On June 28, 2025, Falun Gong practitioners held a rally and parade in Auckland, New Zealand, exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 26-year-long persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and calling on the international community to join efforts to stop the CCP's crimes against humanity. Pictured is human rights lawyer Kerry Gore speaking at the rally. (Zhao Kai / Dajiyuan)
[People News] "Honour the elderly in your own family as well as in others'." Banquets for elders. The principle that “though guilty, the very old shall not be punished.” Elderly exempted from hard labour, even forgiven of crimes in consideration of their age… These traditions of respect for the elderly were once part of Chinese civilisation. But under the tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), they’ve been destroyed. Since July 20, 1999, the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners has not only persisted but intensified. Many elderly individuals, once plagued by illness but restored to health through Falun Gong practice, have been killed. Their deaths are sudden and often silenced quickly, with prison and police officials offering no explanation, because none is needed under such a regime.
Elderly Practitioners Persecuted to Death
Even as of July 2025, reports from China continue to surface of elderly individuals being abducted for practising Falun Gong to stay healthy and for believing in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance: Hao Shuping, 71, from Fengrun District, Tangshan City, Hebei Province, was abducted on July 8 in Fan Zhuang Village and sent to the No.1 Detention Center that afternoon. Han Yujie, 72, from Changchun City, Jilin Province, was arrested on July 10 while working as a nanny in Nong’an. Jiang Jinjuan, 60, from Weifang City, Shandong Province, was unlawfully detained on June 18 and sentenced to 10 months in prison.
Yu Fangzhuang, 93, a practitioner in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, who died after other inmates were incited by prison guards to chain her feet for three days and pour scalding water over her head (November 2023).
Liu Dianyuan, 87, from Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province, died in Shenyang No.1 Prison. The family was never informed of the circumstances.
Li Peigao, 86, from Kunming, Yunnan Province, was tortured to death on January 4, 2023, in Yunnan No.1 Prison. His family never received a proper account.
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None of the prison or police personnel involved in these atrocities have been held accountable. This alone proves the CCP has no intention of upholding its own laws or international human rights commitments made when it joined the WTO 25 years ago.
Why did Jiang Zemin, the then General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, launch the persecution of Falun Gong 25 years ago—leading even elderly practitioners in their nineties today to continue facing a fate of slaughter?
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The CCP knows its rule was seized through foreign invasions (Japan, USSR), and it constantly fears collapse.
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Jiang Zemin, who rose to power through the bloodshed of Tiananmen in 1989, feared losing control. When Falun Gong attracted tens of millions of followers in just seven years, Jiang viewed it as a threat to his power base.
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The ideological remnants of the Cultural Revolution, which opposed belief in God, destroyed temples, and attacked traditional culture, continue to influence the Party's actions.
Global Expansion of the Persecution
In 2025, the CCP has escalated and internationalised its suppression tactics, targeting even elderly Falun Gong adherents abroad through threats, surveillance, and attempted murders.
November 2, 2024 (New York): An assailant broke into the home of elderly practitioner Cheng Peiming. The garage lock was forcibly broken, and the doors were left wide open. Fortunately, the intruder was discovered in time.
A threatening email—written in Chinese, containing images of knives and torture descriptions—was sent to relatives of overseas practitioners, warning of kidnappings and murder.
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The CCP’s transnational repression now includes: Cyberattacks, bomb threats, violence in public, Defamation campaigns, propaganda, and weaponised litigation.
One clear example of its coordinated and sudden repression occurred in Malaysia:
From April 15 to 17 this year, during the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary’s visit to Malaysia—widely seen as a time of large-scale financial handouts—Malaysian police suddenly and without prior warning arrested 76 Falun Gong practitioners who had gathered in Cheras to study Falun Gong books together. Their mobile phones were confiscated. The 76 individuals were detained for periods ranging from 3 to over 20 days. Among them, an 80-year-old elderly person went on a hunger strike and suffered a head injury during a scuffle.
According to local media reports, police suspected them of engaging in illegal organisation, illegal assembly, and illegal printing, and claimed that their arrests had nothing to do with Xi Jinping’s visit.
Kuala Lumpur Police Chief Dato’ Rusdi stated that he personally ordered Kuala Lumpur Criminal Investigation Department Head Mohamad Razali to take action. He added that Falun Gong is not unfamiliar in Malaysia; since he took office as police chief eight years ago, he has been handling matters related to the group. “They protest in many places, including near embassies,” he said.
However, people familiar with Falun Gong noted that practising or studying Falun Gong is entirely voluntary and a personal decision. Individuals can freely choose to practice or not, to speak out publicly or not, to come or go as they wish—it’s all up to them. Falun Gong has no organisational structure, no formal regulations, no offices, no funding, no mobilisation—none of the elements that define an organised group. Registered groups exist only to comply with government requirements. Reading books together is no different from studying at a library. There’s no political agenda, no demands, no goal of public assembly, and no disruption to others or society. Therefore, it cannot be considered a public assembly, let alone an illegal one. As for printed materials, these are personally funded, compiled from public media sources, and distributed freely, not for profit.
