(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 Yang Zengsheng, CCP secretary and director of the Shandong Provincial Department of Justice, and the First Political commissar of the Shandong Provincial Prison Administration Bureau.
Perpetrator Information
Full Name of Perpetrator: Yang (last name) Zengsheng (first name) (杨增胜)Gender: MaleCountry: ChinaDate/year of Birth: May 1967Place of Birth: Jinan, Shandong Province
Titles and Positions
December 2002 – October 2007: Party secretary and president of the Zhangqiu Municipal People’s Procuratorate
October 2007 – January 2015: Director of the Anti-Corruption and Bribery Bureau and vice president of the Jinan Municipal People’s Procuratorate
January 2015 – February 2018: Director of the Anti-Corruption and Malfeasance Bureau of the Shandong Provincial People’s Procuratorate
February 2018 – March 2022: Standing committee member and deputy secretary of the Shandong Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, and deputy director of the Shandong Provincial Supervisory Commission
March 2022 – Present: CCP secretary and director of the Shandong Provincial Department of Justice
Major Crimes
In March 2022, Yang Zengsheng became the Party secretary and director of the Shandong Provincial Department of Justice. Since then, he has vigorously enforced the CCP’s brutal persecution policy against Falun Gong practitioners. At least five practitioners have died as a result of the persecution, including Wang Zhongshi, Lin Jianping, Li Fengying, Wang Yuling, and Xu Haihong. Many other practitioners have been disabled or injured due to torture.
The two prisons that are primarily used to detain Falun Gong practitioners in Shandong are the Shandong Province Women’s Prison and the Shandong Province Prison. Both are administered under the Shandong Provincial Department of Justice and the Prison Administration Bureau.
Shandong Province Women’s Prison
As soon as the practitioners are admitted to the Shandong Province Women’s Prison, they are forced to go through various physical examinations. Over 90% of them would be found to have “many diseases” they had never had before, and then forced to take medications and be on dietary restrictions. Some weren’t allowed to eat steamed buns or rice congee for years and could only eat cornbread. If the practitioners refused to take the drugs, the guards would instruct the inmates to add the drugs to the practitioners’ food without their knowledge.
Those who refused to renounce Falun Gong would be held in a dark room of less than 10 square meters (about 100 square feet) and not allowed to have contact with others or file complaints with the prison leadership. The inmates assigned to monitor them didn’t allow them to talk, wash themselves, or walk around. They had to write a formal application and admit that they were criminals if they needed to use the restroom. For one and a half months, each person was only given one roll of toilet paper bought with their own money. Some practitioners were forced to relieve themselves in their pants and not allowed to change or take showers.
Sometimes the guards and inmates would grab the practitioners’ hands and force them to write statements to renounce Falun Gong. To prevent the practitioners from calling for help, the guards pulled their hair backward. A guard once said to the practitioners, “You should know that as long as you are here, the transformation rate is 100%.”
Shandong Province Prison
In Shandong Province Prison, the 11th Division was specially set up as a brainwashing center to persecution Falun Gong practitioners. The 11th Division has its own five-story building with a courtyard. The first floor is all solitary confinement rooms. The windows are covered with sealed shutters, thus there is no sunlight inside.
In order to force practitioners to renounce their faith, prison guards order the inmates to physically and mentally torture them, which includes punching, kicking, slapping, shocking them with electric batons, restraining them in metal chairs, tying them with ropes, hanging, deprivation of sleep, and long-time standing or sitting. The prison guards and inmates openly claim that if practitioners refuse to give up their belief and are beaten to death, their death would not be a big deal.
In the sitting torture, practitioners are not allowed to get up to move around, except when they use the restroom or have meals. After long hours of sitting motionless, the victim experiences severe overall body pain. He is exhausted, hungry, and thirsty. Large, extremely painful bruises develop on the buttocks.
Over 100 practitioners are currently detained there and subjected to various torture methods, for upholding their faith. The average age of these practitioners is 72 years old, including more than 20 who are 80 or older.
