Other News, Exposing the Persecution

Torture | Kidnapping | Brainwashing | Illegal Detention and Imprisonment | Extortion | Persecution Throughout Society | Inside the Labour Camps | Individual Accounts | 6-10 Office | Death Cases | Organ Harvesting

  • The Darkness and Ugliness of Hebei Province Women's Prison

    Hebei Province Women's Prison is afraid of the public knowing the true situation inside the prison, so it repeatedly concocts things. Every time inspectors come, they lock up the Falun Gong practitioners, who can speak the truth, and other people whom they do not trust, rather than sending them to the workshop to do forced labour, because they fear the prison's brutal acts will be exposed. This prison boasts to the outside world about its humane administration and good living conditions--both outright lies.
  • Brutal Mistreatment Still Continues in Daqing Prison

    According to eyewitnesses, all detainees in the nine prison wards were rounded up on the athletic field. Some prison wards had previously forced practitioners to put on prison uniforms. Some practitioners were stripped down to their underwear. In the so-called "Education Ward," practitioner Mr. Xuan Guoying, who refused to wear a prison uniform, was beaten so badly that his face was deformed and purplish blue, and he could not open his left eye. Because practitioner Mr. Wu Chunwei exposed the brutal acts of the CCP Yuan Hongjun beat him on the back of his head with a baton and he immediately fell to the ground. He was punched and kicked, which left a big bump the size of an egg behind his ear, and there were bruises on his back and buttocks.
  • Ms. Wu Bilin and Mr. Cheng Dehan Arrested by the 610 Office and Detained in Chenjiaji Brainwashing Centre in Hubei Province

    Ms. Wu Bilin, 59, went to the family housing area of the "288 Plant" in the Huangpi District to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution. A person who was deceived by the propaganda reported her to the police. Officers from the Huangpi District Police Department arrested her, and she is being detained at the Chenjiaji Brainwashing Centre. To protest the unjust detention, Ms. Wu held a hunger strike for several days. Hu Shaobin (male) with the Jiang'an District 610 Office incited inmates to force-feed her with vinegar and chilli water several times a day. They also violently struck her.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioners Tortured at Women's Forced Labour Camp in Fujian Province

    The guards at Fujian Province Women's Forced Labour Camp maliciously abused imprisoned Falun Dafa practitioners. Placed in solitary confinement, steadfast practitioners were prohibited from seeing their family members and from purchasing food. They were allowed two or three hours less sleep than other inmates and they were prohibited from taking a midday nap. They were monitored around the clock by inmates that were drug addicts, prostitutes, thugs, and other criminals.
  • Former Government Official Mr. Ma Tianyong, from the National Security Bureau in Yingkou City, Dies as a Result of Persecution

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Ma Tianyong was repeatedly persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the past eight years, for practising Falun Gong. He was dismissed from his job and his salary was suspended. He was arrested and then sentenced to a forced labour camp. He suffered from tremendous stress both physically and psychologically, and he passed away at home on March 29th, 2007. His wife had also passed away, on November 26th, 2002, after being seriously persecuted in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp.
  • Practitioners Tortured in the Third Ward of Shandong Province Second Women's Forced Labour Camp

    Ms. Gao Wenmei was hung in the air for seven days and seven nights straight. Ms. Che Cui was subjected to unknown methods of torture. Ms. Xu Youfang suffered physical punishment for over 30 consecutive hours because she forgot to announce herself when she entered a room. So far, we have learned that Ms. Cui Guifen, Ms. Zhang Ximei, Ms. Yu Xiuhua and Ms. Sun Yongling are among the many female practitioners incarcerated in the camp. There are many imprisoned practitioners whose names are yet to be revealed, and who are facing physical and mental torture from the prison guards.
  • Torture of Practitioners at the Seventh Team of Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp in Hunan Province

    Section A is a high security area, where practitioners who are not cooperating with the guards are detained. There is no break for lunch. Apart from basic needs like eating, drinking, use of the toilet and sleep, practitioners are forced to sit on small benches for as long as over 10 hours a day without moving. The guards beat and verbally abuse the practitioners if they move their limbs even a bit. Sometimes practitioners are deprived of normal sleep and kept awake until 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning.
  • Ms. Fan Qingqing from Weifang City, Shandong Province Suffers from Persecution and Torture

