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

  • 58-Year-Old Dafa Practitioner Ms Yang Zhilan Recounts Her Six Years of Suffering Persecution

    "The police at the Plaza Precinct of Hengyang City arrested me on a tip while I was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution, and kept me in custody for 15 days. At the precinct, a young officer beat me savagely, grabbing me by the hair and repeatedly throwing me against the wall. He kicked me ferociously, and I was not allowed even to sit for the whole night. The pain in my head lasted for a year. Fifteen days after I was in detention, my husband got me out, spending over 4000 yuan as "asking-for-favour fees"."
  • Practitioner Ms. Wang Caixia from Gansu Province Lost Her Home and Family due to Persecution

    In April 2001, Ms. Wang was arrested and taken to a detention centre, where she was subjected to inhumane torture. She went on a hunger strike to protest. Police held her on the ground, pinched her cheeks, and pried her teeth open with chopsticks or an iron spoon before violently force-feeding her. They continued to hit her until her face was swollen and she nearly chocked to death. The prison doctor even inserted a tube into her stomach and filled it with highly concentrated salt water, which caused her to vomit and suffer greatly. Ms. Wang nearly died several times.
  • Chinese Policeman Rapes Two Female Falun Gong Practitioners (Photos)

    At Dongchengfang Town Police Station, a policeman named He Xuejian raped 51-year-old Ms. Liu Jizhi and 42-year-old Ms. Han Yuzhi during the so-called "official investigation." After the rape, the police told Ms. Liu Jizhi to mop the floor, clean up the rooms and the office. According to Ms. Liu Jizhi, her legs were weak and she was absent-minded for she was shell-shocked from the horrible rape. During the rape, He Xuejian repeatedly slapped Ms. Liu's face and choked her neck. For the past few days since the rape, Ms. Liu has been crying and sobbing every day and staring blankly.
  • Mr. Dong Hongqiang from Henan Province Dies After Being Injected with Unknown Drugs in the Xinmi Forced Labour Camp

    40-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Dong Hongqiang had been detained many times by the County 610 Office or the police. He had been sentenced to three and a half years of forced labour, and was tortured in the Xinmi Forced Labour Camp. He was injected with unknown drugs while four or five people held him down. Ever since the poisonous injection, Dong Hongqiang became very weak, his belly became extremely bloated, and he suffered a mental collapse. He was severely emaciated and had difficulty breathing. Mr. Dong suffered a mental collapse, which led to his death on November 9th, 2005.
  • Eleven Dafa Practitioners from Liaoning, Jilin, Hebei, Henan, Heilongjiang, Gansu and Inner Mongolia Die as a Result of Persecution

    Ms. Long Lianqiu, 53, was from Gansu Province. In 2002, the police went to her home to confiscate her Dafa materials and detained her. After she was tortured to the point of becoming very sick, she was released on bail and went home. Because the police often harassed her, she was under severe psychological pressure. She was sent to a brainwashing centre. She was persecuted and sustained a cerebral hemorrhage. At that time, the police arrested and detained her daughter. Ms Long was ill at ease and worried. In addition, the police often went to her home to threaten her. Finally, she died on September 11th, 2005.
  • Middle and Elementary School Survey Kept Confidential To Hide Officials' Guilty Consciences

    On October 20th, 2005, all middle and elementary schools in Wu'an City abruptly organised their students to complete a survey about Falun Gong. Lawless officials marked the surveys "Confidential: Keep Private" to conceal their guilty consciences. There was no official seal or organisation's name on any of the documents. The first question was about their attitude towards Falun Gong. The second and the third questions were meant for young children who haven't understood the truth about reporting Falun Gong practitioners. The questions pressured the children to agree to report practitioners.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioners Ms. Yu Zhenghong and Mr. Han Yusheng Tortured to Death

    Practitioner Ms. Yu Zhenghong arrested on September 27th, 2005 by 610 Office staff. Ms. Yu went on a 15-day hunger strike and was savagely force-fed. After Ms. Yu became critically ill, she was taken to the Central Hospital of Wendeng City by 610 Office staff, pretending to be her family members. When the hospital notified them that Ms. Yu was dying, they sent her home. Ms. Yu died on November 17th, 2005. Also, 69-year-old practitioner Mr. Han Yusheng passed away on October 15th, 2005 after he suffered a mental disorder from the torture.
  • Seventy-one Year Old Ms. Sun Guozhen Has Died Due to Persecution

