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  • Mr. Tan Xueli Tortured to Death after Six Days in Yongchuan Prison

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Tan Xueli lived in Sichuan Province. He used to spend all his money on doctors, but was never cured. After practising Falun Dafa, however, his illnesses went away. On the evening of July 24th, 2005, Mr. Tan Xueli was arrested. He was sentenced to prison, and sent to Yongchuan Prison in Chongqing City on June 13th, 2006. He was tortured to death on June 19th, only six days after being admitted to the prison. His body was covered with wounds, the details of which are yet to be investigated.
  • Older Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Lu Huiping Tortured to Death in 2000

    On the afternoon of November 14th, 2000, Ms. Lu Huiping was reported for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and arrested. Her daughter's wedding was scheduled on November 21st so her family paid 8,000 yuan to bail her out, and promised to send her back after the wedding. During the two whole days she was detained in the County Police Department, Ms. Lu Huiping was tortured severely, causing her mind to be unclear, after which she suffered a mental collapse. She died on November 23rd, 2000, at the age of 51.
  • Mr. Yang Jianpo On Hunger Strike for Almost Five Months; In Critical Condition, But Still Detained

    Mr. Yang Jianpo, a Falun Dafa practitioner is detained in Jidong Jial in Tangshan City. In order to protest the unjust detention, Mr. Yang has been on a hunger strike for almost five months. Currently, his condition is critical, but the head of the Langfang 610 Office has refused to release him, saying they won't let him go until they obtain approval from the government of Hebei Province or the Central Government. They intend to torture Mr. Yang to death. Currently, Mr. Yang is very weak and can hardly speak. His hands and feet are cold and pale, he suffers from chest pain, and is terribly thin.
  • Additional Information on the Death of Practitioner Ms. Xiao Shufen from Heilongjiang Province

    Since July 20th, 1999 when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Falun Gong, Xiao Shufen, 66, had been to Beijing to appeal for Dafa many times. She often spoke to people about the facts of Falun Dafa and therefore was arrested six times. On February 19th, 2005, Ms. Xiao Shufen, who had the symptom of high blood pressure and was detained on the fourth floor for sick people, was forcefully sent to the third floor. Then Zhang Xiaoying ordered the prisoners to cover her with a cotton bed cover and drag her to the third floor. They hurt her lower back on the stairs. On May 28th, 2006, Xiao Shufen's children visited their mother in the prison. They never expected to receive the bad news on June 8th that her mother was dead.
  • Five Practitioners from Guizhou, Chongqing, Heilongjiang and Hebei Provinces Who Died as a Result of Persecution

    Ms. Mu Liangyao, over 60 years old, went to Beijing to the Appeal Office to tell of the benefits of practising Falun Gong. As a result, she was abducted by the police and sent back to her hometown and then sent to a forced labour camp. A guard shocked her mouth with an electric-shock baton. In December 2001, Mu Liangyao's home was ransacked. They seized some leaflets exposing the persecution and used her possession of them as an excuse to send her to a forced labour camp for three years. During the three years she suffered brutal torture. Mu Liangyao firmly believed in Dafa and refused to be "transformed." She had severe damage to her head that led to a tumour. In April 2005, she died in the prison.
  • Persecution at the Hohhot Women's Forced Labour Camp in Inner Mongolia

    The officials at the Hohhot Women's Forced Labour Camp have been persecuting Falun Gong practitioners since September 1999. The guards at the labour camp used deceptive methods and violence, including brainwashing, physical abuse, sleep deprivation, extremely intense physical training, slave labour, force-feeding, and shocking with electric batons. They also hang the practitioners by their handcuffs. Some practitioners suffered a nervous breakdown, and some lived in extreme pain.
  • The Persecution of Practitioners in the Yunnan Second Labour Camp

    After 2004, the authorities at the Yunnan Second Labour Camp implemented unscrupulous persecution against the Falun Dafa practitioners detained there. Many of them were tortured, and those who refused to accept brainwashing had their sentences extended for more than half a year. They also used a heavy workload to persecute the detained practitioners, forcing them to do hard labour more than 15 hours a day, working them beyond human capacity. As a result, many practitioners’ hands and feet were terribly swollen.
  • Heilongjiang Provincial Women's Prison Prohibits Visits of Falun Dafa Practitioners' Family Members

