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  • Young Practitioner Describes Six Difficult Years of Persecution

    "My name is Xingxing and I am 15 years old. In November 2000 the police arrested Mum when she was telling people the truth about Falun Dafa. At 2:00 a.m., a group of people suddenly broke into my bedroom and searched all over the place. They made a big mess by turning everything over. I was supposed to attend school the next morning, but did not get any sleep that night. They confiscated many items from our home. That day I truly experienced the terrifying feeling of being a robbery victim. From that day on I could no longer call out "Mum" when I returned from school. Mum was not home any longer."
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Yan Fuqin Died As a Result of Forced Labour in Tianjin

    In September 2004, when 56-year-old Ms. Yan Fuqin was posting leaflets exposing the persecution with two other fellow practitioners, she was reported to the police and arrested. She was soon sentenced to forced labour at Banqiao Woman's Forced Labour Camp, where the living conditions were terrible. Ms. Yan suffered from scabies all over her body. She was still forced to do hard labour until she developed late-stage breast cancer. Ms. Yan was released in July 2005 for medical care. After painful surgery, Yan Fuqin died on the morning of September 4th 2005.
  • Ms Wang Dandan Suffers Inhuman Persecution

    "When I first arrived at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, the guards pretended insincerely that they cared about me and wanted to help me. They asked some collaborators to "reform" me. A few days later, the guards showed their true faces. They beat me whenever they saw me meditating. They handcuffed me to a bed so that I could not stand up or squat down, and I had to stay on my knees for seven days and nights. My knees and wrists were broken, and my wrists were burned."
  • The Persecution and Death of Mr. Li Guoshun, a Falun Dafa Practitioner from Fujian Province

    Mr Li Guoshun was arrested in August 2004 while he was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. He protested the persecution by starting a hunger strike and was persecuted to death on October 14th. The local officials and police intentionally delayed his treatment and tried very hard to shift the responsibility and cover up their criminal acts. One police officer said that Li Guoshun's death served him right.
  • How My Son, Wu Chunlong, Died as a Result of Torture at the Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp

    "My son, Wu Chunlong, was born on December 11th 1976. In 2003 he started working in a barbershop. Simply because he persisted in practising Falun Gong, he was twice detained in a forced labour camp. Wu Chunlong was put in the Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp for three years, where he was severely tortured. One time in the winter, when the temperature was -20 C, the police dragged him outside, took off all of his clothes, poured cold water on his body and left him outdoors in the freezing temperatures for over two hours. His third year in the labour camp he was handcuffed for the entire year. When he was released his health was serious, yet police came to my home and traumatised him once again. Wu Chunlong's situation became more serious day after day and I didn't have the money for medical treatment. At 2 o'clock in the morning on August 20th 2005 he left this world."
  • American Citizen in Hong Kong Hires an Attorney to Rescue Her Mother, Who Has Been Sentenced to Forced Labour Camp in China

    The police detained 62-year-old Ms. Yuan Yuju and sentenced her to one year in Nanmusi Women's Forced Labour Camp. As soon as her daughter, US citizen, Ms. Liang Zhen received the news, she expressed her intent to hire a lawyer on her mother's behalf. She will also try everything she can to have her mother and older brother released.
  • Four Practitioners from Beijing, Liaoning Province and Jilin Province Died as a Result of the Persecution

    Ms. Gao Guiqin was a 69-year-old professor employed at the Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute. She first learned Falun Dafa in 1995, went to Tiananmen Square to appeal for Falun Dafa in 1999, and was detained. In July 2003, she was reported for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. She was arrested and sentenced to two years of forced labour. After four months in the labour camp, her blood pressure suddenly became very high, and she had to be released on medical parole. Outside the camp, she lived while hooked up to a monitoring system and was unable to practise normally, which caused her physical condition to deteriorate. She died on July 20th 2005, only few days after her term had ended.
  • Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp Persecutes Dafa Practitioners Who Are Suffering Severe Illness

