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Dafa Practitioner Dies as a Result of Brutal Torture at the Heizuizi Female Labour Camp
2003-08-25n March 2002, enforcers from Jilin City "610 Office" and Chuanying District Police Department arrested her. She was illegally sentenced to three years of forced labour and was sent to No. 4 Division in the Heizuizi Female Labour Camp in Changchun City. The guards at the labour camp brutally tortured her because she persisted in Dafa practice. Once they allowed her only 22 hours of sleep in 33 days. When she was extremely weak, had difficulty eating and could not take care of herself, the guards were afraid that she might die at the labour camp, so they sent her home on April 18, 2003 on medical parole. -
Public Announcement from Qinghai Province Evidence Collection Group to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong
2003-08-25Dafa practitioner Ms. Tan Yingchun was abducted and sent to Qinghai Province's Female Labour Camp. The guards often slapped her face, shocked her with electric batons and in the winter forced her to take cold-water showers. Because she persisted in her belief in Truth, Compassion, Tolerance, the guards brutally beat her until she was bruised all over. She died from torture on December 29, 2002. Several days before she died, a practitioner saw horrific scars on her thighs. A practitioner revealed that a guard at the labour camp almost choked her to death by tying a rope around her neck and pulling it backwards. -
Chinese Police Threaten Australian Citizen: "We'll Make You Disappear"
2003-08-25I requested to see an Australian embassy officer. They rejected my request and said, "What do you want to see embassy officers for? Do you intend to stir up conflict between the two countries? We will make you pay if you do not behave." They confined me there for seven hours and kept threatening me. "We have seen many cases like you. You must have been away from China for too long and not too familiar with the situation here. Listen, there are thousands of people with the same name as yours in China. It means nothing if one of you disappeared. -
Harsh Situation of Falun Dafa Practitioners at Shijiazhuang Labour Camp
2003-08-25Bai Yuzhi was arrested in August 2002. Since then, she has held a hunger strike in protest. On April 10, 2003 she began to vomit blood. She was force-fed daily, and her nasal cartilage became distorted as a result. She almost went blind. She could barely walk and she was carried on the backs of those who force-fed her. The No. 2 Labour Camp reported her as being "critically ill," but the "610 Office" would not allow her to return home. -
Additional Information about How Dafa Practitioner Ms. Deng Shiying Was Tortured to Death
2003-08-24Her family rushed to Changchun City's No. 1 Hospital, only to find that Shiying was already unconscious and close to death. To shirk responsibility, the jail authority sent out several policemen led by Chief Wu and the Politics Section Chief Li, who mixed threats with promises inn order to deceive Shiying's family members. They returned the 500 Yuan that they extorted on July 17 to the family. They also reimbursed the 96 Yuan travel expenses between Jilin and Changchun that the two family members spent coming to take Shiying home, in a hypocritical attempt to prevent exposure that Shiying's suffered from brutal torture. -
Dafa Practitioner Ms. Liu Chengyan In Critical Condition from Torture at the Second Detention Centre of Fushun City
2003-08-24The guards commanded criminals to beat her brutally, which caused Ms Liu to go into shock. On July 14, 2003, when Ms Liu was taken to Fushun Central Hospital for emergency treatment, she was still wearing foot-shackles and handcuffs. The detention centre then tried to extort money from her family members. Since her family did not have any money, the detention centre decided not to let her receive any treatment. Instead, they took her back to the detention centre on July 21. Now, Ms Liu is in critical condition and her life is in grave danger. -
Jiang's Fabrications Are Collapsing as the Chinese People Gradually Awaken to the Truth of the Persecution
2003-08-24During the course of explaining the facts about the persecution, I was pleasantly surprised to discover enormous changes within people's hearts since the year 2001. Back then, many people were misled by the deceitful lies designed to frame Falun Gong, particularly the so-called "Tiananmen Self-Immolation" incident. Whenever I brought up the true situation of Falun Gong, people refused to listen at first. Today, the situation has been reversed. -
Remembering Fellow Practitioner Wang Zhiming
