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

  • Ten Practitioners' Deaths Reported in March 2008

    Mr. Wang Guiming, a 38-year-old practitioner, was sent to the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp on February 13th, 2008, by police. On February 29th, he died as a result of brutal torture in the labour camp. The camp administrators claimed that the cause of his death was him slamming into the heater very hard to try to commit suicide. According to a reliable source, while Wang Guiming was on a hunger strike, he was tortured with force-feeding. He died after being shocked with many electric batons.
  • Practitioner Ms. Wang Yuqing Arrested, Hospitalised in Guangdong Province

    At 9:25 a.m on February 22nd, 2008, Ms. Wang Yuqing was arrested at home by agents from the 610 Office and sentenced to forced labour. Recently, Ms. Wang was taken to the Guangdong Province Armed Police Hospital and there is no further information. Her family became aware that officers at Haizhu District Detention Centre planned to send Ms. Wang to the labour camp, however, because Ms. Wang went on a hunger strike for many days and she was very weak. She was rejected by the labour camp and returned to the Haizhu District Detention Centre. When her family members applied for medical parole, it was rejected by the officers from detention centre. They did not release Ms. Wang and did not allow her family to visit her.
  • The Abuse and Persecution Suffered by Older Practitioner Ms. Zhang Jinlan from Shaanxi Province Before Her Death

    60-year-old Ms. Zhang Jinlan was a Falun Gong practitioner from Shaanxi Province. After the Jiang Zemin [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] regime started the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, she was detained several times. The persecutors placed her in a mental hospital and injected her with unknown substances. As a result, Ms. Zhang became completely paralysed, and the lower part of her body was severely infected. While she was in such terrible condition, her home and phone were monitored. Unable to get any help from outside, Ms. Zhang Jinlan died on February 1st, 2008.
  • Ms. Tang Yingxia and Five Others Arrested by State Security Agents in Changsha

    On March 27th, 2008, six Falun Gong practitioners, including Ms. Tang Yingxia, were arrested when they were in the house of practitioner Mr. Wu Jinping. Mr. Wu Jinping and three others were among those also arrested. On March 30th, 2008, police and officials broke into Ms. Tang Yingxia's home. Personal items and more than 8,000 yuan in cash were taken. At present, Ms Tang Yingxia is being held in Wangcheng County Detention Centre. During several interrogations, officers of the State Security Division have used violence to try to extort "evidence" from her.
  • Ms. Zhao Yingjie Brutally Tortured at Jilin Province Women's Prison and Has Become Severely Ill

    Ms. Zhao Yingjie, a practitioner from Jilin City, Jilin Province, was tortured so severely that both her hands, which are raw from the friction of the handcuffs, are horribly disfigured. She is being held in Jilin Province Women's Prison and is suffering from an extremely serious lung infection that is life threatening. July 10th, 2007, five months after Ms. Zhao was arrested and tortured, the Chinese Communist Party Court of the Chuanying District in Jilin City put her on trial. In court she revealed the identities of her interrogators and how she had been tortured and scarred. When Ms. Zhao Yingjie attempted to reveal that during her interrogation, those in charge sexually assaulted her with a wooden club and force-fed her five bottles of spicy black mustard oil, seriously injuring her mouth and face, and showed her leg wound, Judge Hu Chunwei refused to let her continue speaking. Ms. Zhao was sentenced to six years of imprisonment.
  • Accounts of Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Tangshan, Hebei Province

    On October 7th, 2000, Ms. Liang went to Beijing to appeal for the justice for Falun Gong. She was arrested by local police. She was searched, beaten, and then was taken back to Tangshan City the same night. She was detained for seven days and suffered a mental collapse as a result. On October 14th, Ms. Liang was taken to the No. 5 Hospital of the Tangshan City Mental Hospital. Four months later, she was transferred to a testing clinic and was injected with unknown drugs. Ms. Liang was detained in the mental hospital for five years. As a result, her mental and physical condition deteriorated further and she tried to commit suicide which resulted in many injuries to her body - a third degree disability with a major depression disorder. (Note: the teachings of Falun Gong forbid killing, including suicide.)
  • Accounts of Practitioners Persecuted in Jiansanjiang District, Heilongjiang Province

    Several hundred practitioners have been detained and their homes ransacked, some have lost their jobs, and some people have been fined up to 10,000 yuan. In total, several thousand people have been affected in some way by this persecution. The "transformation" centre in Jiansanjiang has detained hundreds of practitioners, some for as long as two years. This jail, a place that secretly houses those who have been deprived of their freedom without any legal procedures having been followed, is shown off by the government officials of Jiansanjiang in order to receive awards.
  • Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners In Bijie City, Guizhou Province

