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 Life of Hebei Province Practitioner Ms. Li Huiru at Risk

    On the evening of December 2nd, 2005, the homeless Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Hurui was arrested on her way to her mother's house. It was not the first time she had been arrested. The policemen drove three police cars to her mother's restaurant and arrested Ms. Li without showing any documents. The detention and torture made her blood pressure rise to a dangerous level. Now, her life is at risk. To avoid being blamed police asked her family to take her home on December 10th, 2005. However, the police still go to her house every day to harass her.
  • Third Division of Jilin Province Prison Detains One Falun Dafa Practitioner Per Square Metre

    Falun Dafa practitioners held in the Jilin Province Prison are suffering from severe torture every day. Especially in the Third Division, prison guards have purposefully made the living conditions very odious. Within only 160 square metres, they hold 160 practitioners. Sometimes practitioners could only get one cup of water to drink at night. The persecution in the prison is continuing and the prison guards are doing bad things every day.
  • Corrupt Officials in Sichuan Province Persecute Practitioners

    In 2001, while imprisoned in Xinhua Jail in Mianyang, the wardens left drug addicts to monitor Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Lin. They exposed him to the snow during winter and the scorching sun in summer. Wardens Wei Ze and Zhao Yong encouraged the detainees to beat him. He was only allowed two to three hours of sleep a day. A female police officer told him, "I thought you were dead."
  • Three Practitioners Died as a Result of the Persecution in Shandong Province, Chongqing City, and Sichuan Province

    Mr. Gan Guoping, 41 years old, went to appeal at the Beijing National Appeals Office in December 2000. He was arrested and Mr. Gan was brought back to the Neijiang Detention Centre. During his detention, he was tortured and harassed by the police, and he was forced to pay the travel expenses of the 610 officers and police for bringing him back. The total cost was several thousand yuan. He was arrested again later. During the persecution, Mr. Gan Guoping suffered severely both mentally and physically. In December 2004, he was diagnosed with terminal cirrhosis of the liver. He passed away on December 17th, 2005.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Liao Youyuan Tortured to Death at the Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp

    Someone reported Liao Youyuan on June 14th, 2005, when he was telling people, who had been misled by the government propaganda, the facts about Falun Dafa. Police officers arrested him, searched him, and beat him. Close to evening, a group of police ransacked Liao Youyuan's home and sent him to a detention centre. They threatened his family and demanded money from them. His family refused to give the police extortion money. They sent Liao Youyuan to the Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp in Changsha City on July 8th, 2005, where Mr. Liao was later tortured to death on December 18th, 2005.
  • Elderly Practitioner Mr. Fan Weihuai from Liaoning Province Suffers Persecution and Dies a Result

    74-year-old Mr. Fan Weihui persisted in exposing the persecution of Falun Gong and validated Dafa, from which he had personally gained benefits. On April 17th 2002, he was arrested by officials who disregarded the law. He was then sentenced to a long jail term by officials of the Chinese Communist Party. On December 7th, 2005, Mr. Fan Weihuai was found to be suffering from terminal liver cancer in jail. The jail authorities knew he was close to death, so in order to shift the responsibility, they released him. Mr. Fan Weihui passed away on December 12th, 2005.
  • Mr. Su Guohua Dies from Effects of Persecution in 2003 in Hebei Province

    The 610 Office and the local Judicial Department arrested 73-year-old Mr. Su Guohua many times. The authorities once handcuffed Mr. Su to a big tree and then shocked him with electric batons. Mr. Su always refused to sign any repentance statement, admitting remorse for practising Falun Gong so the authorities constantly harassed him. The vicious torture and persecution took Mr. Su's life in December 2003. Because of the torture, the long-term persecution and the constant harassment, Mr. Su left this world in December 2003.
  • Torturing Practitioners at Nanmusi Women's Forced Labour Camp

