Please understand the truth about Falun Gong and the brutal persecution of Falun Gong in China. Please do not believe the Chinese Communist Party's lies. Falun Dafa is Good. Falun Gong (Falun Dafa) teaches 'Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance', it teaches us to be a GOOD person, and it makes us HEALTHY.
And it is embraced in over 100 nations!
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July 15, 2026 | By Ulziikhutag, a new Falun Dafa practitioner in Mongolia
After I started cultivating, I began to carefully examine my personality and thoughts, and strove to follow Dafa and change myself into a good person who is considerate when taking any action. I stopped losing my temper uncontrollably and constantly complaining about others, and I no longer expected others to care for and look after me. I worked hard to change and upgrade myself according to the requirements of Dafa. My family told me that I am a different person, and my family life has become harmonious.
(Minghui.org)I’ve often felt that I’m such a lucky person since I began practicing Falun Dafa. I encountered Dafa during my most difficult time. My life is full of sunshine and enriched with hope.
Before Practicing Falun Dafa
I was short-tempered before I started practicing Falun Dafa. I often nagged my family, spoke without thinking, and was rude to my younger siblings. Sometimes when I got angry, I would yell at them or even hit them. I never thought about how my behavior would affect the other party.
I was diagnosed with a brain tumor in June 2023. My condition was severe, and I had to undergo a major craniotomy. After the surgery, the doctors closely monitored my condition and administered large doses of medication. A doctor said that I needed to control my diet, avoid using my cell phone, reading, lifting any heavy objects, and rest in bed as much as possible. I practically became a useless person. My life plummeted to rock bottom, and I felt that living was pointless.
The Meaning of Life: Cultivate and Upgrade
I was very fortunate that my younger sister, a Falun Dafa practitioner, gave me a copy of Zhuan Falun in August 2023. I have always loved reading, but because of my illness the doctor had forbidden me from reading, so I dared not read any books or newspapers. But this book kept attracting me. I couldn’t let it go and always wanted to see what the book talked about, so I opened the book.
The content of Zhuan Falun deeply resonated with me, so I disregarded my sickness and read on. I began my journey of cultivation. When I read Lectures Four and Six, and the content about Cultivation of Speech (Lecture Eight,Zhuan Falun), Energy Field (Lecture Three, Zhuan Falun), and A Clear and Clean Mind (Lecture Nine, Zhuan Falun), for the first time, I clearly realized many of my shortcomings.
Only then did I understand that the meaning of life is to change and correct myself constantly, and that the meaning of coming to the world is to cultivate. In the past, I had always blamed others and external factors for all my problems and mistakes, never thinking about whether I had made any mistakes. Now I found that, in fact, the root of much suffering and conflict actually lay within myself.
After I started cultivating, I began to carefully examine my personality and thoughts, and strove to follow Dafa and change myself into a good person who is considerate when taking any action. I stopped losing my temper uncontrollably and constantly complaining about others, and I no longer expected others to care for and look after me. I worked hard to change and upgrade myself according to the requirements of Dafa. My family told me that I am a different person, and my family life has become harmonious.
Ulziikhutag, a new Falun Dafa practitioner in Mongolia, holds a copy of Zhuan Falun. (Minghui.org)
A Heart-Wrenching Tribulation
I suffered the most severe blow of my life in the autumn of 2024: my beloved son suddenly passed away in an accident. I felt as if the sky had fallen at that moment. My daughter-in-law and my son’s friend were involved in the accident. I felt such deep grief. As a new practitioner, it was difficult for me to take emotion lightly. However, I still thought of Dafa during that moment.
“The driver indeed drove the car too fast, but how could he possibly hit someone on purpose?” (Lecture Four, Zhuan Falun)
I did not lash out at my daughter-in-law or my son’s friend who had caused the accident, nor did I impulsively blame them. I didn’t want to send anybody to prison, nor did I want to live with resentment, because they had not intentionally killed my son. I chose to forgive them in my heart. Strengthened by immense energy from Master and Dafa, I maintained my rationality and peace amid such immense suffering.
