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British lawmakers and rights activists outlined the growing threat of transitional repression by the Chinese communist regime in a seminar in Parliament on July 15, ahead of a report release from the Cross-Party Joint Committee on Human Rights.

Lord Alton, chair of the UK Cross-Party Joint Committee on Human Rights, chaired the seminar organized by the Falun Dafa Association UK, titled “FoRB in China and the CCP’s Accelerating Transnational Repression.”

Other attendees at Wednesday's seminar included the former leader of the Conservative Party, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Labour MP Marie Rimmer, international human rights lawyer Dr. David Matas, Caroline Yates from the UK Falun Dafa Association, and two Falun Gong practitioners who were attacked in the UK and China.

While many attendees at the seminar were already aware of the persecution faced by Falun Gong practitioners in China and abroad, the firsthand accounts of transnational persecution and the personal stories of victims touched the audience.

“[Falun Gong] is one of the most highly targeted groups of the Chinese Communist Party’s [CCP's] transnational repression around the world, with other groups being Hong Kong activists, Uyghurs, and democracy activists,” Alton said.

Alton also highlighted some of the recent death and rape threats that Falun Gong practitioners have received. In addition to ongoing violent threats, the CCP continues to spread propaganda and misinformation, both online and near Shen Yun performance venues or Falun Dafa events, he said.

He told the audience at the seminar that three UK theaters received bomb threats this year from Outlook email accounts using Chinese names. All of the incidents were reported to the police, he said. In the United States, Shen Yun has been receiving similar threats, often with the same wording and sometimes from the same email addresses. No incidents occurred, and all UK shows proceeded smoothly.

The threats were among <a href="https://faluninfo.net/new-threats-and-impersonations-target-falun-gong-and-u-s-institutions-may-29-june-17/">154</a> anonymous messages sent since March 2024 containing violent language—including language related to bombings, shootings, and sexual assault—targeting Shen Yun performances, its training campus, and Falun Gong practitioners, he told the seminar.

U.S.-based Shen Yun Performing Arts is a <a href="https://www.shenyun.com/">nonprofit</a> dance and music company founded in 2006 by practitioners of Falun Gong. Since its founding, the company's performances have included original dance dramas inspired by real events of persecution in China, bringing global awareness to the issue through performances on stages around the world.

In every country Shen Yun has toured, local Chinese embassies have pressured theaters to cancel the performances. Over the past year, Shen Yun has faced a wave of violent threats.

Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa, is a spiritual practice that gained widespread popularity in China during the 1990s, with an estimated 70 million to 100 million followers at its peak. Since 1999, it has faced severe persecution by the Chinese communist regime, which feared that the faith's popularity was a threat to its rule.

CCP documents leaked last year exposed a <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/ccp-seeks-to-manipulate-us-in-effort-to-escalate-persecution-of-falun-gong-5701726">global disinformation campaign</a> aimed at "eliminating" Falun Gong and Shen Yun worldwide.

The leaks revealed tactics such as supporting YouTubers who spread disinformation, using agents and false narratives to create division within the Falun Gong community and between Falun Gong and the U.S. government, manipulating search engine results, and feeding defamatory content to mainstream Western media.

American YouTuber Tim Pool <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1TFsXoQD_c&t=466s">said</a> during a podcast last year that the CCP had approached influencers with money to push anti-Falun Gong content.

“It was really funny because China started hiring YouTubers. ... I got an email where they were like 'we'll give you $200 to post this video to your YouTube channel,'” he said.
<h2>Shen Yun Has 'Borne the Brunt' of CCP’s Hate Campaign</h2>
Caroline Yates from the UK Falun Dafa Association thanked Alton for bringing these issues to the attention of the UK Parliament.

She said that while Falun Gong practitioners continue to suffer horrific abuse inside China, the CCP also targets them heavily abroad.

“They face slander, harassment, surveillance, break-ins, physical attacks, and even a shooting of Falun Gong activists in South Africa, just to name a few of the CCP tactics,” she said.

"Shen Yun has borne the brunt of this new campaign. Because Shen Yun demonstrates the beauty of traditional Chinese culture, which Communism has tried to destroy, so it flies in the face of CCP ideology. It also portrays honest depictions of the severe human rights abuses of Falun Gong in China.”

With eight performing groups simultaneously touring around the world each year, Shen Yun has become one of the most successful organizations founded by Falun Gong practitioners.

Yates noted that since spring 2024, there has been a rise in physical attacks at Falun Gong sites, along with increased hostility toward Shen Yun in the UK.

She noted that every UK theater hosting Shen Yun is contacted by a Chinese diplomat or proxy who spreads defamatory messages about Falun Gong, issues threats, or tries to pressure venues into canceling performances.

She warned that as the CCP grows more aggressive and openly authoritarian, its influence in the UK increasingly undermines British laws, values, and democratic principles.

