(Minghui.org) On Human Rights Day, December 10, 2025, Falun Gong practitioners in 48 countries submitted another list of perpetrators related to the persecution of Falun Gong in China, to their governments. They also requested that these perpetrators and their family members be barred from entering the country, and that their assets be frozen.

Below are details of the persecution committed by Jiang Zhongping, former deputy secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Political and Legal Affairs Committee.

Perpetrator Information

Full Name of Perpetrator: Jiang (last name) Zhongping (first name) (蒋中平)Gender: MaleCountry: ChinaDate/Year of Birth: August 1967Ethnicity: Han

Title or Position

Jiang previously worked at the Liaohe Oilfield Procuratorate, and was later transferred to the Xinglongtai District Procuratorate of Panjin City, Liaoning Province, before becoming the deputy director of Panjin City Police Department

2009 – Deputy director of the Jinzhou City Police DepartmentEarly 2017 – Deputy chief prosecutor of Jinzhou City ProcuratorateLate 2018 – Party secretary of the Fuxin City ProcuratorateEarly 2019 – Chief prosecutor of Fuxin City Procuratorate2021 – Deputy secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Political and Legal Affairs CommitteeDecember 2024 – Present: Party secretary of Liaoning Police College

Major Crimes

The Political and Legal Affairs Committee (PLAC) is the highest authority that oversees the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) control of public security, the procuratorate, the judiciary, and state security operations. Since the CCP began persecuting Falun Gong in 1999, the PLAC has functioned as the primary command system for the systematic and institutionalized persecution.

Since assuming the role of deputy secretary of the Liaoning Provincial PLAC in 2021, Jiang Zhongping has actively implemented the CCP’s persecution policy of “ruining their reputations, destroying them physically, and bankrupting them financially.”

During his tenure, the Liaoning Provincial PLAC and the public security system employed advanced surveillance methods, including wiretapping, monitoring, facial recognition, and big data tracking, to locate Falun Gong practitioners. Under the pretexts of “cracking down on organized crime,” “maintaining social stability,” and “combating cults,” the PLAC carried out large-scale arrests of the practitioners.

The Liaoning Provincial PLAC also utilized state-controlled media to defame and slander Falun Gong, inciting uninformed citizens to participate in the persecution. During Jiang’s four-year tenure as deputy secretary of the Liaoning Provincial PLAC, Liaoning consistently ranked among the provinces with the most severe persecution, with at least 39 practitioners persecuted to death and nearly a thousand practitioners arrested or harassed.

Large-Scale Arrests and Harassment of Falun Gong Practitioners

Persecution in 2021

In 2021, at least 501 practitioners were arrested and had their homes ransacked.

In early June 2021, the police in Dalian arrested at least 29 practitioners and raided their homes. Among them, Mr. Sun Xiujun was arrested at home at around 6 p.m. on June 2. He was tortured to death on July 19, just over a month later.

Persecution in 2022

In 2022, at least 476 practitioners in Liaoning Province were arrested, had their homes ransacked, or were harassed. Five practitioners were forced to live away from home. Some of the detained practitioners were later sentenced to prison.

From July 12 to 26, 2022, the police in Benxi City arrested more than ten practitioners, including Mr. Zhang Guisheng, Ms. Qu Kun, Mr. Xu Shoufu, Mr. Zhong Hongdong, Mr. Tian Xiaofei, Ms. Wang Shufen, Mr. Liu Guocheng, Ms. Cao Dongmei, and Ms. Guan and her husband Mr. Jia. All the practitioners’ homes were ransacked.

Persecution in 2023

In 2023, at least 336 practitioners were arrested, ranking fourth in the country behind Shandong Province (613), Jilin Province (561), and Heilongjiang Province (366). Additionally, at least 114 practitioners were harassed, the seventh highest nationwide.

In May 2023, another group arrest of ten practitioners took place in Changtu County, Tieling City. Seven practitioners were detained, including Sun Wanliang, Zhao Chunlin, Shi Guimin, Zhao Hongjie, Meng Guilan, Tian Wei, Hu Fengjun, and Zhang Chao.

