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  • Mother Tortured, Police Send Homeless Child to Orphanage

    Yu Yaojin is a 48-year-old mother from Heilongjiang Province. She was arrested by police because she practised Falun Gong and sent to Wanjia Forced Labour Camp. As a result, the police sent her four-year-old daughter to an orphanage. During her detention Yu underwent severe torture and ended up with heart problems; yet she pined to see her daughter. Because of her determination, the labour camp allowed her to visit the orphanage. Sadly, the little girl had been so traumatized by her mother's sudden arrest and suffered such separation anxiety that she was no longer able to recognize her mother.
  • Who Is the Prime Culprit in "Using Classified Documents to Defy the Law"?

    But in reality, according to discussions by specialists, to reconsider the application, or not regarding the document in relation to an administration issue, many central departments simultaneously transmitted the suppression decision documents to lower levels, which was in accordance with the order issued solely by Jiang Zemin that unilaterally represented the Party, the government, and the laws to order the transmission of the documents to lower levels. The procedure was illegal and in reality was in open defiance of the law.
  • "I Have Lost My Mummy, I Cannot Lose My Daddy" (Photo)

    Little Yuanming's father is a Falun Dafa practitioner named Zhao Yougang. Even so, in June of 2003 Zhao Yougang was arrested by the Nanjing police while he was composing materials to tell people about Falun Gong. In jail he has been constantly subjected to inhumane torture. Little Yuanming went to Wuxi Prison hospital with her maternal grandmother to see her dad, who has become now virtually unrecognizable due to the torture. Even though Yuanming is young, she can still understand, "I have already lost my mummy, I cannot lose my daddy."
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Wang Haibo and His Wife Suffer Abuse at Sichuan University

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Haibo was an associate professor in the Mathematics Department at Sichuan University. His wife, Ms. Fang Hui, was a lecturer in the Foreign Languages Department at Sichuan University. They are both about 40 years old. The couple was sentenced to three and a-half years and three years in prison, respectively, for clarifying the truth about Falun Gong to others. Both were fired from their jobs. Sichuan University has not paid Fang Hui any salary and she and her twelve-year-old son did not even receive a minimum living allowance in the last year.
  • Qinhuangdao City Court Frames Good People - Falun Gong Practitioners Appeal

    Shanhaiguan Court held trials for practitioners on August 24 without legal basis, just because they clarified the truth about Falun Gong to people. These so-called "court trials" were held in secret. At around 8:00 a.m. on August 24, four policemen tried to force practitioner Mr. Wei Danquan, who was in life-threatening danger, to the court for trial, but Wei's family strongly opposed it and argued with reason. They requested that police sign a statement assuming responsibility for the consequences if they insisted on taking Mr. Wei, but the officers were afraid to do so and left empty-handed.
  • Persecuted to Death, Dafa Practitioner Li Jingdong's Leaves Two Teenage Children Orphaned

    Li Jingdong, 41 years old, began to practise Falun Gong in 1998. In 2001, Mr. Li was arrested after appealing in Beijing. He was sent back to the local police station in Shandong Province and handcuffed to a tree and left there for over 10 days, enduring insults, beatings and being kicked. He was persecuted to death, leaving behind two children, one 16 year old daughter, a 19 year old son and a 79-year-old mother.
  • Terrified by Phone Calls from Abroad, Policeman Zhang Mingjiang Tries to Hide the Truth about His Crimes

    Zhang Mingjiang, is a policeman at Xi-an police station in Dawa county, Panjin City, Liaoning province. The torture of Ning Bo, an elderly Falun Dafa practitioner, was exposed publicly on the Internet. Practitioners from overseas and mainland China made many phone calls condemning his torture of practitioners and telling him the truth about Falun Gong. After hearing news of this, a division police chief from Panjin named Zhang Mingjiang ordered him to release Ning Bo.
  • Short Stories - A Teacher Apologises In Class

    One time during a professional course I attended, a teacher made a few remarks that slandered Falun Dafa. That very day, after returning to my hotel, I wrote a letter to her to clarify the truth about Falun Dafa, hoping that she would not continue to be deceived by the slanderous rumours. After the teacher read my letter and understood the truth, she openly apologised in class during the next lesson and said, "Some things I also don't fully understand. If I said anything wrong, please forgive me."
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms Zhang Minqiu Tortured to Death in Beijing

