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

  • The Persecution and Untimely Death of Older Mr. Wang Hongrong in Hefei City, Anhui Province

    59-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Hongrong was sentenced to jail for eight years in 2005 by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was tortured by prison guards in Suzhou Prison and became paralysed. The police released him when he was in critical condition and the hospital diagnosed him with bone cancer. Two months later, on June 22nd, 2007, he passed away at home.
  • Mr. Pan Yujun Once Again Suffering from Cruel Torture

    On May 20th, 2009, six practitioners, including Mr. Pan Yujun were sentenced and sent to Jinan Prison. Since Mr. Pan Yujun was arrested again, he has been cruelly tortured. He weighs barely over 100 pounds, is extremely weak and unable to stand up, is incontinent, has no energy to talk aloud, and lives every day in a great amount of pain. He has been on a hunger strike for more than seven months. The guards conduct force-feeding on him once a week which causes him to almost pass out each time. The detention centre and the court are withholding information about his condition from his family
  • Unimaginable Cruelty at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

    Mr. Luo Chungui, a 55-year-old practitioner, shouted, "Falun Gong is good" while he was being tortured in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. The guards used electric batons on his mouth. Within half an hour his mouth was swollen and all his teeth were loosened. That was not enough. The guards continued to shock his face and neck for over two hours. Mr. Luo still refused to be "reformed." The guards then forced him to stand with both hands handcuffed to the metal headboard of an upper bunk bed for three days. He could only rely on infusion because he could not eat anything. Three days later he could barely manage to consume porridge. His mouth was swollen for a month. Even now the colour of his face, mouth and neck is still black.
  • Ms. Guo Juxiang from Shandong Province Died from Long Term Torture

    Ms. Guo Juxiang was reported for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong and police arrested her in September 2001. Zhang Shaobo and some other policemen kicked her in the lower back to the point where she could no longer stand up. A team leader at the detention centre shocked her with four or five electric batons until she lost consciousness. She was arrested again in 2001 and taken to Wangcun Forced Labour Camp. Three months later, the forced labour camp instructed her family to pay a fee and take her back home. Ms. Guo could no longer take care of herself because of the ordeals that she'd gone through. Ms. Guo passed away on January 26th, 2009.
  • Elderly Mr. Huang Huaxian Dies after Suffering Police Abuse; Family Harassed

    After the persecution started in 1999, 70-year-old Huang Huaxian told people about the beauty of Falun Gong and about the lies and propaganda spread by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to justify the persecution. The CCP never stopped harassing him. They ransacked his home many times, extorted money from him, threatened him, arrested him and sent him to a brainwashing centre and to a detention house on two occasions. On June 22nd, 2008, police deceitfully got Mr. Huang to go to a CCP village meeting to "Expose and Criticize Huang Huaxian". At the meeting, Mr. Huang was publicly criticized, humiliated and verbally attacked. He felt severe anguish, and his blood pressure sky rocketed. Three days later Mr. Huang passed away.
  • Mr. Du's Two Sons-in-law Died of Persecution, One Daughter Imprisoned

    On May 23rd, 2009, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Ming died at Daqing Prison. Mr. Li's father-in-law is Du Yude. Du Yude's other son-in-law, Mr. Yu Huaicai died from persecution at Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp in 2007. Mr. Du's daughter Du Xiuzhi, Li Ming's wife, is currently incarcerated at Harbin Women's Prison. Mr. Yu Huaicai went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp. As a result, he was brutally force-fed by the guards. He had been a healthy man, 1.91 metres tall and weighed over 261 lbs. At the time of his death, he only weighted about 100 lbs.
  • Sisters Ms. Zhang Hongying, Ms. Zhang Jiashuang and Ms. Lu Tao Persecuted in Miyi County, Sichuan Province

    From November 2nd, 2006 to May 2009, Ms. Lu Tao, Ms. Zhang Hongying and her sister, Ms. Zhang Jiashuang, have been detained for 2 years and 7 months, including 10 months in the Miyi County Detention Centre for practising Falun Gong. At present, they are detained in the Chengdu City Women's Prison. When they were arrested in 2006 the three practitioners were tied up together and hung up from the window bars with their feet in the air for three days. During that time, the police pulled their hair and slammed their heads against the wall. They contnued to suffer brutal torture in detention.
  • Four Falun Gong Practitioners from Hubei and Jilin Provinces Died as a Result of the Persecution

    In March 2000, Mr. Dai Kewu was detained and sentenced to one year of forced labour; and again sentenced to two years of forced labour in 2002. He suffered from torture by police officers and prisoners at the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp. His whole body was swollen; he lost the capability of taking care of himself, and became critically ill. The police of the labour camp told his family to take him home, due to fear of having to take responsibility for his death. After Mr. Dai's return home, the police continued to harass him many times. His health continued to get worse, and Mr. Dai died on December 31st, 2006.
  • Falun Gong Practitioners Severely Abused in the Women's Prison of Liaoning Province

