Public Security Department. Six of the practitioners were detained and the other practitioners were released on the same day.

After Ms. Xu Guiqin, a Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province resident in her 70s, was forced to live away from home in late September 2024 to avoid being sentenced for distributing Falun Gong materials, the police arrested her daughter and forced Ms. Xu to turn herself in.

Outraged by the police’s despicable act, Ms. Xu’s husband suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and passed away. Having been taken to the local detention center, Ms. Xu wasn’t allowed to attend his funeral.

Persecution in 2025

From January to May 2025, 60 practitioners in Heilongjiang Province were sentenced, 49 were arrested, and 75 were harassed.

Mr. Zhou Lidong, Ms. Wang Shuxiang, and another practitioner whose name isn’t known were arrested by about 20 officers from the Jiguan District Domestic Security Office on the morning of February 11, 2025. Their homes were ransacked. The police seized Zhou’s computers, cell phones, printers, and many other personal items. It is not known where they are being detained.

More than twenty practitioners in Qiqihar City were arrested on May 10, 2025. Most of them were interrogated. The police also photographed them and collected their fingerprints against their will. They were next taken to a hospital for physical exams. Those deemed unfit for detention were released on bail and put under close surveillance. The rest were taken to the Qiqihar City Detention Center.

It was apparent to the targeted practitioners that the police had been monitoring them for a long time before the mass arrest. The police were able to give details of the practitioners’ daily activities, including what color of clothes they wore on a particular day and what places they visited and when. None of the officers produced a search warrant or revealed their identities during the arrests. Some gave fake names.

All of the practitioners’ homes were raided, and their Falun Gong books were confiscated. The police also seized other valuables, including designer clothes and heirlooms.

Select Death Cases

Case 1: 60-Year-Old Man Dies in Custody, Five Days After Prison Admission

Mr. Ren Changbin, a 60-year-old Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province resident, died five days after being admitted to the Shuangyashan Prison to serve a three-year term. His body had multiple bruises and injuries, his eyes had dark circles, and his head had several stitches.

Mr. Ren Changbin

According to Mr. Ren’s sister, she received a call from the prison at around 8 a.m. on September 28, 2024, telling her that Mr. Ren had died from a medical emergency. She demanded to know the cause of death, but the caller refused to provide any additional information, except that Mr. Ren’s body had been taken to a funeral home.

Mr. Ren’s sister immediately informed other family members of the tragic news, and they rushed to the funeral home, where they saw Mr. Ren’s bruised body.

When the family questioned whether their loved one was tortured to death, the guards claimed that Mr. Ren was very weak when he was admitted to the prison, and they arranged two inmates to “look after” him. They also said that Mr. Ren had a fall while taking a shower, thus causing the injuries on his head and body.

Mr. Ren’s family argued that he was very healthy when he was arrested, and questioned how he could become so weak after one week of detention. If the prison had indeed arranged two inmates to “look after” him, why did they fail to prevent him from falling during the shower?

Mr. Ren, a former glass factory employee, was arrested during a police sweep on September 14, 2024, and sentenced to three years on July 25, 2024. He was transferred to the Shuangyashan Prison on September 23, only to die five days later.

Case 2: 74-Year-Old Woman Dies While Serving Four Years for Her Faith

Ms. Li Yuzhen, a 72-year-old Wuhan City, Hubei Province resident, was arrested at home on June 6, 2021. She was taken to the Wangjiahe Brainwashing Center and held in a dark room on the second floor. The guards forced her to watch videos slandering Falun Gong, and ordered her to write statements renouncing Falun Gong. She refused to comply and held a hunger strike to protest. The guards took turns watching her and didn’t let her sleep for four days. She was also forced to stand at times. On the fifth day, the guards force-fed her. She was in great pain, her eyes were rolled back into her head, and she almost died.

Case 3: 63-Year-Old Heilongjiang Woman Tortured to Death While Serving 7.5 Years

Ms. Guan Hongyan, a 63-year-old resident of Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang Province, died on November 6, 2023, while serving a 7.5-year term at the Heilongjiang Province Women’s Prison.

