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

  • Mr. Zhang Jinku Near Death Due to Torture and Abuse in Detention

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Jinku of Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang Province, was arrested on March 29th, 2013, and is being held in Hulan Prison. Due to torture and mistreatment, he is disoriented and has lost bladder and bowel control. He has been transferred to the prison hospital, where he is on the verge of death.
  • Police Secretly Install Tracking Device on Practitioner's Car

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Li from Cangzhou City, Hebei Province found a little black box under her car’s chassis on December 9th, 2013. The box was about 8cm × 8cm × 2cm. Ms. Li learned that it was a "locator," a tracking device. She removed it from the car and put it in the basement next to her parking place. Mr. Li’s home was ransacked at noon on December 11th, by eight police officers.
  • Falun Gong Practitioners Viciously Tortured at Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp Before it Closed

    Authorities at the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp escalated their persecution of Falun Gong practitioners between August 2012 and February 2013, just before it was decommissioned. The labour camp used many kinds of torture on practitioners. They forced practitioners to sit on small plastic stools designed for children from 5:00 in the morning until midnight, sometimes even longer. There was little time for sleep. The torture made some some practitioners' buttocks fester. Right before the labour camp finally closed, some captains asked the practitioners they had tortured not to expose their crimes. These vicious perpetrators expressed fear of being brought to justice.
  • Ms. Sun Yanxia in Critical Condition after Interrogation and Torture

    Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Sun Yanxia, her husband Mr. Han Jianping, Ms. Fu Guihua and her daughter Xiaoyan were arrested at Ms. Fu's home on June 3rd, 2013. They were taken to the police station where they were interrogated and tortured. The police intended to frame them for making Falun Gong banners which were hung in a residential area in Changchun on May 13th. As a result of the torture, Ms. Sun Yanxia was diagnosed with early stage cirrhosis, and a tumour was found in her pelvis.
  • "I Still Tremble When I Think About It - I Was Locked Up In a Men's Cell at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp” (Part 2)

    "I was sent to the Shenyang Prisoners’ Hospital after being tortured. After all the abuse, I looked so terrible that I frightened the prisoners. On the thirteenth day of my hunger strike, I was dragged into the force-feeding room by five people. I was held down, and could not move. I almost suffocated. A pair of hands held my head tightly, and a tube was inserted into my nose. I did not know what they were feeding me. My stomach was filled with dirty water, and I kept vomiting."
  • “I Still Tremble When I Think About It – I Was Locked Up In a Men's Cell at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp” (Part 1)

    Ms. Yin Liping was locked up for practising Falun Gong and she recounts her dreadful experience, "Whenever I think of the notorious Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, my heart trembles. I will never forget the day: April 19th, 2001. On that date, the guards at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp took nine of us – women who refused to give up our belief in Falun Gong, into nine separate rooms. I was put into the first room where four male inmates were waiting. I saw another big room holding more than 30 men when I went to the toilet."
  • Mr. Zhao Gangxian Arrested and His Bedridden Wife Died from Lack of Care

    Mr. Zhao Gangxian, 65, was arrested by police in Bazhong City on the afternoon of October 8th, 2013 after a false accusation was lodged against him. Mr. Zhao is detained in the Bazhou District Detention Centre. His wife had been bitten by a poisonous snake and was confined to bed. She passed away at the age of 61 two weeks later because her husband was not there to care for her.
  • Ms. Teng Xiuling in Serious Condition, Lost Ability to Speak in Police Custody

    Ms. Teng Xiuling, a Falun Gong practitioner in Donggang, Liaoning Province, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison on September 16th, 2013. When her family visited her in Shenyang City Women's Prison in November, they found that Ms. Teng had lost the ability to speak. With shaking hands, she reached through the iron bars and wrote on her brother's hand, “I've been driven almost crazy!”
  • Fired Nine Years Ago for Practising Falun Gong, a Middle School Teacher Seeks to Have Her Job Reinstated

    Ms. Zhao Xianchang is a Falun Gong practitioner from Lianshan Town, Guanghan City, Sichuan Province. Shortly after her arrest in 2004, Guanghan City Education Bureau dismissed her from her job at Guangshan Third Middle School. Ms. Zhao has been requesting reinstatement since her release from the labour camp in 2007, yet the education bureau has turned a blind eye. Without a steady income, she is leading a very hard life by working odd jobs.
  • Detained for Exposing Torture in Forced Labour Camps, Ms. Lu Xueqin Denied Medical Care

    Ms. Lu Xueqin was arrested on May 2nd, 2013, for taking photographs that depicted various means of torture used on Falun Gong practitioners in Chinese prisons and forced labour camps. She has been detained ever since. Ms. Lu's health has drastically deteriorated while in detention. Her lawyer submitted a request to get her released on medical parole, but the Qingdao City Police Department has turned it down.
  • Case Specifics Point to Reason of Death: Organ Harvesting

    The global condemnation of forced organ harvesting in China is on the rise, yet the magnitude of this heinous state-sanctioned crime is still to be fully exposed. For the Falun Gong practitioners who are being persecuted in China, more and more specifics point to a likely reason for some death cases—organ harvesting. Mr. Peng Min's case is one such example. One day after being injected with unknown drugs, Mr. Peng died at a hospital on April 6th, 2001. Prior to that, the hospital had performed an unauthorised surgery on him, after he became paralysed due to torture. The surgery left him with a large hole in his lower back, which was never treated.
  • Bank Fires Ms. Li Li for Practising Falun Gong

    The president of the Kangping County Agricultural Bank in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, used the order sent down from the president of the the provincial office of the bank to force all the Staff Representative Assembly members to support the decision to fire Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Li. Shenyang City Agricultural Bank did the same thing. The fact that the Agricultural Banks of the province, the city, and the county went to so much effort in the firing of Ms. Li is strong evidence that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policy to "ruin Falun Gong practitioners financially" is still in effect.
  • Senior Practitioner Ms. Liang Yunying Tortured 38 Times on Tiger Bench

    Because she could not remain silent while Falun Gong was being slandered, Ms. Liang Yunying appealed for justice. She has been arrested nine times in the past 14 years, and placed in detention centres and jails. Her home was ransacked nine times. Ms. Liang was forced to sit on the tiger bench 38 times. She was kept in shackles and handcuffs – treatment reserved for death row inmates, three times. In total she was shackled for 37 days. While she was detained, she was routinely beaten by the guards and inmates.
  • Ms. Xiu Jinqiu Persecuted to Death

    Ms. Xiu Jinqiu handed a Falun Gong pamphlet to a female officer in the Linjiang Community, Dandong City, on September 5th, 2013. This officer reported her, and Ms. Xiu was arrested and tortured. She was released and left her home to avoid being arrested again. She, her husband, and their daughter were arrested on September 9. Her health deteriorated after that. She lost consciousness on November 16th and passed away on November 28th at the age of 52.
  • Practitioner Recalls Drug Torture and Other Traumas in Shandong Province Women's Prison

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Meng Lijun was released from the Shandong Province Women's Prison on July 11th, 2013, after being held there for nine years. During her nine-year prison term, Ms. Meng was brutally tortured with forced drug administration, along with other tortures. She had lost a great deal of memory by the time she was released. Her emotions went up and down and she was mentally unstable. After her release, Ms. Meng had to rely on her family to take care of her day to day needs.