2003-08-23According to sources, the police in Shanxi Province were afraid of taking responsibility for the death of Mr. Wang, so they notified his family members to come take him home. When Wang Zhiming's elder brother and his co-workers went to Shanxi, they found that Mr. Wang was already in a precarious condition as a result of torture and abuse. He was too weak to hold up his head when his brother carried him. It was too late to save his life. -
Examples of Inhumanity Toward Falun Dafa Practitioners in Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province
2003-08-23He Naifeng put Dafa practitioners in chains, poured cold water on them, and shocked them with electric batons. Sometimes he used more than one electric baton, and then beat them with hard rubber sticks. When he finished with them, they were swollen all over, covered with purple and blue wounds, and their skin and flesh were torn open. He pried open their mouths with bamboo sticks, inserted a very thick tube into their mouth, and then used a funnel to pour food into their mouth. He has personally beaten every practitioner who has been detained in the county detention centre. He would beat them first and then interrogate them. -
Accounts of Persecution against Falun Gong Practitioners by the "610 Office" and the Political Security Office in Hebei Province
2003-08-23Officials at the "610 Office" of Zhengding County directed the Zhengding County Police Department's Political Security Office as well as local police stations to commit appalling crimes against practitioners, one after another. For example, practitioner Zhao Fengnian was beaten to death and his body was dumped, while other practitioners were detained, beaten, sent to labour camps, or sentenced to jail terms. Whoever practices Falun Gong is sent to the county's Party School and forcibly brainwashed, while those practitioners who are steadfast in their beliefs are detained. -
Police Station in Sichuan Province Persecutes Dafa Practitioner Qing Mingzhen and Harasses Her Family
2003-08-23Police sent Qing Mingzhen's brother sent her to the "Wuhou Legal System Learning Class," which is actually a brainwashing centre. Qing Mingzhen did not cooperate with any instructions from the police, so police captain Liu slapped her face heavily 18 times in front of the family, causing her dizziness and profuse bleeding from her nose. Police then handcuffed her hands behind her back to a tree. With righteous thoughts, Qing Mingzhen left the brainwashing centre, and now has become destitute and homeless. -
A Young Falun Gong Practitioner Nobly Resists Persecution during Unlawful Imprisonment
2003-08-22In the detention centre, the fellow practitioners there looked after me carefully. No matter how vicious the persecution was in the jail, I insisted on practising the Falun Gong exercises, and I got out of jail several months later. During my time there, many fellow practitioners were taken out for interrogations that lasted days. Later I was told that the authorities tried to extort "confessions" by torturing them in a hotel room day and night. The practitioners suffered from severe physical abuse and mental humiliation. -
Dafa Practitioners Unlawfully Detained and Families Torn Apart in Gansu Province
2003-08-22Ms. Sang Xiaochun, is 33 years old. Because she travelled to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, she was detained over two months. On July 19, 2002, she was arrested again. She remains detained. Her 8-year-old child is being cared for by her mother-in-law who is in her 60's (the child's grandmother. Her husband is also in unlawful detention for practising Falun Gong. So a family is torn apart because they adhere to the principles of Truthfulness -Compassion - Tolerance. -
Police in Wangcun Labour Camp, Shandong Province Torture Dafa Practitioner Ms. Sui Hongju
2003-08-22The police in Wangcun Labour Camp carry out force-feeding on Dafa practitioners who go on hunger strikes to resist the persecution. At the same time, they shamelessly charge them a 70 Yuan "force-feeding fee." One practitioner has already been on a hunger strike for several months. The labour camp has extorted more than 2000 Yuan in force-feeding charges from her. -
"610 Office" Builds a New Brainwashing Centre in Pengzhou City To Persecute Dafa Practitioners
2003-08-22On May 26, Ms. Zhang Qinfang, a Dafa practitioner from the town of Li'an, had just finished an unjust and illegal term in a labour camp. Instead of being released, she was sent directly to the new brainwashing centre. This is making a mockery of the penal system! Ms. Zhang went on a hunger strike to oppose this cruelty. Director Luo Jianqiang took Zhang Qinfang out to force-feed her.