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
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Mr. Tan Weichang from Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province Imprisoned
2007-11-08On September 23rd, 2007, Mr. Tan Weichang was arrested by the local police. At present, he is imprisoned at the Yuexiu District No. 2 Detention Centre in Guangzhou City. His family members have gone several times to deliver him clothing, but every time the guards haven't allowed them to see him. They were only allowed to leave some of his clothes and money for him. His family members still don't know his situation. -
Veteran Medical Officer from Beijing Suffers Brutal Torture in Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
2007-11-07Mr. Gao Liangui, 69 years old, was arrested because he is a Falun Gong practitioner and sent to Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp. The most common methods of torture used in Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp include the following: being confined in a solitary cell for more than a month at a time; being forced to attend brainwashing sessions run by a group of collaborators, former practitioners who have turned against Dafa; being shocked with electric batons, immobilised with handcuffs, forced to wear a motorcycle helmet for extended periods of time. The guards told Mr. Gao to participate in a "formation drill" in the afternoon. Mr. Gao talked to the division head and asked to rest because he was not feeling well. As a result he was brutally beaten. -
Officers from the 610 Office in Mengyang Town, Pengzhou City, Sichuan Province Brutally Beat Mr. Zhuang Chenglin
2007-11-07Officers from the 610 Office and the Regional Administration Office brutally beat four Falun Dafa practitioners simply because they read a leaflet exposing the persecution. On January 24th, 2000, police broke into the home of Mr. Zhuang Chenglin and arrested him. Because Mr. Zhuang refused to answer any questions he was badly beaten. The head of the town government, first slapped Mr. Zhuang. Then others proceeded to punch and kick Mr. Zhuang. The police had Mr. Zhuang take off his trousers and lay down with his arms stretched out. Another group of officers then whipped Mr. Zhuang with bamboo and wooden sticks on the buttocks and all over his body. Five or six police officers took turns hitting Mr. Zhuang with sticks. His body was covered with cuts and bruises afterwards. -
Nanhua Administrative Office and Local Police Personnel Persecute Sisters Jia Yulan and Jia Yukun in Anshan City, Liaoning Province
2007-11-07Several police officers from Nanhua Police Station ransacked the home of sisters Ms. Jia Yulan and Ms. Jia Yukun. They confiscated several Falun Dafa books. Then they took them to the Nanhua local police station. They took a photo of the confiscated books. They also took some leaflets exposing the persecution as "evidence." These materials, however, had not been found in Ms. Jia Yulan and Ms. Jia Yukun's home. The authorities had planted the documents, but they ordered the sisters to sign acknowledging their possessions, which they refused to do. The women were sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour. -
The Guards in the "Education" Section of Heizuizi Women's Prison in Changchun Torture Practitioners
2007-11-07Practitioner Ban Huijuan is suffering from mental disorder after being severely tortured. She is afraid to see people and automatically hides herself behind other people's backs when she sees someone. She does not dare to speak to people. She has nightmares and shouts in her sleep. She has lost her memory and doesn't remember her age. She also cannot recall the names of the people she has just met. She cannot walk properly and also passes blood. Her eyes cannot adjust to the light and she can barely see. -
18 Practitioners from Xiantao City, Hubei Province, Arrested
2007-11-06While 18 Falun Gong practitioners were still sleeping in the early morning of September 24th, 2007 (the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival), officers from the 610 Office of Xiantao City, the National Security Group, the Special Police Group, and the local police station broke into their homes. They arrested practitioners and took away their Falun Gong books, cash, and private belongings. Some of the practitioners were transferred to Wuhan City Brainwashing Centre. Some of them were transferred to the First Detention Centre of Xiantao City. The rest were transferred to Magang Brainwashing Centre, which is controlled by the 610 Office of Xiantao City. All the arrested practitioners were seriously mistreated. The eldest practitioner was 78 years old. -
Due to the Persecution, Practitioners from Mudanjiang Teachers College Have Died and Lost Their Homes
2007-11-06After being in a forced labour camp twice, not long after he was released in December 2006, Zhu Xiucheng was again seized by Mudanjiang National Security and detained in Mudanjiang Police Department for four days, where a national security officer kicked his face and cruelly tortured him, trying to force him to make a statement. The corner of his mouth was seriously injured, he could not speak, and his front teeth were knocked loose and almost fell out. Later he was force-fed during his hunger strike for resisting the persecution in the No. 2 Detention Centre. After he was detained for seven months in the detention centre, he was sentenced to five years and is now in Mudanjiang Prison. His wife, Wang Shue, has been incarcerated in Harbin Women's Prison for several years. -
Yanji City Practitioner Zhang Xingcai Brutally Persecuted in Jiutai Forced Labour Camp
2007-11-06Yanbian and Jiutai labour camps resorted to various inhumane torture methods to reform practitioners. One of the torture methods used was to wake the practitioners up as early as 4:30 a.m. and make them sit on plastic backless stools for up to 15 hours a day. The practitioners had to sit upright and straight, at a 90-degree angle, with both hands placed in front of the knees and eyes staring straight at the blackboard in front. This prolonged sitting caused some of the practitioners' buttocks to become inflamed and eventually infected. Their oozing wounds would stick to their clothing, causing them extreme pain and itchiness. The suffering was unbearable. They were not allowed to move or turn their heads while sitting. They were not allowed to utter a word. Young or old, healthy or sick, failure to comply would be met with severe punishment such as kicks and punches. -
