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  • Middle School Teacher Fei Weidong Beaten to Death by Police in Jiangxi Province

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Fei Weidong, a middle school teacher told the facts of Falun Dafa to people in a shop on October 17th, 2005. The owner reported him. The police arrived and closed the shutters to the shop, then they beat Fei Weidong to death. An autopsy was performed and the body was cremated soon afterwards. The ashes were returned to Fei Weidong's family. The authorities claimed Fei Weidong died from heart disease. They refused the family the right to make enquiries. According to witnesses, there was a large hole on each of Fei Weidong's temples, and all of his front teeth were knocked out. The police beating was savage.
  • Tortures at Jilin Province Women's Prison

    The jailers torture the practitioners by tying their wrists and ankles with cloth ropes. They tighten the ropes until they cut into the practitioner's wrists and ankles so the practitioner cannot move. They then tie the other end of the ropes to bed posts, and pull on the rope until the practitioner's body is fully stretched out and hanging in the air. They constantly tighten the rope. Almost all practitioners who were tortured this way had ongoing pain in their backs and legs. Some practitioners had blisters on their arms and legs, and some practitioners had swollen hands and feet that were black and blue because the ropes impeded blood circulation. This method of tying people is unprecedented in terms of cruelty.
  • Four Practitioners from Guangdong, Liaoning and Henan Provinces Persecuted to Death

    Sixty-six-year old Ms. Ma Rangliao was forced to report regularly to the police station for more than a year. Because she spread the truth about Falun Dafa, her home was illegally searched and her property was confiscated many times. She was held in a detention centre and sent to a brainwashing centre twice. The police threatened her and her family repeatedly and did not allow her to have contact with others. Because of the long-term harassment and intimidation from the police and other authorities, she endured intense mental and physical pressure. Her health began to deteriorate in 2002. She passed away on October 22nd, 2002.
  • Message Hand-Written on Cloth Escapes Harbin Women's Prison

    This eye-witness account of the persecution against Falun Gong escaped circuitously from the Harbin Women's Prison on a piece of cloth. A practitioner transcribed the hand-written message on the cloth and compiled this article. Starting in September 2004, practitioners have suffered more severe tortures. Some practitioners were hung from the upper frame of a bunk bed by their back-cuffed hands - with feet above the ground for over three months. Others were forced to sit on the concrete floor for up to four months.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Wang Jinfeng Recounts Persecution at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

    My name is Wang Jinfeng. I am 40 years old and live in Liaoning Province. On May 23rd, 2002, I was sentenced to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp for two-and-a-half years. During this period I witnessed the guards beating and torturing Dafa practitioners. They tied the practitioners' legs, shocked them with electric batons, slapped their mouths, forced them to squat, didn't allow them to sleep for days on end, forced them to stand on a small brick and detained them in solitary confinement, among other methods.
  • Belated News: Mr. Liu Zhirong From Gansu Province Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Disseminating the Truth

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Liu Zhirong was a teacher. He was arrested and held in detention several times since 1999, because he went out to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa. In July 2002, Liu Zhirong left the detention centre. The police searched for him and lived at his home for several days straight. They intimidated his wife to turn him over to the police, but she refused. The police followed and monitored his family. During the time Liu Zhirong lived away from home, he broadcast videos telling the facts of Falun Dafa in Gansu Province. On October 25th, 2002, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison at the Chengguan Court in Lanzhou City.
  • Her Voice Came From a Far Away Horizon

    Years of torture in detention left Ms. Zhang Xihui mentally disordered. When she was released from hospital, Ms. Zhang Xihui had lost her memory and was mentally unstable. According to some insiders, they may have given her nerve-damaging drugs. She had oedema in most areas of her body. No matter what anyone asked her, she would always reply, "I already had a meal. I ate some noodles." Every once in a while, she would say, "If you would allow me to do the exercises, I would not be like this."
  • Six Practitioners from Inner Mongolia, Sichuan and Henan Provinces Were Persecuted to Death

    Mr. Wang Yuesheng was 57 years old. Nonetheless, in August 2001 officers from the local 610 Office arrested Wang Yuesheng. Mr. Wang's wife, Ms. Li Ai'liang, is also a Falun Dafa practitioner. Ms. Li was sentenced to three years of "re-education" through forced labour in exchange for her husband's freedom. Since then, public security officials continuously harassed Mr. Wang, which put a lot of pressure on him and his family. During the years of persecution he suffered, Mr. Wang was tortured both physically and mentally. Finally, his former illnesses returned, and he passed away on November 4th, 2005.
  • Parents of Ms. Gao Rongrong Speak Out to Demand Justice for their Daughter Who Was Disfigured and Tortured to Death