If I hadn’t practiced Falun Dafa, I would not have been able to withstand such a huge blow. Perhaps I would have done things to harm them out of anger or to seek revenge. But as a Dafa practitioner, I strive to put Master’s teachings into practice in my daily life and demand myself to adhere to the standard of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance during trials and tribulations. Although sometimes I don’t do well, I’ve learned to look within, to forgive others’ mistakes, to be tolerant, and to immediately correct my shortcomings when I recognize them.
Since I began practicing, I have stopped taking medication. I have long since forgotten the restrictions and taboos that the doctors once gave me, and I no longer go for check-ups because I’m very healthy and my mental state is excellent.
It was Dafa that gave me righteous thoughts and made me kind during the most painful time of my life, and with Master’s strengthening, I got through those darkest days. All of this was bestowed by Dafa and Master.
I cannot express my gratitude for Master’s compassionate salvation. I can only strive to cultivate myself and live up to Master’s salvation. Thank you, Master!
Editor’s Note: Dear readers, do you know that Falun Dafa, originally from China, is currently practiced by people in over 100 countries? But in China, since Jul. 20, 1999, Falun Gong is defamed, slandered and persecuted due to the Chinese Communist Party’s fear of Falun Gong’s rapidly growing popularity. Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity as a threat to the CCP’s atheistic ideology.
To learn more about the persecution Falun Gong practitioners are subjected to in China, visit http://faluninfo.net/.
For more information about the practice or to download Zhuan Falun, visit: www.falundafa.org. All books, exercise music, resources, and instructions are available completely free of charge.
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August 28, 2012 | By a Minghui correspondent from Heilongjiang Province, China
Shi Changjing, the director of the labor camp, gave the order to nasal feed all of the practitioners participating in the hunger strike. Nasal feeding is an inhumane torture method. A feeding tube is inserted into the victim’s nasal cavity, and it gets pulled back and forth and is often covered with blood. The food that was forcibly fed to the practitioners had a high salt content and caused dizziness and nausea in the victims. Mr. Sun was nasal fed more than 100 times.
Name: Sun Shaomin (孙绍民) Gender: Male Age: 54 Address: Wuchang City, Heilongjiang Province Occupation: Employee of the Wuchang City Troupe Date of Death: May 29, 2012 Date of Most Recent Arrest: February 9, 2002 Most Recent Place of Detention: Hulan Prison (哈尔滨市呼兰监狱) City: Harbin Province: Heilongjiang Persecution Suffered: Sleep deprivation, forced labor, brainwashing, illegal sentencing, beatings, imprisonment, torture, force-feedings, interrogation, detention
(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Sun Shaomin from Wuchang City, Heilongjiang Province has been repeatedly arrested and detained during the past 13 years, and subjected to forced labor. He was illegally sentenced to ten years in prison, where he was brutally tortured. He was mentally and physically worn down by the abuse and eventually passed away on May 29, 2012 at 2:30 a.m., at the age of 54.
Mr. Sun Shaomin
Mr. Sun’s Death
At around eight in the evening on October 18, 2011, Mr. Sun’s older sister received a phone call from Hulan Prison Fifth Division leader Qiao, who said that Mr. Sun had been taken to Hulan Chinese Medicine Hospital due to having a cerebral hemorrhage. A family member was needed to sign the surgery consent form. When the family members got to the hospital they saw that Mr. Sun no longer looked human. He was extremely emaciated and unconsciously laying in the hallway of the hospital. A ward head and division leader Qiao were there along with more than ten police officers. The ward head said that whether or not to perform the surgery was the family’s decision. The medical specialist at the hospital said that Mr. Sun was bleeding from the left ventricle and the amount of blood was about 50 ml. In general, a patient in this condition would be in a vegetative state even if he woke up from the surgery. Upon hearing this, Mr. Sun’s three sisters were all scared and said that they didn’t want to deal with this. Yet Mr. Sun’s ex-wife was also there at the time and said, “I am a practitioner of Falun Dafa and I cultivate compassion. I cannot watch him die without even trying to save him. As long as there is still hope, we should try to save him. Please perform the surgery.” When the specialists came out of the surgery room after 10:00 p.m., they had a white surgical plate in hand that had bright red blood marbled with white brain tissues that were drawn from Mr. Sun’s ventricle. The doctors said, “We didn’t open his skull, instead we simply drilled a hole and drew blood from it. We think he will probably wake up.”