Ms. Guan was arrested on July 11, 2022 and convicted by the Qiezihe District Court in late December 2022. After she was admitted to guards the Heilongjiang Province Women’s Prison, the guards ordered her to renounce Falun Gong. She held firm to her faith and was subjected to various forms of torture, which eventually claimed her life in November 2023.

While the details of Ms. Guan’s torture are still being investigated, upon prison admission, she was likely first held in the strict management team, which was designated for newly admitted Falun Gong practitioners.

According to practitioners once placed in this team, they were each made to sit on a small stool from 3:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day, all the while being forced to watch videos smearing Falun Gong on loop. They were not allowed to talk to each other. Those who still refused to renounce Falun Gong were verbally abused and brutally beaten. They were also not allowed to use the restroom and some soiled their pants as a result. The guards also restricted or totally barred them from purchasing daily necessities, while limiting their meals to two per day on the weekends.

Case 4: 53-Year-Old Heilongjiang Man Dies in 2023 While Serving 12 Years

Mr. Li Chang’an of Fangzheng County, Heilongjiang Province, died in a hospital on September 24, 2023, while serving a 12-year term for practicing Falun Gong. He was 53.

Mr. Li, a truck driver, was repeatedly targeted for his faith after the Chinese Communist Party ordered the persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999. Following his last arrest on May 21, 2015, he was sentenced to 12 years on October 28, 2015, and admitted to the Hulan Prison.

Because Mr. Li refused to wear the prison uniform or answer roll calls on May 23, 2016, he was beaten and put in solitary confinement for 13 days. He was only given one steamed bun every day and subjected to continued abuse.

The guards beat Mr. Li again in July 2018 because he refused to put on the inmates’ uniform. They put him in solitary confinement and didn’t let him out until he became critically ill from a hunger strike.

During the following year, captain Xu Wenlong put Mr. Li in solitary confinement five more times on the grounds that he refused to wear the prison uniform or do hard labor. Once he was beaten by a guard so badly that his face was covered in blood. The guards also instigated the inmates to beat him, and they knocked out one of his teeth. The guards didn’t do anything to punish the inmates, who then beat Mr. Li even more savagely.

At the end of 2022, the prison reorganized and put Mr. Li under the management of a newly formed “anti-riot” team. He refused to comply with the new team’s orders and was repeatedly put in solitary confinement. He went on a hunger strike in protest and was repeatedly force-fed.

Mr. Li suffered declining health as a result of the long-term force-feeding and abuse. Around November 2022, he had generalized edema, abdominal fluid accumulation, and cirrhosis. Instead of holding his abusers responsible, the prison extorted 50,000 yuan from his family to cover his “medical expenses.”

Mr. Li fell into a coma and was taken to a hospital, where he died a week later, on September 24, 2023. According to insiders, at least 16 other Falun Gong practitioners also died after they were abused in Hulan Prison, which was designed as a high-security prison to hold death-row prisoners and inmates with at least 15-year prison sentences. After the persecution began in 1999, it became the main facility where Falun Gong practitioners in Heilongjiang Province were detained.

Select Sentencing Cases

Case 1: Retired Elementary School Teacher Sentenced to 4.5 Years Following 16th Arrest

Mr. Gao Ke, a retired elementary school teacher of Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, was arrested on September 14, 2022 for distributing calendars bearing information about Falun Gong. Although he was released on bail days later due to high blood pressure, the police started to call him from February 2023 and ordered him to report to the procuratorate. He refused to go and left home to hide from the police. The police and the local street committee workers harassed his wife and son instead. They also posted officers outside his apartment building to monitor everyone who entered or exited the building.

Mr. Gao’s family lost contact with him on June 16, 2023 and later learned he’d been arrested that day when he ran into a police officer who knew him during grocery shopping.

At the Yaziquan Detention Center, the guards assigned two inmates to watch him around the clock. The inmates beat Mr. Gao and did not allow him to use the restroom or talk to others without their permission. He went on a hunger strike in protest and was force-fed on the seventh day. He went into shock during the force-feeding and was rushed to a hospital. Despite his serious condition, the detention center guards checked him out of the hospital four days later. He was incapacitated and needed support to use the restroom.

