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 Persecution of Mr. Zhou Lianghua from Wuyi County, Zhejiang Province

    Mr. Zhou Lianghua, was a high school teacher. He has been persecuted by the local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials since the persecution of Falun Gong began in July 1999. On July 31st, 2005, he was arrested for advocating the resignation of people from the CCP. Since then, he has been imprisoned at the Shiliping Labour Camp in Zhejiang Province. The camp administration has denied his family the right to visit him for more than two years now. Mr Zhou's family has received no word about his condition, and are extremely worried.
  • Practitioner Mr. Cai Jichun Suffering Persecution

    On the morning of October 25th, 2007, while Mr. Cai Jichun was out earning his livelihood riding his tricycle, Mr. Cai was followed, arrested and then taken to the Yi County Police Department by police. Afterwards, four or five officers searched his home and seized Dafa books and some leaflets exposing the persecution. They took his wife to the office of the State Security Division, where she was interrogated. Later, she began twitching and went into shock, so the officers allowed her daughter to take her home. Mr. Cai was taken to the Jinzhou City No. 2 Detention centre and his tricycle was confiscated by the State Security Division.
  • Dafa Practitioners Arrested by National Security Officials in Wanquan County, Hebei Province

    On September 14th, 2007, the police sent four cars to practitioner Mr. Li Lianbing's home to arrest him. During the arrest that day his home was searched and his property was confiscated, including a notebook computer, printer, CDs, motorcycle, and over 3,000 yuan in cash. The police also took away many other household items. Due to Li Lianbing's family being poor there were hardly any valuable items in the home. The police even took several cooking pots.
  • Criminal Actions of Commander Wang Kai in the Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp's Fifth Battalion

    Wang Kai, an official of the fifth battalion in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, has actively followed the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policy of persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners since he was promoted from instructor to the post of commander. In order to protest the persecution, Yu Huai, a practitioner, went on a hunger strike. Wang ordered criminals to force-feed him with a tube. Mr. Yu was slapped twice for not cooperating. Even when Mr. Yu became extremely weak and was in critical condition, he wasn't released. He died in April 2007 as a result of this persecution.
  • 62-Year-Old Ms. Huang Jinglan Died in 2001 as a Result of Persecution in Xuyong County, Sichuan Province

    Ms. Huang Jinglan endured a huge amount of pressure from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime, her employer, and her husband, which damaged her mental and physical health. After 1999, the persecution of Falun Dafa in China started, and Ms. Huang went to Beijing to appeal and was arrested. Guards in the detention centre and other prisoners conducted body searches, forced her to go through brainwashing sessions, extorted 5000 yuan from her, and deducted her salary and regular bonus pay. She became ill and was bedridden by the Spring of 2001. She died at the end of June 2001 at 62 years of age.
  • Please Pay Attention to the Recent Persecution of Ms. Xue Liangyan in Wuhan City, Hubei Province

    On September 19th, 2007, officers from the Tongxin Police Station took Ms. Xue Liangyan into custody and searched her home. She has been detained in the Erzhigou Detention Centre. Recently, the officers signed a fake arrest warrant as a reason to keep her in detention and to trump up charges to sentence her. It is said that the diseases that Ms. Xue suffered from prior to practising Falun Gong have relapsed and she is experiencing bleeding from her cervix. On the same day that Ms. Xue was taken into custody, her son and daughter-in-law, who are not practitioners, were also detained and not released until that night.
  • Mr. Long Guande's Life at Risk in Prison

    Mr. Long Guande, 43, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Guangdong Province, was severely injured from police beatings when he was arrested. Mr. Long sustained severe internal injuries, and he had blood in his urine and stool for an entire week. He also has chest pains, difficulty breathing, and continuous coughing. He is detained in the Third Detention Centre in the Baiyun District of Guangzhou City. He has refused to sign the arrest warrant.
  • Ms. Song Lianying Beaten at a Drug Rehabilitation Centre and a Forced Labour Camp in Hubei Province

    Ms. Song Lianying went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong and was brutally beaten by police officers at Tiananmen Square on January 1st, 2001. She was later imprisoned for three months at a detention centre in Huanggang and later sentenced to one year in a forced labour camp. Afterwards, she was sent to the Shizishan "Drug Rehabilitation Centre." Although the guards brutally beat her with three electric batons, Ms. Song refused to obey their unjust commands. She was then sent to the Shayang Forced Labour Camp in Hubei Province, where she was beaten again with electric batons. Her hands and mouth were swollen and blistered as a result of the cruel torture.
  • Older Practitioner Ms. Chen Guilian Has Died, Poisoned with Drugs in Baimalong Labour Camp, Hunan Province

