Exposing the Persecution

Torture | Kidnapping | Brainwashing | Illegal Detention and Imprisonment | Extortion | Persecution Throughout Society | Inside the Labour Camps | Individual Accounts | 6-10 Office | Death Cases | Organ Harvesting

  • Persecution at Xinxiang Women's Prison in Henan Province

    Warden Zhang Peibin was transferred from another prison to Xinxiang Women's Prison in 2007. He intensified the persecution, enforced hard labour, and placed firm practitioners in solitary confinement. Solitary was a very small room with only a concrete bed to sit on during the day. In the winter, the cold wind blew in, and some began to hallucinate. The guards only gave them a small bun for meals. The guards persecuted numerous practitioners this way. The guards also instigated other inmates to monitor and physically abuse practitioners. A 50-year-old female practitioner was beaten (her face was slapped and hair was pulled) by an inmate.
  • Information about the Ongoing Persecution of Practitioners Ms. Liao Wuxiang and Ms. Zeng Yunfeng

    In the autumn of 2004, Ms. Liao Wuxiang went to Zhongjiang County to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. She was arrested. Ms. Liao went on a hunger strike to protest, and she was force-fed with powdered milk, salt mixed with with ground Chinese prickly ash, chilli powder, and ground pepper. Then it was mixed with water. Ms. Liao was detained for three months, and she was force-fed for 28 days during that time. After March, she was transferred to Guanghan Detention Centre and detained there for 8 months. Finally she was sentenced to three years of imprisonment and sent to Sichuan Women's Prison in Yangmahe, Jianyang, Sichuan Province to be persecuted.
  • Account of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Long-Term Persecution of a Carpenter and His Wife

    Mr. Liu Naichuan was a carpenter from Yinan County, Shandong Province. He and his wife Ms. Liu Tianying were persecuted repeatedly for believing in Falun Gong. Mr. Liu Naichuan died in 2008 from injuries sustained due to torture at the age of 48. After being tortured for three days in one detention centre, Ms. Liu Tianying was transferred back to another detention centre. During her detention, her face was deformed from the torture, and she was in a coma for a period of time.
  • Five Practitioners from Hongshi Forestry Bureau in Huadian in Jilin Province Arrested

    Five practitioners spoke with people about Falun Gong on January 11th, 2010, in Doudaogou, Erdaodianzi. Someone reported them to the police and they were arrested. The police ransacked the homes of the five practitioners that same afternoon. They did not go through any legal procedures or present search warrants, and confiscated Falun Gong books, Falun Gong materials, three computers, a printer, some cash, bankbooks, and other items.
  • Imprisoned Five Times, Ten Hard Years

    Ms. Qu Xinlian has been detained five times in the past 10 years, including two years of forced labour, simply for her belief and wanting to be a better person. The police often went to her home to harass her child and husband and both were even detained. There are eight in her family and their average income is about 200 yuan per month. Despite their meagre income, regime officials have extorted more than 7,000 yuan from them.
  • The Persecution of Ms. Sun Rui, a Teacher from Yilan County, Heilongjiang Province

    Ms. Sun Rui is a teacher from Dalianhe Town, Yilan County, Heilongjiang Province. Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, she has been detained four times and held in forced labour camps for two years. She has been extorted out of eight thousand yuan while in custody. In addition her workplace didn't pay the salary owed to her, amounting to four thousand yuan, and they also demoted her pay by two levels, resulting in a loss of over ten thousand yuan. Her total economic loss reached thirty thousand yuan.
  • Practitioner from Hebei Province Persecuted --Over 50,000 Yuan Extorted from Her Family

    During the past ten years, Ms. Yang Zenghua, 54, has suffered from frequent harassment, arrests, home invasions, and thefts. She was held in the Fuping Detention Centre and imprisoned in Baoding Forced Labour Camp for eighteen months. She has had 55,500 yuan in cash extorted from her family and had personal belongings worth 600 yuan taken from her, for a total of 56,100 yuan.
  • Police in Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province Arrest and Extort Money from Practitioners

