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

• Practitioner Li Ziran Suffers Torture in Wanglin Prison in You County, Hunan Province

  2009-07-25
  Since July 20th, 1999, when the persecution of Falun Gong began, Li Ziran has been arrested six times by the 610 Office, the National Security Bureau, and the Public Security Bureau. On four separate occasions, he suffered such torture and mistreatment in detention that his life was in danger. He has also been placed under house arrest. In Wanglin Prison, his health continued to deteriorate and he became very weak in 2007. The guards still forced him to do intensive labour such as stringing light bulbs and sweeping the floor. Li Ziran went on a hunger strike for four days. A guard kicked Mr. Li to the floor and ordered three or four inmates to brutally force-feed him. Using a hard plastic tube, they forcefully pried open his mouth and force-fed him.
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• The Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioner Liang Keming

  2009-07-25
  Since Jiang Zemin's, [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] regime started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, Liang Keming has been arrested and detained by the police many times. In February 2001, the police broke into his home and detained him in the Loudi City Detention Centre. Later he was sentenced to seven years in prison and finally released in February 2008. However, Mr. Liang is again subjected to persecution by police and was arrested again on June 25th, 2009. Now he is detained in the First Detention Centre of Loudi City.
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• Hou Jingtao from Mudanjiang Tortured to Mental Collapse in 2001

  2009-07-25
  Hou Jingtao, a Falun Gong practitioner from Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province, was sent to Jixi Forced Labour Camp and tortured to the point of mental collapse. He was forced to go through brainwashing sessions and sit on a narrow bench for eight hours each day, with only a few minutes allowed for toilet necessities. In a so-called "physical examination," Hou Jingtao was secretly injected with nerve-damaging drugs. Soon after that, he started to appear to be mentally disordered.
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• I Was Tortured in Shibalihe Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2009-07-24
  In order to resist the detention, in December 2001, many practitioners held hunger strikes. The guards ordered prisoners to "force-feed" practitioners. Some forced open practitioners' mouths with spoons and some of them pinched practitioners' noses so that they had to open their mouths. Several people pushed me down on the ground, some of them pinched my nose, and others pinched my cheeks, held down my arms and legs, and used spoons to force open my mouth to force feed me. They did not care if I swallowed the food, they just kept going through the motions, dumping one spoon after another into my mouth. Sometimes I was not able to breathe.
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• The Stolen Life of Ms. Qie Lili, an Elementary School Teacher from Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province

  2009-07-24
  Over the past 10 years Lili has been cruelly persecuted. She was forced into homelessness for three years in total and suffered great economic losses since the extortion money that she paid to authorities amounted to nearly 20,000 yuan. She has been detained seven times--four and a half years in all--and cruelly tortured. Her elderly father died as a result of police harassment and intimidation, and her mother was imprisoned for eight months because of her efforts to seek justice for her daughter. Lili is still being held in the First Detention Centre of Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province.
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• Four People in One Family Arrested, Young Child Left Homeless

  2009-07-24
  More than ten police officers from the Hengshan District in Jixi City rushed into the home of senior citizen Mr. Xiang Hongfu on May 14th, 2009, at 4:00 a.m. Mr. Xiang is a Falun Gong practitioner who lives with his wife in the Dahengshan residential area. The police ransacked his home, making a mess, and arrested him; his wife, Yu Shuqin; son, Xiang Bin; and daughter-in-law, Huang Yingjie. The police also confiscated a number of family possessions. The four adults are being held at the Jixi Detention Centre. Mr. Xiang's young grandson, with no one at home to take care of him, became homeless.
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• Pan Feng Arrested and His Wife Close to Giving Birth

  2009-07-24
  On June 28th, 2009, Mr. Pan Feng was spotted while he was distributing Falun Gong DVDs in the student dormitory of Lideyuan in Binwen Higher Education Park, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. The Puyan Police Station dispatched two vehicles and seven or eight policemen to arrest Mr. Pan. The police forced him to take off his shoes and confiscated his credit card, MP3 player, Falun Gong books, and other items. Mr. Pan was detained in the Puyan Police Station. Pan Feng has been transferred the Hangzhou Detention Centre. His wife is close to giving birth.
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• Torture at Mudanjiang Prison Has Caused Over Ten Deaths and Numerous Disabilities

  2009-07-23
  Mudanjiang Prison in Heilongjiang Province has 22 wards, and imprisons over 100 practitioners. Aside from forcing the practitioners to work overtime at hard labour, the prison openly tortures practitioners in order to improve the "transformation" rate. They subject practitioners to a variety of torture methods, including electrical baton shocks, beatings, force-feeding, hanging, tying, freezing, stabbing with awls, solitary confinement, and coercing other inmates to beat them. Many practitioners have been disabled or killed by the torture. The number known to have been killed is over ten.
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• Partial Account of the Persecution of Mr. Lu Zhen Before His Death

