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

  • Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Li Zhengling Died in Custody

    Mr. Li Zhengling was subjected to three years of persecution in a forced labour camp because he had organized about 300 people to do the Falun Gong exercises. On February 4th, 2005, he was arrested again after the police ransacked his home and found Falun Gong materials. He was sentenced to five years imprisonment. Li Zhengling was sent to Deyang Prison, where he became blind due to continuous mistreatment. On June 21st, 2008, Mr. Li's family members received a notice that he was critically ill. He died on June 24th, 2008.
  • The Persecution of Ms. Tan Jianju by the 610 Office of Zengcheng City, Guangdong Province

    In July 2008, officers from the 610 Office of Zengcheng City and the Xiaolou Town Police Station arrested Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Tan Jianju and took her to the "law education school" for brainwashing. Ms. Tan Jianju is still mentally disoriented after recently leaving the brainwashing centre. The local police still threaten to revoke her permanent residency registration. In 2002, Ms. Tan married Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Guohua. Shortly after their marriage, Mr. Liu was arrested and sentenced to two years in a labour camp. Ms. Tan was pregnant at the time. Mr. Liu developed serious uraemia after being persecuted in the labour camp. Mr. Liu Guohua died at age 30.
  • Falun Gong Practitioners Force-fed Psychotropic Drugs in Zhejiang Province Women's Prison

    Falun Gong practitioners who were sent to Zhejiang Province Women's Prison have been deprived of sleep, locked in one room, not allowed to wash themselves, forced to eat and go to the toilet in the same room, held in solitary confinement for intensified brainwashing, and pressured to write the Repentance Statement. The room's windows were sealed with heavy cloth so that no sunlight could get in. Healthy practitioners were treated as mental patients and forced to take psychotropic drugs.
  • Qi Changrong, Song Hongcui and Bai Hong from Tanggu District, Tianjin City Sentenced to Prison

    On August 10th, 2008, Falun Gong practitioners, Qi Changrong, Song Hongcui and Bai Hong were secretly sentenced after having been detained in a detention centre for seven months. Qi Changrong was sentenced to five years of imprisonment, and Song Hongcui and Bai Hong were both sentenced to three years. They have now been transferred to Tianjin No. 2 Prison. Their relatives never received any notification from either the Domestic Security Division, 610 Office, court or prison, nor have they ever received any information of legal procedures against any of the practitioners. As of today, their relatives are still not allowed to meet with them.
  • Diaobingshan City Police Severely Persecuting Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Hu Ying

    On July 4th, 2008, in the name of "sustaining harmony for the Olympics", Liaoning Province police arrested Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Hu Ying, who had been forced into a homeless situation, questioned her and tortured her. On July 6th, the police transferred Hu Ying to Tieling City Detention Centre and continued to torture her. However, her health declined rapidly due to the brutal torture. Hu Ying has been severely persecuted for over four months to date.
  • Hong Kong Resident Exposes the Persecution of His Wife by the Zengcheng City 610 Office in Guangdong Province

    Hong Kong resident Mr. Chen Yingtian and Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Xiaolan from Zengcheng City were married in mainland China before 1999. However, because Ms. Yang practises Falun Gong and refused to give up the practice, she was persecuted by the 610 Office of the Zengcheng Municipal Police Station. Currently, Ms. Yang is being detained, and not allowed to reunite with her husband and their child. The 610 Office will not issue a permit to Yang Yaolan to go outside China.
  • Call for Rescuing Mr. Lei Anxiang, Who Was Sentenced by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

    On May 10th, 2008, police searched Mr. Lu Jiabin's apartment and arrested him. Mr. Lei Anxing was also arrested because he happened to go to the apartment to get tools at that time. Mr. Lei was detained in the Chenzhou Detention Centre. The police took the Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution he carried with him as "criminal evidence." He was sentenced to three years in prison. In 2004, Mr. Lei Anxiang was arrested and taken to the Huadu Forced Labour Camp. He endured three months of brutal brainwashing. The guards ordered detainees to stab his body with large steel needles. They forced Mr. Lei to kneel down and placed a bamboo stick on his shins. Several people took turns stepping on the stick and rolling it, which caused them to bleed.
  • The Persecution of Female Practitioners in the Re-education Deployment Department of Beijing