When the family tried to get Mr. Sun’s medical parole paperwork the next day, the prison authorities told them that all medical expenses had to be covered by the family, otherwise Mr. Sun would be sent back to prison. In order to save Mr. Sun’s life, his family had to agree. During the process of getting the paperwork done, the director of the Wuchang City Chongren Police Station gave them a hard time and refused to sign the paperwork.
Mr. Sun was released from the hospital on the morning of the third day. He soon became conscious after returning home. But he couldn’t move the right side of his body, he still couldn’t talk or read, and he was incontinent. Two weeks later, Mr. Sun was able to sit up. A month later, he was able to use the bathroom with assistance. Then he was able to speak simple phrases.
But, overall, due to nearly a decade of torture and persecution, Mr. Sun had disorders in all of his bodily functions. He had a palm-sized bump where his rib cage was broken (where the spleen is located). The family had requested medical parole several years prior because of the bump, but it was never granted by the prison authorities. Due to brutal force-feedings, the only teeth left on the bottom part of his mouth were four contorted teeth, so it was very difficult for him to eat. He ate very little and his body no longer digested the food. His large intestine had become stiff and there were many half-inch-long wounds around his anus which caused him to only have a bowel movement once every three to four days. It was exhausting for Mr. Sun to have a bowel movement and he sweat profusely from the pain. Because of serious imbalance of the spleen and stomach functions, Mr. Sun’s body could not absorb any nutrients. Most importantly, he couldn’t study the Fa because he couldn’t read, and he couldn’t do the exercises because he was unable to stand. Thus, a Falun Gong practitioner lost his life at the young age of 54.
Mr. Sun said before he passed away that his cerebral hemorrhage was caused by being bullied by someone.
Background
Mr. Sun Shaomin, born in 1958, was an employee of the Wuchang City Troupe and lived in the town of Wuchang in Wuchang City. Mr. Sun was born into a family in the countryside and lost his father when he was little (his father died of pulmonary heart disease when Mr. Sun was seven years old). His mother had to take care of five children by herself. The family was not only extremely poor, but also discriminated against and bullied by others in the village. As a result, his mother developed a bad temper and took all her grievances out on the kids.
The environment that Mr. Sun was brought up in made him an irresponsible loafer that was not motivated to achieve anything in life. He enjoyed smoking and playing mahjong as a way of escape. Mr. Sun suffered from serious illnesses, including irregular heartbeat and genetic pulmonary heart disease. Every recurrence of the illnesses caused him to suffer tremendously. It was painful and miserable for him, and hard for others to watch. He swore that he would quit smoking every time his lung disease recurred, yet each time he smoked even more afterward. His wife gave up all hope and divorced him in early 1990.
Mr. Sun started practicing Falun Gong in August 1996. Cultivating in Falun Dafa gave him a new life. On the second day of practicing Falun Gong, he quit smoking, and before long, all of Mr. Sun’s illnesses and bad habits had disappeared. His state of mind ascended constantly. He became a good person who always considered others first whenever he encountered conflicts. His changes were noticed by everyone who knew him well.
Arrested and Illegally Sentenced to Forced Labor
On July 20 1999, Jiang Zemin, the then-leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), out of selfishness and jealousy, abused his power and attempted to invert good and evil by launching the persecution of Falun Dafa, a meditation practice which promotes the self-cultivation principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.
