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  • Ms. Ren Tingfang and Her Daughter Zhang Xiaohe Gansu Province Both Died As Result of Persecution in 2002

    Under severe pressure Ms. Ren Tingfang was forced to become destitute and homeless in order to avoid being arrested at home from 2000 to 2002. After years of living under this persecution, by September of 2002 she weighed only around 80 lbs. Her physical condition worsened and she was only twenty-three when she passed away.
  • Mr. Yue Huimin from Qiqihar City Dies from Torture Suffered in the Fuyu Labour Camp

    Mr. Yue Huimin's health deteriorated, his body developed a scabies infection, he was emaciated, suffered with diabetes, had damage to the lower part of his brain and had developed hepatitis type B. He often fainted and did not sleep properly for more than a year. After two years of cruel torture, the Fuyu Labour Camp extended his term by two months. He was finally carried home while he was dying, nearly blind, his inner ears were infected and his whole body was swollen with dropsy. On March 18th 2005, Mr. Yue Huimin died in great agony.
  • Li Huzhe from Yanji City Requires Constant Care After Being Persecuted in Jilin Province

    Mr. Li Huzhe's body is now so extremely weak that he is unable to take care of himself. The police handcuffed and shackled him, pulling up his foot shackle and attaching it around his neck. In order to force him to give a confession, they tortured him by squeezing his body to the point where his neck was only fifteen centimetres away from his feet for a long period of time. He couldn't straighten himself at the waist. The police continuously tortured him for three days. During the three days, they didn't allow him to use the toilet, drink water, eat food, or sleep.
  • Practitioner Ms. Li Shue Was Beaten by Prison Guards in the Jilin Province Women's Forced Labour Camp

    Ms. Li Shue who is over 50 years old was kicked in the back, chest, arms and legs and was punched in the head until she could no longer move. She said, "The labour camp forces practitioners to work over 10 hours a day, pushing us to the limit." Due to the beating, persecution, and prolonged labour, Li is skinny and depressed. She is pale and cannot walk properly but is still forced to glue toy birds for over 10 hours everyday.
  • At Least 85 Practitioners Tortured to Death in Weifang City in the Past Six Years

    Jiang Zemin and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)cooperated in applying their genocidal policies against Falun Gong practitioners, who peacefully persist in their belief in Truth-Compassion-Forbearance. They achieved this by using the totalitarian government's machinery, including the police and the media. In the six years between July 20th 1999 and July 20th 2005, the CCP, in violation of the Chinese constitution and by breaking numerous laws, has monitored, abducted, detained, tortured, and brainwashed Falun Gong practitioners and has sent many of them to forced labour camps and prisons. According to the Clearwisdom website, the verified number of deaths by torture of Falun Gong practitioners is 2,711. At least 85 Falun Gong practitioners from Weifang City have been tortured to death.
  • Practitioner Liu Yuhe from Jilin Province, Tortured on Tiger Bench and Force-fed Mustard Oil

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Liu Yuhe was arrested and sent to Jiutai Forced Labour Camp. Whilst in captivity he had gone on a hunger strike to protest the unjust incarceration and been brutally force-fed. Liu Yuhe was force-fed with six bottles of mustard oil. This kind of torture can result various stomach diseases, stomach ulcers, etc. These tortures inflicted severe physical damage on him. He was also tortured with the "Tiger Bench" during interrogation. They made Liu Yuhe wear a metal helmet and then hit the helmet with a metal hammer continuously for four hours - this is called the "brain-shaking machine." This type of torture can leave people with severe physical impairment: quadriplegia, mental disorientation, concussion etc.
  • Six Dafa Practitioners from Shandong, Liaoning, Jilin and Henan Provinces Persecuted to Death

    Mr. Wang Liansheng, 37 years old, was a teacher in the elementary school attached to Nong'an County Normal College, Jilin Province and firmly practised Falun Dafa. In 2001, he went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Dafa. After he was detained for more than 20 hours, he walked out of the police station openly and with dignity. When the education system made cuts at the end of 2001, he was not on the list to lose his job. However, because he practised Falun Gong, his school's leaders forced him to write the "three statements" to denounce Falun Gong. Otherwise, he would lose his job. The leaders went to his home many times to threaten and harass him. Because the mental pressure was too great for him and his wife compelled him to get a divorce, he suffered a mental collapse. He died on March 18th 2002.
  • Prison Authorities Force Yuan Qingjiang's Body to Be Cremated Out of Fear of Public Exposure

