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"During the year [2007] over 100 Falun Gong practitioners were reported to have died in detention or shortly after release as a result of torture, denial of food or medical treatment, and other forms of ill-treatment."
-- Amnesty International 2008 Annual Report, May 2008
Amnesty International
Amnesty International (AI) first began researching and reporting on the persecution of Falun Gong in the days immediately following the ban on the practice on July 20, 1999. Since that time, abuses against Falun Gong practitioners have been a regular feature of the China section of AI’s annual report. Thanks to multiple Urgent Actions that have been issued for adherents in imminent danger of being tortured, thousands of AI members have written to the Chinese authorities on behalf of practitioners.
In a special report on torture in 2001, AI highlighted the systematic use of torture by security agents in a nation-wide effort to force citizens to abandon the traditional Chinese practice. More recently, AI has featured Bu Dongwei, a practitioner serving a two-and-a-half year sentence in a Beijing labor camp, as one of the prisoners of conscience whose release it is calling for ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games.
Annual Reports
- 2008 Annual Report
- 2007 Annual Report
- 2006 Annual Report
- 2005 Annual Report
- 2004 Annual Report
- 2003 Annual Report
- 2002 Annual Report
- 2001 Annual Report
- 2000 Annual Report
Urgent Actions and Appeal Cases for Falun Gong practitioners
- Urgent Action: Bu Dongwei (August 29, 2006)
- China: The Olympics countdown: Repression of activists overshadows death penalty and media reforms (excerpts)
- Action: End Persecution of Falun Gong practitioner (10 December 2007)
- Petition: China: Petition: Fair trials for all! Free Bu Dongwei
- Urgent Action: Liang Wenjian and others (March 20, 2007)
- Gao Rongrong Appeal Case (June 28, 2005)
- Urgent Action: Liu Yawen (April 22, 2005)
- Urgent Action: Luo Rong and Luo Zhen (November 29, 2002)
- Urgent Actions: Crackdown on Adherents in Changchun City (action 1 / action 2)
Urgent Actions and Appeals for Lawyers Who Had Defended Falun Gong Adherents
Reports and Press Releases on Falun Gong (1999-2000)
- China: Reports of torture and ill-treatment of followers of the Falun Gong
(October, 22 1999) - China: The crackdown on Falun Gong and other so-called ‘heretical organizations’ (March 23, 2000)
- People's Republic of China: Falun Gong practitioners: list of sentences, administrative sentences and those detained (March 29, 2000)
- China: Falun Gong deaths in custody continue to rise as crackdown worsens (December 19, 2000)
Excerpts about Falun Gong from AI Reports (2001-2008)
- Widespread torture of Falun Gong adherents: Excerpt from … “China: Torture in China - a growing scourge in China: Time for action” (February 12, 2001)
- Human Rights Deterioration in 2001: Excerpt from “Human rights in China in 2001- a new step backwards” (September 3, 2001
- Crackdown on dissent in 2002: Excerpt from “People's Republic of China: Serious human rights violations and the crackdown on dissent continues” (September 1, 2002)
- Abuses Continuing under Hu Jintao: Excerpt from “China: Continuing abuses under a new leadership - summary of human rights concerns” (October 1, 2003)
- 2004 UN Commission on Human Rights: Excerpt from: “2004 UN Commission on Human Rights. Human rights concerns in Addendum on China” (April 7, 2004)
- Hong Kong Ten Years On: Excerpt from “Hong Kong's return to Chinese sovereignty: ten years on” (June 29, 2007)
- Pre-Olympics Crackdown: Excerpts from “People’s Republic of China: The Olympics countdown – crackdown on activists threatens Olympics legacy” (April 1, 2008)
Internet Censorship and Cyberdissidents (2001-2008)
- People's Republic of China: State control of the internet in China. (November 26, 2002)
- Appeal cases for Falun Gong cyberdissidents, including two adherents who died in custody: “People's Republic of China: State control of the internet in China: Appeal cases” (November 26, 2002)
- People's Republic of China: The Olympics countdown: One year left to fulfil human rights promises” (August 7, 2007)
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