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

  • Mr. Li Weizhi from Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, Went Missing from Beijing 9 Years Ago

    Mr. Li Weizhi, over 50, was a practitioner from Daqing City. In mid December 2000, Mr. Li went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong and to tell the government about the benefits he experienced after practising Falun Gong. He has been missing ever since. His family members took out "Missing" ads for him in both the local and Beijing newspapers in order broaden the search, but they have yet to find him.
  • Exposing the Tongzhou District 610 Office and Domestic Security Team's Persecution of Practitioner Yang Shaocheng

    Prior to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the Tongzhou District 610 Office and Domestic Security Team officials tried to sentence practitioner Mr. Yang Shaocheng but failed. Since then, they have been harassing Mr. Yang and ransacked his home. In January 2009, despite Mr. Yang's deteriorating health, they arrested and detained him at the Forced Labour Administration Bureau. The Forced Labour Personnel Administration Bureau is infamous for using brutal torture on practitioners. Since the bureau authorities do not allow families to visit the detainees, Mr. Yang's current situation is unknown.
  • Older Falun Gong Practitioner Sun Jianmin from Tangshan City Persecuted to Death

    Falun Gong practitioner Sun Jianmin was a kind and generous man. He began to practise Falun Gong in 1998. He benefited greatly both physically and mentally, and his family became harmonious once more. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to persecute Falun Gong, he was tortured at Hehuakeng Forced Labour Camp until he suffered a stroke. His family was harassed for a long time by the local police. He passed away on April 27th, 2009, at the age of 61.
  • Practitioner Ma Zhenzhu in Zibo City, Shandong Province Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison

    Practitioner Ms. Ma Zhenzhu was arrested at home by police in early 2008. The police jailed her for about a year and did not allow her family members to visit her. The family members hired a lawyer and Ms. Ma pleaded not guilty. Unfortunately, the lawyer later succumbed to pressure from the communist party. After accepting the lawyer's fees, he told the family members that although he had managed to see Ms. Ma, he was unable to represent her because she would not give up her belief. In February 2009, Zichuan District Court ran the session without notifying Ms. Ma's family members, and sentenced her to seven years in prison. She is now being held in Jinan Prison in Shandong Province.
  • The Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in the Puyang Detention Centre

    Many forms of torture have been used against practitioners in the detention centre. These include: more than ten hours a day of work, being forced to take off their clothes and be drenched with cold water in the winter, and being forced to kneel down in the snow for very long hours. On winter nights many were forced to stand in the cold wind for the whole night and were not allowed to sleep. Guards beat practitioners with wet leather whips, and they were forced to run in the yard wearing heavy shackles until their feet bled. Practitioners were forced to kneel down in a cell and confess their 'mistakes'. One practitioner persisted in practising the exercises and was forced to wear heavy shackles weighing over 25kg for 7 days.
  • State Security Division Personnel Embezzled 30,000 Yuan from Ms. Wang Lanying

    Police stormed into Ms. Wu Licui's home on July 31st, 2008. They took away her Falun Gong books as well as other personal property, including a personal bank deposit passbook and 147,900 yuan in cash. In her bank passbook, there was a deposit of 30,000 yuan from practitioner Ms. Wang Lanying. Ms Wang lent the money to Ms. Wu to buy a house. On September 7th, 2008, police arrested Ms. Wang and took her to the Kaijiang County Detention Centre. In order to embezzle the 30,000-yuan bank deposit, State Security Division agents brutally tortured Ms. Wang into falsely confessing that she never lent any money to Ms. Wu. In this way, the State Security Division was able to confiscate the money.
  • Mr. Liu Jinglu Exposes Torture at Jixi City Police Station: "I heard electric baton noises next door and then screaming from my wife."

    Mr. Liu Jinglu and Ms. Sun Lixiang, husband and wife, are Falun Gong practitioners in Mishan City, Heilongjiang Province. Police from Mishan and Jixi City arrested them, tortured them for a long time and sentenced them. Liu Jinglu heard electric baton noises next door and then screaming from his wife. With both hands cuffed to the chair and feet chained, he tried to stand up and say, 'You cannot treat a woman like this.'" One policeman slapped him in the face. On April 8th, 2008, Sun Lixiang was sent to Harbin Women's Prison. Liu Jinglu is still detained at Jixi First Detention Centre.
  • Exposing the Crimes Committed at the Changning Detention Centre in Shanghai