    Mr. Ye Fenglin, 45, was an armed forces department official in Linkou Town, Bijie City. In October 2001 he was taken to Zhongba Forced Labour Camp of Guizhou Province for a three-year term. At the labour camp, he was subjected to brutal and merciless beatings because he resisted the forced brainwashing and was steadfast in not giving up cultivation. On June 27th, 2002, at 7:30 a.m., he was tortured to death while being held in the sixth team of Zhongba Forced Labour Camp of Guizhou Province. His autopsy result showed that his liver had extravasated blood, that one of his ribs was broken, and that there was no food in his stomach and intestines.
  • Mr. Guo Hanpo Dies in Baoding Prison

    Mr. Guo Hanpo was a Falun Gong practitioner in his 50's who lived in Cangzhou City, Hebei Province. Early on the morning of April 5th, 2008, his family received a phone call from the Baoding City Prison saying that he had died. His family rushed to the prison. Police had had him sentenced to eleven years in prison in 2002. He had to do the most heavy labour - crack the rocks, but in a half starved state, while being mentally tortured by forced brainwashing.
  • Mourning My Mother Ms. Zhou Huimin

    Just a few days ago, I turned 15. My mother's name was Zhou Huimin, and she was 44 when she passed away. She used to be the manager of a moulding factory. Just a few days ago, my kind and healthy mother was tortured to death. In the 198 days since my mother was arrested, we worried and feared for her day and night. With great sorrow, I remember the days I spent together with my mother and mourn her. I want to call for the termination of the persecution so that such tragedies will no longer happen.
  • Ninety-Year-Old Woman with Severe Hypertension Imprisoned in Shanghai for Practising Falun Gong

    Nine female Falun Gong practitioners are currently imprisoned in Shanghai, several of whom are senior citizens. Four have been informed that they will be prosecuted for resisting the persecution with hunger strikes, including two held at the Shanghai Prison Main Hospital. An approximately 90-year-old female practitioner (name unknown) is imprisoned in Hongkou District Detention Centre. There are two other practitioners in the detention centre, both 66 to 67 years old.
  • Ms. Li Guiling Suffers Mental Collapse After Being Injected with Unknown Psychiatric Drugs at the Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp

    In July, 1999, the Jiang regime [Jiang Zemin, former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] began a brutal persecution against Falun Gong and "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." In 2000, Ms. Li Guiling travelled to Beijing twice to appeal for Falun Gong and was twice imprisoned in a detention centre. In 2002 she was sent to a brainwashing class for persecution. For refusing to write the so-called guarantee statements to give up practising Falun Gong, she was sent to the Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp, where she was injected with unknown psychiatric drugs and suffered a mental collapse. Only after Zhang Sinan extorted 2,000 yuan from Ms. Li's family did they release her. After returning home, she could not recognize anyone and would hide whenever she saw anyone. She could not speak and appeared very afraid.
  • Exposing the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Shandong Province No. 1 Women's Forced Labour Camp

    From my own experience, I knew that imprisonment in a forced labour camp was just like entering a demon's den. Besides insolent guards, there were one or two inmates assigned to monitor and torture practitioners. The inmates cooperated with the guards to carry-out brainwashing, involving instilled falsehoods and absurdities, in attempts to force practitioners to "reform." If these measures were counter productive, the guards would strike out by themselves. For example, division head Sun Juan would kick the older practitioners' naked calves with her shoes on. If you asked, "Isn't beating people not allowed here?" She would answer flagrantly, "Is this beating you? What I did was to educate you." She often declared openly and shamelessly, "We often denigrate you practitioners or even beat you. Why don't we do the same thing to passers-by on the street or others but only to you? It is because we love you."
  • Practitioner Ms. Li Shujie from Hailun City, Heilongjiang Province, Arrested and Force-fed Alcohol

    On March 7th, 2008, Ms. Li Shujie was arrested at work by Public Security officials. They forced her into a car and took her to a building in which Falun Gong practitioners were brutally mistreated. In this building there are iron chair torture apparatus, thick, double-layer curtains, and several separate rooms. Five of the persecutors put Ms. Li in an iron chair and restrained her hands behind her back. They force-fed her about 500g of liquor and a bottle of mustard oil. They also put lit cigars into her nostrils and tried to force her to smoke. They did this several times, so Ms. Li was force-fed nearly 1,000g of liquor and one and a half bottles of mustard oil. Her mouth was tied tightly with a towel, causing her lips and mouth to crack and break.
  • The Persecution of Ms. Zheng Hongwen by Personnel of the Institute for Radiation Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Tianjin

    Ms. Zheng Hongwen, a practitioner, was reported while she distributed leaflets explaining the truth about Falun Gong so that the Chinese people could understand the unreasonable persecution and what Falun Gong is really about, and is now under house arrest. She has been deprived of physical freedom for over a month. In 2000, she was imprisoned at the Banqiao Forced Labour Camp in Tianjin and forced to sign the three statements. In 2006, she resumed practising Falun Gong. She became more healthy both physically and mentally and used this fact to show people the benefits of Falun Gong. During the last few weeks, she has been locked up in an office on the third floor of an administration building. The officials have been taking turns talking to her in an attempt to force her to write something. Ms. Zheng has not complied, and they are threatening to hand her over to the police.