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  • In a Conspiracy to Abduct Ms. Gao Rongrong, Whose Face Was Disfigured by Torture, the Judiciary Department in Shenyang Exploits the Transportation Radio Station

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Gao Rongrong's face was disfigured by a Labour Camp and the Judiciary Department of Shenyang City. The persecutors severely burned her face with electric batons. Her subsequent escape from the detention centre on October 5, 2004 has caused much panic to the Judiciary Department, because her injuries are indelible evidence of their extreme cruelty in persecuting Falun Dafa. Officials directed Liaoning Province's Transportation Radio Station to broadcast fabricated news in order to ferret out Gao Rongrong's whereabouts and arrest her.
  • Practitioner Bi Wenming Tortured to Death at the Dingxi Jail in Gansu Province

    Even after the facts of the persecution of practitioner Jin Jiling were exposed earlier this year, guards at the Dingxi Jail in Gansu Province showed no remorse for their actions. On September 3, 2004, two Falun Dafa practitioners were beaten by jail inmates under the guards' instigation. Practitioner Bi Wenming was beaten so badly that his spleen ruptured and he died on the scene.
  • Ms. Zhang Yuling, from Gansu Province Tortured to Death in 2002

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Yuling was arrested in October 2001, while distributing truth-clarification materials in Ningxia Province. Later her home was ransacked and her husband divorced her under pressure from the authorities. She was later jailed for six months and tortured severely. Ms. Zhang's health seriously deteriorated. However, the detention centre only released her when she was on the verge of death. Ms. Zhang's family rushed her to the hospital. However, despite rescue efforts, she passed away in December 2002, at the age of 30. The police tried all means to shirk their responsibility for her death.
  • Investigating the Death of Falun Gong Practitioner Zhao Wenyu

    Zhao Wenyu was a Falun Gong practitioner in Hebei Province. She had been arrested many times for clarifying the truth about Falun Gong and appealing. During detention, she suffered torture, brutal beatings and mental torment from coercive brainwashing. On February 3, 2004, when trying to escape illegal arrest by the police, she fell from a building.
  • Torture Methods Used on Falun Gong Practitioners at the Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp (Re-enactment Photos)

    "At noon on May 11, 2002, 610 Office staff and police burst into my home and forcefully took me away. I was imprisoned in a forced labour camp, where a policeman slapped me in the face. Two of my front teeth were knocked out as a result. Then, he put me in an extra small cell and handcuffed me to a ring on floor and beat me. After he was tired of beating me, he burned the back of my hand with a cigarette."
  • Falun Gong Practitioners 59 Year Old Mr Wang Jicheng and 60 Year Old Mr Xu Congxin from Chongqing City Died As a Result of Persecution

    Two elderly Falun Gong practitioners were both imprisoned at Chongqing City Xishanping Forced Labour Camp because they stood up for what they believed in - Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance. They were mercilessly persecuted: 59 year old Mr. Wang Jicheng, was released on bail for medical treatment, yet after returning home in October 2003, Mr. Wang's health was constantly in a critical condition. He finally passed away on November 30, 2004. 60 year old Mr Xu Congxin passed away on July 19, 2003 as a result of torture he suffered.
  • Police in Sichuan Province Force a Six-months Pregnant Practitioner to Have an Abortion

    A young pregnant woman from Sichuan Province was forced by police to abort her six-month-old unborn baby without her family being notified. The woman was then sentenced to seven years in prison. In November 1999, when the police were ransacking the home of an elderly teacher, they did not spare searching the bed on which her daughter was recovering during her maternity leave. The daughter, who is not a practitioner, had just given birth to her child and she has not yet recovered from the mental trauma of that day.
  • The Persecution of Mr. Li Xinglian Results in His Mental Collapse and Death

    Hubei Falun Dafa practitioner Mr Li Xinglian suffered mental torture numerous times in a forced labour camp, his body and mind were harmed so much that he suffered a mental collapse and his body was greatly weakened. At the end of May 2004, the 610 Office put Mr. Li on the blacklist for enforced brainwashing, but gave up later when they found that Li Xinglian was on the verge of death. Li Xinglian was sent to a mental hospital, but wasn't accepted. The next day, on September 4, 2004, Li Xinglian died after falling from a building.
  • Chengdu Detention Centre Transfers Practitioners to Deceive United Nations Human Rights Inspection Team

    On September 24, 2004, the officer of a brainwashing class in Chengdu, Sichuan Province stated that a United Nations Human Rights team would come for an inspection. Fearing that the Falun Dafa practitioners would expose the facts of the persecution they received, the officer transferred all practitioners who would speak up and had refused to wear a prison uniform. Some of the practitioners were sent to Yangmahe Women's Prison in Jianyang City and some were sent to Longquanyi Prison in Chengdu.
  • Two Practitioners Filed a Lawsuit Against Jiang Zemin in 2000: One Died from Torture, the Other Was Sentenced to Prison

    According to a reliable source, even now, the police monitor Zhu daily. The police call him the "last one out of the prison" because he not only resists the brainwashing attempts but also writes monthly appeals. The source also said that the prison officials have never delivered any of Zhu Keming's appeals to the proper departments.
  • Practitioner Ms Zhang Buyuan from Jilin City Violently Force-Fed

    Several female criminal inmates held down Ms Zhang Buyuan's hands and feet, pinched her nose, placed a toothbrush between her teeth, and another inmate pressed her knee on Zhang Buyuan's chest. Zhang Buyuan was thus forced-fed a mixture of steamed bun crumb or corn flour with large amounts of salt and soup.
  • Husband Becomes Blind, Nine-Month-Pregnant Wife Injected with Drugs to Induce Premature Birth, Four-Year-Old Son Kidnapped

    Since Jiang Zemin's regime started persecuting Falun Dafa on July 20, 1999, the formerly happy Song family has suffered greatly. They were both detained in detention centres and endured many hardships. Mr. Song lost his vision, his nine-month-pregnant wife was injected with drugs to induce premature birth, and police abducted their four-year-old son. Nothing has been heard of their son.
  • Daqing Prison Sends Pursuit Team to Locate and Arrest Practitioner Mr. Zhang Zhong

    Practitioner Mr. Zhang Zhong from Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province was emaciated and on the verge of death as a result of the tortures he suffered in Daqing Prison. After Mr. Zhang exposed these crimes on the Internet, Daqing Prison authorities became enraged and dispatched a pursuit team to arrest him.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Wang Baozhen from Hebei Province Died from Persecution in 2003

    69 year old Mr. Wang Baozhen from Hebei Province went to Beijing to peacefully appeal on behalf of Falun Dafa and deliver truth-clarifying materials. As a result his entire family was taken into custody at a detention centre and held for slave labour. Later, in 2001 Mr. Wang's family and some other local Falun Dafa practitioners were forced into exile as a result of police roundups. His two sons were arrested at his home in 2001 and 2002 respectively. Under the weight of the local authorities' persecution, Mr. Wang died at his home in February 2003.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Ms Li Guimin Tortured to Death in 2002; Whereabouts of Her Two Children Remain Unknown

    Falun Gong practitioner Li Guimin lived in Hebei Province. In 2001, she was sentenced to 8 years in prison. While in detention, Li went on a hunger strike to protest the detention. Police, led by the detention centre director, brutally force-fed her by pouring food directly into her mouth. The food was inhaled into her lungs. The police didn't stop their brutal acts until her lungs bled and she passed out. Only then did they send her to the county hospital. Li died in the hospital on March 1, 2002. When she died, blood was oozing out from her nose and mouth.