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

  • Crimes Committed in the Zaozihe Forced Labour Camp in Shaanxi Province

    The "transformation class" in Zaozihe Forced Labour Camp is a brainwashing class, and its chair Yang Jun, is the general chief for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in the camp. Under his guidance, guards mentally torture practitioners who refuse to recant their beliefs. Practitioners are forced to stand all night long. They are deprived of the right to sleep, hung up with rope tied through handcuffs,and locked up in small cells. The guards cruelly beat practitioners, and even soak them in a big water vat to freeze them in the winter. The guards also arrange prisoners convicted on drug charges to beat practitioners after covering their heads with cotton blankets.
  • Ms. Qi Jinling Persecuted at Wanjia and Qianjin Forced Labour Camps

    Despite the pressure of the persecution, Ms. Qi Jinling, 43 firmly practises Falun Gong and follows the principle of Truth-Compassion-Forbearance. She was captured by the police in August 2006 and sent to a forced labour camp and suffered brutal persecution for over two years. In November 2006, guards ordered Ms. Qi to come to the office. They beat her on the head and back, swearing at her all the while. Then the guards tied her hands behind her back and ordered her to squat with her legs pressed together. Ms. Qi refused to comply. Guards beat her again and pushed her to the floor. After midnight, Sha Yujin grabbed her by the hair and dragged her around on the floor, twisting her around. Ms. Qi's hair was left all over the floor.
  • Taoxu Town Police Arrest, Mistreat and Extort Money from Practitioners

    In order to have a larger year-end bonus, the Taoxu Town Police harassed practitioners, searched their homes, tortured them and extorted money from their families. From December 29th, 2008 to January 1st, 2009, eleven practitioners were arrested and harassed by the police in those four days. On December 29th, 2008, several policemen went to search the home of Falun Gong practitioner Guo Zengshun in Ankou Village, Taoxu Town. They arrested him and confiscated his Falun Gong book, Zhuan Falun. The police extorted the family for 6,000 yuan in exchange for Guo Zengshun's release. Two days later, Guo Zengshun was allowed to go home on December 30th, 2008.
  • Ms. Zhang Jiaoyu's Family Broken Up by Persecution

    On July 6th, 2008, three practitioners, Ms. Zhang Jiaoyu, Ms. Tang Yuhua, and Ms. Huang Aiyu were distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in the county capital when they were arrested by police and held in a detention centre. Ms. Zhang suffered a heart attack in the detention centre and was taken to the hospital. She was in critical condition and received emergency treatment. The police didn't want to take responsibility for her condition and left without paying any of her medical costs. Ms. Zhang's family brought her home to recuperate. However, the county 610 Office did not stop the persecution against Ms. Zhang and her family.
  • The Crimes Committed by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Official Li Fuguo from Hebei Province

    Li Fuguo male, 40 years old, has personally taken part in the arrest of 13 Falun Gong practitioners from Tanghai County. He has done so ever since he became the Tanghai County Domestic Security Division Head and 610 Office head in November 2006. One of the practitioners has died as a result of torture. Another one has become disabled from torture. Five practitioners were given jail terms. The persecution for the past two years have been the most severe for Falun Gong practitioners in Tanghai County since the Chinese Communist Party started the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999.
  • Corrupt Police Officers in Chongqing Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners

    Pan Ronghan used to be the Jiuchi Town registrar but was demoted because of embezzlement and now works in the Security Office. In July 2003, after seeing Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution in the Jiuchichang Town, he casually arrested four practitioners, two brothers and their wives, and held them in Zhoujiaba Detention Centre for more than a year. While incarcerated there, the practitioners were tortured. To produce false evidence to substantiate his case, he tried buying witnesses for 50 yuan a person but was unsuccessful.
  • My Experience at the Nanmusi Forced Labour Camp

    On June 26th, 2008, I was transferred from an addiction treatment centre in Sichuan Province to the No. 7 Section of the Nanmusi Women's Forced Labour Camp. Three days after I arrived, I was forced to perform slave labour. Whenever we entered or left the workshop's main door, we were required to report to the guards, otherwise we were not allowed to use the toilet. Since I did not report for two days, I had to wait until 11:00 p.m. to use the toilet. Shortly after this incident, the guards required all practitioners who were not "transformed" to work in their cell for about 15 hours a day, rather than the workshop.
  • Three Practitioners Die as a Result of Persecution

    Mr. Xue Junli, 46, lived in Sanqiao Town, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province. Because he practised Falun Gong, he was detained four times, sent to one year of forced labour, and brutally beaten by guard Feng Xiyao with a rubber baton. The prisoners cruelly beat him as well. He was taken to forced brainwashing sessions three times. The last time he was taken to a brainwashing session, he was tortured until he was very weak, and he died in July 2008.
  • Exposing the Brutal Treatment of Falun Gong Practitioners at the Fujian Provincial Women's Prison