Jiang used his power within the party to instigate CCP officials to “use all means to eradicate Falun Gong,” carried out the policies “to ruin their reputation, bankrupt them financially, and destroy them physically,” and claimed he would “eradicate Falun Gong within three months.” All organs of the party including community residential committees were employed to monitor, report, and assist in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Regardless of sex or age, no one was allowed to even practice at home. During their tenures, Xiao Jianchun, then secretary of Wuchang City Municipal Committee of the CCP, Chen Shusen, deputy director of Wuchang City Police Department, and Zhu Xianfu, head of Wuchang City 610 Office, ordered, instigated, deployed, and became directly involved in persecuting those who believed in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.
Mr. Sun was arrested on July 22, 1999 and sent to a brainwashing center.
On February 15, 2000, Mr. Sun took a train from Wuchang City to Harbin, planning to go to Beijing to appeal, and tell the state leaders the true story of how he improved mentally and physically from practicing Falun Gong. When the train arrived at the Beiyinhe station, a group of police officers got on and arrested Mr. Sun and others. Later they were illegally detained at the Wuchang City Administrative Detention Center (director Wu Hongzhang) by officials of the Wuchang City Political and Legal Affairs Committee, including Ai Chunming and Yang Songpeng. Mr. Sun was transferred two days later to Wuchang City First Detention Center (director Lu Bo), from which Mr. Sun eventually broke free.
Mr. Sun again went to Beijing to validate Dafa on December 5, 2000. Since there was no other channel to file complaints or to appeal, in an upright and dignified manner, Mr. Sun went to Tiananmen Square and held up a banner that said “Falun Dafa is good.” He shouted, “Falun Dafa is good!” and “Falun Dafa is the righteous way.” The many police officers at the square quickly ran over and tried to grab the banner from him. Mr. Sun was fearless—he kept shouting and ran half a lap around the square with police officers chasing after him. More officers came and they surrounded him. Mr. Sun was arrested and forcibly put into a van. The police took him to and illegally detained him at the Qianmen Police Station. On the same day, Mr. Sun was taken to the Wuchang Liaison Office in Beijing by officers from the Wuchang Domestic Security Division, including Wang Zhiming. Four days later, officers from the Wuchang Domestic Security Division, including Zhan Zhigang, took him to and detained him at the Wuchang City Administrative Detention Center. More than 90 local Falun Dafa practitioners were detained there at the time. More than 20 detainees (including criminals) shared a cell of less than 108 square feet. All activities of daily living—including eating, drinking, and relieving themselves—happened in the cell. Wu Hongzhang was the director of the detention center at the time and Ma Guoliang was the deputy director. Because the authorities from the local police department and the Politics and Law Section refused to release practitioners and attempted to escalate the persecution through forced labor, the detained practitioners had no choice but to hold hunger strikes in an effort to resist the persecution.
After 14 days of not eating or drinking anything, Mr. Sun was released. However, he was later illegally sentenced to two years of forced labor by Zhu Xianfu, the head of the Wuchang City 610 Office, Chen Shusen, director of the police department, Zong Yiwen, executive director, Liu Fang, section chief of Politics and Law, and Yan Yu of the Legislative Affairs Section, working in collusion with authorities of the Harbin 610 Office and police department.
In order to expose the CCP’s lies and clarify the truth about Falun Gong to the deceived people, Mr. Sun went to Dujia Township of Wuchang City to pass out truth-clarification materials on the evening of January 8, 2001, and was arrested by several police officers from the Dujia Township Police Station, led by director Zuo Fenghe. For this arrest, Zuo was commended by the authorities of the Wuchang Police Department and awarded 1000 yuan. Later, Zuo further intensified the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners. Zuo worked in collusion with officials of the police department and the Political and Legal Affairs Committee to arrest and detain Mr. Sun at the Wuchang City Second Detention Center. They quickly relocated Mr. Sun and another practitioner to Harbin City Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp on the morning of the next day.
Brutal Nasal Feeding at Forced Labor Camp
Practitioners were brutally persecuted for long periods of time at the Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp. The correctional officers there tortured practitioners who refused to “transform.” Falun Gong practitioners were forced to face the wall until midnight every night and were often subjected to beating and verbal abuse. During the period when he was illegally detained there, Mr. Sun was considered the “most stubborn” for persisting in his beliefs. He was thus subjected to tremendous physical and psychological torture. Even when he was covered with scabies and couldn’t take care of himself, the prison authorities didn’t allow his family to visit him or send him any seasonal clothes. The prison authorities said, “If he does’t compromise, we’ll use all kinds of methods to punish him.”