Mr. Gao was later sentenced to four and a half years and transferred to the Hulan Prison. The details of his trial, sentencing, and prison transfer remain to be investigated.

Mr. Gao’s latest two arrests and subsequent prison sentence were preceded by 14 prior arrests (which resulted in five terms of forced labor). He was either denied admission or released ahead of time during each labor camp term because he was either in poor health or had been tortured to critical condition.

Case 2: 59-Year-Old Heilongjiang Woman Sentenced to 8 Years for Practicing Falun Gong

Ms. Ma Yun, 59, from Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province, was arrested on April 22, 2023. The police interrogated her at the police station and took her to the Jixi City Detention Center around midnight that day.

Ms. Ma developed a severe heart condition in detention and was taken to a hospital. Despite her condition, the police refused to release her. She stood trial at the Jidong County Court on November 14. Both she and her lawyer defended her constitutional right to freedom of belief and emphasized that no law in China criminalizes Falun Gong. The judge sentenced her to eight years with a 20,000-yuan fine on November 20, 2023.

Case 3: 57-Year-Old Heilongjiang Woman Secretly Sentenced to 7 Years

Ms. Wang Zhengyong, 57, from Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, was arrested on May 18, 2023 during a police sweep. While she was released on bail five hours later, the police took her back into custody on May 19, 2024, when her one-year bail period ended. The Ranghulu District Court held a secret virtual hearing of her case in late September 2024 without notifying her family. She was sentenced to seven years and fined 50,000-yuan in late 2024.

Case 4: 59-Year-Old Heilongjiang Woman Sentenced to 9 Years

Ms. Du Xiuyan, a 59-year-old resident of Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, was arrested at home on April 1, 2024. She appeared in the Acheng District Court in mid-June 2024 and was sentenced her to nine years. She is now serving time in the Heilongjiang Province Women’s Prison.

Case 5: Two Heilongjiang Women, 60 and 74, Sentenced for Practicing Falun Gong

Two residents of Yilan County, Heilongjiang Province, were wrongfully convicted on February 11, 2025. Ms. Gao Jing, 60, was sentenced to four years in prison and fined 50,000 yuan. Ms. Fu Guiqin, 74, received two years and ten months with a 100,000-yuan fine.

The two women were both arrested on February 8, 2024. During the required physical examination for detention, Ms. Fu was found to have a systolic blood pressure reading of 180 mmHg (normal range is 120 or lower). She was also struggling to walk on her own. In an attempt to persuade the detention center to accept her, the police used an old surveillance video showing Ms Fu walking briskly. Ms. Fu’s health further deteriorated while in detention, and she was released on bail in late April 2024.

The procuratorate twice returned the cases against Ms. Fu and Ms. Gao, citing insufficient evidence. The police tricked Ms. Gao’s father-in-law, Mr. Wang Fuyou, into signing statements incriminating her. Mr. Wang, 83, had been diagnosed with brain atrophy, and once went missing, as he didn’t remember the way home. The police also coerced Ms. Gao’s husband, son, and 83-year-old mother-in-law to provide “testimonies” against her. Liu further fabricated some evidence in the name of Ms. Gao’s family members. With the “additional” evidence, he got the procuratorate to accept the cases the third time.

Ms. Fu and Ms. Gao appeared in the Yilan County Court on December 17, 2024. Ms. Fu suddenly fainted and was rushed to the hospital. After she came to, she was returned to the courtroom. During the trial, she was sometimes lucid and sometimes confused. As she couldn’t answer the judge’s questions, he had to halt the hearing.

Ms. Gao’s family noted that she was emaciated, her hair had all turned gray, and she had lost most of her teeth. She was handcuffed and shackled throughout the hearing.

During the second hearing, the judge read aloud Ms. Gao’s husband’s “testimony” against her. When he swore that he had never said anything like that, the judge instructed the bailiffs to remove him from the courtroom. Only then did he and the rest of his family realize that they had been tricked by captain Liu into providing testimony against Ms. Gao without their knowledge.

Ms. Gao and Ms. Fu were convicted on February 11, 2025.