Over 20 practitioners in Xinmin City were arrested on July 26, 2023. They all had their homes ransacked, and some had their private cars, cell phones, cash, and bank cards confiscated. Most of the practitioners also reported being beaten and interrogated by the police. One practitioner’s teeth were knocked out.

Persecution in 2024

In 2024, at least 389 practitioners were arrested, ranking second in the country, just behind Jilin Province (390). Another 266 practitioners were harassed, placing Liaoning fourth nationally.

Between April 23 and 30, 2024, at least 19 practitioners were arrested in Jinzhou City, including six elderly practitioners. Most of the practitioners had their homes ransacked. Ms. Xu Qingyan, 66, held a hunger strike in protest of her arbitrary detention. The guards took her to the hospital to be force-fed every day. She became emaciated, incontinent, and paralyzed. The head nurse in charge of her warned that she did not have many days to live. The police didn’t release her until July 10, 2024.

On May 11, 2024, police in Chaoyang City arrested more than 20 local practitioners, as well as two married couples from Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia – Mr. Lan Qingzhong and his wife Ms. Hu Xiuli, and Mr. Sun Xiaoming and his wife Ms. Zhang Fengxia.

Ten practitioners in Fushun City, including Mr. Wang Nanfang, Mr. Zhou Shuyou, Mr. Wang Zexing, Ms. Hu Fengju, Ms. Hu Mingli, Mr. Liu Haitao, Mr. Wang Guogang, Ms. Huang Yuping, Ms. Li Suqin, and Ms. Lai Chunlian, were arrested on July 12, 2024, by officers from the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department, the Fushun City Police Department, and the Qingyuan County Police Department. All were indicted and faced trial by the Wanghua District Court.

Mass Sentencing of Falun Gong Practitioners

From 2021 to 2024, Liaoning Province ranked among the top two provinces nationwide in terms of the number of Falun Gong practitioners sentenced each year.

In 2021, at least 141 practitioners were sentenced, with the longest term being 10 years. The oldest practitioner was 85 years old, and another 30 more were in their 70s.

In 2022, 83 practitioners were sentenced, with the oldest being 82 years old and the longest sentence being seven years.

In 2023, 139 practitioners were sentenced, including eight married couples. The longest term was 11 years. The oldest practitioner was 86 and at least 60 of those convicted were 60 or older.

In 2024, another 105 practitioners were unlawfully sentenced.

Mr. Zhou Shaotang, of Panjin City, was arrested on January 13, 2021, for talking to people about Falun Gong at a community fair. He was tried by the Xinglongtai Court on September 28, 2021, and sentenced to one year of residential surveillance on December 8, 2021. The persecution took a toll on his health. He developed a lung condition and died on November 17, 2022. He was 82 years old.

During a group arrest in Jinzhou City on November 27, 2021, 11 practitioners were seized from Ms. Kang Guiyun’s home. Among them, seven were sentenced by the Linghai City Court following a hearing on July 13, 2022. Ms. Zhang Yingling, 61, and Ms. Jin Xiaomei, 52, were each sentenced to three years with a 5,000-yuan fine; Ms. Kang Guiyun, 70, was given 2.5 years with a 5,000-yuan fine; Ms. Liu Yurong, 60, Ms. Li Shufang, 80, and Ms. Chen Wenxue, 77, each got one year and fined 2,000 yuan; and Ms. Liu Baolian, 81, was sentenced to one year with two years probation and a 2,000 yuan fine.

Ms. Xu Qingfang, a 75-year-old music teacher in Jinzhou City, was sentenced to five years following a court hearing on March 4, 2022. Her daughter, Ms. Meng Tao, and nephew, Mr. Xu Chi, were also tried at the same time. They were each sentenced to six months for accompanying Ms. Xu to distribute Falun Gong materials in mid-December 2021. They do not practice Falun Gong themselves.