In early February 2001, at a party organized by the forced labor camp authorities, a Falun Gong practitioner demanded to be released, but was severely beaten and locked up in a small cell. Due to being subjected to long-term brutal torture and persecution, more than 100 unyielding Falun Gong practitioners, including Mr. Sun, began a group hunger strike on July 2 to protest. They demanded to be released right away. Two days later the authorities of the forced labor camp began to force-feed all the practitioners who participated in the hunger strike twice per day.
Shi Changjing, the director of the labor camp, gave the order to nasal feed all of the practitioners participating in the hunger strike. Nasal feeding is an inhumane torture method. A feeding tube is inserted into the victim’s nasal cavity, and it gets pulled back and forth and is often covered with blood. The food that was forcibly fed to the practitioners had a high salt content and caused dizziness and nausea in the victims. Mr. Sun was nasal fed more than 100 times.
On July 25 (the twenty third day of the hunger strike), a relative of Mr. Sun’s received a notice from the forced labor camp saying that Mr. Sun was in critical condition and the family was asked to visit him. Once at the forced labor camp, the family learned that Ms. Sun was having the symptoms of heart disease as a result of the persecution. The labor camp authorities tricked the family in an effort to persuade him to eat. Monitored by the Education Reform Division leader, Mr. Sun’s 10-year-old son visited Mr. Sun and was traumatized seeing that his originally healthy father, who weighed about 170 pounds before entering the forced labor camp, had become a mere skeleton due to torture. Mr. Sun barely looked like himself. Mr. Sun told his family, “Please don’t be sad. We try to save the world’s people out of compassion. We are good people. It is a crime for them to persecute us. I will validate Dafa in my actual daily conduct and demand to be released.” Since his family didn’t try to persuade Mr. Sun to eat according the forced labor camp’s requirements, they were soon driven away. However, the family was again notified three days later by the forced labor camp authorities to attend a meeting (there were still seven practitioners on hunger strike at the time). Mr. Sun’s older sister went to the meeting and was asked to sign paperwork by the labor camp authorities, who explained, “If the practitioners die, it’s their own fault. The forced labor camp doesn’t take any responsibility.” The family of the detained were themselves illegally detained and locked in a room when they refused to sign the paperwork. They were not released until one person, who had something urgent to take care of, said, “Let us go. We won’t hold you guys responsible if someone dies.”
After suffering inhumane torture for nearly 90 days, Mr. Sun was released unconditionally on September 29, 2001, by authorities of the Harbin Labor and Reeducation Bureau and Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp.
Illegally Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison
In early 2002, after shopping at a market in Harbin City, Mr. Sun was followed by three officers of the Harbin 610 Office from Harbin City to a truth-clarifying materials production site in Wuchang. The officers watched the site from outside in an attempt to arrest local practitioners by continuously monitoring and following them. However, Mr. Sun and another practitioner escaped. When the 610 Office officials found out that their conspiracy had been brought to light, they were flustered and exasperated. They worked in collusion with the Wuchang City Police Department and confiscated all the equipment and materials, worth nearly 20,000 yuan, from the site.
On February 9, 2002, Mr. Sun went to visit a Falun Gong practitioner in Harbin. As soon as he got to the city, he and the other practitioners were arrested by officers from the Harbin City 610 Office and the Harbin City Police Department. Their families asked around yet couldn’t determine where they were.
After being arrested, Mr. Sun was taken to a secret location in Harbin and subjected to torture and interrogation. He was then secretly detained at the Wuchang First Detention Center for more than two months. Later, he was illegally sentenced to ten years of prison by authorities of the Harbin 610 Office and Harbin Police Department, including Chen Shusen of the Wuchang Police Department, Zhan Zhigang of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee, Zhu Xianfu of the Wuchang 610 Office, and authorities from the Wuchang City Court. Mr. Sun was detained at the Harbin City Hulan Prison.
