U.S. Congressional Annual Report: CCP Brutally Persecutes Falun Gong and Other Groups

The U.S. Capitol building. (Samira Bouaou / The Dajiyuan)

[People News] On December 10, 2025, World Human Rights Day, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) released its 2025 Annual Report, assessing the human rights situation in China.

The report states that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to brutally persecute Falun Gong and multiple other groups, and employs methods such as torture, forced organ harvesting, and black jails.

CECC Chair and U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan said that the CCP continually breaks its promises, and that it must be ensured that the CCP pays a price for human rights violations and broken commitments.

CECC Co-Chair and U.S. Representative Chris Smith said that the CCP not only commits atrocities domestically, but also exports hegemony abroad, undermining the international order.

CECC Deputy Staff Director Piero Tozzi told The Dajiyuan and other media in interviews regarding the report that the CCP is an anti-human regime, and expressed hope that other countries around the world will follow the United States in enacting the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act and the Falun Gong Protection Act.

The report also reveals that the CCP carries out transnational repression in the United States, including threats and attacks targeting Shen Yun Performing Arts. (See related report)

Dozens of Falun Gong Practitioners Persecuted to Death, Hundreds Sentenced

Citing reports from Minghui.org, the CECC stated that in 2025, dozens of Falun Gong practitioners were persecuted to death while in detention, and hundreds of practitioners were sentenced to prison, listing multiple cases.

The report states: “The CCP continues to devote substantial resources and effort to suppress and persecute Falun Gong, frequently detaining, prosecuting, and trying Falun Gong practitioners under Article 300 of the Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China.

“Falun Gong–related website Minghui reported dozens of cases in which Falun Gong practitioners died as a result of abuse while in custody, as well as hundreds of cases in which Falun Gong practitioners were sentenced by authorities due to their association with Falun Gong.

“The following are some detention cases during the reporting year:

“In February 2025, Minghui reported that Zuo Hongtao of Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province, had died in prison a year earlier while serving a 13-year sentence. According to the report, he was sentenced for practicing Falun Gong.

“In July 2024, Zuo Hongtao became critically ill, and prison guards at Baoding Prison in Hebei Province sent him to a hospital, after which he was returned to prison upon discharge. In August, Zuo Hongtao died. Minghui reported that prison authorities prevented his family from viewing his body and cremated it without the family’s consent.

“According to the international human rights nongovernmental organization Rights Defense Network, the Qindu District People’s Court in Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, sentenced food inspection worker Gao Xiaoying (Gao Xiaoying) to seven years in prison for disseminating Falun Gong information online.

“Gao Xiaoying’s family reported that they repeatedly attempted to visit her in detention but were refused each time. They were ultimately allowed only a brief visit before her trial in March 2024, and were barred from attending the trial.

“In November 2024, Minghui reported that the Haizhu District People’s Court in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, disregarded the advanced age and serious health conditions of Falun Gong practitioner Zhao Ying—who is over eighty years old and suffers from bladder cancer, heart disease, and diabetes—and sentenced her to three and a half years in prison. Rights Defense Network also reported that Zhao Ying is currently in critical condition in prison.”

CCP’s Forced Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners and Other Prisoners of Conscience

The report states that the CCP forcibly harvests organs from Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners of conscience.

The report states: “One particularly egregious human rights abuse is the state-sanctioned harvesting of human organs by the CCP. This practice targeting the Falun Gong community has been widely reported. More recently, there have also been reports of this practice targeting the Uyghur population.

“Testimony and evidence submitted to Congress include disturbing allegations that the CCP systematically and illegally harvests organs—blatantly violating human rights and medical ethics—including from detained individuals belonging to specific ethnic, linguistic, or religious minority groups.”

“The U.S. Congress should: pass the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act (H.R. 1503), require the Department of State to expand the scope of its annual reporting on global forced organ harvesting, and grant it the necessary authority to curb ‘organ tourism’; require the Department of State to offer rewards for credible evidence that can prevent and disrupt illegal organ markets and hold perpetrators of forced organ harvesting accountable.”

CCP’s Widespread Use of Torture

The CECC stated that although the CCP signed and committed to implementing the Convention Against Torture (CAT) in 1988, it widely employs torture against Christians, Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, other religious believers, and human rights lawyers.

