(Minghui.org) A total of 851 incidents of Falun Gong practitioners who were arrested or harassed for their faith were reported in September and October 2025.
The 851 cases included 482 arrests and 369 harassment cases. Among them, 243 practitioners had their homes ransacked and 27 were held in brainwashing centers. Some of the persecution cases took place years ago. The delay in reporting is due to the information censorship in China under the communist regime, which made it difficult for Minghui correspondents to collect, verify, and report the data in a timely manner.
The 851 practitioners hailed from 27 provinces, autonomous regions or centrally-controlled municipalities. Liaoning reported the most combined cases of 144, followed by 130 in Hebei and 117 in Shandong. Twelve regions had double-digit cases between 11 and 93. The remaining 12 places registered single-digit cases between 1 and 8.
Information is available on the ages of 229 practitioners at the time of their arrests or harassment; the youngest is in her 30s, six are in their 40s, 31 are in their 50s, 60 are in their 60s, 85 are in their 70s, and 46 are in their 80s. The practitioners came from all walks of life, including retired college professors, veterans, doctors, accountants, and government officials.
Arrests and Harassment Around “Sensitive Days”
It was previously reported that prior to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) military parade on September 3, 2025, Falun Gong practitioners across China faced intensified arrests and harassment. The CCP regularly targets Falun Gong practitioners ahead of major events or anniversaries, which it claims are “sensitive days,” in order to prevent practitioners from taking these opportunities to raise awareness about the persecution that has been going on for the past 26 years.
In Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, the arrests continued even after the military parade, with 43 practitioners seized in August and September 2025. According to insiders, the Liaoning Province Public Security Bureau directed the operation, with various police departments and police stations participating. The police wore civilian clothes during the arrests and raided the practitioners’ homes without search warrants. Ms. Gao Jingjie, 73, was arrested in August 2025. Liu Yantao (gender unknown) was arrested on September 6, 2025. Ms. Wang Liufeng, 67, was arrested on September 25, 2025.
In Gansu Province, the Jinchang City Police Department directed its subordinate police stations to collect local Falun Gong practitioners’ fingerprints and blood samples between late August and early September 2025. Below are details of two harassment cases.
Four men entered to Ms. Chen Guifang’s store on August 25. One of them asked if she recognized him. When she said she did not, he reminded her that he had been in her shop in April this year. He then showed pictures of her on his cell phone. Only then did she realize that these men had been monitoring her and taking photos of her for months without her knowledge or consent. She asked to see his ID, and he flashed it quickly. He said they were from the Beijing Road Police Station and needed her fingerprints.
When Ms. Chen refused to go with them to the police station, they said it would jeopardize her grandson’s education. One officer video-recorded her, while second one locked the door, and the other two dragged her to their cruiser. They collected her fingerprints and a sample of her blood at the police station.
Two officers from the Beijing Road Police Station knocked on 71-year-old Ms. Liu Guiju’s door on September 6, 2025. When she refused to let them in, they called her son, who lived in the same house, and ordered him to persuade his parents to allow the police to fingerprint them and collect samples of their blood.
Because Ms. Liu refused to comply, the police returned the next evening. Her son opened the door. Five officers barged in. While one of them was videotaping Ms. Liu, the others forcibly drew her blood and took her fingerprints, palm prints and side-of-hand biometrics. Her husband, Mr. Cao Heping, 71, also had a sample of his blood taken against his will. As this was happening, another officer stayed outside of their home on the lookout.
In addition to the military parade, practitioners were also targeted around other “sensitive days.” A police officer in Dalian City, Liaoning Province, told a practitioner when he arrested her before the National Day (October 1) that they arrested her to meet the quota. Numerous practitioners were detained for weeks after their arrests.
There were also cases of practitioners in Shanghai; Chongqing; Shiyan City, Hubei Province; and Jinan City, Shandong Province, who were arrested before the Fourth Plenum of the 19th Central Committee of the CCP, which was held on October 20-23, 2025.
Persecution of Elderly Practitioners
Liaoning Man in His 80s Dies 41 Days Following Latest Arrest for His Faith
Mr. Liu Xiangzhao, in his 80s, from Lyushun City, Liaoning Province, was arrested at a farmers’ market on April 24, 2025, while he distributed informational materials about Falun Gong. He was taken to the Tuchengzi Police Station and held in a dark room. He was made to sit on the cold cement ground for hours. He kept shivering. The police forced him to take some unknown drug before they released him.
