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

  • Five More Practitioners Die as a Result of Persecution

    Mr. Wang Shengtang was arrested was twice arrested, once in September 1999 and again in July 2001. The arrest in 2001 happened in the middle of the night. At that time over ten policemen forcibly searched his home. They scaled the wall and broke into his house. They turned his home upside down and then took him away without a warrant. Mr. Wang was subjected to constant harassment, threats, intimidation, and brainwashing. He suffered tremendously under this persecution and was under constant fear and stress. He suffered a stroke as a result and passed away on October 12th, 2005, at the age of 70.
  • Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Mudanjiang Prison

    Around November 10th, 2005, prison guard Zhang Qingshan beat Mr. Guan Lianbin, a Falun Gong practitioner who is detained in Mudanjiang Prison, Heilongjiang Province. Zhang also tortured Mr. Guan with electric batons for more than three hours. During this process, Zhang kept saying, "I'm an evil policeman! I'm an evil policeman!" He used electric batons to shock Mr. Guan's private areas and inner thighs. Mr. Guan was badly injured.
  • Torture Methods Used at the Pingantai Forced Labour Camp in Gansu Province Part 2 (Re-enactment Photos)

    The Pingantai Forced Labour Camp has been used as a place to torture Falun Dafa practitioners in Gansu Province since the persecution began. Several hundred practitioners have been held here. The guard and inmates, many of whom are drug addicts, have used various brutal methods to persecute practitioners. They have used sleep deprivation, brainwashing, beatings, psychological abuse, and other forms of persecution against the practitioners.
  • Twenty-nine Falun Dafa Practitioners Arrested While Attending an Experience-Sharing Conference in Shandong Province

    The Linyi City brainwashing centre is an evil place that has tortured countless Falun Dafa practitioners. On June 20th, 2002, Ms. Zhou Xiangmei (a practitioner, employee of Nanfang Credit Union) was surrounded at her office by police who were trying to send her to this brainwashing centre. In order to escape, she was climbing down from a fifth floor window with a rope that she made with bed sheets, when she fell and died.
  • Practitioner Ms Yang Hong Arrested for Viewing the Minghui Website

    On November 18th, 2005, the Lianshan District National Security Division police broke into 49-year-old Yang Hong's home and arrested her and her daughter on the grounds that Yang Hong and her daughter used a computer to log on to the Minghui (Chinese Version of Clearwisdom.net) website. The police also confiscated their computer that is worth over 5,000 Yuan, as well as their Falun Gong books. Yang Hong's daughter was later released.
  • Four Practitioners Arrested in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia

    Practitioner Mr. Wang Xiaodong, 29 years old, went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Dafa and was sentenced to one year of forced labour. He persisted in his belief in Truth-Compassion-Forbearance, and his sentence was extended four times for a total of ten months. During the detention, Wang Xiaodong held a hunger strike and was force-fed. His term was extended by three months. During the time he was held at Tumuji Labour Camp, Wang Xiaodong was shocked with electric batons, and his term was extended another three times for seven additional months. He had lost his job by the time he went home and the local authorities constantly harassed him.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Miao Jianguo and Others Are Near Death Following Persecution in the Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp

    Practitioner Miao Jianguo was in critical condition on December 2nd, 2005 after long-term torture and persecution. To evade responsibility, Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp authorities sent him to the Jinzhou City Hospital and later to the University Hospital. Both hospitals refused to accept him. They finally dropped Miao Jianguo at the Guta District Hospital and handed him over to his family members before taking off. The next day six guards from the labour camp forced their way into Miao Jianguo parents' house and arrested Miao Jianguo again. His physical condition is critical.
  • I Was Tortured with Injection of Unknown Substances

    "I used to be a long-distance running champion in college, with a very healthy body. In 2003, the local police officers illegally arrested me, and took me to a detention centre. Later, in a prison hospital, I was injected with unknown substances. My lower body was bleeding, and I went into a coma. When my heart stopped beating, I was rescued by emergency medical means, but remained in a coma. The second time I was injected with the unknown substances, the same thing happened, and later they rescued me again. Afterwards, the bottoms of my feet bled and oozed pus, and it took over a year to heal."
  • Brutal Forced-feeding: "Saving" Lives at the Daqing Detention Centre and Labour Camp