Mr. Liu Xuesen, 90, was taken to the prison on June 25, 2025. He was isolated in a room on the sixth floor. He wasn’t allowed to go to bed until 2 a.m., and then the guards would wake him up again at 5:50 a.m. For the over 20 hours in between, Mr. Liu was forced to sit on a small stool while having to watch videos smearing Falun Gong.
Mr. Liu Jinguo, the former assistant principal of the Linshu Neighborhood Fourth Elementary School in Linshu County, was arrested in November 2023, and later sentenced to four years. He was admitted to the Shandong Province Prison in July 2024. Between September and October 2024, he was forced to get up at 6 a.m. and not allowed to go to bed until 1:30 a.m.
On January 17, 2025, in the coldest time of winter, the guards stripped Mr. Liu naked, gave him a thin bed sheet to cover himself, and then opened the window to freeze him, just because he refused to wear the inmates’ uniform. Inmate Liu Guishan, who was assigned to monitor him, was shivering even with a heavy jacket on. After an entire day of freezing, Mr. Liu lost consciousness and was taken to the hospital.
Select Death and Torture Cases
Case 1: Shandong Man Dies in Police Hospital While Serving an Eight-Year Term
Mr. Wang Zhongshi, a Zibo City, Shandong Province resident, died on July 22, 2024, while serving an eight-year term. He was 71 years old.
Mr. Wang’s latest arrest on November 11, 2020, came just over a year after he finished serving a ten-year term for practicing Falun Gong. His health was damaged during the first prison term, and he could only pass urine while squatting. Before he could recover, he was arrested again and given another lengthy term to be served at the same Shandong Province Prison. The guards there continued to torture him by forcing him to sit on a small stool all day long without moving, which further aggravated his already-damaged health. He didn’t have proper physical exercise and was constantly deprived of sleep, while still being forced to watch videos smearing Falun Gong every day. He eventually succumbed to the torture and passed away in the police hospital.
The guards who were involved in torturing Mr. Wang included division director Liang Jingda, deputy director Chen Shuo, and instructor Zheng Jie. When Liang gave orders to torture the practitioners, he said to the guards and inmates, “Don’t treat them [Falun Gong practitioners] as human beings.”
Case 2: Tortured to Serious Condition After Four Months in Prison, 63-Year-Old Woman Dies Two Weeks After Medical Parole Release
Ms. Lin Jianping, of Qixia City, Shandong Province, was taken back into custody in mid-October 2024 to serve the three-year prison term she was sentenced to in March 2023, for practicing Falun Gong. She was abused in prison, and in serious condition. The prison authorities released her on medical parole on January 30, 2025, and she died on February 13. She was 63 years old.
Ms. Lin’s death capped her decades of suffering at the hands of the CCP for upholding her faith. She was arrested on September 26, 2004, and given three years of forced labor. After her term expired, she was taken directly to prison to serve a three-year term, without due process. She was brutally tortured while incarcerated.
After another arrest on February 6, 2022, Ms. Lin was put on house arrest and released the same day. She was sentenced to another three years with a 5,000-yuan fine on March 29, 2023. Her appeal was rejected by the Yantai City Intermediate Court. She was not immediately jailed due to health reasons.
The police pried open Ms. Lin’s door in September 2024, and took her to a hospital for a physical examination. She was still deemed unfit for detention, and sent home. Around mid-October 2024, the police tried again and managed to have her admitted to the Shandong Province Women’s Prison located in the capital city of Jinan.
Due to being subjected to abuse in prison, Ms. Li was in serious condition, disoriented, and confused. The prison notified her family on January 30, 2025, the second day of the Chinese New Year, to pick her up. Her family drove her straight to a hospital for emergency treatment. She died at 2 a.m. on February 13, 2025. It’s not clear whether she died in the hospital or at home.
Case 3: Cancer Patient Released from Prison in Critical Condition, Dies Four Months Later
Ms. Li Fengying, a 52-year-old resident of Wulian County, died at around 4 a.m. on December 31, 2024, four months after she was released from prison in critical condition.