    "Our daughter Gao Rongrong, 37, was subjected to inhuman torture in Longshan Forced Labour Camp. The guards shocked Gao Rongrong for six to seven hours. The skin of her face, ears, neck, back and ankle were severely burned and charred. There were big blisters. Although she escaped for the prison hospital she was later re-captured and tortured to death. Why did they inform us one week after Gao Rongrong was admitted to the hospital and in a deep coma? If they had informed us on the day (June 6th) when she just was admitted to the hospital, Gao Rongrong could have been saved with her family's support. Why and how could this turn out like this?"
  • How I Was Persecuted at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp - Even Today I Still Have Difficulty Walking

    "I was brutally tortured at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. After three years of torture, I developed many diseases including heart disease, hypertension, vasculitis, cystitis and diabetes. Even now, I still have difficulty walking. In early November 2002, the division leader tried to force me to wear a label indicating that I am being "re-educated" through forced labour. I sternly refused and said, "I am a good person. I didn't commit any crimes. I refuse to wear such a label." Upon saying this, I was tied up with ropes by the guards for three days. The police hung me by handcuffs for more than two hours each night. Some practitioners were tied up like this for more than twenty days."
  • The Torture and Persecution I Experienced at the Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp

    "I was arrested while distributing materials about the truth of Falun Gong in December 2002. On January 6th, 2003, the public security sub-bureau of Jiamusi suburb sent me and nine other practitioners to the local labour camp without any legal procedure. We were led into dorms on the first floor, in which there were "collaborators" awaiting us. These people surrounded me and persuaded me to write statements to betray Dafa, but I told them I would never do such a thing. Then some of them pressed me on the bed, and wrested one of my arms under the side of bed to my back and the other arm up from my shoulder. Then they kept me in this position and handcuffed the wrists tightly. The handcuff cut into my muscle and I suffered painfully."
  • Seven Practitioners from Shandong, Liaoning, and Tianjin Die as a Result of Persecution

    Mr. Bai Jiazhen, 60 years old, was a retired official of a town government in Shandong Province. After practising Falun Dafa, many of his illnesses disappeared, and he had very good health. However, the police illegally searched his home, threatened him, and cancelled his salary when Falun Gong was banned on July 20th of 1999. He was sentenced to a forced labour camp after returning from appealing for Falun Gong in Beijing. In the labour camp, he was treated inhumanely, forced to labour beyond his physical strength, and brainwashed. He developed mental problems and died on September 19th, 2004.
  • Rape Victim Ms. Liu Jizhi: "I Want to Expose the Evil Persecution"

    "Why is it so hard to be a good person in China? They dared to do such violence to me, a good lady in her fifties. I hereby call on all people with conscience to pay attention to the evil crimes that happened to me. If the persecution of Falun Gong does not stop, these tragedies will continue. Right now, I am suffering after the shock of being raped, I feel blurry minded, and my lower body is in constant pain. If I did not know from Falun Dafa that suicide is a sin, I probably would have already left this world. I lost the courage to live, and the confidence to face the world. I only hope the world's people will wake up. I wish this persecution will end soon, and wish these kinds of crimes will end soon!"
  • Shuangkou Forced Labour Camp in Tianjin City Is a Den of Evil Used to Persecute Practitioners

    Two years ago, when some criminals designated by the guards were slandering and smearing Teacher Li and Dafa, Mr. Chen Baoliang, a practitioner from Tianjin City, stood up and calmly said to them, "You can argue if you have enough reason, but do not call names at will." Just for saying this, the criminals publicly beat Mr. Chen to death. The guards later took his body to the hospital and got a medical certificate that said Mr. Chen had died of "a heart attack." The murderers were not held responsible for their actions. On the contrary, they were released three months ahead of schedule as a reward for "actively supporting government agents."
  • The Persecution at Shuangkou Forced Labour Camp in Tianjin

    "I am going to expose all I have witnessed when being an inmate in the Shuangkou Forced Labour Camp. Since practitioners are often transferred between teams and we were not allowed to talk to each other, also, all the tortures happened secretly. The first night of being there I was beaten with a big pickax handle, which is a torture every newcomer is subjected to. 67-year-old Zhang Baozhu, who was a government official, was beaten to the ground with the pickax handle. The guard yelled at him, "Now will you write a repentance letter?""