Some Malaysian Chinese have commented that the CCP uses financial incentives to win people over. In the face of immediate economic temptations, the Malaysian government is selling out the nation’s values, future well-being, conscience, and moral integrity—even going so far as to arrest its own citizens, essentially working as hired hands for the CCP. Such behaviour, they say, is shortsighted. Law enforcement should be defending justice by resisting CCP infiltration and preventing its harms, including its human rights abuses against Malaysian Chinese and Muslims. Instead, the authorities have become tools of the CCP. Isn’t that equivalent to surrendering to an invasion by the Communist regime?
Why the Persecution of Falun Gong Affects Everyone
Some may say, “The Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of Falun Gong has nothing to do with me.”
Falun Gong’s core principles—Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance—are not only universally recognised human values on the surface; in essence, they represent the highest moral ideals of humanity. They embody the universal law of the cosmos and the righteous path of cultivation. Through moral elevation, practitioners return to the origin of life—a true state of being that allows people to find peace and purpose. This is the foundation of existence, the root of traditional civilisation, and the moral baseline that everyone should uphold.
Originally a spiritual practice that could have benefited people’s physical and mental well-being, Falun Gong has been grossly misrepresented by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) through distorted narratives, misquotes, and deceitful slander, confusing public perception and clouding people's minds.
The CCP has used financial incentives, violent threats, and political pressure to advance its persecution in the East through brutal suppression and killings, and in the West through cultural distortion and moral decay. It disrupts social order (e.g., promoting the idea of universal equality through state welfare and legal manipulation), causing people to abandon kindness, lose their moral compass, forget universal values, and become spiritually corrupted. At the same time, the CCP infiltrates media, manipulates public opinion, aggressively promotes a stigmatising narrative about Falun Gong, and attempts to foster international hostility. These actions severely threaten freedom of speech and personal safety, and undermine the core values and legal foundations of democratic societies.
The CCP, rooted in atheism and opposition to heaven, earth, gods, and Buddhas, once declared its ambition to rule the world and “liberate” humanity (in reality, indulging human desires and demonic tendencies). Now, it is quietly rejoicing—because the children of God—human beings—are falling into its trap and being destroyed.
In mainland China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) once applied the methods it used to control Falun Gong to the entire society. According to foreign media reports, the CCP is now extending its persecution of Falun Gong overseas. Once these tactics prove effective, there is concern they may be replicated against any individual or organisation in other countries.
Against this backdrop, Falun Gong’s true mission is to save humanity—to help people restore proper moral standards, universal values, traditional culture, social order, and the principles of life itself.
The CCP, wielding the full power of the state to enforce tyranny, has coerced pro-CCP countries through various forms of economic and political leverage, spreading its persecution across the globe. However, what follows is a severe form of karmic retribution: moral collapse, rampant corruption, governmental dysfunction, economic stagnation, societal hopelessness, public despair, and a surge of natural and man-made disasters affecting all of humanity.
The CCP’s ultimate goal is the destruction of humankind.
Viewed in this light, the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong—and Falun Gong’s efforts to resist this persecution—are deeply relevant to every individual. It all comes down to a personal choice between good and evil, righteousness and wickedness, truth and falsehood—a choice that determines one’s future.
The Slaughter of the Elderly—A Moral Wake-up Call
For twenty-six years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has falsely convicted and brutally persecuted elderly Falun Gong practitioners in countless tragic cases. Some of these wrongfully sentenced elders are already in their eighties or nineties. Through practising Falun Dafa, they regained physical health and experienced spiritual elevation, greatly reducing the burden on society and their families while continuing to make positive contributions. They ought to be praised and protected by both the government and society. Yet, because the CCP harbours hatred toward the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, it has mobilised the power of the entire state to persecute these individuals. Regardless of personal circumstances, as long as someone is labelled as practising Falun Gong for health, they are subjected to a campaign of group extermination. “Beaten to death, it counts as suicide; no identification; immediate cremation”—this has become the chilling policy.
The CCP is well aware that such persecution of Falun Gong is illegal, unjust, and devoid of humanity or human rights. As a result, it carries out the persecution in extreme secrecy, through deception and lies, secretly arresting people. Police often justify their actions with excuses such as, “These elderly people aren’t staying quiet in their old age—they’re out looking for trouble,” or “engaging in politics,” or “being anti-Party.”
People understand that when one human commits a crime against another, they must be held accountable by the law. But when humanity offends the divine and refuses to repent or acknowledge its wrongdoing, divine retribution will inevitably follow, with consequences so severe they are unimaginable.
History’s lessons are painful. China once endured the catastrophe of the "Three Wu and One Zong Buddhist Suppressions," and ancient Rome saw the brutal persecution of Christians. The result for the persecutors was not only personal ruin and death, but the destruction of their families and empires. Even the ordinary people who, out of ignorance, sided with power were not spared from divine punishment. Sadly, history is now repeating itself, and humanity either does not recognise it or refuses to acknowledge it.
In times of peril, Falun Gong practitioners—having long perceived the will of heaven—have stepped forward with compassion, giving everything they have, risking brutal persecution by the CCP to tell people how to escape the great disasters. Because of this selfless effort, many foretold catastrophes did not occur. Isn’t this the greatest act of saving people and doing good? Is this really “stirring up trouble,” “anti-Party,” or “political activity”? As karmic retribution becomes more severe and crises more urgent, if the persecutors still refuse to stop doing evil, are they not cutting off their own path to survival?
(Originally published by People News. The views expressed are the author’s own.)
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