The first half of 2021 recorded 3,291 Falun Gong practitioners being arrested and 6,179 harassed for their faith, an ancient spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since 1999. 

Among the 9,470 targeted practitioners, 1,384 had their homes ransacked. One hundred and fifty-two practitioners had a total of 1,942,553 yuan and 20,000 USD in cash confiscated, averaging 142,292 yuan per person. 

Another 113 practitioners have had their pensions suspended by the authorities, often with the excuse that since they were serving time for their faith they weren’t entitled to any retirement benefit during their imprisonment (although there is no such stipulation in the Chinese labor law). One woman in Yunnan had her 32 years of service wiped out and is receiving no more pension payments. She relies on meager unemployment benefits to get by.

At the time of writing, 2,042 of the arrested practitioners remain in custody. Another 78 have been forced to live away from home to avoid further persecution and possible arrest.

The 9,470 targeted practitioners hail from 264 cities in 30 provinces. Hebei (1,556), Shandong (1,293), Heilongjiang (998), Liaoning (795) and Sichuan (767) are the five provinces with the most cases. Fifteen other regions registered three-digit cases ranging from 129 to 718. Seven more provinces had double-digit cases and three had single-digit cases. 

Please find the details in the full Minghui report here: