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  • Accounts Regarding the Persecution Suffered by Falun Gong Practitioners from the Jilin Province Honggang Oil Extraction Factory

    Falun Gong practitioners of the Jilin Province Honggang Oil Extraction Factory are hard working, responsible employees. They are sincere, kind and honest. However, certain officers who follow Jiang Zemin's orders persecute them and prevent them from leading normal lives at work and at home. Many have been harassed by the police, sent to forced labour camps and brainwashed in order to force them to give up Falun Gong.
  • Xuanhua National Security Division and Xuanhua Detention Centre Collaborate in Persecuting Falun Dafa Practitioners

    Since July 1999, when Jiang's regime began the suppression of Falun Gong, about 100 Falun Gong practitioners have been arrested and and sent to Xuanhua Detention Centre in Hebei Province. Among them, dozens have been sentenced to forced labour camps and several to prison terms. After one large-scale arrest in May 2001, twenty-two Falun Gong practitioners were sentenced to either forced labour or prison. At least three practitioners have been tortured to death during detention in the forced labour camp or the detention centre.
  • Young Military Officer Yao Yaoyuan Is Tortured to Death

    Mr. Yao Yaoyuan graduated from the PLA (People's Liberation Army) Science and Technology University, and was assigned a job in the Wuhan City Army Equipment College. Because he kept practising Falun Dafa, Mr. Yao was dismissed from the Party, dismissed from the army (after serving one year as Vice Battalion Commander), and fired from his job. He was sent to a labour camp and after suffering severe torture died on June 6 2003.
  • Torture Cases of Dafa Practitioners by Police Officers and Criminal Inmates in Daqing City

    The Daqing Prison began detaining Falun Dafa practitioners in 2000. In order to gain political benefits, the prison authorities used various methods to torture detained Dafa practitioners in an effort to make them renounce Falun Dafa. Their methods included coercing common criminal inmates to physically torture practitioners, depriving practitioners of sleep for extended periods, depriving them of going outdoors, of having family visits, and even of talking.
  • Shanghai City "Law Education School:" An Isolated Prison Used to Torture and Brainwash Falun Gong Practitioners

    Although Shanghai City Law Education School is called "law education," all the means and tactics used there are unconstitutional and shameful. In actuality, it is a place used specifically to brainwash Falun Gong practitioners. Dong Naiqian, a Shanghai "610 Office" is a leading person stationed in the brainwashing centre. He clamoured, "I am just evil. I am living very well. You can do nothing to me."
  • The Evil Influence of Weng Shanyao, Deputy Director of the Shanghai Forced Labour Bureau

    Weng Shanyao, the deputy director of the Shanghai "Reeducation Through Forced" Labour Bureau, is the official most actively involved in persecuting Falun Gong. In the past few years, he went to forced labour camps frequently to manage, plan, and deploy the systematic persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, in accordance with the order from Jiang to eradicate Falun Gong. When he spoke to the practitioners detained there, he said, "It is good for you if the policemen are treating you very strictly. Even if they beat you, that is still good for you."
  • More Facts about the Death of Lawyer Li Jian Due to Beatings and Excessive Slave Labour

    Mr. Li Jian was a lawyer from Henan Province. Because he refused to give up Falun Gong, the No. 3 Forced Labour Camp of Henan Province tortured him repeatedly. After a long hard day of slave labour and beatings, worn out, Li Jian said on the way back to another practitioner, " I really cannot stand this anymore. They want to torture me to death." He died on April 26, 2002.
  • Mother Ruthlessly Persecuted, Child Suffers Mental Breakdown

    In 2000, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Jin Minghua from Yanji City was abducted by the local police for practising Falun Gong exercises at a park. Her fourth-grade daughter, Cui Xuemei, was left at home alone with no one to depend on. During those dark days, little Xiaomei hid in a corner of her room and trembled. No one knows how many tears she shed as she cried out for her mum. Every night she was tormented by loneliness, terror and hunger. Under such extreme devastation of spirit, Xiaomei suffered a mental breakdown.
  • 60 Year Old Ms. Liu Xiaoying and Her Family Forced Into Homelessness

    In April 2002, 60-year old Dafa practitioner Liu Xiaoying was forced to leave her home to avoid persecution. The authorities stopped her pension, declared their intention to take back her apartment. Then they harassed Liu's daughter, who also lived in the apartment, did not have any income of her own, had a small child and relied on her mother's pension. Her daughter pleaded with the Party Secretary to be allowed to keep the apartment. He refused.
  • Academy of Science Graduate Student Hong Wei Is Secretly Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison

    In the summer of 2003, Mr. Hong Wei, a graduate of Beijing University and a graduate student at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Microbiology Institute, was secretly sentenced to ten years in prison for allegedly "disturbing the public order." He is currently jailed in a Chongqing City prison. The authorities manipulated Mr. Hong's relationship with his long widowed father, by twice making his father travel to Beijing in order to pressure him to renounce Falun Gong. This caused the elder Mr. Hong to become ill from worry and stress.
  • Shandong Forced Labour Camp Reaps Huge Profits by Enslaving Falun Gong Practitioners

    In order to profit from slave labour, the Shandong No. 1 Women's Forced Labour Camp has partnered with several factories in preparing items for export, including bedspreads, plastic cement bags and fashion logo labels sewn onto final products. Falun Gong practitioners have been enslaved in a terrible foul-smelling, very noisy work environment and suffer both physically and mentally.
  • Police in the First Female Labour Camp in Shandong Province Overwork and Torture Falun Gong Practitioners

    Shandong Province's First Female Labour Camp detains over 200 practitioners at present and the police force practitioners to work more than 10 hours of hard labour each day while monitoring them in shifts. Regardless of their age, all practitioners are forced to work at the loading docks. Two trucks containing bags of raw materials and finished goods which weigh more than 50 pounds each are loaded and unloaded within minutes, exhausting all practitioners. There are no breaks at the shop, and for a day to end at 10:30 p.m. would be considered early.
  • The Story Behind Making China's "Sanitary" Chopsticks -- Exposing Slave Labour Practices Inside Chinese Labour Camps (Part Three)

    Methods of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners not only include cruel torture but also forcing high intensity labour in Changchun Heizuizi Female Forced Labour Camp in Jilin Province. Overworking practitioners is a method used by the officials of the Camp to break down Falun Dafa practitioners physically and mentally. For example: each person processing the masks is required to finish 500 pieces per day when it is only possible to do about 300. It is impossible to finish. Any practitioner who doesn't finish the unreasonable quota, is punished and beaten. So, the curses and the threats happen every day.
  • The Misfortunes of My Good Family

    My family was previously very happy. But then the claws of the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners reached my family and would let go. My father previously was diagnosed with a cerebral hemorrhage and blood vessel abnormality, and he died when I was in grade four. He left my mother and me alone, and my mother was very sad.
  • "Your Material Is Very Precious!"--Stories of People in China Awakening to the True Situation

    As soon as we finished putting up the information, a forty-year-old man walked up and carefully read the truth clarifying material. We went over to him because we saw that he was earnestly reading what we had posted. The man said, "This is very good, and very reasonable. I'd like to take this material back to show my neighbourhood. I want them to know Falun Dafa is good, and the propaganda on TV is false. The government doesn't punish the bad people; they don't punish people for corruption, depravity, prostitution or gambling, but they persecute Falun Gong."