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

Ms. Zhang Yijie Recounts Nine Years of Persecution

2008-09-24

The Party has spared no means to try to coerce Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their belief. While at the labour camp, I was several times held in solitary confinement, a small, dark room. The first time, they did not let me sleep for 18 days, and the second time I was forced to stand continuously for 42 days and nights, while nine people took turns torturing me and attempted to coerce me to write a guarantee statement to renounce Falun Gong. I also sustained severe injury in my lower back and legs from beatings. I endured endless, unspeakable abuse: complete isolation, drawn-out starvation, toilet use restriction, sleep deprivation, beatings, and psychological abuses too numerous to count, that left me with wounds and near-blindness in both eyes, and stunted speech.

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Older Practitioner Mr. Qin Daqun Died as a Result of Abuse in Custody in Chongqing City

2008-09-24

After the persecution started, Mr. Qin Daqun, 56, was taken into custody at the Geleshan Brainwashing Centre. On October 5th, 2005, he was arrested by officers from the Shapingba District Police Department and sentenced to one year of forced labour, which he served in the Xishanping Forced Labour Camp. On May 19th, 2008, the police arrested Mr. Qin. The police detained him in the Jiangbei Detention Centre, where a guard assaulted him from behind and another guard kicked him in the chest, causing him to pass out on the floor. Later he was admitted to hospital, emaciated and dying. Mr. Qin's family picked him up on August 28th, 2008. He died at around 3:00 p.m. on September 5th, 2008.

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Police Involvement Suspected in Mrs. Shi Guiying's Unnatural Death

2008-09-24

On October 28th, 2005, Ms. Shi Guiying went to visit her nephew. On October 30th, her son received a phone call from police saying that she had been taken to the police station after falling off a motorcycle, that she was unconscious and needed to be picked up. Ms. Shi's family took her from the police station to the hospital. She was found to be completely paralysed and unable to speak. Ms. Shi passed away on September 10th, 2006.

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A Letter Written in Prison by Ms. Liu Fengmei for Her Family

2008-09-24

On August 27th, 2008 when the Chinese Communist Party Court sentenced me to 13 years of imprisonment, my heart was trembling. At that moment I saw even more clearly the evil nature of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which is made up of gangsters and resorts to violence and deceit. I knew that the result of this trial would be too much for my family and all my relatives to bear. During the four-day-long trial, a Beijing lawyer argued a not-guilty defence. At the trial several practitioners explained the tortures they had been subjected to and showed the court their scars from the electric baton shocks. Not a single judge came over to look. They were completely indifferent. In the end, the judges publicly read out a statement fabricated by the police.

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Mourning the Death of Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Yang Guang

2008-09-23

I was shocked to hear that Falun Gong practitioner Yang Guang from Changchun had died in Jilin Prison. I was so sad and wanted to cry, but I have no more tears. His death is one more addition to over a dozen practitioners that I knew that died in the persecution. It is hard to imagine the torture Yang Guang endured. In eight years, he was subjected to all sorts of inhuman treatment. He was in critical condition many times. He was incontinent, suffered muscular atrophy, and was only skin and bones. His legs were crippled and his toes were rotten and deformed. When he was no longer able to walk, he had oedema throughout his whole body and could not eat, yet the prison authorities still refused to release him for medical treatment.

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Elder Sister Tortured to Death and Younger Sister Facing Sentence

2008-09-23

On March 13th, 2008, Ms. Gu Jianmin died as a result of the persecution. In June 2006, she was arrested and sentenced to one year of forced labour. Within a few months of being released from detention, she was arrested again and later died as a result of the persecution. Her younger sister, Ms. Gu Jihong was arrested in July 2008 and is facing a sentence. This is the third time that she has been arrested. In June 2000, she was sentenced to three years in prison. In June 2005, she was sentenced to one year of forced labour but was not released on time. The sisters suffered persecution during the past nine years because they practised Falun Gong.

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Ms. Feng Zuoru Passed Away in Tianjin

2008-09-23

Ms. Feng Zuoru, a Falun Gong practitioner, was held in a labour camp for three years. She was tortured and suffered a severe relapse of diabetes while in custody. Chinese Communist Party officials arrested her in 2001 when she distributed Falun Gong materials. They sentenced her to three years of forced labour without trial. She persisted in her belief at the Banqiao Labour Camp in Tianjin, and the authorities sent her to the Strictly Controlled Division, where they physically and verbally assaulted her. The abuse was around-the-clock and went on until she suffered a relapse of diabetes. The authorities ignored her condition and instead starved her. In addition, they forced her to do heavy manual labour in a toxic environment. She passed away on August 8th, 2008.