    It has been confirmed that Falun Dafa practitioner Yuan Qingjiang, who was tortured and killed at the Daqing Prison, had already passed away on July 23rd when he was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. After Yuan Qingjiang was persecuted to death, the prison staff purposely sent his corpse to the hospital for an "emergency rescue treatment," but what really happened was revealed by the doctor. Afraid of having their crimes exposed, the Daqing Prison staff forced his family members to sign their names for the cremation, threatening that if they refused, they would be charged with hindrance of public duties, and even be extorted several tens of thousands of yuan for medical expenses.
  • Doctor of Internal Medicine in Jiamusi City Suffers Persecution after Exposing the Deception about the “Tiananmen Self-Immolation” Incident in Class

    Mr. Sang Chuan, 35 years of age and a graduate student, is a doctor of internal medicine. On March 23rd 2005, he was lecturing on tracheotomy in an extended education class. He discussed the fallacies of the staged "Tiananmen Self-Immolation" incident and exposed the fact that the former head and still highly active and powerful figure of the Chinese Communist Party, Jiang Zemin and his regime framed and slandered Falun Gong. Students who have been deceived by the Chinese Communist Party propaganda reported him to the authorities of the university. On July 12th 2005, an illegal trial was secretly held, and he was sentenced to 3-7 years of imprisonment.
  • Shiling Prison Cruelly Persecutes Falun Dafa Practitioner Fu Hongwei

    Mr. Fu Hongwei was persecuted in Shiling Prison. He refused to follow any of the requirements of the perpetrators such as wearing prison uniforms and reciting the prison rules. He began to protest against the persecution by going on a hunger strike. Although his family members requested many times to see him, the authorities in the prison did not let them visit while Mr. Fu Hongwei was detained in the prison from 2003 to July 2005. When eventually they were allowed to see him, his face was severely swollen.
  • Yushu City Police Officers Tortured Me for Eight Hours to Force Me to Reveal the Whereabouts of My Mobile Phone

    The police had me sit on an iron chair and cuffed my hands behind my back. While interrogating me, they continued to beat me in an attempt to find out what I had been doing and the whereabouts of my mobile phone. When I didn't tell them anything, they stepped on a chain to tighten the handcuffs, causing them to cut into my wrists. This caused my left hand to be numb for more than two months. They used the handle of a pickaxe to hit my shins for more than 30 minutes. They also used it to smash my toes. They forced my left arm to go over my shoulder and my right arm behind my back and tied my hands together. They then inserted 6 or 7 Coke bottles between my arms and my body, making my arms feel like they were being split open.
  • Lives at Risk in the Daqing Prison

    The following persecution facts are from the letters sent by practitioners who are unjustly imprisoned in the Daqing City Hongweixing Prison. The practitioners have broken through several layers of the information blockade and their letters have gone through several hands. Due to the strict monitoring in the prison and the varying abilities of practitioners to express themselves in writing, the details and the extent of the persecution disclosed here do not quite reflect the reality. They are only the tip of the iceberg. This article does, however, show a glimpse of the darkness and horror in the Daqing Prison.
  • More Information about Young Wang Boru: A Tragically Short Childhood

    Wang Boru is 16 years old, a teenager and only child, who was loved by his parents. Tragically, after July 20th 1999, six years ago, his childhood was over. Boru clearly remembers the day after he turned 10 years old. His parents had disappeared and the home was empty. The adults told him that his parent had been arrested at midnight.
  • Prestigious University Student Suffers a Mental Collapse Due to Persecution, Employee Imprisoned in Shandong Province

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Zhimei was enrolled in the Chemical Engineering Department of Tsinghua University in 1997. In 2001, she was unjustly sentenced to 12 years in prison and has since suffered a mental collapse due to the relentless persecution. She is now being held in the Women's Prison of Shandong Province. Another practitioner, Mr. Wu Xiangwan, was sentenced to 8 years in prison in May 2004. Currently, he is being persecuted in a prison in Shandong Province.
  • Information about Six Elderly Falun Dafa Practitioners from Hebei, Liaoning and Shandong Provinces and from Tianjin City Who Died Due to the Persecution

    66 year old Ms. Chen Guiying was from Sananzi Village, Weifang City, Shandong Province. She started practising Falun Dafa in 1996, and she benefited a great deal in both body and mind. Her husband was also a practitioner. After July 20th 1999, when Jiang's regime started persecuting Falun Gong, Ms. Chen watched her practitioner relatives, her sister-in-law, nephew and niece, being arrested again and again. Meanwhile she also worried about her two daughters, who were also practitioners, being persecuted. She lived in constant fear. In February 2004, Ms. Chen Guiying's health quickly deteriorated, and she passed away on June 25th. Two days later, her husband also passed away.