The police also searched Mr. Liu’s home and took a picture of the Falun emblem, the symbol of Falun Gong. When Mr. Liu and his wife went to the police station and demanded it be returned, the police chased them away.
Afterwards Mr. Liu’s health declined and he died on June 4, 2025.
84-Year-Old Shandong Man Detained for Putting Up Falun Gong Posters
Mr. Shi Guoxing, an 84-year-old resident in Laixi City, Shandong Province, was arrested on August 25, 2025. The police targeted him after surveillance videos captured him putting up self-adhesive stickers which had information about Falun Gong. They took him to the police station and released him on bail hours later.
The police broke into Mr. Shi’s home on October 1, 2025 and confiscated his Falun Gong books, printer, and other valuables. They took him and his 82-year-old wife, Ms. Song Zhenfang, to the police station. Ms. Song was released that evening, but put Mr. Shi was taken to the Laixi City Detention Center and has been detained since.
Two Elderly Practitioners Remain Detained, Two More Have Yet to Have Confiscated Valuables Returned
Four elderly residents in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, were arrested in September 2025 for practicing Falun Gong, and two of them remain detained at unknown locations.
Mr. Pan, 78, and Mr. Yan, 74, visited Ms. Huang Shixiang, 80, on the morning of September 19, 2025. As soon as the two men (whose first names remain to be investigated) left, they were seized by eight plainclothes officers right outside Ms. Huang’s apartment building.
The police then used a master key to open Ms. Huang’s door. Her other guest, Ms. Liu Tingxiu, 82, who was still there, demanded to see their IDs and a search warrant. One officer flashed a piece of paper, but the women couldn’t see what was written on it.
Ms. Huang was restrained in a bedroom for nearly two hours, during which time the police confiscated her Falun Gong books and informational materials, as well as 38,000 yuan in cash.
The police did not allow Ms. Huang to verify the confiscated items and they did not give her a list of the items. They then took her and Ms. Liu to the police station, where they snatched Ms. Liu’s house key.
With Ms. Liu held at the police station, the police raided her home and confiscated all of her Falun Gong books. She was also not given a list of the confiscated items.
After they were interrogated, Ms. Liu and Ms. Huang were taken to the 739 Hospital for physical exams. Ms. Liu was found to have a systolic blood pressure of over 200 mmHg. Even before she finished the exam, the police took her to the Shenyang City First Detention Center, which refused to accept her due to her poor health.
Ms. Huang was also denied admission because of her nearly 90-degree hunch back. The police extorted 3,000 yuan from her family and 2,000 yuan from Ms. Liu’s family before releasing them on bail that night.
Ms. Liu went to the police station multiple times to seek the return of the confiscated Falun Gong books, but to no avail. Ms. Huang made the same requests to get her confiscated items back, but the police denied having seized 38,000 yuan in cash. They claimed that they only kept a bit over 1,000 yuan in banknotes which had Falun Gong messages printed on them and they returned the rest of the money to her husband. Her husband said the police only returned 1,000 yuan in cash.
The police still have not returned the remaining 37,000 yuan to Ms. Huang. She and Ms. Liu also have not gotten their Falun Gong books back.
Mr. Pan and Mr. Yan are still in detention, and their families have not been told of their whereabouts.
89-Year-Old Shandong Man Faces Indictment for Practicing Falun Gong
Mr. Wang Chuanwen, 89 and of Jinan City, Shandong Province, was arrested at home on August 20, 2025. The police targeted him after receiving a tip that he talked to people about Falun Gong on a bus days prior. They showed him the surveillance video from the bus while they interrogated him at the police station. He acknowledged that he was the man in the video but he refused to answer their questions.
Mr. Wang was next taken to the hospital for a physical exam. He was found to have a systolic blood pressure of 230 mmHg (a normal range is 120 mmHg or lower). The police released him on bail after the local detention center refused to admit him.
Two staffers from the Licheng District Procuratorate went to Mr. Wang’s home on September 17, 2025 and said they received the case against him from the police. They asked him to sign some paperwork but he refused. He instead wrote on the document, “I am innocent! Falun Dafa is practiced in more than 100 countries. It is the police that broke the law [in arresting me and seeking to prosecute me].” He remains out on bail at the time of this report.
A 79-year-old retired hospital worker in Suining City, Sichuan Province completed a six-month prison term around December 2024 because she practices Falun Gong, only to have her pension suspended in August 2025.