    Changning Detention Centre in Shanghai has detained numerous Falun Gong practitioners and continues to cruelly persecute them. They hung up an older female practitioner, Fan Guoping, who is in her 60s, in a solitary confinement room. She was hung up in the air by cuffs on all her limbs for many days. In order to protest the persecution, she went on a hunger strike. In response to this, the police force-fed her with thick rubber feeding tubes. As the tubes were too thick and could not be inserted into her stomach, the guard Wu Libin clasped his hands around her neck and viciously choked her so that she could not breathe.
  • Investigation Lead: Multiple Kidney Transplants with Unknown Donors at the No. 1 Hospital Affiliated with Jilin University

    The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) collects information from those willing to come forward and report what they have witnessed. CIPFG asks people who know the truth to further expose the crimes concerning illegal organ harvesting in China. We call on all kind hearted people of conscience to lend your help in exposing the facts of this vicious persecution of Falun Gong practitioners inside the secret concentration camps, forced labour camps, prisons and hospitals in Mainland China. The sooner this atrocity is fully exposed, the sooner this brutal persecution will end.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Dai Chuanyi Sentenced to Three Years in Prison in Chongren County, Jiangxi Province

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Dai Chuanyi is 42 years old and works for the Hongrang Development Bureau in Chongren County. Chongren County police broke into his home at 10:00 a.m. on November 11th, 2008. They arrested Dai Chuanyi and his wife as well as another couple who was visiting the Dai household at the time. They took lots of Falun Gong materials and sentenced Dai Chuanyi to three years in prison at the end of March 2009.
  • Recent Crimes Committed by Officials in Zhucheng City, Shandong Province

    On March 30th-31th, 2009, the Zhucheng City Municipal Committee, along with the Political and Judiciary Committee, the 610 Office, and officers from the Zhucheng City Police Department, arrested over 20 practitioners in their local area. In 2008, over twenty practitioners in Zhucheng City were sentenced to forced labour, and several have been detained. Ms. Liu Xiumei from Shunwang Street was tortured to death at a local detention centre. Ms. Wang Jinxiu from the Dianzi District was forced to jump from a third story window and suffered compound fractures in her legs.
  • Young Mother Jailed--Her Son Left Behind

    Falun Gong practitioner Pang Liyun lives in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. On August 2nd, 2008, during the Beijing Olympics, she was arrested by police officers. The stated reason for the arrest was "to guarantee the safety of the Beijing Olympics." The police were following orders from their supervisors to arrest all Falun Gong practitioners in order to tightly control them. Eight months have already passed and she has not been released. She has been sentenced to prison and is currently detained in Xuanhua Detention Centre. No one is available to take care of her 8-year-old son.
  • Police and Officials in China Commit Criminal Acts

    On March 31st, 2009, Mr. Hong Wu and Mr. Wu Yongqing, both Falun Gong practitioners, were distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong and that Falun Gong teaches people to follow the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance in Xixian Village, Xiqin County. Five drunken people stopped Mr. Hong and Mr. Wu and said: "You practise Falun Gong. You are good people. Please give us some money for drinking. Give us 20 yuan." Mr. Hong and Mr. Wu refused. Then someone called the Communist Party village secretary, and claimed that they had captured practitioners. Huo said: "Beat them. There will be a 500-yuan award for each captured practitioner." Police later shocked Mr. Hong with an electric baton.
  • Seventy-three Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested in Mengyin County, Shandong Province

    From November 20th, 2008 to March 31st, 2009, police from the Mengyin County, Shandong Province made frequent arrests of Falun Gong practitioners. According to incomplete statistics, at least 73 Falun Gong practitioners were arrested. The police harassed, confiscated property, arrested, and brutally tortured Falun Gong practitioners starting on November 20th, 2008. They also deceived and threatened the practitioners' family members and extorted money from them.
  • The Persecution of Mr. Xiong Jinze's Family by Officers from the National Security Bureau of Changsha City, Hunan Province

    On March 23rd, 2009, the National Security Bureau of Hunan Province conspired with the 610 Office and the public security bureau to take Ms. Zhou Min, the wife of Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Xiong Jinze, from her home. Two months earlier Mr. Xiong had been arrested and tortured in a forced labour camp, resulting in him becoming disabled. Even when he was not at home, his family was still monitored by the police, causing them to live in fear and anxiety. When Mr. Xiong's daughter was eight months old, she was in a car accident that almost killed her. Her 50-year-old aunt died in the accident.