    The Eleventh Division of the Beijing Labour Camp Dispatch Centre was created specifically for detaining and persecuting female Falun Gong practitioners. The "transformation" process is in fact a destruction of human conscience. Their goal is to force practitioners to go against their wills and sign the so-called three statements, promising to give up the practice and betraying their conscience. These people use great pressure to persecute practitioners. Practitioners are forced to watch videos or read books designed to defame Falun Gong. After they finish, they have to write their "understandings" of Falun Gong. Their "understandings" must meet the requirements set by the captain. At the end of the two-month session, practitioners are forced to make speeches which are over ten pages long to "expose and criticize" Falun Gong.
  • Mr. Zhang Litian Beaten to Death in Jinzhou City Prison, Liaoning Province

    According to eyewitnesses, Mr. Zhang Litian was beaten multiple times by prisoners in the Jinzhou City Prison. On November 16th, 2008, he went on hunger strike to protest the brutal beatings. The next day, on November 17th, Warden Zhang Baozhi encouraged four prisoners to cruelly beat Mr. Zhang Litian to death. He died after being detained for one month. Many prisoners witnessed this incident.
  • Mr. Yu Zhou's Wife Ms. Xu Na Sentenced to Three Years in Prison

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yu Zhou was tortured to death on Chinese New Year's Eve, February 6th, 2008. His wife, Ms. Xu Na is still under severe persecution. On November 25th, 2008, the Chongwen District Court in Beijing sentenced Ms. Xu Na to three years in prison. The whole process took only a few minutes because the results had already been decided, and they were only going through the motions in court. Ms. Xu requested to appeal to a higher court.
  • Mr. Sun Hongchang Disabled as a Result of Torture in Qingyuan County, Fushun City, Liaoning Province

    On March 28th, 2006, Mr. Sun Hongchang, a Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested by police officers. He was blindfolded and beaten by police at the Qingyuan Town Station. He was also tortured by being "Hung up by All Four Limbs Behind the Back" and enduring "Bamboo Stick Penetrates the Fingers" and other brutal methods. For three days and nights, residents close to the police station could hear Mr. Sun's cries. Since then, he has not been able to take care of himself. One of his legs was injured so badly during a beating he can no longer use it. The muscles have atrophied and he has no feeling in it. It has also become swollen.
  • Children Request Release of Mother from Prison after Their Father and Grandmother Pass Away

    Ms. Xu Youqin, a Falun Gong practitioner, was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment. Her husband Mr. Zang Dianlong died as a result of persecution. Her mother-in-law found it hard taking care of Ms Xu's two children and under such huge mental and physical pressure, the mother-in-law passed away in mid-September 2008. Left alone with no one to care for them, the two children requested the authorities of the Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison to release their mother.
  • Weining Forced Labour Camp in Benxi City, Liaoning Province Uses the "Stretching Bed" to Torture Falun Gong Practitioners

    Weining Forced Labour Camp uses "stretching beds" to force practitioners into giving up their beliefs. First, the guards take off the practitioner's clothes, and then they tie their limbs onto a specially-designed double bed using strips of cloth, with the legs split to the extreme, and both arms stretched out on either side. In this way, the whole body is immobilized, with only the head and neck being able to move a little. The practitioners are also not allowed to get up to relieve themselves. All urination and defecation occur on the bed. The practitioners are bound onto this bed around the clock for more than a month at a time, causing severe damage to their tendons and muscles. The unbearable pain sometimes brings about mental collapse.
  • Beijing Police Transfer Practitioners to Forced Labour Camps Outside the Capital

    Prior to the Olympic Games, every prison in Beijing was completely full. As a result, the police transferred practitioners to forced labour camps in distant provinces. Due to the fact that Mr. Li Laifang and fellow practitioners from Dingxing County, Hebei Province persisted in practising Falun Gong, they were arrested by police in Tong County, Beijing, and taken to the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province. Each time Mr. Li's father went to the camp to visit his son, the guards would turn him away.
  • Mr. Cao Junyi in Wugong County, Shaanxi Province Loses Memory After Harmful Injection

    Yan Yong is the team leader of the National Security Team in Wugong County, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, and He Hui is the director of the 610 Office. Yan and He led over a dozen policemen from the Puji Town Police Station to arrest Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Cao Junyi (in his seventies) and Ms. Yan Renyan (in her sixties) from the Yilao Village, Puji Town on May 14th, 2008, and ransack their homes. Police injected Mr. Cao Junyi with unidentified drugs, causing him to lose his memory.