“We encourage the UK government to be clear-sighted and morally strong against the tyrannous actions of the Chinese Communist Party that are inflicted in the UK and in China,” she said.
<h2>'I Endure Constant Pain'</h2>
During the seminar, several Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside the UK Parliament, peacefully demonstrating their traditional sitting meditation. Inside, Jinghua Fu recounted her harrowing experience of being violently attacked in the UK.

Falun Dafa practitioners hold a peaceful demonstration outside the UK Parliament on July 15, 2025. (Yueyang Lee/The Epoch Times)

Fu arrived in the UK in 2014 and, along with fellow practitioners, has been distributing leaflets to raise awareness about the persecution of Falun Gong in China. She often spoke to Chinese passers-by and tourists in areas such as Chinatown and outside the British Museum.

On the afternoon of Aug. 20, 2018, while she was carrying out this peaceful outreach, a Chinese man suddenly lunged at her from behind and struck her forcefully. She immediately lost consciousness and had no memory of the attack itself.

“When I came to, I had a splitting headache and searing pain in my lower back. It felt as if my body had been torn in half,” she said. Her pelvis and ribs were in agony, and her neck was so stiff she couldn't lift her head.

She was taken away on a stretcher and into an ambulance. While she was being treated, police brought the attacker to the scene.

“I saw that he was a young Chinese man, probably in his twenties—tall and strong,” Fu recalled. “When he saw me inside the ambulance, he looked terrified. I asked him why he had attacked me, as we had never met. He said nothing. Instead, he knelt on the ground and begged me not to press charges.”

Fu was later diagnosed with a concussion, brain trauma, and multiple fractures, all of which have had lasting effects.

Despite the severity of the attack, Fu chose forgiveness. As a Falun Gong practitioner, she follows the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance.

“I knew I should treat even those who hurt me with kindness. With this in mind, I decided to forgive him and not pursue legal action,” she said.

The assault, however, left a lasting impact on her life. “Even today, years later, I endure constant pain, 24 hours a day. During the day, I must constantly adjust my posture to relieve the pain.” Simple daily tasks such as shopping, cooking, and cleaning have become a major struggle for her.

She told the seminar that the attack occurred in broad daylight, outside China’s borders, in a free society—a violent act aimed at someone peacefully opposing the CCP’s persecution. She believes it’s just “the tip of the iceberg.”

After hearing Fu and another practitioner’s story, Lord Alton told NTD, “It’s scandalous that anyone living in the UK should have the long hand reach of the Chinese Communist Party extended into our own jurisdiction.”
<h2>'It’s Heartbreaking, but a Reality'</h2>
Sir Iain Duncan Smith (IDS) believes the UK government could help counter the CCP’s transnational repression of Falun Gong in the UK by <a href="https://www.ntd.com/china-considers-lifting-sanctions-on-uk-politicians-parliament-concerned-move-is-tied-to-new-embassy-plans_1074637.html">rejecting</a> its proposal for a “super embassy.”

The CCP bought the 700,000-square-foot Royal Mint Court site, a historic venue near Tower Bridge, in 2018 and planned to develop it into the largest Chinese embassy in Europe.

Once built, it would be ten times the size of China’s current embassy in London and nearly twice the size of the Chinese Embassy in Washington.

IDS highlighted letters being sent to British citizens—many unaware of the situation—asking them to bring Chinese residents to the embassy for arrest.

“It is astonishing,” he said. “Listening to those is heartbreaking, but at the same time, it’s a reality. The reality is China doesn’t care a damn which country they’re in.”

“They do this in America, but the U.S. cracks down much harder on these activities, and parts of Europe do too,” IDS told NTD, adding that the UK needs to step up.

Earlier this year, the U.S. House of Representatives passed two important bills, the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act and the Falun Gong Protection Act.

Rimmer has been stepping up with relevant legislation. She highlighted what she called the “most horrific human rights abuse” against Falun Gong practitioners in China: forced organ harvesting—removing organs from prisoners of conscience, killing them in the process.

In 2019, <a href="https://chinatribunal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/China-Tribunal-SUMMARY-JUDGMENT_FINAL.pdf">the China Tribunal</a>, led by Sir Geoffrey Nice KC, confirmed that forced organ harvesting has been carried out on a large scale in China, with Falun Gong practitioners as a primary source.

In April 2022, with strong cross-party support, the UK government revised Rimmer’s amendment to the Health and Care Bill, adding extraterritorial provisions to the Human Tissue Act. This law now bans British citizens and nationals from participating in commercial organ transplants abroad, including in China.

In 2021, supported by parliamentarians like Lord Hunt and Lord Alton, the UK also amended the Medicines and Medical Devices Act to require consent and traceability for imported human tissue used in medicines, preventing unethical tissue from forced organ harvesting from entering the UK supply chain.

"We must continue to be a strong voice against these atrocities and to ensure freedom of religion or belief for all. And by doing so, also help to counter the transnational repression many Chinese diaspora face.” Rimmer said.

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