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Masanjia Forced Labour Camp Initiates Terrifying Five-Stage Torture Programme for Steadfast Dafa Practitioners
2003-05-24To deceive international human rights and other organisations, the authorities have renamed the Masanjia Labour Camp the "Ideology Training School of Liaoning Province." In the so-called school, more than 40 small cells are used for torture. Every small cell on the third floor is equipped with specially cast iron moulds, which are used to restrain the victim's body and limbs during torture. -
Police Treat Practitioners Worse than Animals in the Xishanping Forced Labour Camp
2003-05-24Twenty-four people were held in a cell that only had 6 bunk beds. (It is common for labour camps to assign one bed to eight detainees.) Sometimes there were more than 24 people in the cell and some had to sleep on the floor. A toilet bucket, without cover, served all the people in this room. The smell from the bucket and sweat mixed together was gruesome. There were many flies, mosquito and bedbugs. -
Policeman Gao Ke from Jiutai City Forced Labour Camp Is the Main Criminal for the Murder of Dafa Practitioner Sun Shizong
2003-05-23At the end of 2001, I was an eyewitness to policeman Liu Xiduo saying sarcastic things to a group of criminals who were beating a Dafa practitioner who had newly arrived, "Take it easy, don't injure him." With this hint, some criminals understood what he meant. An inmate leader (named Zhu Yonggang from Dunhua, Jilin Province) yelled out in front of many criminals and Dafa practitioners, "I could do anything the police can do!" He is extremely vicious and often beats up people as he wishes. -
Dafa Practitioner Forced to Jump from Building to Escape Shijiazhuang City Police Entrapment: Alive or Dead Unknown
2003-05-23On March 28, 2003, his supervisor suddenly told him to rest at home for a few days, in order to deceive him. On March 30, Shijiazhuang City police officers surrounded Liu's house to arrest him. Liu was injured after being forced to jump from the fifth floor to avoid entrapment. He was sent to the neurology department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Bethune International Peace Hospital, but we do not know if he is alive or dead. -
Zhongshan University Professor and Family Members All Illegally Incarcerated
2003-05-23She is an over 60-year-old retired nurse of the Tumour Hospital, affiliated with Zhongshan University. She was illegally sentenced to 2 years of forced labour education. Professor Wu's brother and sister-in-law have also been sentenced to forced labour education and they are now being detained at the Huadu Labour Camp and the Chatou Women's Labour Camp in Guangzhou City, respectively. Such a family has thus been broken under the persecution by Jiang's regime, just because they believe in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. -
Vicious Tactics Against Falun Gong Practitioners by Resident's Committee in Jinzhou City
2003-05-23At around 9:00 p.m., the director of the police station and others arrived at her home and wanted to take her away by force. Cao Yuhua refused to cooperate with the police and was carried away by 5 police officers from the 4th floor without a coat or shoes. The officers hit her hard on her head with a hard object and stated, "Let's torture her to death. Do not think of going home without [paying us] 30,000 Yuan." [500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China] The police then put her in a detention centre -
70 Year Old Practitioner Passes Away Following Gruelling Torture in Shandong Province
2003-05-22Then he was transferred to a detention centre, where he was held for 15 days. Afterwards, the Jiulong Town Police Station detained him again. After enduring severe torture, this 70-year-old gentleman was extremely weak. Not wanting to take the responsibility should he die, the Jiulong Town Government sent him home. Several days after Mr. Li returned home, his condition worsened, and he passed away. -
Former Company Director Mercilessly Tortured to Death in Shandong Province
2003-05-22The Police Department of Jiaonan and the "610 Office" arrested him and sent him to a brainwashing class in July 2000, just because he practises Falun Dafa. There he was illegally detained, beaten, verbally abused, and deprived of sleep, food and water. He was forced to watch videos that slandered Dafa. They also tried to force him to curse Dafa and Dafa's founder, to write the "Three Statements" and tortured him by force feeding him drugs. -
In Memory of Our Fellow Dafa Practitioner Zhou Yuling
2003-05-22When Zhou's husband saw her, she was on the brink of death, and her appearance was not recognisable. He cried over her because he thought she would not live. When Zhou Yuling finally returned home, she was unable to take care of herself. One side of her body was completely paralysed and she could only eat a little bit of porridge at every meal. But Zhou insisted on listening to the Falun Gong lecture series and practising the sitting meditation. In less than half-a-month, she was able to leave her bed and walk around. -
Courage in Clarifying Truth of Falun Gong to American Journalists Results in Three Years of Brutal Persecution
2003-05-22Once, at Tiananmen Square, he exposed the fact that the Chinese TV portrayed a thief as a Falun Gong practitioner to deceive TV viewers. He also gave his business cards to journalists. With Liu's business card, an American journalist visited the Chinese Foreign Ministry and asked them why they fabricated news. -
Account of Permanent Physical Damage Received in Shibalihe Female Forced Labour Camp
2003-05-22Then they kicked and stepped on the back of my knees for a while, and finally went away. Soon after, they came back with ropes and viciously said, "We have never had the chance to use these ropes since we bought them a few years ago. Now they can be used on Falun Gong." Then they forced me to take off my winter coat and tied me up with the ropes. They even said that because I was old, my suffering would be less compared to other Dafa practitioners. -
Falun Dafa Broadcast Heard Above Pengxi County Detention Centre in Suining City, Sichuan Province
2003-05-22On May 11, 2003, from 11:50 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., a Falun Dafa truth-clarifying broadcast was heard coming from the area around Pengxi County Detention Centre in Suining City, Sichuan Province. The sound could be heard throughout one third of the county. During the night, the news about the lawsuit against Jiang in the United States and the establishment of the World Organisation to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong was heard in Pengxi County. -
Dafa Practitioner from Heilongjiang Province Tortured to Death
2003-05-21The police are blocking the news very tightly about yet another Dafa practitioner who died as a result of torture. With the death toll rising steadily, the police who commit these crimes have lost all shred of conscience. Yet we will expose their wicked deeds and urge the International Community to openly condemn the perpetrators and bring them to justice. -
Practitioner Tortured to Verge of Death Yet Still Detained in Fanjiatai Prison
2003-05-21As of January 2003, Mr. Xiong has suffered from a respiratory infection and bronchitis due to the torture that has been inflicted on him. While in prison, Mr. Xiong would often receive both physical and mental torture to a degree that one cannot even imagine. However, facing the violence, Mr. Xiong peacefully and righteously resisted the evil persecution, treated everyone around him with compassion, and clarified the truth to everyone with whom he came into contact. -
Appalling Infringement of Human Rights at Xishanping Forced Labour Camp
2003-05-21The so-called "Leifeng Tower" in Xishanping Forced Labour Camp is a dark place of about two square meters (about 20 square feet) that includes two rooms with no sunlight, only ghastly darkness. A stone slab in one of the rooms constitutes a bed while the other room contains no furniture at all. Human excrement is visible everywhere, since there is no toilet. In addition, because rats and snakes have infested the place, rotting animal corpses give off an unbearable stench.