    Ms. Chen Aihong, fifty-three years old, was taken to Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp for imprisonment on March 15th 2005. The physical examination showed that she suffered from severe heart disease. Her heart rate was 137 times per minute. The electrocardiogram showed that her heart muscle was seriously short of blood and she should not do heavy labour. After hearing this, the head of the group Wei Hongling often verbally abused her. One night in the middle of June, Chen Aihong was meditating. Police Tian Zili pulled the bed sheet out from under her, whipped her face and head violently and beat her down to the bed. Tian Zili started to shout at her, "If you meditate again tomorrow, I'm going to kill you on the spot." As a result of the persecution, Chen suffered from a relapse of heart disease and incontinence.
  • 61 Falun Gong Practitioners Die in August as a Result of Torture

    The number of Falun Gong practitioners confirmed dead as a result of the persecution reached 2,781 on August 31st 2005. Among the 61 practitioners, 25 or 41% of the total were women, and 33 or 54% of the total were above 50 years of age. Twenty-eight of the deaths occurred in 2005, including six in August 2005. The youngest victim was 21 years old.
  • Repost: Horrifying Conditions in Jilin Prison's "Naked District" - Second Urgent Appeal to Rescue Dafa Practitioner Yang Guang

    Mr. Yang Guang, 50 is currently being held in Jilin Prison's "naked district," where he is not ever allowed to wear trousers and suffers humiliation and misery in the company of psychotic, disabled inmates. Due to torture, his right leg is disabled, his toes are deformed and festering, and he can no longer take care of himself. He is fifty years old but looks like a frail old man with his white hair and emaciated body. He is surrounded by urine, faeces and filthy smells continuously.
  • Ms Li Yangfang Was Tortured to the Point that Hospital Officials Were Afraid to Accept Her for Treatment

    After starting to practise Falun Gong, Ms. Li Yangfang, a formerly seriously ill person, she then became healthy and kind. After the persecution of Falun Gong began, she was subjected to severe torture several times. In 2003, she was unjustly detained in Sichuan Province Zizhong Women's Labour camp. Due to her severe torture injuries, even the hospital refused to admit her.
  • Three Practitioners from Hebei and Anhui Provinces Were Persecuted to Death

    After Mr. Miao started practising Falun Gong in 1997, his heart disease, lung disease, and oesophageal cancer all went away. After the persecution of Falun Gong started on July 20th 1999, officials often went to Mr. Miao's home to harass and threaten him. This caused him to live under a cloud of constant fear. He developed depression, and his health condition became worse and worse. Mr. Miao died in March 2005.
  • Falun Gong Practitioners Suffer Persecution in Heilongjiang Province Between January and August of 2005

    Li Jun, head of the National Security Division at the Huanan County Police Station in Heilongjiang Province, and his subordinates have been constantly and illegally arresting and sending Falun Gong practitioners to prisons and forced labour camps for several years. Between January and August 2005, eleven Dafa practitioners and their family members were arrested and subjected to extortion.
  • Four Older Dafa Practitioners Pass Away as a Result of Persecution

    72-year-old Ms. Chen Songnan, was a Dafa practitioner from Sichuan Province. She was the widow of Song Shiyun, former Deputy President of the Southwest Finance and Economics University. Before learning Falun Dafa, she had many illnesses, and she weighed only 77 lbs. After cultivating in Falun Dafa, all of her diseases disappeared and her body weight increased to 110 lbs. In December 2003, she was arrested by police and detained in a brainwashing class by the 610 Office. Since she persisted in cultivating Dafa and refused to compromise she was persecuted to death.
  • Six Falun Dafa Practitioners from Jilin, Liaoning and Sichuan Provinces Died as a Result of the Persecution

    Ms. Xiao Jizhen was eighty-one years old. In March 2001, her eldest daughter went out to expose the truth of the persecution, and she was arrested and sent to jail. Knowing what had happened to her daughter put tremendous mental pressure on Xiao Xuizhen. In addition, national security officers went to her home and harassed her, and sent her daughter to a forced labour camp, where she was tortured until she suffered a mental collapse. Personnel from the forced labour camp notified her family to take her back home when she was in critical condition. Xiao Jizhen was in extreme grief when she saw her daughter's condition. She tripped and fell at home on April 10th 2004, and passed way on April 14th 2004.