Ms. Li was arrested on October 10, 2022, for talking to people about Falun Gong. She was sentenced to eight years with a 20,000-yuan fine on May 15, 2023. Despite her poor health as a result of torture at the detention center, the judge ordered that she be transferred to the Shandong Province Women’s Prison on August 8, 2023.
Just days into her prison admission, Ms. Li had to be rushed to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with lymphoma (cancer in the lymph system) and uterine cancer. Her request to be released on medical parole was denied. Both she and her family declined chemotherapy, but the prison hospital forced her to undergo the treatment anyway. She became weaker by the day. When her family visited her, it took her over an hour to walk the short distance to the meeting room.
As Ms. Li’s condition kept worsening, the prison eventually released her on parole on August 23, 2024. She died four months later.
Case 4: Drugged and Tortured in Prison, 74-Year-Old Woman Dies Less Than Two Years After Being Released
Ms. Wang Yuling, a Zibo City resident, passed away on October 7, 2024, less than two years after she completed a prison term for practicing Falun Gong. Due to the physical torture and forced drug administration she experienced in prison, she struggled to recover and was in extreme pain before she died. She was 74 years old.
Ms. Wang was arrested in July 2022 and later sentenced to a 1.5-year prison term. Because she refused to renounce Falun Gong, she was held in solitary confinement for five months at the Shandong Province Women’s Prison. Four inmates took turns monitoring her around the clock. They also ordered her to write articles to denounce Falun Gong every day. When she refused to comply, they grabbed her hand and forced her to write.
The guards also forced Ms. Wang to take unknown medications three times a day. The inmates force-fed her if she did not comply. Instigated by the guards, the inmates beat and verbally abused her at will. She was often forced to sit on a small stool, motionless, for hours and was not allowed to use the restroom.
After Ms. Wang was released on January 30, 2023, she was very weak, and struggled with severe complications from being drugged in prison. The suffering often worsened at night, sometimes causing her to scream in pain.
Ms. Wang suddenly passed out on August 31, 2024, and she was taken to the hospital for emergency treatment. The doctor said she had multiple organ failure. She died two months later on October 7, 2024.
Case 5: Woman Gets Three Years for Mailing a Letter to New Police Chief Urging Him Not to Persecute Falun Gong
Ms. Duan Guixiu, of Qingdao City, was arrested on November 29, 2021, for mailing a letter to the new police chief, urging him not to persecute Falun Gong. She was released on bail on January 7, 2022. The local court sentenced her to three years with a 20,000-yuan fine on March 17, 2023. She was taken back into custody on the same day.
Within two months of her prison admission, she was tortured to the point that she had difficulty walking. During a family visit on September 5, 2024, Ms. Duan had to be brought to the visitation room in a wheelchair. She was shaking uncontrollably, and she kept vomiting throughout the visit.
Case 6: Woman Force Fed and Forced to Sit on Small Stool with Grid Surface
Ms. Huang Chunling, of Jining City, was arrested on September 24, 2019, less than six months after she finished serving a previous five-year term for practicing Falun Gong. She was sentenced to another three years on October 22, 2020.
While serving time at the 11th Division in the prison, she refused to renounce Falun Gong and was brutally tortured. When she started a hunger strike to protest the persecution, division head Xu Yumei ordered several inmates to hold her to the ground and force-feed her. The inmates pried open her mouth with spoons and jabbed her with the spoons for over 40 minutes. Her mouth and teeth were severely injured, and she spit out a lot of blood.
After the 2023 Chinese New Year, the guard instigated the inmates to verbally abuse Ms. Huang, and forced her to sit on a small plastic stool with a thin grid on the seat. An inmate pushed Ms. Huang’s knee against the grid, and the pain felt like her knee was being cut by a knife. Another time, the inmate made a long cut on Ms. Huang’s calf, then forced her hands under the stool. The frame pressed against her wrists and left a deep indentation on them.
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