Yeah, given their hard-on for locking up FG members, and their constant persecution of them by the CCP, I'd take the word of any member of FG any day, with 100% more credibility than anything I'd read, hear or see from the CCP.
The CCP have been cancelling, banning and silencing anyone who disagrees with them for decades, and Falun Gong are one of those groups. The CCPs chubby for suppressing dissent has been nurtured for years doing this and it's proof that they are good at it, and willing to do it. Makes you wonder what else they have their grubby little paws in these days.