Ms. Zhang Xiaoping from Hunan Province Arrested and Detained Six Times
2007-11-06I am a nursery teacher. Because I would not give up my personal belief and wanted to become a good person according to the standard of "Truthfulness, Kindness, Forbearance," I have been arrested and detained six times since the persecution of Falun Dafa began. On February 29th, 2000, I travelled to Beijing to appeal for Dafa and was arrested and taken to the county detention centre. The police hung a big poster around my neck and tied my hands behind my back. They forced me into the back of a truck and drove around different streets in the county, exhibiting me as an object of scorn. At the detention centre, they would not allow me to go to sleep. They interrogated me day and night. One policeman called Bai Bangwu beat me. I insisted on doing the exercises, so they put handcuffs and shackles on me. They were not removed for a week. -
Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Dai Zongzhen on the Brink of Death from Abuse at the Wangcun Forced Labour Camp, Shandong Province
2007-11-0552-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Dai Zongzhen from Weifang City, Shandong Province was arrested on April 18th, 2007. She was sent to the Wangcun Forced Labour Camp where she has been severely abused. One source indicated that due to the mistreatment she had to endure, her previous illnesses such as heart disease recurred, and she is on the brink of death. While incarcerated at the labour camp, Ms. Dai's family tried to visit her five times, but their requests were rudely denied. -
Ms. Deng Xinyue and Others Arrested and Beaten by Police from the National Security Team of Hetang Police Department, Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province
2007-11-05While Ms. Deng Xinyue, 48, was shopping with other practitioners they were arrested when they began telling people in a shop about the goodness of Falun Dafa and explained that practitioners are innocent people being wrongfully persecuted. Head of the National Security Team He (first name unknown) interrogated Ms. Deng Xinyue. Officer He pulled her hair, violently shook her, and used all of his strength to beat her head and face. Then another big, strong police officer continued beating her until all her teeth were loose, and she had difficulty walking and breathing. Her hands were cuffed so tightly behind her that the cuffs caused lacerations across her wrists and hands. She nearly lost her life from the abuse. -
Mental Hospital in Chongqing Persecutes Falun Gong Practitioner
2007-11-05For the month of October, Huang Zhenglan, a woman in her 40s, from rural China was imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital in Chongging City because of her belief in Falun Gong. She is now receiving forced injections of unknown drugs twice a day. If she refused the drugs, they would coil a rope around her entire body not only making it difficult to move but almost impossible to breathe. The database for Rescuing Falun Gong practitioners shows that Huang was healthy before she was kidnapped. However, during her imprisonment in the labour camp in 2005, she had symptoms of some mental disorder. -
Ms. Liu Xiaoqin from Hunan Province Repeatedly Loses Consciousness While Forced to Stand on Bamboo Sticks and Being Beaten While Hung Up
2007-11-05Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Xiaoqin was arrested on September 30th, 2007 by the police from Longshan County and agents from the Huayuan County 610 Office. Her house was ransacked and she was taken to Longshan County Police Station where she was tortured brutally. She was hung in the air while handcuffed. She was beaten with a leather whip and later forced to walk on sharp thin bamboo sticks that were stapled to the floor. The pain was excruciating and she lost consciousness a few times. -
Mr. Gong Maocheng from Mengyin, Shandong Province Brutally Tortured and Persecuted Financially
2007-11-04In September 2006, police arrested Mr. Gong Maocheng because he continued to practise Falun Gong. He was detained in a detention centre where the police brutally tortured him. The police covered his head with a black plastic bag and then beat him, which caused his mouth and nose to bleed. They did not stop until he fainted. His hands were handcuffed from the back and then he was hung on a heating pipe. He was only able to touch the ground with his toes. He was hung this way for 24 days. The police forced him to sit on a "tiger bench" and slapped his face. When the police became tired of slapping, they beat him with their shoes. Since 2000, Mr. Gong Maocheng has been extorted for nearly 124,500 yuan. -
Former Dongfeng Automobile Company Official Ms. Zhang Shoufeng Persecuted for Eight Years
2007-11-04Former secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Dongfeng Automobile Company, Ms. Zhang Shoufeng, was an honest official. For the past eight years, she has been subjected to persecution, detention, and forced brainwashing for her belief in Falun Dafa and "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance." In mid-November 2003, Ms. Zhang was sentenced to five years in prison. She is still in prison. Those practitioners that were not "transformed", such as Ms. Zhang, were locked in a separate room. A team consisting of 6 to 10 trained criminals was set up to persecute practitioners. Practitioners were not allowed to fall asleep or go to the toilet. They forced practitioners to sit all day long in an upright posture. It is very difficult for people to maintain that position for 24 hours a day. Ms. Zhang was tortured like this for more than three months, and her blood pressure reached 200.