Four employees of the Huanxiling Oil Refinery of Liaohe Oil Field in Panjin City were sentenced to prison on September 7, 2023. Ms. Liu Yan was sentenced to two years and fined 5,000 yuan; Ms. Liu Benling, 77, was sentenced to one and a half years and fined 4,000 yuan; Mr. Liu Qingjiang, who is Ms. Liu Yan’s younger brother, was sentenced to one year and three months and fined 3,000 yuan; and Ms. Li Chunsheng, 76, was sentenced to one year and fined 2,000 yuan.

Three Shenyang City residents were sentenced to prison by the Dadong District Court on March 27, 2024. Ms. Yu Guichun, 72, was sentenced to eight years. Ms. Li Yongmei was given five years. Ms. Zhang Yujin, 79, a retired professor at Shenyang Ligong University, was sentenced to four and a half years. The police revealed that they had been following the three women and monitoring their phone calls for six months before arresting them over the course of two days in September 2023.

Six practitioners in Linghai City were convicted on December 30, 2024. Mr. Wang Guiling, 69, was sentenced to five years and fined 7,000 yuan. Ms. Meng Chunying, 53, and Ms. Liu Yurong, 63, were sentenced to four and a half years and fined 6,000-yuan. Ms. Liu Jingju, around 70, and Ms. Jing Suming, 74, were each given two years and fined 4,000 yuan. Mr. Wang Zhoushan, 53, received one and a half years and was fined 3,000 yuan.

Select Death Cases

Case 1: Liaoning Woman Dies After Authorities Keep Trying to Take Her Back into Custody to Serve a 5-Year Prison Term for Practicing Falun Gong

Two women from the Linghai City Court went to Ms. Wei Xiuying’s home on November 28, 2024 and demanded that she sign some paperwork. Her husband was beyond infuriated as his wife died around 10 p.m. the night before, after repeated attempts by the authorities to take her back into custody to serve a five-year prison sentence for practicing Falun Gong.

Ms. Wei, around 76, was arrested on May 25, 2021, and was released on bail after she failed to pass the physical exam. She was sentenced to five years and fined 10,000 yuan on February 24, 2023. She lost her appeal two months later. The authorities repeatedly attempted to take her back into custody, including the aforementioned episode on November 28, 2024, the day after she died.

Case 2: 78-Year-Old Man Released from Prison in Critical Condition, Dies Seven Months Later

Mr. Wang Zhongsheng, a former senior lecturer in Xinbin County, Liaoning Province, fell into critical condition while serving a four-year term for practicing Falun Gong. He was released six months ahead of time, on April 30, 2024, only to die seven months later on November 16. He was 78 years old.

Mr. Wang was arrested and had his home ransacked on November 1, 2020. He was sentenced to four years in prison and fined 4,000 yuan on April 26, 2021.

After Mr. Wang was taken to the third division of Dongling Prison, he was forced to sit on a small stool for long hours without moving, causing his buttocks to develop sores and a severe infection. As Mr. Wang’s condition continued to deteriorate, he was taken to the prison hospital for treatment. The prison released him on April 30, 2024, six months before his scheduled release date.

Due to the mental pressure from the persecution, Mr. Wang struggled to recover upon returning home. He took a fall in October 2024 and broke his thigh bone. He died weeks later on November 16.

Case 3: 51-Year-Old Man Dies Four Months After Serving 4.5 Years

Mr. Zhao Changfu, a 51-year-old man in Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province, died on July 18, 2023, four months after he finished serving 4.5 years for his faith in Falun Gong.

Mr. Zhao’s prison sentence stemmed from his arrest on August 22, 2018. The procuratorate twice returned his case to the police citing insufficient evidence, but the police fabricated more evidence and persuaded the procuratorate to indict him on May 9, 2019. The local court sentenced him to 4.5 years with a 2,000-yuan fine weeks after a secret hearing on June 5, 2019.