    In order to "transform" practitioners, guard Li Qi poisoned them using strong drugs to put them in a deathtrap. Prisoner Cao Jiemei was ordered to force-feed practitioner Ms. Liu a bowl of liquid that contained a nerve-damaging drug and a strong poison (provided by Li Qi) in front of another prisoner. Within minutes Ms. Liu Jingli felt intense pains in her abdomen and then vomited blood. Two hours later, she started hallucinating. The next morning, when she wiped her teeth with some tissue, the poison turned the paper green.
  • Practitioner Ms. Zhao Shuying is Extremely Weak Due to Torture in the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhao Shuying has been suffering from the brutality of slave labour in the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp and also from severe torture by guards. Her physical body is extremely weak and she suffers from urinary incontinence, is frequently dizzy and often loses consciousness. The guard Wei Hongling is still constantly threatening Ms. Zhao, "If we cannot find the cause of your illness, we will not let you go."
  • Deputy Director of the Police Department: "If Our Police Do Not Torture, How Can We Be Called the Chinese Communist Party Police?"

    The deputy director from Daqing City said, "How can we be called the Chinese Communist Party's police if we do not torture? So as long as we think you are the one who did it, you must admit it whether you really did it or not. We will push you down to the ground and four police officers will use rubber hoses to beat you one by one for half an hour. Your back will be swollen an inch high. It will be worse when your body is bruised and lacerated. Then we will put salt on your back and step on your wounds. Who will not confess after suffering from this?
  • Exposing the Lies of the 610 Office in Langfang City

    Ms. Zhou Shuying died of persecution by the local 610 Office and police on December 24th, 2004. Han Zhiguang, head of the 610 Office in Langfang City, Hebei Province, stopped at nothing in his attempt to brainwash and "transform" Dafa practitioners. He even made up a story about deceased practitioner Zhou Shuying. He distorted the facts to deceive practitioners forced to undergo brainwashing sessions. He maintained that Ms. Zhou died because she refused to take medicine after practising Falun Gong.
  • Mr. Xue Yutian Forced to Give Up Practising Falun Dafa and Passed Away from Severe Illnesses

    Mr. Xue Yutian was around fifty-six years old. Before Mr. Xue Yutian started to practise Falun Dafa, he was so ill that he had totally lost his ability to take care of himself. In order to treat his illnesses, he was overloaded with debt. In May 1997, Mr. Xue Yutian started to practise Falun Dafa. He gradually regained his health and he could do almost all kinds of farm work by the autumn of 1997. After the persecution started local village Chinese Communist Party members tried to force Mr. Xue Yutian to give up Falun Dafa numerous times, leading to the recurrence of his old illnesses. Finally, Mr. Xue Yutian passed away in the middle of November 2005.
  • Five Practitioners in Hunan, Hubei, Wuhan and Chongqing Die Due to Persecution

    On April 8th, 2000, when Mr. Yu and other fellow practitioners went to Baoding to share experiences, he was arrested and sent to the upper level of the Dazu County Supply and Marketing Cooperative Hotel. He was beaten by Li Fei, the chief of the First Section of the Dazu Police Station, and was pushed down to his knees. After a 1,000 yuan fine was taken from him, he was released to go home. The temporary housing he lived in was ransacked by over 10 people from the town government and the local police station.
  • Three Practitioners from Liaoning, Heilongjiang and Hebei Provinces Persecuted to Death

    Liu Zhenguo refused to give up the practice, so the security agents from the 2nd Department of Huabei Petroleum unconstitutionally detained him for 15 days. During the detention, they tried to force Mr. Liu to curse others. They beat and cursed him and forced him to perform heavy labour. The authorities extorted 1,000 yuan [Chinese currency] from Mr. Liu. Later, the lawless police continued to harass and threaten him with phone calls. Under the relentless persecution, Liu Zhenguo passed away on May 4, 2005.
  • Slashing the Face with Steel Rulers and Adding Stool to Meals -The Women's Prison in Guangdong Province Persecutes Falun Dafa Practitioners

    The prison guards prohibit steadfast Falun Dafa practitioners from going to the bathroom or taking a shower. They even prohibit female Falun Dafa practitioners from using bathroom tissue. When a Falun Dafa practitioner refuses to give up their cultivation, they lock her up alone in a little room and force her to watch videos that defame Falun Dafa twenty-four hours a day. The practitioner is forced to stand up and is not permitted to sleep for an extended period.