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 Arrest of a 65-Year-Old Practitioner from Shandong Province

    On September 18th, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioner Zhang Jianguo’s home was ransacked. Following this incident, he and his middle son were both detained at Shilihe Detention Centre. Police officers from the township police station participated in ransacking Zhang Jianguo’s home. Since the Jiang Zemin regime started persecuting Falun Gong, Jiang Jianguo’s family has been harassed continuously. He is the backbone of his family and the main breadwinner, as his wife is unable to work. Yet she is now alone.
  • Dalian City Police Arrest Practitioner Zhang Guoyu Again; His Family Can Find No Refuge from the Persecution

    Xuanxuan, the 7-year-old son of Zhang Guoyu, misses his father very much. He wrote on a piece of paper: "There is nothing wrong with believing in Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance. Give my father Zhang Guoyu back to me." On September 12th, 2006, police broke into Dafa practitioner Zhang Guoyu's workplace, arrested and detained him at a detention centre. Zhang Guoyu is now on a hunger strike to protest the unjust detention.
  • 57-Year-Old Woman is Left Paralysed from Torture in a Chongching City Mental Hospital

    Dafa practitioner Wei Hua was arrested and forced to stay in a mental hospital by the local Chinese Communist Party secretary Yu Fulin and others, under the pretext that she had a mental disorder. In the hospital, Ms. Wei was tortured until the left side of her body was paralysed. She is now emaciated, has difficulty speaking, and is incontinent. She is in great pain and her health condition is precarious.
  • Leadership at the Huaneng Electric Power Plant Relentlessly Persecutes Falun Gong Practitioners

    The Huaneng Electric Power Plant in Dezhou, Shandong Province is one of the main thermal-electricity power plants of Huaneng International. It is also one of the most vicious and severe places in persecuting Falun Gong. Huaneng International is a centralised enterprise directly reporting to the State Council and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Since July 20th, 1999, when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong, the leadership at the Huaneng Electric Power Plant declared that they would actively cooperate with the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
  • Prison Authorities: "We Won't Release Him Even If He Dies Here" -- Mr. Xin Minduo Died at 33

    The prison authorities threatened his family, "We won't release him even if he dies. It doesn't matter, even if you appeal at the State Department!" Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Xin Minduo, age 33, was tortured to death at the Nanshan Prison in Jinzhou City on the evening of September 1st, 2006. He was brutally persecuted during the past seven years of the persecution. He died with his eyes wide open. His family could not close them, no matter how hard they tried.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Liu Cheng Disabled from Torture at the Jinzhou City Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province

    Guards attempted to make Mr. Liu give up Falun Dafa. They made him sit on a bed, and handcuffed him separately to each side of the bed's headboard. The officers then incited criminals to beat him. They beat his chest with their fists and used the bottoms of their shoes to hit his head and face. They further used a mop handle to poke his chest, knees and ankles and kicked his back. While this was happening, the guards electrically shocked Mr. Liu's face and neck. Following that abuse, the evildoers handcuffed him to a heating pipe in such a way that he could neither stand nor squat, and they continued to beat and shock him.
  • Six Falun Dafa Practitioners Arrested by Police from Jilin Province

    Police arrested practitioner Ms. Yang Zhonghong. Ms. Yang spoke about the facts of Falun Dafa to a family member of police officer Liang, and she was reported to the police. During the arrest, Tang Longping tried to coax Ms. Yang's four-year-old daughter into naming all the people that had met with her mother. The child was so frightened that she was trembling. The neighbours protested strongly against the abusive behaviour of these police. People say the police these days are worse than gangsters.
  • Older Practitioner Ms. Du Xiuhua Persecuted in Weifang City, Shandong Province

    58-year-old Ms. Du Xiuhua was arrested on September 6th, 2006, while speaking to people about the facts of Falun Dafa. Ms. Du is currently detained at the Detention Centre in Weifang City. The police went to her daughter's home and asked her to sign a document promising to stop practising Falun Dafa. Her daughter went to the detention centre and asked the officials there, "What are the reasons and legal basis of my mother's arrest?" She pointed out that it was an illegal detention and demanded the immediate release of her mother. However, detention centre police summarily refused her request.
  • The Dark Secrets of Xuchang's No. 3 Prison: Practitioners Pass Out With Agonising Screams