At the Fifth Ward of Hulan Prison, Mr. Sun was brutally tortured and his life was in danger many times. Mr. Sun, during an account given about the persecution he experienced, said that on April 24-29, 2003, political director Li Mingjun and team leader Wang Bin instigated prisoners to force him to undergo brainwashing. “Prisoner Wang Yu, Liang Haitao, Yu Hai, Liu Dazhuang, Hu Xiaofeng, and Sun Liang divided into three shifts and took turns monitoring me. They didn’t let me eat, sleep, or drink for five days and five nights. They pushed and kicked me and forced me to write the three statements.” On October 20-29, guards Li Mingjun and Wang Bin instigated prisoners Zhang Li, Lu Yuechen, Wang Yu, Mao Wenjun, and Song Zhaolong to brutally torture Mr. Sun. They pushed, beat, and kicked him, put seven plastic bags on his head, forced him to sit on a tiger bench, stuffed hot pepper powder into his nose, and force-fed him with salt. Mr. Sun’s rib cage was broken as a result of the beatings. His lower back was injured and he couldn’t stand straight. He couldn’t walk, but was still forced to do hard labor while being pushed from behind.
Mr. Sun had held a six-month hunger strike to resist the persecution. On the afternoon of September 20, 2005, a prison guard and two prisoners carried him to the prison hospital for force-feeding. Two of them carried him by the shoulders and one carried his feet. After only a few steps, they let go of his feet and dragged him by the shoulders to the hospital. Guards from the Hulan Prison treated prisoners’ lives as a joke. They insisted on force-feeding Mr. Sun even when he was extremely weak physically and didn’t care if he lived or died. As a result of the severe persecution, Mr. Sun’s weight dropped from being about 170 pounds originally to less than 100 pounds. He had become a mere skeleton.
The fact that Mr. Sun suffered from the persecution for 13 years is sufficient to prove that the crimes committed by the perpetrators are numerous, including abuse of power, inflicting injury intentionally, illegally detaining practitioners, illegally searching homes, illegal intrusions, harassment, interrogation through torture, violent body searches, serious maltreatment, unlawful deprivation of citizens’ freedom of religious belief, and robbery.
Mr. Sun’s family hopes that international human rights organizations will investigate the persecution that Mr. Sun was subjected to during the past 13 years, and bring the real criminals to justice.
Parties Responsible for the Persecution of Mr. Sun Shaomin:
Sun Kaiwen, warden of Hulan Prison: +86-451-57307303 (Office), +86-451- 57307719 (Office), +86-451-57307220 (Office) Chen Weiqiang, Education Reform Office of Hulan Prison, +86-13136764116 (Cell) Qiao, team leader at the Hulan Prison, +86-13936032809 (Cell) Director of Wuchang City Police Department, +86-451-53522216 (Office) Chen Shusen, deputy director of Wuchang City Police Department, in charge of persecuting Falun Gong Zhan Zhigang, Wuchang City Police Department Domestic Security Division, +86-451-53524126 (Office), +86-13936551668 (Cell) Zhu Xianfu, then head of Wuchang City 610 Office, +86-13115456599 (Cell) Fu Yanchun, head of Wuchang City 610 Office, +86-13936017177 (Cell) Lu Bo, then director of Wuchang Prison (First Detention Center), +86-451-53544733 (Office)
Editor’s Note: Dear readers, do you know that Falun Dafa, originally from China, is currently practiced by people in over 100 countries? But in China, since Jul. 20, 1999, Falun Gong is defamed, slandered and persecuted due to the Chinese Communist Party’s fear of Falun Gong’s rapidly growing popularity. Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity as a threat to the CCP’s atheistic ideology.
To learn more about the persecution Falun Gong practitioners are subjected to in China, visit http://faluninfo.net/.
For more information about the practice or to download Zhuan Falun, visit: www.falundafa.org. All books, exercise music, resources, and instructions are available completely free of charge.
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