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Sun Guozhen was 71 years old. Ms. Sun Guozhen went to Beijing to tell the facts of Falun Dafa to people who had been misled by the government propaganda in April 2000. She was arrested and detained in a brainwashing centre. She was tortured severely there, by methods such as having to sleep on a wet, cold cement floor. They also tortured her by tying her to a chair, slapping her face, and kicking her legs. Her physical condition started getting worse and worse due to the constant harassment and mistreatment. She died on November 2nd, 2005.
  • Condition Critical: All Practitioners in the Fourth Prison of Hebei Province Are Hunger Striking to Protest Brutal Treatment

    Since October 26, 2005, all Dafa practitioners at the Fourth Prison of Hebei Province have been on a hunger strike collectively to protest the atrocities of the prison authorities and to appeal for an unconditional release. In August officials dragged them to a specially guarded building, where criminal inmates were instigated by the police to torture those practitioners day and night. The police force-fed the practitioners on hunger strike with highly concentrated salt solution several times.
  • Shenglilu Police Department in Zhangjiakou City Brutally Persecutes Dafa Practitioners

    Police shocked Ms Wang Haiying all over her body with electric batons throughout the night. They struck her throat with their palms until she could hardly breathe. They took off her shoes and struck the soles of her feet with spiked rubber clubs; they tightened the "wolf-teeth" handcuffs until they cut into her wrists; they grabbed her cuffed hands and jerked them back and forth until blood dripped down her wrists. During this period they ransacked Wang Haiying's home.
  • Urgent Appeal on Behalf of Practitioners Illegally Detained in Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp

    Practitioners Ms. Zhao Shuying and Ms Chen Aihong wrote a letter to the camp director to expose many camp team leaders' crimes. On July 22nd, 2005, the letter was found in Chen Aihong's bed by the police when they searched the cells. In retaliation, on September 14th, Li Xuejun came to Class 4, where Chen Aihong was detained, and suddenly struck Chen's head. It led Chen's heart disease to recur. In protest, Chen Aihong went on a hunger strike and requested a meeting with the camp director. Ms. Zhao Shuying also joined the hunger strike, but Li Xuejun did not allow them to see the director. Instead, he handcuffed them on September 16th and sent them to Gaoyang County Hospital for force-feeding.
  • The Shocking Results from Searching "Unknown Drug" on the Internet

    Sun Fuxiang said she witnessed the death of Ms. Zhang: "The police stripped Ms. Zhang and shaved her head. They tortured and insulted her. She was tied, spread eagled, on a bed. She had to relieve herself on the bed. Then they injected some unknown poisonous drug into her. As soon as she was injected with the drug, she felt unbearable pain. She struggled as if she were being driven out of her mind, and she died very painfully. The officials from the 610 Office witnessed the entire episode of Ms. Zhang's death." Ms. Zhang Fuzhen was only 38 years old.
  • Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners by Officers from the Gongye Street Police Station and the Nanzhan Police Department in Zhangjiakou City

    In June 2003, practitioner Miao Chuanzeng went into a bank. Right after he entered about six police officers pinned him to the ground and kicked and beat him. They subsequently took him to the police station. The deputy head ordered him to spy on other Falun Gong practitioners and promised him large monetary rewards in return. He also promised to invest in Miao Chuanzeng's plan to open a restaurant if he agreed to work for the police. The police told Miao Chuanzeng to go to a custody centre and pretend to go on a hunger strike to gain the trust of other practitioners, to obtain information about other practitioners and about sites producing leaflets exposing the persecution so the police could destroy the sites and arrest the practitioners.
  • The Persecution in the Daxing'anling Area in Heilongjiang Province

    Although Tuqiang Forest Bureau is in such a remote area, its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners is quite severe. It is quite difficult for the locals to learn the facts about Falun Gong, as the local police often confiscate all the leaflets exposing the persecution. Recently, Tuqiang Forest Bureau assembled key directors of each local company for an urgent meeting on how to toughen up their persecution of Falun Gong. It asked each company to find out the exact number of practitioners in their companies and do everything possible to "transform" them. The responsibility of a leadership position is directly tied to the effectiveness of doing this "transformation" job.
  • Mr. Li Guang Dies from Shocks from 50,000 Volt Electric Batons and Other Barbaric Methods of Torture

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Li Guang was a TV programme host employed by the Laizhou City TV Station in Shandong Province. He was locked up in Huaibei Prison and was brutally tortured. In November 2004 the prison director cuffed his hands behind his back, and shocked him on his head, spine, legs, and private parts with two fifty-thousand volt batons. Li Guang passed out instantly. He was carried to his cell, hung onto the bed, hands and feet tied together, deprived of sleep, had cold water poured on him and prisoners pinched his testicles, making Mr. Li scream in pain. They tortured Mr. Li like this for 8-9 days, but he still refused to give up his faith in Falun Dafa. He was tortured to death on December 3rd, 2004.