    Force-feeding is a horrifying experience. At Daqing Detention Centre, the process of the first forced-feeding administered to every Falun Gong practitioner who was involved in the September 23rd arrests was videotaped. They use it as "evidence" to report to the 610 Office. Watching the practitioners' struggling, vomiting, bleeding and screaming during force-feeding, the perpetrators often mock, make fun of or even beat them up. Practitioners once asked the participating doctor: "Don't you fear that they will die from such cruel force-feeding?" That doctor said, "If that happens, it has nothing to do with us. We can say that you died from disease."
  • Over Thirty Local and National Security Officers Break into a Practitioner's Home for an Illegal Search and Seizure in Hebei Province

    At 3:00 p.m. on November 22nd, 2005, over 30 people and ten police vehicles broke into Dafa practitioner Yan Aizhi's home and arrested her again. They searched the whole house and the courtyard, stole money, and took away her mobile phone, Walkman, Falun Dafa books and other personal possessions. Her family's valuables were also taken. At present, Ms. Yan is being imprisoned in the Kongjiazhuang Town Local Police Station.This police station's personnel have been known to use violence against practitioners.
  • How Mr. Hao Wenmin Was Persecuted to Death by the Handan Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Hao Wenmin, 43, was from Hebei Province. After the persecution of Falun Gong began, he was harassed and tortured by the vicious local police, the 610 Office and the Handan Forced Labour Camp. After he was released in April 2004, he couldn't work. He had to depend on his wife to care for him. Police harassed and threatened him at home. Unable to endure the cruel persecution, he passed away on October 15th, 2005.
  • A Five-Year-Old Child Repeats Over and Over: "I Want My Father and Mother to Come Home"

    "I received your photo today. When I saw it, tears kept running down my face, and my heart was bleeding for you, for your old ailing grandmother, for your uncle Bai Xiaojun, who was cruelly killed by unlawful policemen, and for your parents, who are suffering the brutal persecution because they are kind-hearted Falun Dafa practitioners. Your parents have been absurdly arrested by the insane Chinese Communist Party."
  • Methods Used Recently by Nanmusi Forced Labour Camp in Sichuan Province to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners

    Nanmusi Forced Labour Camp has been using all sorts of inhumane methods to torture practitioners both physically and mentally. The tortures have included brainwashing, extension of sentences, slave labour, the tiger bench, electric baton shocks, police baton beatings, wolf-teeth clubs, leather belts, bamboo sticks, tying up with thin ropes, cuffing arms and legs to an iron bed, exposure to the baking sun, exposure to extreme cold, merciless beatings, confinement in water dungeons, forced feedings, beating the joints of arms and legs, stabbing women's private parts with chopsticks, incarcerating nursing mothers, and humiliating practitioners by stripping them naked.
  • Seven Falun Dafa Practitioners Persecuted to Death in Hebei, Heilongjiang, and Shandong Provinces

    Ms. Song Min, 34, worked in the Hubei Institute of Hydroelectricity. She started practising in 1998. During the persecution, the political office in the Institute frequently threatened her to renounce Falun Gong. In December 2001, Institute officials and 610 officers arrested Ms. Song from work and took her to the Yangyuan Brainwashing Centre. Torture emaciated Ms. Song. Following her release in August 2002, Ms. Song was relegated to a lower position at the Institute. The persecution severely injured Ms. Song physically and psychologically. She passed away on November 7th, 2005.
  • A Practitioner in Germany Recalls the Persecution He Endured at the Shanghai Forced Labour Camp

    "My name is Wang Zhen and I am from Shanghai. After the persecution began in July 1999, I refused to give up Falun Gong and was detained in detention centres and forced labour camps. I was forced to do hard labour at these camps, such as carrying baskets of animal manure, cutting grass, sewing stuffed toys such as bears and monkeys, and making beaded purses, Christmas gifts and electric connectors, among other things. Many of these products were exported. I worked from 7:30 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. daily without any salary. In addition, Falun Gong practitioners were treated worse than the common inmates. We were subjected to brainwashing as well as physical torture."