    The most widely implemented mistreatments against Falun Gong practitioners in Liaoning Prison are sleep deprivation for a long period and starvation. The practitioners are provided with only one spoon of boiled rice every day, and they are not allowed to drink water. In winter they are forced to go barefoot with only a shirt on them. They are constantly shocked with electric batons and their arms are bound behind their back. Prison guards torture them with pricking finger nails with toothpicks, stepping on the feet and palms forcefully, punching the chest and ribs, dragging them by the hair and hitting their heads against the wall, not allowing them to go to the toilet (which led to intestinal diseases), hanging and suspending them in the air, and deep squatting with the head in the lap.
  • Practitioner Ms. Chen Shufen Persecuted in the Second Women's Prison in Luquan City, Hebei Province

    Ms. Chen Shufen, 47, and her husband were arrested and brutally tortured during an interrogation by police because they interrupted TV programming to broadcast Falun Gong information on the persecution on August, 2002. During interrogation Ms. Chen they beaten with wooden sticks to the point of deep bruising from hips to thighs. Ms. Chen was sentenced to nine years in prison. Ms. Chen is currently being detained in the Second Women's Prison in Luquan City, Hebei Province and is denied family visitation.
  • An Innocent Farmer Imprisoned for Nine Years

    In the 10 years of the persecution, Mr. Wang Xueshi has been imprisoned for nine years - two years in a forced labour camp and seven years in a prison. In Jixi Forced Labour Camp a guard hit Mr. Wang's right eye with an electric baton. He lost his vision in the right eye. Later, his wife couldn't bear the pressure and pain from the persecution, and divorced him. In 2002 police again detained Mr. Wang. They tied him to a chair and repeatedly hit his head with water bottles until he was bleeding; used twisted electric wires to whip the top of his feet until the flesh was torn; tightly sealed his mouth with tape; and put mustard oil into his nose and then covered his mouth and nose with a hand towel to suffocate him.
  • Teenage Boy Suffers Breakdown Due to the Repeated Persecution of his Mother

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhu Yan was persecuted repeatedly because of her belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and was put in a forced labour camp twice. She has been jailed in Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City for a year now. Her son, Cao Yang, has a mental disorder, and has not been able to take care of himself in the past year. After his mother was arrested he went into the street and yelled every day for the past year, "I don't have a home any more." He is emotionally disturbed, and has been taken to the Sixth People's Hospital in Changchun City.
  • Ms. Liu Junling Passed Away After Torture and Long-term Abuse by 610 Office Agents in Laixi, Shandong Province

    Ms. Liu Junling, 60, was arrested in 2005 and sentenced to Wangcun Forced Labour Camp for a year. Policemen forced Liu Junling to undergo brainwashing, forcing her to watch videos and read materials that defamed Falun Gong, and forcing her to write or sign statements denouncing Falun Gong. Liu Junling was also forced to do slave labour until 10 p.m. every day. Both her body and mind suffered tremendous stress, and she could not sleep at night. On April 27th, 2006, she was released from the camp. Her health deteriorated continuously, and she was diagnosed with lung cancer and rectum cancer. She passed away on July 20th, 2007.
  • Ms. Fei Jinrong Suffers Mental Collapse as a Result of Persecution by the Judicial and Public Security Division

    On March 10th, 2009, the Suibin County court sentenced practitioner Ms. Fei Jinrong to four years for distributing materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. While she was in the Suibin County Detention Centre, Ms. Dai was beaten until she vomited blood. Only when she was in critical condition was her family allowed to take her home. Due to unknown reasons, police suddenly transferred Ms. Fei to a detention centre. According to reports, Ms. Fei was forced to sit on a steel chair for many days without sleep at the No. 2 Detention Centre. She was verbally abused and beaten by the criminals in the same cell. It is not known what type of torture she was subjected to. In only a few months time, she suffered a mental collapse.
  • Mr. Pan Mingzhi and His Wife Unable to Attend His Father's Funeral Due to the Persecution

    There is a family in Zhongchang Village, Dalian City, of which the eldest son, Pan Mingzhi and his wife Yuan Yuchun, both love and respect their parents. Yet why were they absent at Mr. Pan Hongju's funeral while all his other sons and daughters were there paying their final tributes to him when he passed away? It turned out that the daughter-in-law, Ms. Yuan, has been arrested many times for telling people the facts about Falun Gong since the government began its persecution in 1999. Worse yet, when she was released from jail, the local police still kept harassing her and her family. Ms. Yuan and her immediate family were forced to stay away from their home, and not contact any of her other family members or relatives.