Ms. Zhao Yan received a phone call from the human resources department at her former workplace, the Suining City Third Hospital, on July 22, 2025. The caller said the Chuanshan District Social Security Bureau notified the hospital that she should not have been issued retirement benefits during her six-month imprisonment and that she needed to return the funds.
The caller added that Ms. Zhao was only qualified for 40% of her previous pension after she served a prison term. He also demanded that she deliver a copy of her verdict to the hospital. Ms. Zhao told him that the Sichuan Province Women’s Prison took it from her and never returned it when she was released.
The hospital called Ms. Zhao again on July 28, 2025 and still demanded a copy of the verdict. She repeated that the prison had it. That same day, the Social Security Bureau notified her to report to them. She did not go.
The person in charge of retirees’ benefits at the hospital called Ms. Zhao on August 4, 2025 and urged her to report to the Social Security Bureau immediately. She replied that she was out and about and could not go. The Social Security Bureau stopped her pension in August 2025.
Two people came to Ms. Zhao’s home on September 16, 2025. They introduced themselves as community workers and ordered her to sign several statements to renounce Falun Gong. She refused to comply and one of them threatened to deny her son’s low-income subsidy application. Ms. Zhao was not deterred and urged them to stop participating in the persecution of Falun Gong. They then left.
Ms. Tang Sulan, 85, from Linshui County, Sichuan Province, was arrested on September 11, 2025 and taken to the Huaying City Detention Center. Her arrest was approved soon after. The police indicated that they had been monitoring her for a long time before the arrest.
After the CCP ordered the persecution in 1999, Ms. Tang and her family were targeted for not renouncing their faith. Ms. Tang’s husband, son, and son-in-law passed away as a result of the persecution. Her grandson, who didn’t practice Falun Gong, grew up in fear because he witnessed the repeated arrests, harassment and detention of his parents and other family members. He died from severe mental distress when he was only 21.
Ms. Tang was sentenced to four years following an arrest in July 2000 for passing out Falun Gong flyers. When her term expired, the police didn’t release her, but took her to the police station. They told her about her son’s death, yet they didn’t allow her to cry. The next morning, she was transferred to a brainwashing center. After she was released one month later, the police continued to harass her, ransack her home, and take photos of her against her will. She was sentenced again to two and a half years on October 27, 2016.
80-Year-Old Mother Arrested, Mentally Disabled Son Terrified
To avoid being persecuted for practicing Falun Gong, Ms. Su Changqin, 80, from Kaiyuan City, Liaoning Province, was forced to live away from home in 2023, together with her son who is mentally disabled. Ms. Su was arrested by the Kaiyuan police at her rental place in Shenyang City in the same province on September 4, 2025. Her son is currently with his sister-in-law; he was so terrified by Ms. Su’s arrest that he refused to eat and often went out to look for her.
Ms. Su’s ordeal stemmed from her earlier arrest on July 6, 2023, for putting up Falun Gong posters. While she was released on bail the next day, the police still submitted her case to the Changtu County Procuratorate. When she was deposed by the prosecutor on November 3, 2023, she felt extremely dizzy and vomited, yet the police accused her of faking it. She managed to call a taxi and she returned home.
To avoid possible prison sentence, Ms. Su was went into hiding. She lived an unbearably hard life, only to be arrested again in September 2025.
Violence and Torture in Custody
Abused in Custody Despite Disability, Woman Arrested Again for Filing Complaints Against Police
A 61-year-old disabled woman in Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province, was arrested on October 25, 2025, for filing complaints against those who tortured her for practicing her faith, Falun Gong, during an earlier detention weeks ago.
Ms. Li Chunhua’s ordeal stemmed from her arrest on August 21, 2025, for writing information about Falun Gong in public places. Officers Li Hongyu, Qu Yongpeng, and Yang Zhongyu interrogated her in the basement of the Wulong Police Station, and restrained her in a metal chair for more than 30 hours. Years ago when she was persecuted, she sustained a fractured lumbar vertebra, and the prolonged sitting aggravated the injury to her lower back. She fainted during the interrogation. The head of the Longsha Domestic Security Office poured water over her ears and into her clothes and blew air into her face.
Ms. Li was carried to the Qiqihar City Detention Center on the evening of August 22. Officer Li said to the doctor in charge of examining all the incoming inmates, “She is very healthy. There is no need to exam her.”
Yang, the head of the Qiqihar Detention Center, also told the doctor, “We’re good buddies—there’s no need to do the physical exam.” She was put in cell 211 and had a hard time falling asleep due to the pain.