  2009-07-23
  Practitioner Mr. Lu Zhen died due to persecution in the First Prison of Shandong Province on June 22nd, 2009. His family was told that he died from a heart attack. His body is stored at the Shandong University Medical School Hospital. It was reported that his neck and hips were covered with bruises. Mr. Lu had excellent health, and no one in his family had any history of heart disease. Not long ago, the 610 Office in Linyi, Mengyin spread the rumour that he was insane. His family was not notified of anything until the day they were told that he had died. Mr. Lu had been seriously persecuted in Shandong Prison. The possibility that he might have died as a result of electric baton shocks or psychiatric drug injections cannot be ruled out.
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• Kind hearted Physician Tortured with Drugs at Dashan Detention Centre in Qingdao City

  2009-07-23
  Ms. Wu Xin was repeatedly deprived of her right to visit her imprisoned mother at the Dashan Detention Centre in Qingdao City. Only recently was she granted permission to meet with her. When she first saw her mother, she could hardly believe her eyes, "Is this old, haggard, and skinny lady my once-beautiful mother whom I've longed to see?!" Ms. Wu Xiuxin, a physician, was arrested because she practised Falun Gong. After a short while at the detention centre, she was reduced to skin and bones, and it was hard to recognize her. This was due in part to the guards injecting her with and force-feeding her toxic drugs. Often times the drugs were mixed directly into the practitioner's food. In addition, she was regularly tortured both physically and mentally.
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• Practitioner Ms. Liu Hongmei from Heilongjiang Province Repeatedly Arrested and Brainwashed

  2009-07-23
  On December 8th, 2000 Ms. Liu Hongmei, 42, went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She was arrested and detained and hung up with her hands cuffed to the wall. Ms. Liu was sentenced to a one-year term at the Wanjia Forced Labour Camp where she was forced to work, sit straight on a small bench for long periods of time and read articles and watch videos slandering Falun Gong. Because she remained steadfast in her belief in Falun Gong she was isolated and mistreated in a dark and humid cell for long periods of time. As a result she developed scabies all over her body and became unable to look after herself. Being afraid that she might die, the labour camp released her. Officials at her workplace confiscated over 6,000 yuan from her husband's salary.
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• Elderly Practitioners Tortured at Henan Province Women's Prison

  2009-07-22
  There are approximately 200 Falun Gong practitioners detained at Henan Province Women's Prison (also known as the Xinxiang Women's Prison). In 2005, it was recognized as a "model" ministerial-level prison because of the way the guards there viciously tortured practitioners. The majority of the practitioners are elderly women, the oldest being over 70 years old. The guards force them to string pearls together, the smallest pearl being the size of a grain of rice and the largest one being the size of a soybean. Because the holes in the pearls are so tiny, the women have to wear high-powered reading glasses when stringing them together. After bending over a work table for long periods of time, many practitioners could not endure it and started to experience symptoms of high blood pressure, with some even becoming bedridden.
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• Persecution Account of Mr. Bai Erhong and His Wife in Pingshan County, Hebei Province

  2009-07-22
  Mr. Bai Erhong and his wife Ms. Luo Shengqiao were persecuted by the authorities in 2005 and 2008 for steadfastly practising Falun Gong. Mr. Bai and his wife went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. They were arrested on separate occasions and were detained in the Pingshan Police Station. Once, when the police forced Ms. Luo to stand for a long period of time, Ms. Luo said, "Since you don't let me sit, I'll just practise the exercises." The police then violently hit her arms and hands with a broom and ordered her to sit down. They also took away some cash Ms. Luo had with her at the time. They did not let her eat anything while she was detained in a detention centre for two days. The couple had to pay 700 yuan before they were released.
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• Ten Years of Persecution Carried Out by the Hunan Province Post Office Administration

  2009-07-22
  In 2000 at the Hengyang Post Office, CCP Deputy Secretary Zhou Kun assembled employees for a meeting. Zhou said, "This is the third investigation of Falun Gong. If that retired worker was fined 3,000 yuan last time, this time fine him 5,000 yuan again. Let's destroy them financially, let him have no money for food, and see if he still appeals. Retired people who practise Falun Gong must report to the Office of Retirement Administration and not be allowed to leave Hengyang."
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• Crimes Committed by the 610 Office of Guan County, Shandong Province in June 2009

  2009-07-22
  On June 12th, Li Ruyao, who was in her ninth month of pregnancy, was descended upon by more than twenty people from Guancheng Township government. They forcibly dragged her to the Maternal and Paediatric Health Centre for a forced abortion. Six men held her down on a bed and injected the medicine for induction. Li Ruyao attempted with all her might to break loose but to no avail. One hour later, both mother and the unborn infant were killed. More than a dozen of reporters from different TV stations and newspapers went to report on the tragic scene. Police officers were ordered to arrest anyone who dared any attempt to speak to reporters.
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