    For those steadfast practitioners, the guards shock them with multiple electric batons for hours each day, or use rubber batons to beat their legs. Many practitioners' legs were crippled with wounds all over. The guards also force practitioners to do slave labour for eighteen hours a day. For the ones who have steadfastly refused to write the three statements, in a grotesque display of crude barbarity, the police had five or six inmates hold one practitioner on the ground and stripped off his clothes. They then tied his private part with a nylon string, and had two people pull hard on the string. The practitioner passed out after letting out a heart-wrenching scream.
  • Elderly Practitioner Ms. Tang Shirong from Chongqing Has Been Missing Since September 2005

    Practitioner Ms. Tang Shirong around 66 years old, from Chongqing City, went missing at the beginning of September 2005 and there has since been no information of her whereabouts since. Her family members went to Jingkou's local police station, and also the local police station in Tongjiaxi Town in the neighbouring Beibei District, to report her disappearance. The authorities at both stations denied any knowledge of Ms. Tang's disappearance and refused to investigate further.
  • Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp in Hebei Province Persecutes Practitioners by Locking Them in Dark Rooms, Burying Them Alive, and Leaving Them with Poisonous Snakes

    Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp is a hell on earth. There were 103 electric batons used to shock practitioners' mouths and sensitive parts until their skin blistered. Practitioners were tied up with a rope until their shoulders dislocated and buried in holes in the ground until they almost suffocated. Guards wrapped practitioners' fingers with copper wire and ran current through it. The guards also used scissors to stab underneath the practitioners' feet, cuffed the practitioners and locked the cuffs to rings buried in the ground, and beat, kicked and electrically shocked practitioners who were physically weak. They also put poisonous snakes on the practitioners.
  • Practitioners Suffer Cruel Persecution at Sanshui Forced Labour Camp, Guangdong Province

    Between 2002 and 2005, the Entrance Team of Sanshui Forced Labour Camp, which detains and persecutes male Falun Gong practitioners, four times enacted a procedure called "Attacking the Base," in order to "transform" practitioners by cruel torture. It labels practitioners as "class enemies" and uses electric shocks very frequently. For going on a hunger strike, practitioners are confined in a small room.
  • Persecution Suffered by Three Practitioners in Anxian Village, Laiwu City, Shandong Province

    Communist Party Secretary Xian Baoyou summoned practitioners to his office. Xian Baoyou started loudly cursing the three Falun Gong practitioners and took a big knife from his pocket. He pointed the knife at their chests and shouted, "I'll stab you one by one!" Then he started yelling, beating and kicking them. He saw a thick wooden stick in the room. He grabbed the stick and swung it at Duan Mingxin saying, "Let me smash you to death!" Someone tried to seize the stick and took it out of his hands. He then noticed a saw in the room and picked it up. He put the saw to Duan Mingxin's neck and yelled, " I'll saw off your head!"
  • Officials at Hebei University of Science and Technology Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners

    Ever since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, officials at Hebei University of Science and Technology have been acting as political henchmen for the CCP. They deceive employees and students with lies to instigate hatred of Falun Gong, and actively persecute Falun Gong practitioners in the university. They force employees and students to write compositions that slander and denounce Falun Gong. The officials have applied the same methods used in the Cultural Revolution to instill terror and force everyone to denounce Falun Gong.
  • The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Kills Innocent Lives by Forced Abortions

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Ying unexpectedly became pregnant with her second baby. As a loving and caring mother, Ms. Wang kept her pregnancy hidden for seven months because of the CCP high-pressure one-child policy. The officials of the City Administration Bureau, led by Zhang Zengzhen, and using the justification of carrying out the CCP's policy, forced Ms. Wang to have an abortion. In the hospital, Ms. Wang was tortured for many days, causing her to become very nervous. Due to the fact that she was very weak both physically and mentally, Ms. Wang was forced to abort in great pain.