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. Zhang Youqing Suspects the Police in Tangken Police Station Poisoned Him

    On April 1st, 2009, police rushed into Mr. Zhang Youqing's home and arrested him. At the police station the police gave Mr. Zhang a glass of water. Mr. Zhang felt that his throat had a dry and burning sensation when he drank the water. That night, Mr. Zhang could not eat anything. He visited the toilet constantly. For the next two days, Mr. Zhang had vision and memory losses and was confused at times. On the morning of April 4th, he still could not urinate or have a bowel movement. He discharged blood when he tried to defecate. He suspects that the police poisoned him when they gave him the water to drink.
  • Two Practitioners Died as a Result of Persecution, One in Jining City and the Other in Hancuan City

    On February 18th, 2004, Mr. Guo Zhengpei, 48, was arrested while he was at his workplace. He was taken to Shayang Forced Labour Camp, where he was brutally tortured until he could not get out of bed and then was taken to the hospital. He was diagnosed with tuberculosis and accumulation of water in the lungs. The hospital decided to operate on him the next day to take out the water. The forced labour camp was afraid of him dying from the operation, so they notified his family to pick him up. After returning home, Mr. Guo continued to have no energy and kept losing weight each day. He passed away on April 25th, 2009.
  • Eleven Lawyers and 127 Family Members Co-Sign Letter to Protest Against Shijiazhuang Municipal Intermediate Court

    Practitioner Mr Song Aichang was arrested by police on June 22nd, 2007. He has been detained in a detention centre for almost twenty months. He has been through three separate trials and re-trials, and is in the middle of his fourth trial. The defence lawyers of Song Aichang presented a co-signed letter to the Hebei Provincial High Court regarding the Shijiazhuang Intermediate Court's unjust actions and requested that the appeal hearings be held in a different court.
  • Ms. Zhang Aiqin Tells Her Story as a Victim of the Chinese Regime's Persecution of Falun Gong

    In 2000, my husband and I went to Russia. In 2001, I came back to China. I went to see a fellow practitioner who was just released from jail. Her home was monitored and therefore I was arrested by the police and put in jail. Another practitioner in my cell was often brutally beaten by the guards. When I first saw her, her face was badly swollen. It looked quite frightening. She was arrested when she went to a rural area to pass out flyers. A group of people brutally beat her. I was in jail for three months. My family spent a lot of money to get me out. My husband and I went back to Russia. We heard that state security in China was going to come to Russia to arrest me. I could not go back to China, and I did not have the legal status to stay in Russia. T
  • Falun Gong Practitioners' Personal Accounts of the Persecution They Suffered in Tangshan City, Hebei Province

    My name is Liu Xiaoling. I am 57 years old. In October 2004, the head of the 610 Office forcibly took me to the Tangshan City "Legal Education School," a brainwashing centre, and detained me there for 80 days. They burned my hands with fire and injected me with an unknown drug. They locked me in a room and stripped off my winter jacket and shoes. Then they opened the window to expose me to the freezing cold. For 20 days they forbade me from sleeping or using the toilet. They threatened that they would torture me to death and then tell the public that I killed myself. I was emaciated at this point from all the abuse.
  • Mr. Zhang Chunlin Suffers Mental Collapse After Being Injected with Unknown Drug

    Mr. Zhang Chunlin was an officer on the Hongguang Farm in Baiyilaga Township, Qianguo County, Songyuan City, Jilin Province. Because he remained steadfast in his belief in Falun Gong, he was persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In September 2008, he was injected with an unknown drug, causing a mental collapse. After the persecution of Falun Gong started on July 20th, 1999, Mr. Zhang was sentenced to one year in a forced labour camp because he went to appeal for Falun Gong. He was discharged from his post.
  • Police in Jilin City Arrest Practitioners, Family Demands their Release

    On April 25th, 2009, more than 10 policemen went to Mr. Dong Qingyou and his wife's home. They arrested the couple and took them to the Zhanqian Police Station. Ms. Li's younger brother went to the police station and asked them why they had made the arrest. A policeman said it was because the couple practised Falun Gong. Chen said that they found Falun Gong books and informational materials during their search. Mr. Dong's family said they would file a lawsuit for unlawful arrest. At about 7 p.m., Mr. Dong and his wife walked out of the Zhanqian Police Station and returned home.
  • My Experiences in Linxiang City Detention Centre