On August 29, 2025, the police ordered two inmates, who were also made to wear handcuffs, to drag Ms. Li up and down the stairs for additional interrogation. Because their wrists hurt from the handcuffs, they yanked Ms. Li up and down, straining the muscles on her left shoulder and chest. The pain in her left ribs was so intense she couldn’t remain standing, so they put her in a wheelchair. She thought they were going to interrogate her, but they took her to a room to be photographed. She refused to let them take photos of her, so they took her back to the cell.
When the detention center doctor examined Ms. Li, he stabbed her legs and soles with an awl and saw she had no feeling in them. The doctor told the police, “She is disabled.”
For the next two weeks, Ms. Li was bedridden. The pain kept her awake at night. She felt dizzy and had ringing in her ears and bloodshot eyes. Her organs were failing, and her abdomen was sunken. She couldn’t keep food down and threw up everything she ate. Her vomit was dark green. She felt her chest was burning and was very thirsty. She craved ice water. Unable to walk on her own, she had to be carried to the restroom when nature called.
Ms. Li demanded to file a complaint against the police. Guard Song Wei stood in front of her cell and said, “Don’t you want to write the complaint? Why don’t you get out of bed and write it yourself?”
Ms. Li struggled to the edge of the bed and rolled down to the floor. She then asked Song to move her to a wheelchair to write the complaint, but Song refused. The inmates carried Ms. Li back to her bed.
On September 8, 2025, the police took Ms. Li to the Qiqihar City 39 Hospital. She had an MRI of her lower back and an EKG of her heart. The police then released her on bail after extorting 20,000 yuan from her family. She was carried home by a family member.
In mid-September, Ms. Li filed criminal complaints with the Qiqihar City Procuratorate against the police and detention center guards for torturing her. In retaliation, the police arrested her again on October 25, 2025. They refused to tell her family where she was being detained and threatened to put her in jail without a trial.
Ms. Wang Shuhua, a 68-year-old resident in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, was subjected to involuntary drug administration, force-feeding, and gang beatings while she was detained for practicing Falun Gong. Her family filed complaints against her perpetrators.
Ms. Wang Shuhua
Ms. Wang, a former middle school vice principal, was arrested on August 23, 2025, after she was reported for talking to someone about Falun Gong. When she was taken to the hospital for a physical exam the next day, her systolic blood pressure registered at 210 mmHg. The police however made the doctor record 194 mmHg on her exam report and drove her to the Shenyang City First Detention Center. While en-route there, an officer shoved a hypertension pill into her mouth. She spat it out.
A male doctor on duty at the detention center took Ms. Wang’s blood pressure. He did not read out the number, simply saying, “It’s so high! How can we accept her?” He told the police to take her to another hospital. By the time they got there, it was after 2 a.m. The doctor there also did not tell Ms. Wang what her blood pressure reading was. Her family later saw on her medical records that it was 181 mmHg.
The doctor suggested Ms. Wang rest for three days. The police forced her to swallow two pills before they took her to the detention center again. She was formally admitted around 4 a.m. on August 24, 2025.
After she was admitted the detention center forced Ms. Wang to take hypertension pills. One guard pinched her cheeks to force open her mouth and she put in the pills. She also poured in water to force Ms. Wang to swallow them and instructed the inmates to force-feed the pills to Ms. Wang. She felt drowsy after taking the pills. She also suffered memory decline, severe insomnia, and anxiety.
Ms. Wang went on a hunger strike on the morning of September 6, 2025, to protest the illegal arrest, detention and involuntary drug administration. Instigated by the guard, the inmates verbally abused Ms. Wang and ordered her to eat.
That night, Ms. Wang was taken to the guards’ office. Four guards tied her up in a bed. The detention center doctor force-fed her crushed food and hypertension pills through a feeding tube. She felt nauseous and vomited the tube out twice. Each time the doctor reinserted it. She was extremely uncomfortable and burped. She felt something stirring in her stomach.
Around 5:00 p.m. on September 10, 2025, Ms. Wang refused to eat dinner and was beaten by five inmates. They pressed her down on the ground. One inmate sat on her legs while the others punched and kicked her. They also hit her on the head with bottles filled with water. She had multiple egg-sized bumps on her head, stretching from the crown of her head to her temples. The pain persists to this day.
