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Practitioner Dies in Police Custody; black and blue marks found on her body
2003-04-02The police didn't notify her family of her death until March 5, 2003, when her body was sent to Chifeng City's No. 3 Hospital. When dressing her body, her family found many horrific black and blue marks on her back. Several police officers stood by and watched during the dressing process. They didn't allow Zheng Lanfeng's colleagues and other practitioners to see the body. -
Compassionate People Cannot Find an Inch of Peaceful Soil in the Land of China
2003-04-02After my parents were released, the township government, police substation and Party committee of my village harassed us and ransacked our home. Only a few months later my mother was forcibly taken to a brainwashing class and my father had to leave home. I had to live by myself again. I had nightmares almost every night. I felt so afraid whenever I saw a police car. -
Extreme Torture leads to Mental Breakdown and Death
2003-04-02After she was released, the officials at the "610 Office" at Laiwu Steel and Iron Factory did not let up and sent her to a brainwashing centre, where she suffered a mental breakdown from the extreme torture. The Jiang regime drove yet another person beyond what any average person could mentally and physically bear. -
Two Short Stories: A Kind-Hearted Party Secretary; An Elderly Father's Righteousness
2003-04-02In one instance, when a practitioner who had been forced to leave home to avoid arrest returned to the village during the New Year, police officers went to the secretary to ask for the practitioner's information so they could arrest him. The secretary said that he didn't know it. But as soon as the police left, he telephoned the practitioner to tell him that the police were on their way. The practitioner immediately left, so the police were unable to arrest him. -
Excerpts Relating to Falun Gong from the US Department of States Human Rights Report
2003-04-02"Since the Government banned the FLG in 1999, mere belief in the discipline, without any outward manifestation of its tenets, has been sufficient grounds for practitioners to receive punishments ranging from loss of employment to imprisonment, and in many cases, to suffer torture and death...Various sources reported that thousands of FLG adherents have been arrested, detained, and imprisoned, and that several hundred or more FLG adherents have died in detention since 1999." -
Emaciated Two-Year-Old Child Incarcerated for 9 Months in Jail
2003-04-01His mother and grandparents were kidnapped to a detention centre in the city, and the 2 year-old child also had to go. Currently, it has been 9 months and they are still illegally detained. Every day he bangs the jail door with his small hands and shouts, "Let me out!" The child has been forced to eat the poor quality prisoner's food in the jail and has become very emaciated. Upon seeing this scene, people feel so sad that they cry. -
Torture Has Left Practitioner in Disabled and Despondant State
2003-04-01He has completely lost the ability to take care of himself and has to rely upon others for his care, being in a despondent state. His long-term abuse troubled his mind so deeply that he does not respond to any of his relatives; he swallows if fed, but will not ask for anything. His parents take care of all his urination and defecation. He will lie down or sit when asked to do so (He can sit with legs crossed and body bent over). -
Dafa Practitioner On Verge of Death in Yinmahe Forced Labour Camp
2003-04-01The police deceived and extorted several thousands of Yuan from Li Qiang's brother, stating that more money can "lessen the punishment on Li Qiang." But in fact, the dishonourable authorities still ended up sentencing Li Qiang again, this time to three years of forced labour. On the way to Jiutai, Li Qiang protested the police's illegal treatment and refused to get in the police car or sign his name. The police forcefully grabbed his hand and forced him "sign." -
Doctor Seeks Pleasure in Torturing Innocent Falun Dafa Practitioners
2003-04-01The infusions were done so rapidly that the practitioners' stomachs suddenly swelled very large, making them suffer terrible pain. Qian, however, viciously claimed, "I meant to make you suffer. I'll make you suffer between being dead and alive. I'll infuse the urine of venereal disease patients into your stomachs and the blood of hepatitis patients into your veins." -
Short Stories of Righteous Thoughts and Actions
2003-04-01A practitioner gave his colleague a truth-clarifying VCD. His colleague brought it to a friend's home to watch with him. His friend was a policeman. After they finished watching this VCD, both of them shouted with a surprise, "So the TV report on the Tiananmen Square Immolation was fake. Somebody obviously killed Liu Chunling. Falun Gong has been put in an unjust situation, even worse than the June 4th event." The policeman said that such a precious VCD should be kept. -
72-Year-Old Lady Practitioner from Beipiao City Tragically Tortured to Death (Photo)
2003-03-31They were asked where the materials and equipment came from. Ms. Sun's daughter-in-law said that she did not know. The police officers then slammed the table with anger and forcibly asked Ms. Sun's 13-year-old granddaughter: "If you don't tell me, your grandma will not be released and your mother will not go home before the New Year. How could you live by yourself?" The girl was so scared that she cried loudly. -
Yet Another Fatality of Female Dafa Practitioner in Police Custody: Expose the Murderers in Puyang City Police Department
2003-03-31We are saddened to report yet another tragic death of a kind, respectable 50 year old lady, who was shamefully treated worse than a murderer, subjected to inhuman torture, and ultimately died at the hands of the police. She, like millions of other respectable members of society only wanted to exercise her basic human rights of freedom to peacefully practise her belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance and the freedom to speak out the truth. She was denied these human rights. -
Beijing's Daxing Forced Labour Camp Guilty of Causing Death of Female Practitioner
2003-03-31At the time of her death, her entire body was covered with wounds and there was a hole in her skull. It awaits investigation if a gun or other torture instrument had caused the hole in her skull. After learning of her death, the Gaocheng City Police Department told her family that she died of a mental breakdown. -
I Survived a Living Hell But Sadly My Dear Father Did Not
2003-03-31My non-practitioner sister visited my father in the prison. When she saw my father's bad physical condition, she was devastated, and returned home and fetched a plastic sheet for my father to sleep on. Even that was thrown out by Song Changchun. A kind-hearted prison guard begged Song Changchun to release my father, fearing that he might die. Song Changchun refused. -
9 Year Old Son Left By Himself Whilst Mother Brutally Tortured by Chengdu Police
2003-03-30During those periods, on numerous occasions she requested to go home and take a shower, and take a look at her child, the very basic human requests which were rejected without any reason. Since Zhong was a single parent and as she was constantly detained, her nine-year old son was forced to be left alone at home. Zhong Fangqiong's mother, Chen Guoxing was 65 years old. Because the grandmother practised Falun Gong, she was also deprived of the right to look after her grandson. Furthermore, she was even deported from Sichuan and forced to go back to her hometown. A family was hence separated.