    When I was explaining the truth about Falun Gong to the people in my aunt's town I was reported by somebody and was arrested on August 11th, 2008 by police officers. The police said "How dare you promote Falun Gong here. We will send you to the hospital for the mentally ill and kill you by injecting you with poisonous drugs!" Then they demanded to know about the Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution I had with me. In the detention centre an officer slapped my face and then punched me in the jaw with all his might. They also trampled all over my chest. After they beat me for several rounds, my chin was swollen and I lost my hearing in my left ear.
  • 67-Year-Old Mr. Zhang Xingwu from Jinan City, Shandong Province, Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison

    67-year-old Professor Zhang Xingwu's family was notified that Mr. Zhang was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment. On March 31st, Shizhong District Court in Jinan City tried Mr. Zhang Xingwu. They not only prevented Professor Zhang Xingwu's defence lawyer from attending the proceedings, but also keep his family from being present in the courtroom. In addition, 70 armed, anti-riot police and nearly 200 other officers were deployed around the courthouse. One of Mr. Zhang's relatives, Ms. Liu Lijie, was detained for fifteen days and later sentenced to 21 months' forced labour just because she wanted to attend the session.
  • Six Practitioners Arrested in Chenzhou City, Hunan Province

    Six Falun Gong practitioners were arrested in Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, on April 21st, 2009. More than 20 police suddenly surrounded Ms. Liao Xiaohong's vendor booth and took Ms. Liao Xiaohong, Mr. Shi Jiaoyu, and a visiting male practitioner away under duress. They snatched Mr. Shi's bag and found the key to his apartment, took the bag with them, and opened the door. The police took away everything, including a computer, and Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution. They also looted 74,000 yuan in cash and a bank deposit book worth over 20,000 yuan.
  • Update on Practitioner Mr. Liu Yujian

    On April 9th, 2009, Beijing practitioner Mr. Liu Yujian was released from Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp in Hebei Province and sent to his original residence in Xinjiang. Because he was tortured in the labour camp, Liu Yujian was extremely weak and all his bodily functions were near failure. On the train, he was unable to take in any food or water and had to depend on an intravenous injection to keep him going all the way to his destination. Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp turned an originally healthy man into a person near death.
  • Three Falun Gong Practitioners from Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province Die from Persecution

    On February 6th, 2003 police arrested Mr. Liu Leiwan because he practised Falun Gong. A court sentenced him to six years in prison. During his detention in Nanchang Prison he was tortured in many ways and had to work many hours, resulting in blood in his urine every day. He became very weak. On February 6th, 2008, his family was told to take him home. He died two months later. After his death, the 610 Office threatened his family, so they would not allow Falun Gong practitioners to pay their final respects at his home.
  • Instructor from the Communication University of China: The Persecution Many Practitioners and I Suffered at the Shanxi Women's Labour Camp and a Few Other Facilities

    I was taken to the Beijing Dispatch Division on October 18th, 2007. The head guard ordered five drug addicts and prostitutes to attack me and try to coerce me to write the guarantee statement to renounce Falun Gong. I refused. They forced me to squat. More than ten officials tried to brainwash me. They wouldn't let me stand up and wouldn't let me use the toilet. I went on a hunger strike to protest the abuse, and the head guard force-fed me water and food. The police instructed the five criminals to write vicious and slanderous words against Falun Gong on a piece of paper. Against my will they pressed my fingerprints on the paper, claiming I had written it, and then taped it to my body.
  • Mr. Chen Naiye, 63, from Shanwei City, Guangdong Province, Dies as a Result of Persecution

    Mr. Chen Naiye was again seized by police on March 19th, 2002, when he was distributing Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution. He was taken to the Shanwei Detention Centre and subjected to brutal tortures. His chest became very swollen after numerous beatings. On July 19th, 2002 he was taken to the Sanshui Forced Labour Camp. Because he refused to be "reformed," the camp guards tortured him savagely, and he lost consciousness. The guards stuffed him into a freezer and prepared to cremate him. He regained consciousness and shouted aloud for help. When his family finally took him home on October 12th, 2002, he was barely alive. Thereafter police frequently went to his home to harass him. Chen Naiye died on March 4th, 2009, at the age of 63.
  • Practitioners Savagely Persecuted in Heilongjiang Women's Prison

    Practitioners Ms. Yang Shujun, Ms. Lang Ming, and Ms. Li Muyan were savagely persecuted in the Heilongjiang Women's Prison. Guards deprived Ms. Yang of sleep for extended periods of time, made her stand for hours on end, and forced her to watch videos defaming Falun Gong. Her hair has since turned grey, and she is currently clinging to life. Guards also deprived Ms. Lang of sleep for seven days. Ms. Li has lost feeling in her legs due to the prolonged periods of forced standing and sitting. She has also suffered memory loss because of the sleep deprivation and psychological torture.