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25 Torture Methods Jiang Zemin's Criminal Regime Uses to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners
2004-09-11
Hung up: There are two forms in this torture: (1) Normal Hanging Up: One is hung by a rope that is tied to the ceiling, with both feet off the ground. Those who have suffered from this kind of torture will feel numbness in their arms for several years. If tortured to a more severe extent, both arms will become crippled. (2) Being Hung up with Hands behind the Back: With both hands twisted behind the back and feet off the ground, one is hung with a rope. The pain is intense, and when used for prolonged periods of time, this torture may cause death. -
Ministry of Public Security Plots Large-scale Secret Arrests of Practitioners
2004-09-11It has been learned that since July 20, the Ministry of Public Security has been plotting a new plan to mass-arrest Falun Gong practitioners nationwide. The arrests, however, are intended to be done in secret without publicizing the events as usual. In Anshan City, Liaoning Province, local authorities have been following practitioners, and have conducted secret arrests of anyone who practises Falun Gong. So far, over thirty practitioners have been arrested. -
Shanxi Prison Claim Mr Liu Zhibin Dies from "Heart Attack" Yet Family Witness Torture Wounds On Body
2004-09-10Mr. Liu Zhibin, 50 years old, was a small business owner in Shanxi Province. He had been detained many times for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. In July 2002 he was sentenced to four years in prison and died in Shanxi Provincial Prison on July 20, 2004. His family was notified that he had died of a heart attack. But when his family saw his body, they found it covered with wounds. Handcuff marks were clearly visible on his wrists, as were many scars from electric batons and wounds from cruel beatings. In the end, prison officials tried to pay his family off with a sum of money. -
Police in Henan Province Abort a 9-Month Foetus
2004-09-10Falun Dafa practitioner Song Zhenling from Henan Province and his wife Wang Guijin are both in their 30's. They have both been detained and tortured badly. When Ms Wang was pregnant, police inhumanely pressed down on her belly, forcing her 9 month old foetus to abort and killing the baby in the process. Ms. Wang was put under 24 hour a day monitoring by 4 policemen. -
A Letter of Appeal for Zhou Mofang from His Wife
2004-09-10"My name is Mei Bilin; I am a teacher at the Forestry Technical College in Yunnan Province (formerly the Yunnan Forestry School). My husband Zhou Mofang is a Falun Dafa practitioner. On October 30 2002, he was abducted by plainclothes police officers from Guandu District. Later he was secretly sentenced to five years in jail, and he is now detained at the Yunnan Province No. 1 Prison." -
"I Didn't Know That the Propaganda on TV Was Meant To Deceive Us!"
2004-09-10I live in the rural area near Handan City, Hebei Province. I went to Shijiazhuang City earlier this year to do business. There was a woman next to me who was a Falun Gong practitioner. She was very kind and very helpful to others. I could not link her to the image portrayed in the TV propaganda of "killing," "suicide," "self-immolation" etc. -
Dafa Practitioner Mr Fu Jishun Dies After Police Raid on Home in Shanxi Province
2004-09-09Mr Fu Jishun, aged 63, was a retired employee of the Lingqiu County engineering team in Datong City. In 2000, he went to appeal for Falun Gong in Beijing, was arrested and sentenced to labour reeducation and held in a detention centre. When he was released he was repeatedly harrased and intimidated by police and his home was looted, because he continued to speak out for Falun Dafa. On April 24, 2004, police went to his home. He was found unconscious the next day and passed away on April 25. . -
Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp Deprives Falun Gong Practitioners of Their Basic Human Rights (Photo)
2004-09-09The labour camp has a rule stating, "Each team has to go to the toilet together at night." If someone felt unwell and could not get up to accompany the group, the rest would not be allowed to go to the toilet either. Once at night, several practitioners had a fever caused by the persecution and could not get up. Even so, guard Zhang Xiaodan refused to let us use the toilet. The practitioner who needed to go to the toilet had to stand outside the toilet and wait. The ninth team guard made a rule for people to get up at 4:00 a.m. to go to the toilet together. -
Practitioner Cheng Fengxiang Suffers the Torture of "Hammering Bamboo Sticks under the Fingernails"
2004-09-09Because of his involvement in tapping into a local cable TV station to broadcast a Dafa truth-clarifying video practitioner Cheng Fengxiang was arrested on January 28, 2004. The officials used torture on the practitioner during the interrogation. To find out the location of the specific electronic device, the head of the criminal police squadron tortured Cheng Fengxiang with "Hammering Bamboo Sticks under the Fingernails", which shocked even many police officers who witnessed the process. -
The Appeal Letter of Ms. Wei Jianyu, a Lecturer at Fujian Institute of Technology
2004-09-09"I have never broken any laws, but because I have been practising Falun Gong and persisting in my belief in the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," I was detained illegally, my home was ransacked, and I was sentenced to prison and tortured. I have been living in a nightmare without having done anything wrong. Now I am filing a complaint about the persecution to the related departments. I appeal to your conscience and ask for an investigation so that a judgment in justice can be made." -
Jiang Zemin and His Followers in the Education System Persecute Falun Gong Resulting in Expulsion and Death of China's Best and Brightest (Photos)
2004-09-08According to the Clearwisdom website, at least 1014 practitioners have been killed as a result of the persecution as of July 23, 2004. Under the educational system led by Chen Zhili, one of Jiang's top political followers, a total of 72 teaching personnel and students have been persecuted to death, the youngest being 17 year old Ms. Chen Ying, who was in 10th grade at Kiamusu City Shuren High School, and the eldest is 68 year old Harbin City Business Administration School professor Zhou Jingsen. -
Inner Mongolia Dafa Practitioner Mr. Liu Zichen Has Been Sent to Labour Camps Three Times
2004-09-08Falun Dafa practitioner Liu Zichen from Wudongfang, Huolinguole City in Inner Mongolia is 38 years old. He has experienced frequent illegal imprisonment and persecution during the course of the past several years. We do not know if he is alive or dead or what his current condition is. The following are all the details about Liu Zhichen we were able to gather now. -
How Fifty-Three Year Old Ms. Zhang Xiuxian Was Tortured to Death
2004-09-08Ms. Zhang Xiuxian, 53, was a Falun Gong practitioner from Hebei Province. Between 1999 when the persecution of Falun Gong began and her death on June 3, 2002, she suffered relentless torture and various forms of persecution. Although her illnesses had been healed through the practice of Falun Gong, the mental and physical torture and anguish she suffered ravaged her body. Her body swelled up and she passed away. -
Examples of Torture in Jinzhou Prison: Shock with Electronic Batons and "Stool Holding"
2004-09-08Jinzhou Prison's 4th And 8th Divisions sent several Falun Dafa practitioners to special confinement rooms to be tortured. Prison guards used two electronic batons to shock practitioners' heads and bodies until the batons ran out of electricity. These practitioners were covered with burn marks left by the batons. After the shock torture, the guards forced the same practitioners to "hold stools." Some practitioners were forced to hold the stool for as long as 11 days! -
Wuhan Dafa Practitioner Ms. Yang Qinghua Was Persecuted to Death
2004-09-07Wuhan Dafa practitioner Ms. Yang Qinghua was aged 40. In 2000 she was sentenced to forced labour reeducation because she practised Falun Gong. She was locked in a single room for six months. When her family was notified to come take her away, she was in hospital. Ms. Yang couldn't move her arms or legs, was unable to speak intelligibly, and had lost the ability to care for herself. She looked like an old woman well over 60. She passed away at home on August 25, 2004.
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