    Li Fu, former commander of the Mudanjiang City Domestic Security Division said to someone in private, "I am going to retire soon. Before I retire, I can't treat these brothers (police) badly. We have to find all possible ways to collect money. Falun Gong practitioners and their relatives are our source of money." In early December 2009, officers from the Mudanjiang City Domestic Security Division arrested Mr. Wei Jingkun and confiscated two computers and other personal property. Policemen threatened him with forced labour, and then forced his relatives to pay 5,000 yuan.
  • Ms. Zhang Liqin Sentenced to Seven and a Half Years in Prison, Brutally Abused and Tortured

    Ms. Zhang Liqin went to Shangzhuang Township in Qianan City on the evening of May 22nd, 2008, to distribute Falun Gong materials in three villages. Someone reported her to the police, and she was arrested and tortured for three days. Electric batons were used to shock her, leaving her with blisters all over her body. She was held at the Qianan City Detention Centre for eighteen months before being sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on December 3rd, 2009.
  • Mr. Yu Zhongzhu Dies in Tailai Prison, Heilongjiang Province

    On January 14th, 2010, Mr. Yu Zhongzhu's family received a call from Tailai Prison, asking them to go to the prison hospital because Mr. Yu was in critical condition. When his family rushed there, all were body-searched by the guards and not allowed to bring any communication devices or cameras. Mr. Yu died at 10 p.m. the same day, and his body was cremated without permission two days after, on January 16th, without autopsy.
  • Summary Report: the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Hu County, Xi'an City

    We first learned about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in Hu County, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province at the beginning of August 2002 and began to investigate. Arrested practitioners were sent to a secret place in a ravine where they were beaten mercilessly and interrogated under torture. They were also hung up and whipped and they were kicked, slapped on their faces, and pounded on their necks with blunt instruments. Others were put in handcuffs and foot shackles, and forced to squat for a long time. Some were subjected to the "Tiger bench" torture method, others were deprived of sleep for several days and nights continuously, and some were not allowed to eat or drink, or to use the toilet.
  • 60-Year-Old Mr. Chen Ming Sent to Forced Labour Camps Four Times and Cannot Go Home

    Mr. Chen Ming used to be a famous businessman and had a nice family. After he began to practise Falun Gong, he became less attached to money and property and was glad to help people. Every year around New Year's Day he delivered food to the needy, which was reported on by the city TV station and newspapers. In the past ten years of the persecution of Falun Gong, he was arrested by the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) five times. The overall length of his detention has been about seven and a half years. He is still forced to stay away from home.
  • Ms. Xu Cuiyun and Ms. Shao Shumin from Tangshan City, Hebei Province, Persecuted

    On the night of January 9th, 2010, officers from the Linxi Police Station in Lixi Town, Yutian County, Tangshan City, Hebei Province, arrested Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Xu Cuiyun and Ms. Shao Shumin. The officers confined the women in an iron cage and sprayed a kind of corrosive powder into their faces and noses. The practitioners' homes were also ransacked. The police took away their personal property. Currently, the two women have been held in the Yutian Detention Centre for 15 days.
  • Xichang City National Security Team Blocks Attorney from Meeting Ms. Cheng Donglan, Cites "State Secrets" as Excuse

    Ms. Cheng Donglan was arrested on October 2nd, 2009, for practising Falun Gong; subsequently, her family hired an attorney. However, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture Judicial Bureau staff and Xichang City National Security Team blocked the attorney from meeting Ms. Cheng Donglan, citing "state secrets" as an excuse. The attorney explained to the National Security Team deputy director, Tai Gangyi, that a classified case in criminal law referred to a case involving state secrets. Ms. Cheng Donglan's case was open, so it didn't involve state secrets. Tai Gangyi then diverted the request, saying that the attorney needed local Judicial Bureau approval.
  • Lanzhou City Chengguan District Court Upholds Verdict against Four Practitioners

    The Chengguan District Court in Lanzhou City upheld its verdict against four Falun Gong practitioners, and handed down the verdict only after the appeal deadline had passed. The practitioners were arrested in August 2008 The Chengguan District Court began trial on December 29th, 2008. On May 6th, 2009, the court sentenced Mr. Fang to nine years of imprisonment, Ms. Cui and Ms. Zhao to eight years, and Ms. Xue to three years with an additional parole term of five years. Now, Mr. Fang is imprisoned at the Lanzhou Prison. Ms. Cui and Ms. Zhou are imprisoned at the Gansu Province Women's Prison.