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 Severe Persecution of Ms. Lu Xueqin

    The police arrested Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Lu Xueqin from the streets in Qingdao City, Shandong Province, on January 26th, 2008. They took her to Liaoyuan Road Police Station and tortured her there for nine days. She lost consciousness several times. Ms. Lu sustained soft tissue injuries, dislocated bones, and severe, debilitating wounds in the lower back, legs, and feet. She also sustained kidney damage that stopped normal urine production and required a catheter. Then she developed whole-body oedema to the extent that she could not even remove her clothes. Widespread bruises and numerous blood clots developed in her legs, abdomen, and chest. Ms. Lu eventually became paralysed for lack of medical treatment.
  • Additional Information on the Deaths of Three Falun Gong Practitioners in Yilan County, Heilongjiang Province

    On the night of November 28th, 2001, three practitioners from Yilan County--Ms. Zhang Min, Mr. Song Ruiyi, and Mr. Zhang Keming--went to Tuanshanzi Village to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong and were reported to the police by a villager. Zhang Huanyou, the village police station chief, and his subordinates soon apprehended the practitioners. Zhang ordered village head Zhao Chungui to organize the villagers to wait alongside the road to intercept the practitioners. When they did, Zhao beat them with a thick wooden stick. A woman practitioner close to 70 was knocked down on the spot. These practitioners later died as a result of mistreatment.
  • Mr. Xie Chunze and His Family Persecuted Relentlessly in Chenghai City, Guangdong Province

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Xie Chunze, over 30 years old, was arrested by officers of Waisha Police Station in June 2000. He was then detained in Sanshui Forced Labour Camp for two years, where he suffered inhuman torture, and extreme devastation of his mind and body. Under this pressure, he was once known to have lost consciousness for three days and nights. After he woke up, it was seen that he had suffered a mental breakdown. His father Xie Jiqi, ill from the constant fear and fighting, died in January 2003. In April 2005, police officers of Waisha Police Station again arrested Mr. Xie's mother, Cai Yu'e, and held her prisoner at the Sanshui Brainwashing Centre for four months.
  • Mr. Lei Bifu Arrested After Suffering Seven Years of Persecution

    In October 2008, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Lei Bifu returned home after he had been forced to flee home seven years prior. Only two months later, on December 12th, 2008, police arrested Mr. Lei at the farmers' market. Once they found Mr. Lei, they shot him with a tranquillizer gun, forced him down to the ground, and beat him with electric batons. They arrested both Mr. Lei and his wife, and beat them all the way to the police station. The couple sustained severe injures. At the same time, eight officers searched Mr. Lei's house. Mr. Lei's wife was released on the second day. Mr. Lei has been detained at the Kai County Detention Centre since the arrest.
  • Two Older Practitioners Die as a Result of Long-Term Persecution

    Ms. Zhang Yuhua, 58, went to the countryside to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong, and was arrested and taken to a detention centre and had her sentenced to three years of forced labour after she was detained there for more than four months. Ms. Zhang entered Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp in August 2003. She had a stroke and developed cortical cerebellar atrophy due to being brutally mistreated. Her family picked her up, but the local police still required her to write a monthly report to the labour camp. She died on January 5th, 2009.
  • Further Details Regarding Death of Ms. Gu Jianmin at Shanghai Pudong Detention Centre

    It has been over 9 months since the death of practitioner Ms. Gu Jianmin. In March 2008, Ms. Gu Jianmin, over fifty years of age, was arrested and imprisoned at the Pudong Detention Centre for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. Ms. Gu went on a hunger strike to protest her persecution. She was then force-fed by the guards. Guards delayed rescuing Ms. Gu and lied to her husband about her condition. They deliberately slowed everything down so that she was already senseless and dying upon meeting her husband. However, the fact that blood was dripping out of her mouth continuously before her death exposed the crime they had committed.
  • Mr. Lan Bing Nearly Blind in Both Eyes Due to Abuse

    Mr. Lan Bing, 40, was sentenced to ten years of imprisonment in 2001. Since then he has been detained in the Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai. Due to the abuse he suffered, his eyes frequently bled. He is presently nearly blind in both eyes. Recently, Mr. Lan's condition has become very serious, but the Sixth Ward is still deceiving his family. When his family members talked to Wang Haocheng, chief of the Sixth Ward, he responded that it was not a big deal. When they talked to Fan Zhenqun, director of the Sixth Ward, they were told, "Lan Bing's condition is stable and has not worsened." In the meantime, Fan Zhenquan reported the same thing to the authorities at the prison.
  • Practitioners Made to Perform Slave Labour at the Cotton Division of Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp

    The hygiene conditions at the Cotton Division of the Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp are extremely poor. The detainees are forced to do heavy slave labour from 6:30 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. every day. Currently, more than ten practitioners and several dozen criminal inmates are doing heavy slave labour there. They are often beaten and scolded by Tang Wei, a drug addict who was appointed as supervisor by the camp manager. On November 12th, Lu Meijun was kicked and beaten by Zhao Guorong, team head of Division One. Zhao also shocked Lu with electric batons. As a result, Lu was wounded in many places and had many bruises on her face.
  • Former Director of the Mohe County Board of Education on Long-Term Hunger Strike in Harbin City Prison

    In 2002, a judge from the Jiagedaqi District court sentenced Ms. Li Yushu, a Falun Gong practitioner, to a 12-year prison term. She is detained in Area 10, used for ill people, at the Heilongjiang Provincial Women's Prison in Harbin City. To protest the persecution, Ms. Li has gone on a number of hunger strikes since 2004. She is now very weak and emaciated. In December 2007, prisoners were assigned to monitor Ms. Li Yushu. Despite her being on hunger strike, police ordered them to beat and insult her daily. Cai Lin, who weighed more than 85 kg, sat on top of Ms. Li. Once, Ms. Li shouted: "They are killing me!" Police officers came and said: "Who killed you? Aren't you still alive? You are not the only one who has been through this."
  • Rujiang Men's Forced Labour Camp Uses Convicted Drug Abusers As Personal Monitors To Harass Practitioners

    In the camp, during the day, guards force the practitioner to read material which defames Falun Gong, or to recite the camp's regulations, etc. In evening, the guards force the practitioner to talk to them, or to write words that attack Falun Gong. If the practitioner refuses, the guards deprive him of sleep until 3 a.m. or 4 a.m even though the practitioner is required to get up at 6 a.m. If the practitioner does not give up his beliefs, the guards punish him by forcing him to stand facing a wall, depriving him of sleep, etc. If the practitioner does not give up even after 1 to 2 months of such torture, the guards deprive him of further rights and continue to have the personal monitors monitor him 24 hours a day. The practitioner is not allowed to speak with other practitioners, or shop downstairs, or visit other cells, or leave his cell.
  • Painter Mr. Wang Mingyue and Photographer Mr. Jin Xiaohui from Beijing Sent to Forced Labour Camp

    On July 8th and 9th, 2008, two practitioners from Beijing were arrested; one is a famous oil painter, Mr. Wang Mingyue, and the other is a photographer, Mr. Jin Xiaohui. They are now imprisoned in the Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp in Beijing. Mr. Wang was in very good physical condition before his arrest, but now, according to a witness from the labour camp, he has lost a great deal of weight. This is yet another case of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong practitioners under the excuse of "safeguarding the Olympic Games."
  • Mother's Pain

    In 1994 I was so fortunate to start practising Falun Gong. I looked like a new person: the diseases were all gone. After July 1999, when the persecution started, my siblings and I were all persecuted. My mother was devastated. After the onset of the persecution, I was ordered to a brainwashing centre every day. One day as I returned to my work place after the brainwashing session, my supervisor did not allow me to go home and tried to force me to write a guarantee statement to quit cultivation and a "regret statement" to slander Falun Gong. My mother passed away because she was scared to death. My heart hurts because of sadness and pain.
  • Two Brothers Sentenced to Forced Labour--Their Elderly Parents Call for Help

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Qiao Baoming is 42 years old. On August 27th, 2008, he was arrested at work by agents from the Binzhou City 610 Office. His home was searched and he was sentenced to two years of forced labour. Practitioner Qiao Baoyang (Qiao Baoming's brother) was arrested in May 2008 and also sentenced to forced labour. Both are now in the Shandong Province No. 2 Forced Labour Camp. Their 76-year-old father is sick at home.
  • Police Covertly Cremated the Remains of Mr. Qian Shiguang, Who Had Been Severely Injured

    Mr. Qian Shiguang, 65, died as a result of torture on September 8th, 2008, in the Gongjiawan Brainwashing Centre. According to witnesses, Mr. Qian appeared to have been severely traumatized. His face was bruised, his eyes bulged, and both of his hands were dark. Afraid of having their brutality exposed, the police dared not use a crematorium, and cremated the body secretly. Before his death Mr. Qian wrote about some of the abuse and brutal mistreatment he experienced on small slips of paper, under extremely difficult circumstances.
  • Engineer Arrested before Olympic Games; Family Files Suit Against Persecutors

    Mr. Yang Jianzhong, 70, was awarded the title of "outstanding cost engineer". On August 7th, 2008, just before the Olympic Games, he was arrested by local police officers and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents, and his home was searched. More than 90,000 yuan in cash was seized from his home and he was detained at the Wenjiang District Detention Centre. Fifteen days later, he was transferred to the notorious Xinjin Brainwashing Centre. Several days ago, he was taken to a hospital in Wuhou District of Chengdu City. Jia Xiaodong.