    Ms. Zhang Minqiu was a Falun Dafa practitioner in Beijing, around 60 years old. She died in the autumn of 2002 from being subjected to torture in Beijing Labour Camp Distribution Centre (details unknown). On August 22, 2002, I saw Ms. Zhang Minqiu. Her mind had become unstable because of the torture she endured in the labour camp. She was transferred to Tiantanghe Hospital in September, 2002. Drug addicted prisoner Gao Lei (female) tells how Zhang was tortured in the hospital.
  • Practitioners Liu Ping and Guo Jianxuan Tortured to Death at Shuangkou Forced Labour Camp

    Liu Ping and Guo Jinxuan were both incarcerated in Shuangkou Forced Labour Camp and forced to pick out plastics of certain colours from the rubbish. Under such harsh working condition, Liu Ping collapsed. He was diagnosed with tuberculosis. In the winter of 2001, Liu Ping's condition suddenly worsened one night. As soon as he was sent to the hospital, he died. Guo Jianxuan developed scabies all over his body. He was also beaten very often. He was diagnosed with leukemia and passed away not long after.
  • Police Knock Practitioners Off Their Motorcycle on the Motorway in Guizhou Province

    In the evening of June 28, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Xinping and his wife Lin Shusheng, were riding their motorcycle on the motorway. Police concocted a story, saying both husband and wife were suspected to have posted about 200 banners exposing the persecution along the highway. To catch them, police blocked the road. As a result, Wang Xinping and his wife were knocked off the motorcycle while they were driving. Police stepped on them with their boots. Lin Shusheng had injuries on her face and chest. Wang Xinping was severely injured, sustaining a fractured pelvis. Even faced with these injuries, the police did not take them to a hospital. Instead, they took them back to the police department for more questioning.
  • My Experience Being Tortured in Miyun Prison, Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp and the Jilin Public Security Hospital (Photos)

    On October 25, 1999, I was abducted for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa and tell the government the truth about Falun Dafa. I was taken to Miyun Prison in Beijing City. Police held me down to the ground and put their hand-made handcuffs and shackles on me, weighing forty pounds. The handcuffs and shackles deeply cut into my flesh; my feet were badly mangled. Even so, they did not remove the handcuffs and shackles for six days. Later I was detained in Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp where I was brutally shocked with electric batons for three hours. In the evenings, my body and face ached as if they were burning.
  • Grumbles from China Central Television Employees

    "...What's the disagreement? The regime is fighting with the public. Furthermore, Falun Gong practitioners are all good people, and it's very hard to find them doing anything bad. You're forcing us to a fake program to denigrate Falun Gong, to frame Falun Gong by claiming they kill people? How can we do that kind of thing? We have no choice but to scrape it together! What is being broadcast are all fake films anyway. This will be just another failed political movement at the whim of Party elite. Those who suffer will all be common people!"
  • Suspicious Death of High School Teacher Mr Xiao Guobin from Jilin Province

    Mr. Xiao Guobin, 31, was a chemistry teacher. Because he was resolute in practising Falun Dafa, he was subjected to detention and torture. On May 26, 2004, Xiao Guobin was arrested on the street by police. The police then took Xiao back to his home to watch them ransack it. During the search, Xiao "fell" out of a window in his home located on the sixth floor. The details of his fall are yet to be investigated. Xiao passed away despite an emergency rescue. The police guarded the hospital and did not allow other people to come see him. Later someone overheard police chatting with each other, "If Xiao's family members were resolved to find out the reason of his death, we would have to pay lots of money to them."
  • Products Packaged with Slave Labour at the Beijing Dispatch Centre (Photos)

    All detainees held in the Beijing Dispatch Centre there are forced to engage in various kinds of slave labour, such as packaging chopsticks, folding booklets and papers, folding flyers advertising brand-name mobile phones, packaging sample packs of "Hua'anshi" Feminine Wash, and various other items. They work from six o'clock in the morning until very late night. Here we are focusing only on the slave-labour packaging of the "Hua'anshi" Feminine Wash.