    Five officers were assigned to torture each practitioner. These officers immobilised the practitioners, then pinched their nose, pried open their mouths, and force-fed them. The "dead man's bed" is supposed to be used only for death row prisoners. However, Director Guo used it to torture practitioners. One of the torture means in the detention centre was known as the "cross." Three wooden boards, each 8 inches wide, were made into a cross shape. A practitioner was handcuffed onto it with arms stretched out horizontally and legs spread wide open. They laid the practitioner on it, so that the wooden board in the centre pushed up against the practitioner's spine. The whole body weight fell on the spine and caused extreme pain. Soon the practitioner would start sweating because of the unbearable pain, their entire body would become numb and they would lose consciousness.
  • The Crimes Behind Shanghai's Prestigious Labels - "High Class" Products Actually Made at Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai

    Bee & Flower (Feng-hua) and Maxam (Mei-jia-jing) are both well known brand labels from Shanghai in China, and their products are sold in southeast Asia as well as all over China. Very few people however know that some of these products, such as the soaps, are processed in Tilanqiao Prison and other jails. The companies behind these prestigious labels are participating in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners, which is in violation of international laws.
  • Honest and Upright Mr. Lu Yuping Was Tortured to the Brink of Death in Tailai Prison

    Mr. Lu Yuping was widely recognised as a model of honesty by his superiors at the Land Tax Bureau and was even awarded the title of "Model Worker for Honesty and Uprightness" at the county level in 1996. Starting in 1995, when he began to practise Falun Gong, he became mentally and physically very healthy. Yet he has been tortured to near death because he refuses to give up Falun Gong. Police beat him using a special leather belt, the soles of their shoes, and handcuffs. When he passed out, they poured cold water all over him to revive him and then beat him again. They released him from the chair and squeezed his head, hands, and feet. They stripped him naked and slapped him hard with a leather belt and whips until they were almost broken.
  • A Non-practitioner Describes the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in the Women's Forced Labour Camp in Jiangsu Province

    I noticed that Falun Gong practitioners received even worse treatment. Guard Hong Ying made me monitor practitioners and compelled me to report practitioners' activities, including making a list of who practitioners made eye contact with or smiled at. Two drug addicts would not let practitioner Ms. Gong Jinxiu sleep. At night they made her kneel by a barrel full of urine. When she nodded off, her head would drop into the barrel. Her hair and clothes were wet with urine.
  • The Persecution of Two Older Practitioners

    Ms. Sun Shou Fen is 67 years old. Since the persecution of Falun Gong began in July 1999 she has been persecuted, detained and sent to brainwashing sessions in the forced labour camp. Police damaged her eyes. As a result, she suffered from optic atrophy and her vision deteriorated. Ms. Sun could hardly even see well enough to walk. When she practised Falun Dafa she was able to stop wearing glasses! However, under the persecution, she almost lost her vision completely. On August 2nd, 2007, she was arrested by policeman Liu Jinhu and others for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution in public. When her family members went to the detention centre in Weihai City, police extorted 5,000 yuan from them as guarantee money.
  • Mr. Yang Xinyu Tortured to Death in Inner-Mongolia Autonomous Region

    On May 31st, 2007, police arrested Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Yang Xinyu and his newlywed wife Ms. Zhen Haiyan. Policeman Zhang Shibin pointed a hand gun at Mr. Yang Xinyu's head while four to five agents carried him to the vehicle. Mr. Yang was forcibly taken to a brainwashing centre. Zhang Shibin pointed at Mr. Yang Xinyu and said in front of everyone, "If you refuse to be transformed, I will cremate you." The guards encouraged prisoners to beat him cruelly. Thus, Mr. Yang started a hunger strike to protest. Mr. Yang Xinyu's uncle went to visit him twice while he was being severely mistreated, but the Detention Centre Administration refused to let him see his nephew. They called his family only after he died. They found his body had dark bruises under his neck.
  • Exposing the Crimes of the National Security Division in Wugong County, Shaanxi Province

    Before July 20th, 1999 there were over one hundred Falun Gong practitioners in Wugong County. Most of them started to practise Falun Gong in 1999. They hadn't cultivated long before the persecution of Falun Gong started. The chief of the National Security Division, Yan Yong (female), led perpetrators to persecute Dafa practitioners who believe in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance". They raided practitioners' homes, fined them, detained them, sent them to the forced labour camps, threatened them, and forced them to write guarantee statements to give up practising Falun Gong.
  • Ms. Liu Ying Taken Away by Director of Daqing People's Hospital Zhang Tiehui and Police

    On August 23rd, 2007 at 9:00 a.m., Zhang Tiehui, the Director of Daqing City People's Hospital and Harbin Medical University's Fifth Hospital, coordinated the arrest of Ms. Liu Ying while she was at work. The arrest was carried out with the help of Zhang's brother, a police officer, and Liu Rong, a plainclothes agent from the city's Public Security Bureau. Liu Ying's home and office were ransacked, and her computer and personal belongings were seized by police in the raid.