Liaoning Woman Interrogated with Torture
Someone knocked on Ms. Li Zhuoqing’s door on the afternoon of August 26, 2025 and claimed to be from the property management office. Ms. Li opened the door, only to have a group of police officers barge in. Her printers were printing posters exposing the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong. The police spent over two hours ransacking her home and confiscated her laptop, two printers, a cell phone, some informational materials and a photo of Falun Gong’s founder.
Ms. Li, a 52-year-old resident of Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, was taken to the police station for interrogation. As she refused to comply, the police covered her head with a black hood and left in her a metal chair overnight, and did not allow her to sleep. They also placed the photo of Falun Gong’s founder under her feet and ordered her to step on it. She refused to comply. The police later forcibly collected her blood sample. She also had blood in her urine and was found to have infection in her urinary tract.
Ms. Li was later issued a formal arrest warrant and is currently held at the Shenyang City First Detention Center. Her persecution dealt a hard blow to her bedridden 86-year-old father and disabled husband.
Family Separated Due to Persecution
Father Detained for Practicing Falun Gong
A father of three in Maoming City, Guangdong Province, has been detained for almost 22 months because he practices Falun Gong. Mr. Wei Jinjiang’s wife revealed early last year that he was arrested around February 5, 2024 but she dared not say more about his situation for fear of retaliation from the authorities. Due to the communist regime’s strict censorship, Minghui.org correspondents have not been able to obtain any updates regarding Mr. Wei’s case status.
After the persecution of Falun Gong began in July 1999, Mr. Wei lost his job at the Maoming City Thermal Power Plant because he held firm to his faith. He was also put in a labor camp and served an unknown term. In August 2009, he was arrested by Xinhu Police Station officers while putting up self-adhesive stickers at a local park which contained information about Falun Gong. He was later sentenced to an unknown term and was admitted to the Yangjiang Prison.
To support his family, Mr. Wei did all kinds of odd jobs after he was released, including making deliveries on a tricycle, working as a welder, and operating a forklift. His latest arrest devastated his wife, a stay-at-home mom who is now struggling to provide for and take care of their three young daughters.
Married Couple Arrested for Their Faith, Husband Still in Detention
A married couple in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province was arrested at home on September 10, 2025, because they practice Falun Gong. Several people knocked on the couple’s door before 1 a.m. that morning and claimed to be community workers checking for “water leaks.” They pried open the door when the couple ignored them. More than ten black-clad agents barged in and raided the couple’s home without showing a search warrant. They confiscated two Falun Gong books and one magazine containing Falun Gong information.
The couple were interrogated separately at the Gaishan Police Station. Ms. Shi Aijuan was released over two hours later, but her husband Mr. Zhang Guoli, 42, remains in custody.
This is not the first time that the couple has been targeted for practicing Falun Gong. Mr. Zhang, who retired from the military in 2014 after 12 years of service, was detained for more than six months in 2016 for writing to his former military colleagues about the persecution of Falun Gong. After he was released, the police harassed him and his wife, especially during major holidays, political events, or anniversaries related to Falun Gong.
Since the couple and their two children live in Ms. Shi’s hair salon, the police often came to check if they had a salon license, residence permit [in China, people are required to have residence permit if they live in places other than where their household registration is issued], and fire safety measures. On March 7, 2023, two security guards showed up when Ms. Shi just opened her salon for business. They asked if she was the owner or an employee. About ten minutes later, two police officers arrived.
The four of them, without showing their IDs, said they were there to warn her of the safety violations while living in the same place as the salon because residential and commercial units were subject to different building codes and fire safety standards.
Ms. Shi responded that she and her husband were forced into such a living arrangement after the police pressured their landlords to terminate their leases many times over the years because they practice Falun Gong. Between 2018 and 2020 alone, they had to move three times, with a young son and daughter in tow. They had no recourse but to live in the salon.
The police demanded to see Ms. Shi’s ID and residence permit. They also asked if she still practiced Falun Gong. She refused to sign their paperwork. They also asked for her landlord’s phone number. She didn’t provide the information, and they threatened to fine her 200 yuan.
86-Year-Old Mother Dies Due to Grief Over Daughter’s Arrest for Her Faith
Ms. Duan Xiaorong, a 61-year-old retired teacher in Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, took her 86-year-old mother, Ms. Ding Cuiying, out for a walk in the courtyard of the apartment complex on June 24, 2025. While her mother stayed in the courtyard to enjoy the sun, Ms. Duan left briefly to do some grocery shopping, only to be arrested by the police. They ignored her plea that she needed to go back and take her mother home. She had to call her daughter to help pick up her mother. Ms. Ding was so devastated by Ms. Duan’s arrest that she fell ill and passed away in late September.