The report states that the CAT defines torture as “any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person…”

“Torture is widespread in China, including in prisons and other types of detention facilities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), as well as during pretrial detention.”

“Torture is often directed at political prisoners, ranging from human rights lawyers to religious prisoners—including Christians, Falun Gong practitioners, and members of emerging religious movements such as the Church of Almighty God—as well as ethnic minorities, such as the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and Tibetan Buddhists.”

CCP “Legal Education Centers” Are Black Jails

The CECC report states: “‘Black jails’ is an informal term referring to facilities used by (CCP) government officials or their agents to detain individuals, such as hotels and training centers. These extrajudicial detention sites operate under various names, including ‘assistance service centers’ and ‘legal education centers.’

“A former government official reported that nearly all petitions filed by petitioners went unresolved, and petitioners face the risk of being detained in ‘black jails.’

“The existence and use of black jails have no legal basis. Those detained in these facilities—many of whom are petitioners and Falun Gong practitioners—do not know when they will be released and are afforded no procedural safeguards.”

CECC Chair: Make the CCP Pay the Price

On November 20, 2025, CECC Chair and Republican Senator from Alaska Dan Sullivan (Dan Sullivan) speaks at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Madalina Kilroy / The Dajiyuan)

CECC Chair and U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan said, “This year’s report reveals how the Chinese Communist Party continues to break the promises it has made to its own people and to the world.”

“Beijing signs human rights treaties, promises autonomy to Hong Kong and Tibet, and pledges to abide by global trade rules—only to imprison dissidents, operate forced labor factories and illegal fishing fleets, and even dispatch (CCP) agents onto U.S. soil to stalk and threaten others.”

“This report not only documents these human rights abuses, but also provides Congress, the executive branch, and our allies with a roadmap for how to stand with victims of atrocities, protect our workers and their supply chains—including our fisheries and seafood industries—from forced labor, and ensure that the CCP, not American families, pays the price for Beijing’s broken promises.”

CECC Co-Chair: CCP Undermines the International Order

On the afternoon of July 17, 2025, senior U.S. Congressman Chris Smith (Chris Smith) attends a forum at Capitol Hill opposing CCP transnational repression. (Samira Bouaou / The Dajiyuan)

CECC Co-Chair and U.S. Representative Chris Smith said, “Regrettably, China under CCP leadership has repeatedly demonstrated that it seeks hegemony, aiming to impose on the rest of the world the same tyranny it inflicts on its own citizens. China under the CCP is not a responsible member of the international community, because it is ruled by the Communist Party and serves the Party’s interests—a party-state that does not abide by the treaties it signs.”

“Thus, the CCP is not merely a strategic competitor of the United States and other free-world nations; it is a systemic competitor that seeks to undermine the stable international order that the United States has upheld since the end of World War II.”

“How can a predatory state that practices mercantilism, exploits forced labor, steals intellectual property, and provides massive subsidies to state-owned enterprises be a member of the World Trade Organization or any rules-based international order?”

“The answer is—so long as the Communist Party continues to monopolize power, it cannot be such a member.”

CECC Deputy Staff Director: The CCP Is an Anti-Human Regime

On July 17, 2025, CECC Deputy Staff Director Piero Tozzi participates in a large rally marking the 26th anniversary of Falun Gong’s resistance to persecution, held near the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (Samira Bouaou / The Dajiyuan)

Regarding the latest annual human rights report, CECC Deputy Staff Director Piero Tozzi told The Dajiyuan and other media that this year’s report highlights the CCP’s repeated breaches of its commitments. He said: “The CCP repeatedly signs treaties and then violates them. This is true of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, the Convention Against Torture, and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.”

Tozzi stated that the CCP is an anti-human regime.

He said, “The CCP is anti-human. They treat people as tools. Once someone resists, they crush them.”

“Nothing better illustrates the CCP’s inhumanity than forced organ harvesting.”

Tozzi said it is important for the international community to follow the United States in enacting the Falun Gong Protection Act and the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act.

He said, “We will continue to push for the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act and the Falun Gong Protection Act. It is very important for other countries to follow.”

“Because history will judge, and Heaven will judge as well.”

(Report by Dajiyuan reporter Li Chen, Washington, D.C., United States)
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