Mr. Zhao was subjected to brutal torture since the day of his arrest, and his health quickly declined. He was hospitalized multiple times throughout his incarceration, yet the authorities never approved his family’s request to have him released on medical parole to seek better treatment.

Mr. Zhao’s condition worsened in late 2021. He became blind in one eye, and the other eye had blurred vision. He could only see things within a distance of three feet with the one eye. His legs were severely swollen, with his calves oozing fluid. Two other hospitals in Shenyang were better equipped to treat his condition, yet the authorities only allowed him to use the Shenyang City No. 4 Hospital, which was overcrowded at the time. As Mr. Zhao was waiting for a bed, his eye condition got even worse. He was then allowed to have eye surgery at the He Eye Hospital at his own expense.

After a bed became available at the Shenyang City No. 4 Hospital around April 2021, Mr. Zhao was admitted there, but as soon as he got a bit better, the authorities moved him to the Xinkang Prison Hospital, where he served the remainder of his prison term.

Everywhere he was taken, be it various detention facilities or hospitals, Mr. Zhao was always given a large number of injections or pills, which had severe side effects and caused damage to his body. An inmate once saw a nurse give him a large number of pills, and took a look at them after the nurse left. He told Mr. Zhao not to take a particular pill because he had seen it before and knew it would not be good for Mr. Zhao. This inmate used to be a prosecutor and had inside knowledge of how the regime used involuntary drug administration as a means of persecuting people.

Mr. Zhao never recovered after being released on February 21, 2023, and was also traumatized by the fear that his wife, also a Falun Gong practitioner, would be arrested again. She had been arrested with him on August 22, 2018, but was released much sooner, on January 30, 2019. Prior to that, she had been arrested multiple times over the years, also for practicing Falun Gong. His own physical suffering and the anxiety about his wife’s well-being eventually took his life on July 18, 2023.

Case 4: Wrongfully Convicted Woman Dies Days After Being Denied Medical Parole

Ms. Liu Hongxia, of Dalian City, was denied medical parole despite her critical condition, and died on November 8, 2022. She was 47 years old.

Ms. Liu was arrested on October 28, 2021, for putting up posters about Falun Gong. She started a hunger strike on February 14, 2022 to protest the persecution, and was later taken to the Xinhua Hospital, where she was tied to a bed, force-fed, and injected with unknown drugs. She also was not allowed to have any visitors, including her lawyer and family.

On July 13, six days after she was taken back to the detention center, the Ganjingzi District Court sentenced her to four years in prison. When her lawyer was finally given a pass to visit her after the sentencing, she couldn’t remember her hospital stay, but did know that she had been force-fed and given the injection.

Ms. Liu was admitted to Xinhua Hospital again in late August and was moved to an intensive care unit in late October. The doctors issued a critical condition notice for her. Her family applied for medical parole for her on October 25, but the court and the detention center denied the request.

Ms. Liu was extremely weak when her family was allowed to visit her on October 29. She began to bleed from her mouth and nose on November 4. Thinking that she would die in a few days, the doctor told her family to bring her child to see her for the last time. The visit was monitored by a police officer. Ms. Liu passed away on the morning of November 8.

Case 5: Cancer-stricken Man Dies Days After Being Denied Medical Parole, Remains Shackled as He Dies

Mr. Teng Yuguo, of Shenyang City, was arrested on October 13, 2020, and sentenced to five years by the Yuhong District Court around February 2021. He developed colon cancer and incontinence around May 2022 while he was incarcerated in the Dongling Prison. Despite his condition, the prison authorities refused to release him on medical parole. He was so weak that he did not have the strength to sit up. He also could not have bowel movements.

Mr. Teng passed away at the age of 67 on December 2, under tight surveillance. After he died the guards did not allow his family to get close to his body or dress him. They hired a company to prepare his body. Also under tight surveillance, Mr. Teng’s body was taken to a funeral home and cremated on December 4.

His wife could not fall asleep for days and often burst into tears. She said that as soon as she closed her eyes, she saw her emaciated husband, still shackled as he lay dying in the heavily guarded hospital bed.