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22-year-old Ms. Gao Xi Suffers a Mental Breakdown After a Month of Torture in Labour Camp

2008-09-23

On September 30th, 2007, Ms. Gao Xi was arrested by police while distributing Falun Gong informational materials and imprisoned in Sanshui Women's Labour Camp. She was an intelligent and attractive 22-year-old woman. After a month of torture, she had reached the point of mental breakdown, her body was weak, and she was no longer able to speak. In 2008, during the Chinese New Year season, drug addicts assigned to monitor Ms. Gao forced her to take a cold bath for up to two hours, and they cut off her hair. Sometimes she was forced to stand continuously day and night, her face was covered with fingernail scratches, and the back of her head was swollen, bruised and was bandaged. The drug addicts frequently abused and berated her. In April 2008, she was released because she showed symptoms of schizophrenia.

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Older Practitioner Mr. Qian Shiguang Dies after Years of Torture

2008-09-22

Mr. Qian Shiguang, 65, was sentenced to forced labour camps on several occasions. In Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp in Beijing inmates there tortured him inhumanly and beat him until his lower back was fractured. In Gongjiawan Brainwashing Centre he was tortured by being cuffed behind his back, which caused him to suffer from the prolapse of his rectum and incontinence. Mr. Qian died on September 8th, 2008.

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Please Help Me Save My Mum

2008-09-22

My dad, Mr. Zhang Xingwu, who is over 60 years old, and my mum, Ms. Liu Pinjie, have both been detained for more than a month. There is nobody at home to pick up the phone. I don't know how long I will have to wait before I can hear their voices again. I feel a great sense of hollowness. I try to not think about that phone call or happy memories. But, I am not able to stop thinking about my mother's voice from our last phone call before she was arrested. She had said only one sentence, but I will never forget it.

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A Teacher from Jilin City Arrested and Tortured

2008-09-22

Ms. Li Liwen is a 50-year-old primary schoolteacher from Jilin Province. She helped the most undisciplined kids in the school to become straight "A" students with the principles Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance that she learned from Falun Gong. Yet this good teacher was arrested by police officers just before the opening of the Olympic Games. After being tortured for 42 days, she could barely walk and can no longer take care of herself.

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Zhang Lianhe from Kaifeng City Arrested--Happy Family Torn Apart

2008-09-22

On July 21st, 2008, at about 8:00 p.m., practitioner Zhang Lianhe was on his way back to his home town Kaifeng from Zhengzhou City after getting off duty. He called his family and told them that he was on a city bus and would be home soon. But at about 9:00 p.m., his family got a text message from him, which stated, "The company asked me to go back to Zhengzhou, my mobile phone battery is going to run out, and I will contact you later." However, Zhang Lianhe had actually been arrested. Zhang Lianhe has been in custody for more than a month without his family hearing any information about him.

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Torture Methods Used to Force Practitioners to Renounce Falun Gong at the Shandong Province Number Two Women's Forced Labour Camp

2008-09-21

Practitioners have to endure daily long hours of slave labour, in addition to brainwashing. They worked from 5:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., sometimes till midnight. Aside from going to the toilet, taking half an hour to eat lunch, or doing stand up work, everyone sits on a small bench the entire day. Guards forbid them to talk or to walk freely. Many practitioners who have been detained here, too numerous to mention, have died as a result of torture, suffered a mental collapse, were injured, disabled or came down with various illnesses in recent years.

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After Five Years of Abuse at a Mental Hospital, Ms. Liang Shufen Sent to Labour Camp and Tortured to the Verge of Death

2008-09-21

Ms. Liang Shufen, 44 years old, has suffered years of abuse because she practises Falun Gong. In 2000, she was sent to a mental hospital. Ms. Liang was there for five years and almost died in the hospital. The doctor injected unknown drugs into Ms. Xiang's body. She had mental disorders, severe injuries from failed suicide attempts, third degree crippling and depression (Note: Severe abuse drove Ms. Liang to try to commit suicide, although Falun Gong teaches against any form of killing, including suicide). In May 2007 Ms. Liang was arrested again and sentenced to a one-and-a-half-year labour camp sentence. She was brutally tortured.

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Older Practitioner Ms. Liu Hailan of Fujin City, Heilongjiang Province, Arrested at Gunpoint

2008-09-21

While Ms. Liu Hailan and five other practitioners were distributing information exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in a town on the evening of August 21st, 2008, they were chased by a police patrol car. Three of the six practitioners managed to escape. When the police intercepted the remaining practitioners, three officers jumped out of the patrol car and drew their guns. The practitioners were immediately arrested, put in the patrol car, and driven to the Erlongshan Town Police Station. Ms. Liu, who is almost 60 years old, is being held in the Fujin City Detention Centre.

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