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Chen Guilian began cultivating Falun Dafa in 1997. Her heart disease was cured, and she had been very healthy for the past ten years. On April 26th, 2007, she was arrested while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong at the Jindu Market in Zhuzhou City. She was sentenced to one year of forced labour. As soon as she arrived at the Baimalong Forced Labour Camp, she was force-fed unknown drugs for more than three months. Ms. Chen died 150 days after being arrested and only 15 days after being bailed out of the labour camp for medical treatment, at the age of 57. The torture methods used in Baimalong Labour Camp are very evil, such as injecting nerve-damaging drugs, hanging people by their handcuffs from the window frame, brutal force-feeding, forcing practitioners to stand on the legs of an upside-down wooden stool.
  • The Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners at Longyan Prison in Fujian Province

    When a practitioner arrives at the prison, guards assign several inmates to closely monitor him. They force the practitioner to report to them and ask for permission for everything they wish to do. They follow the practitioner everywhere, even into the toilet. The guards try to "transform" practitioners and force them to watch materials that slander and defame Falun Dafa. They force practitioners to stand from morning to evening, run for a long time, expose them to the baking sun, or make them stay in a fixed position for a long time. Former Professor Lin Chenglai from Jimei University resisted the inhuman treatment. Therefore, guards ordered inmates to hold him to the ground and beat him. The Political Commissar of the prison said, "This is not called beating. This is called 'education.' Do you understand?"
  • Recent Account of Persecution at the Xindian Women's Forced Labour Camp in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province

    Due to the recent 17th Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Congress, the visitation schedule at Xindian Women's Forced Labour Camp was disrupted. The guards have been harassing the visiting family members and turned them away without granting visitation. There were practitioners on long term hunger strikes and in critical condition in the labour camp. The labour camp authorities forced their family members to come from far away to help persuade the practitioners to stop their hunger strikes and give up Falun Gong. If the family members failed in their efforts, the labour camp continued to imprison the practitioners. Furthermore, they denied family visits the next day, which was an official visiting day.
  • Practitioner Lu Shunmin, In His Fifties, Missing from Xinmi Prison

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Lu Shunmin is in his 50's. In 2002, because he spoke out for justice for Falun Gong to local residents, he was arrested. Police beat him so savagely that he passed out four times. Before his trial, the local authorities were afraid that he would speak out in court and so policemen picked Lu Shunmin up, held him as high as five feet, then dropped him to the ground. Lu Shunmin lost consciousness immediately. He was then sentenced to seven years of imprisonment. Several inmates forced open his mouth and poured faeces and urine into it. They also burned his finger and tongue with a cigarette lighter, and forced him to squat for a long period of time. In July 2007, the prison authorities told Lu Shunmin's family members that he was missing. As of today, his whereabouts is unknown.
  • Ms. Yu Suye from Zhangqiu City, Shandong Province Sentenced to Forced Labour

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yu Suye talked about Falun Gong to people in a market on October 3rd, 2007. Someone ignorant of the facts about Falun Gong reported her to the police, and they arrested Ms. Yu and ransacked her home. Police sentenced Ms. Yu to one and a half years of forced labour on November 3rd. She is presently being held at the Jiangshuiquan Women's Forced Labour Camp in Jinan City. During Ms. Yu's incarceration in the forced labour camp, the guards have detained her in solitary confinement to persecute her. Her family members have been to the forced labour camp and requested to meet with her. However, the guards have denied their request with the excuse that Ms. Yu is too firm in her belief.
  • Guards from the Second Unit of the Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp Continue to Torture Dafa Practitioners

    Practitioner Ms. Zhang Guizhi is 62 years old. Around 4:00 a.m., a guard found Ms. Zhang reading Dafa articles in her bedroom. Later that morning Guard Jia Hongyan continuously shocked Ms. Zhang with an electric baton for an extended period of time. Practitioner Ms. Xu Mingying is 50 years old. In August, 2007, a prisoner reported that Ms. Xu had Falun Dafa materials. Guard Yang Liqiu (female) hit Ms. Xu's mouth and shocked her with an electric baton. Ms. Xu's teeth were knocked loose and she now has difficulty eating.
  • Ms. Chen Yuhua Arrested While Taking Care of Her Ailing Husband at Home

    On the morning of October 14th, 2007, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Chen Yuhua, 57 years old, was arrested by eight police officers. At the time of the arrest, she was taking care of her husband who was ill and receiving intravenous injections. Ms. Chen is currently being detained at the Heze City Detention Centre. She has been arrested eight times previously, and was sentenced to forced labour twice. Because of her recent arrest, Ms. Chen is unable to care for her elderly parents and her ailing husband.