Ms. Duan was held at the Daqing City Second Detention Center and later indicted by the Ranghulu District Procuratorate. She has been sentenced to seven years and fined 60,000 yuan.
Repeated Persecution
60-Year-Old Yunnan Man Faces Trial for Practicing Falun Gong, Previously Jailed a Total of 15 Years
Mr. Han Zhenkun, a 60-year-old resident in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, was summoned to the local police station on May 12, 2025 and arrested. The police suspected him of placing a flash drive containing Falun Gong information in a car months earlier after receiving a tip from the car owner on January 13. They also discovered Falun Gong materials on Mr. Han’s person after he reported to the police station.
Mr. Han’s home was subsequently raided and his Falun Gong books and other materials were confiscated. He was put in the Guandu District Detention Center and issued a formal arrest warrant on May 27.
The Guandu District Procuratorate indicted Mr. Han on July 25, 2025 and forwarded the case to the Wuhua District Procuratorate. His lawyer filed a request with the latter procuratorate to have the case dropped, but to no avail. He now faces trial by the Wuhua District Court.
This is not the first time that Mr. Han, a hotel worker and a former professional tennis player, was targeted for his faith. He previously served three prison terms totaling 15 years, including a seven-year term (April 2004 – April 2011) and two four-year terms (September 2013 – September 2017 and September 2019 – September 2023).
Mr. Han’s ex-wife, Ms. Guo Juan, also a Falun Gong practitioner, was repeatedly persecuted. She was sentenced to three years after she was arrested in April 2004. The authorities later forced the couple to divorce. Mr. Han’s parents died in 2017 after their health declined from living in fear and enduring endless harassment.
57-Year-Old Woman Faces Ongoing Harassment After 15 Years of Incarceration Since 2002
After Ms. Zhang Lingge, 57, from Changsha City, Hunan Province, finished serving a four-year prison term for practicing Falun Gong in November 2024, she was devastated to discover that the court that sentenced her garnished 15,000 yuan from her bank account to pay her court fine. Unable to pay rent, she was evicted from the affordable housing.
Ms. Zhang applied for the low-income subsidy through the residential committee, but was ordered to write a statement to “follow the laws and be a law-abiding citizen.” She argued that she had always been a law-abiding citizen and that the communist regime was persecuting her because of her faith. Because she refused to write the statement, her application was rejected.
Meanwhile, the authorities followed Ms. Zhang wherever she went. When she moved in with her mother, there were police cars parking outside around the clock. Sometimes the police shone bright lights into the home at midnight.
For upholding her faith, Ms. Zhang was sentenced to six years in 2002. Only 14 months after she was released, she was arrested again on April 27, 2009, and given 1.5 years in the Baimalong Forced Labor Camp. She was sentenced to another 3.5 years in the Hunan Province Women’s Prison following her next arrest on March 29, 2014. Her low-income subsidy was suspended. After she was released from Hunan Province Women’s Prison in 2017, she was arrested a few more times and held in local lockups or brainwashing centers from days to weeks. One night she was arrested for removing a banner that slandered Falun Gong. She was hung up on the tree overnight and not let down until the next day.
After Being Incarcerated for 9.5 Years, 78-Year-Old Retired Teacher Arrested Again
Ms. Liu Juhua, 78, a retired teacher in Huanggang City, Hubei Province, was arrested on August 25, 2025. She was put in criminal detention the next day and her arrest was approved on September 9. She is now facing indictment.
Ms. Liu was the Director of the Teaching and Research Department of the Chibi Education Group of the Huangzhou District. She published dozens of academic papers and won many awards.
After the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, Ms. Liu was arrested at least seven times. She was given two 1.5 year and one 2 year labor camp terms. She also served a 4 year prison term. She was subjected to brutal torture while serving time at the Shayang Forced Labor Camp, the Baimalong Forced Labor Camp, and the Hubei Province Women’s Prison. She suffered two mental breakdowns and almost died.
In addition to repeated incarceration, Ms. Liu was also subjected to financial persecution by having her pension suspended. She was under long term surveillance and harassed during major holidays or political events. Her daughter was forced by the school administration to drop out of college in her junior year. Ms. Liu’s mother was so traumatized that she stopped eating and passed away in 2013.
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