Illegal Detention and Imprisonment

  • Dafa Practitioners Are Tortured by Police in Qianjiang City

    Practitioners have had their sense of security and belonging to their communities torn away. At any given time their homes can be invaded by lawless police, intent on doing malicious damage to their property, and inflicting pain and torture at will. They are persecuted in this way to try to force them to give up their innocent belief in Falun Dafa's principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance.
  • Atmosphere of Terror in Changsha Female Prison

    An inmate said, "I have been in this jail for almost 10 years, and this was my first time that I ever witnessed such miserable things. This is just horrible." One time. a policeman used an electric baton on a practitioner, all the while saying, "Feel free to sue me. It wasn't me who hurt you, it was the electricity!" Time and time again the guards' words and actions have shown how much they want to make the practitioners suffer in retaliation for exposing their brutality to the outside world.
  • Family is Broken Apart: Grandfather and Grandson Live in Hardship

    I looked at this poor family, and a feeling that was hard to describe arose in my mind. I asked, "How do you live?" "We barely manage," he answered. I heard that since his son and daughter-in-law were kidnapped in 1999, they had no source of income. Even the grain supplied by the village was also taken away.
  • Shameless Persecution of a Handicapped Dafa Practitioner

    "I had been paralyzed in bed for many years. Since I started to practise Dafa I could move around, write and do other light tasks with ease. With some assistance, I can even get myself down onto the ground. This is something I was unable to do before." Ignoring what he said, the officer from Dalian replied, "We are not going to let you recover either."
  • Fushun City Detention Centre Imprison Practitioner Despite Life Threatening Illnesses

    In October, a Fushun City Central Hospital medical examination concluded that he was "incapable of and unsuitable for prison." The detention centre sent the medical examination results to the Shuncheng District Court and to the District Political and Legislation Committee. Both authorities refused to follow the law.
  • We Will Not Be Silenced!: Declaration From Falun Dafa Practitioners Incarcerated in Deyang Prison

    We solemnly warn the participating deputies, guards of the Deyang Prison, other prisons and forced labour re-education institutions nationwide, to awaken quickly and reclaim the basic human decency and conscience that humans should possess, recognize right from wrong, distinguish good from evil, and to separate the compassionate from the hideous. Do not continue to undermine Dafa and persecute Dafa practitioners using the excuse of "carrying out orders from above" and for self-interest.
  • Yanji City Dafa Practitioners Suffer Extreme Anguish at Hands of Police

    That evening, the evil police at the detention centre did not sleep the whole night in order to viciously torture these three practitioners. The cries of misery at the detention centre carried on all night. Guo Peijun's clothes were saturated with blood so badly that he could no longer wear them...
  • Totally Sane Female Dafa Practitioner Incarcerated and Drugged in Laixi City Psychiatric Hospital

    According to messages given to family members of other patients who were visiting the hospital, Hu has been receiving intravenous injections against her will while her hands are cuffed and her feet are chained. The doctors have been brutally force-feeding her and injecting her with unknown drugs. Eyewitnesses have said that Hu's entire body is swollen, and her life is in imminent danger! Doctors, who are supposed to be healers, yet who conduct themselves in such disgraceful ways, are no more than barbaric butchers!
  • 2 Year -Old Incarcerated with Practitioner Mother in Hellish Zhengzhou City “Special Prison"

    Normally, people are incarcerated because they have committed a crime or broken the law, but Falun Dafa practitioners are illegally detained for upholding Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, practising their exercises, and being good people...This "special prison" is also holding a two-year-old child in detention, which is completely against the law... He was kidnapped while shopping with his mother and had committed no crime.
  • Inside Story of the Atrocities Committed at the Shizishan Drug Rehabilitation Centre and Shayang Labour Camp

    Later, the police made us watch propaganda videos defaming Dafa and tried to force us to write "thoughts after watching" articles to defame Dafa. Those who refused to write the articles were not allowed to sleep. When the policemen tried to force me to write one, I refused and said loudly, "The cultivation of Dafa is completely voluntary and is never forced, yet you try and force me to write articles that attack Dafa. Isn't it clear who is good and who is evil?"
  • Please Help Rescue My Younger Sister Tao Yuefen (Photo)

    According to convention, the sentence date normally starts from the date of detention. But on the written judgment, Yuefen's sentence is scheduled to commence one month after her detention. It is absurd and ridiculous. Only because of three flyers, one good person has to suffer a nineteen-month long prison sentence.
  • Practitioners Subjected to Brutal Force-Feeding in Weining Labour Camp

    The brutal force-feeding resulted in the practitioner vomiting a large volume of blood, which could have resulted in death...The vicious police threatened Dafa practitioners by saying, "If you don't make the seven promises, there is only death before you."
  • Innocent Husband and Wife Given Jail Sentences for Practising Falun Gong

    During the violent arrest, Yuan Wenxin suddenly had symptoms of a heart attack: her face became pale, she had difficulty breathing and fell to the ground after losing consciousness...When Yuan regained consciousness, she was immediately put in jail. No care or consideration was given to her fragile condition.
  • Family Torn Apart by Persecution Leaving Bereaved Practitioner Childless

    At the time her child was ill and needed medical attention. Devoid of any compassion and feeling for the 10 year-old child, who was witnessing this horrifying event, the police twisted his mother's arm, slapped her in the face and even tied her up. This so shocked the child that he would not stop crying.
  • Report on 12 Practitioners Tortured to Death in Daqing City

    Four criminals beat him ruthlessly for a nearly an hour in front of over 40 people in the prison. This healthy living person was senselessly killed by the severe beating. The major blood vessels of his neck were ruptured, and as a result his neck was swollen due to excess bleeding. The torture was too cruel to watch.