    The Prison Orientation Team is the first station set up to persecute practitioners upon their arrival. One or two guards chosen from each large group take turns to brainwash practitioners, forcing them to watch videos that slander Falun Gong. The jail is crowded, and the prisoners are forced to stand. Sleep deprivation and other means are utilized in the brainwashing sessions, where the perpetrators try to force practitioners to write "guarantee statements" to give up Falun Gong. Guards force practitioners to recite the prison regulations, perform exercises, and run in drill formation. Practitioners who refuse to wear a prison uniform are stripped by prison inmates who have been incited to do so by guards.
  • Chinese Communist Party Officials in Yishui County, Shandong Province Again Harass and Arrest Falun Gong Practitioners

    At about 9:00 a.m. on January 8th, 2009, more than ten police officers broke into practitioner Mr. Zhao Mingjiang's home. They confiscated his belongings including a mobile phone, and took Mr. Zhao and his wife to the police station. Zong Shanbin and a police officer named Yu Hongwei removed Mr. Zhao's shirt and beat him for a long time, causing his face and mouth to become swollen and deformed. They sent him to a detention centre that night. They also beat Mr. Zhao's wife and didn't release her until 6:00 p.m.
  • Falun Gong Practitioners He Jinliang, Wang Tianyu and Others from Zhoukou City, Henan Province Arrested

    On January 4th, 2009, Shanan District Police Department National Security Division leader and two policewomen arrived in a police car at Falun Gong practitioner Mr. He Jinliang's home. They parked their car on the street and knocked on the door. As soon as Mr. He opened the door, the police immediately pushed him into the police car. Mr. He's wife realized that her husband had not come back in and went out to check on him. The policemen pushed her into the car too. Right then, another practitioner, Mr. Feng Zijun arrived to visit Mr. He. Feng Zijun saw the police car and that the door to the home was open, which is unusual. He realized something was wrong and attempted to leave immediately, but it was too late. The police took him away, too.
  • Mr. Wang Yajun Unable to Take Care of Himself After Being Tortured by Guards in Jilin Forced Labour Camp

    My name is Wang Yajun. I was arrested at home on May 16th, 2007, by police for attending a Falun Gong experience sharing conference. I was later detained in Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province, for 18 months. On June 17th, 2008, I went on a hunger strike. I was then subjected to more persecution. Under the instigation of the police, drug addict inmates tied me to an iron bed. They handcuffed my hands and legs. Four vicious addicts hit me in the genital area. They also used a pair of slippers to hit my face, and they pulled my hair. After kicking and punching me with their fists, they started to force-feed me. My lower back was injured because of the torture. It bled and festered and developed a hole as large as a fist.
  • Guards in Lianjiangkou Prison, Jiamusi City, Relentlessly Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners

    Recently, in the name of so-called "Security Battle for a Hundred Days," guards at Lianjiangkou Prison in Jiamusi City used different tactics to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. For example, they did not allow them to go downstairs, to buy things from the store, to be visited by family members, or have their family members deposit money or items for them. On December 17th, team leaders ordered practitioner Duan Tilin to come to the office. They wanted him to copy a pre-written statement. Duan Tilin said, "I can't copy someone else's statement." They said, "What you wrote did not meet the requirements." Duan Tilin said, "I follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and I did not commit any crimes." Guard Miao slapped Duan Tilin six to seven times.
  • Practitioners Imprisoned in Jinan

    Professor Zhang Xingwu, a Falun Gong practitioner, has been imprisoned in a detention centre for the past five months. Ms. Zhang Chenglan, another practitioner, was arrested in August 2008 and sentenced to a forced labour camp in Shangdong Province for a year and six months. Her family is filing a lawsuit to rescue her from the brutal treatment. Immediately after Ms. Zhang Chenglan was taken to the forced labour camp, her husband, Mr. Liu Ruping, tried to visit her, but the guards turned him away because he was also a practitioner. Mr. Liu hired a lawyer, who was allowed to see her. The lawyer informed Mr. Liu that his wife had been beaten by the guards.
  • Li Shigang Sent to a Forced Labour Camp Despite Disability Suffered during Arrest

    Falun Gong practitioner Li Shigang was arrested and persecuted in 2002. He fell from a seventh floor during the arrest and became disabled. On April 23rd, 2008 police arrested him again and searched his house. He was sentenced to two years of forced labour on May 26th. Li Shigang currently has difficulty just looking after himself and has trouble even walking up stairs. Even under such circumstances, he is still forced to do heavy labour. He has so far been detained for eight months and denied adequate medical treatment.