    Starting April 14th, 2006, the Heilongjiang Provincial Women's Prison reorganized the detained Falun Dafa practitioners, and cancelled the "training centre unit" where the steadfast practitioners were imprisoned. They transferred practitioners to other prison areas individually, isolating them so that each prison cell had only one practitioner. Since May 5th, the Heilongjiang Province Judicial Department and the prison administrative bureau issued a notice prohibiting family members from visiting the prison.
  • Exposing the Wrongdoings of Policeman Zhao Kejun from the Gaobeidian City Police Department

    During each brainwashing session, many practitioners were bound to bench legs and were lashed with batons or rubber batons, until they were covered with bruises. One woman practitioner was continuously shocked with an electric baton for three days in the city detention centre in 2000. She was also tortured with a method called "Dog Noose" for three days. While suffering from this torture, a practitioner's hands and feet were crossed and then immobilised so that the practitioner couldn't stretch his/her back. This torture is extremely vicious.
  • Persecution at the Heizuizi Women's Labour Camp in Jilin Province

    On March 24th, 2006, guards cursed, and then dragged practitioner Yuan Sufang into a small cell. Yuan's four limbs were fixed on the bed. A guard stuck over ten needles into her acupuncture points and then increased the voltage. Yuan Sumei's body and head started to shake violently, and she had intense pain in her ribs, as though they were being broken. She was foaming at the mouth. The pain was intense beyond description.
  • The Suffering and Persecution of Practitioner Mr. Han Dequan from Liaoning Province

    Mr. Han Dequan is a 50-year-old practitioner. He was arrested on November 17th, 2001, and sentenced to six years in prison because he played a tape exposing the persecution. Since then, he has been locked up in the Dabei Prison in Shenyang, where he is suffering inhumane tortures. As Mr. Han describes the pain from the torture, his body from the waist down, especially his legs and feet, feel like they are soaking in ice water all the time. The pain pierces to the bone and is nearly intolerable. He also always feels pain and swelling in the back of his head. The images of the beating he received appear constantly in his mind.
  • Mr. Zhou Zhigao Brutally Persecuted in Wuling Jail

    Mr. Zhou Zhigao, a Falun Gong practitioner, around 56 years old, was arrested on August 21st, 2002, and sentenced to a seven-year jail term in Wuling Jail. From June 12th to 13th 2005, the provincial authority came to Wuling Jail to conduct a field inspection. Mr. Zhu was brutally beaten for refusing to wear the jail uniform. A week later, he was mercilessly beaten by prison guard Li Hui. The beating caused profuse bleeding. Another time, when he refused to comply with the roll call in the middle of the night, he was pushed from the upper tier bunk bed, causing him to fall.
  • Recent Crimes of the Yanjiao Public Security Bureau Branch

    On February 25th, 2006, the 610 Office went to the homes of practitioners Ma Weishan, Zhang Deli and Zhou Zhuanzhong with the intent to arrest them. Four police vehicles raided Zhang Deli’s place, seizing the TV, video player, and Dafa books. Zhang Deli and his second son (a non-practitioner) were taken to the Sanhe detention centre. At the detention centre, the police incited criminal inmates to hit the back, hands, and feet of Mr. Zhang’s son with a bottle filled with water.
  • Ms. Liu Lihua Tortured to Death in Wuhan City

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Lihua had been tortured multiple times. She was tied to the Death Bed, tortured with the big hang up in a detention centre, and was locked in a small dark cell for refusing to accept the brainwashing in Wuhan City's Hewan Forced Labour Camp. Ms. Liu was brutally force-fed because she was on hunger strike and also tortured with four months of sleep deprivation. She became as thin as a skeleton and died on June 9th, 2006.
  • Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Fears the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party - Falun Gong Practitioner Lu Xiangyun Sentenced to Three Years in Labour Camp

    Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Lu Xiangyun, over 50 years old, was recently sentenced to three years in a forced labour camp. The sentence was related to the fact that a copy of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party was found while perpetrators ransacked her home. The CCP is afraid of the wide spreading of the Nine Commentaries. Many Falun Gong practitioners were arrested only because they owned a copy of the Nine Commentaries.