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

  • Three Older Ladies Have Died After Frequent Persecution

    Ms. Yang Suqing was a 58-year-old practitioner. On the afternoon of January 7th 2001, when she was at home, three police officers rushed into her home and illegally confiscated her Falun Dafa books and took her into custody. They released her after extorting 1000 yuan from her. One day in July 2001, she went out to post leaflets exposing the persecution and was arrested by the police. After many rescue efforts were made, she was released from the forced labour camp. Unable to recover, she died on October 28th of the same year.
  • How Wang Jinian and Zhang Quanfu Died as a Result of Torture at the Chaoyanggou Labour Camp in Changchun City

    34-year-old Mr. Wang Jinian was sent to the Chaoyanggou Labour Camp and was tortured for one year. In December, the camp authorities released him due to the extreme weakness of his body. Because of the severe torture, his condition worsened. He died in January 2002 about 20 days after he returned home. 65-year-old Mr. Zhang Quanfu was also sent to Chaoyanggou Labour Camp and viciously tortured. Only when he was on the verge of death, was he finally sent to the hospital. Mr. Zhang Quanfu passed away in less than a day after he was sent to the hospital in early 2003.
  • Dalian City Practitioner Ms. Qu Shumei Imprisoned and Tortured at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Qu Shumei was arrested again and sentenced to forced labour for two and a half years in May 2004. She is imprisoned in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp and is being severely persecuted. During her previous term in a forced labour camp Ms. Qu Shumei was was brutally tortured, sexually abused, and even locked up in a small cage. Her husband, Mr. Zhu Changbin, was also sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment and is in Dabei Prison in Shengyang City. Their 16-year-old son is being taken care of by her parents.
  • After Suffering a Ruptured Pancreas in Brutal Beating, Mr. Ma Zexuan Has Mental Breakdown during Brainwashing Session

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Ma Zexuan from Tianjin was arrested by the local police for practising Falun Gong. He was detained first in the Shuangkou Forced Labour Camp, then in the Qingbowa Forced Labour Camp and later in the Ji County Yushan Forced Labour Camp. The guards in the forced labour camps brutally tortured Mr. Ma with such inhuman methods such as punching him very hard in the stomach area that his pancreas ruptured. Then he was subjected to relentless brainwashing until finally he suffered a mental collapse.
  • Four Practitioners Put on Trial Unlawfully in Liaoning Province

    On September 12th 2005, the Xinglongtai District Court put on trial four practitioners who had been arrested without due cause. The "defence lawyers" for the four practitioners were court-appointed (Note: The lawyers could only enter guilty pleas for the practitioners and were not allowed to speak in their defence.) Ms. Hu wanted to defend her innocence, but the court refused to hear her. Her lawyer said, "I'm not allowed to enter a not guilty plea for you. I can only enter a guilty plea of misdemeanour." Mr. Hou's lawyer was not allowed to enter a not guilty plea and thus entered a guilty plea for misdemeanour for him as well.
  • Patients are "Purchased" and Enslaved for Profit at Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp

    Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp enslaves Falun Dafa practitioners and others serving terms as patients in the forced labour camp in order to make more profit. Practitioners are also tortured there. Policeman Li Xuejun, who is in his 30s, was a supervisor at the camp. He persecuted Falun Gong with much enthusiasm, and was therefore promoted to division head. For his own financial benefit, he resorted to all means to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners. As division head, he profited by frequently "buying" patients who were scheduled for release, or whose terms were cancelled due to illness, to enslave them and count them as additional labourers.
  • Two Sisters from Jiamusi City Cannot Take Care of Themselves as a Result of Abuse and Torture

    "I was arrested in 2003 after informants reported me to the police. I was injected with drugs that damaged my central nervous system. Suddenly I started losing my memory, and I could not move my arms, legs, hands or feet. I could not even recall what my child looked like. My whole body was paralysed, and I could not see anything clearly. My sister was sent to a forced labour camp twice since 1999, spending over five years there. She has also suffered all kinds of inhumane torture in the labour camp simply for refusing to give up her belief in Falun Dafa. She can also not take care of her own daily needs, and remains in a very weakened condition."
  • Ms Wang Chenglin - Is She Alive or Have the Jinan Prison Officials Tortured Her to Death?

    Qingdao Dafa Practitioner Ms Wang Chenglin is currently imprisoned in Jinan Prison, Shandong Province. For the past six months, the prison has prohibited her family members from visiting her, and they are uncertain as to whether or not she is still alive. In early August, the prison staff notified Wang's family members that she was on a hunger strike, and that she had already shown signs of a mental collapse, as she sometimes babbled randomly. Even so, they still prohibited Wang's family members from visiting her. According to other sources, Wang Chenglin is either dead or on the brink of death.
  • More Details On the Deaths of Ms. Zhang Wenjun from Chongqing City and Mr. Ma Jianshe from Xinji City

    In 2004, police arrested 69-year-old Zhang Wenjun and sent her to a forced labour camp for two years. Her pension was unreasonably suspended. Then she was detained in prison for over a year. She suffered from hunger and cold and had oedema before she passed away in August 2005. Mr. Ma Jianshe walked to Beijing to tell people the facts of Falun Dafa and suffered severe beatings and abuse. His home was also ransacked, and he was forced to pay a fine and put into prison. In 2003, he was arrested again and sent to a brainwashing centre. After returning home, he was harassed and intimidated several times by police. He became ill in 2004 and passed away in June 2005.
  • Tears and Blood of Dalian: The Persecution of Dafa Practitioner Ms. Sun Yan, Part 2

    Ms Sun Yan refused to give up Falun Gong so Dalian City Forced Labour Camp Group head took her to a solitary confinement cell and tortured her with the "Death Bed". Guards stretched her arms and legs to cause excruciating pain. They inserted hot pepper into her vagina and scrubbed her genitals with a shoe brush until she lost consciousness.
  • Information Regarding Mr. Fan Dacheng's Death from Torture in Xinjiang Autonomous Region

    Since the persecution against Falun Dafa began, the staff from his workplace persecuted practitioner Mr. Fan Dacheng and he did not received even a single yuan of his salary. Mr. Fan was unlawfully sentenced to two years in a labour camp, served from March 2001 to March 2003. During that time, Mr. Fan was tortured by inhumane means. In April 2004, Mr. Fan was unlawfully sentenced to three years simply for displaying a "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" banner and tortured to the brink of death. By the time the authorities released him he had lost the ability to eat. Fan Dacheng passed away on September 13, 2004.
  • Li Xiaomei, Falun Gong Practitioner from Guangxi Province, Died from Long-Term Persecution

    48-year-old Ms. Li Xiaomei suffered persecution repeatedly and incarcerated in brainwashing and detention centres. As a result, she was devastated both mentally and physically. While she was still in prison, her health was poor. After returning home, her health deteriorated further, and she was too weak to take care of herself. She passed away on April 10th 2005.
  • A Practitioner Describes Her 6 Years of Persecution

    "Police officer Zhang Guisheng of the Keyuan Street Police Station arrived at the detention centre, where I was held. He cursed us fiercely and ordered the use of more violence and torture during the brainwashing sessions. Police officer Liu Feng asked me, "Do you choose Falun Gong or your family?" I said, "Practising Falun Gong does not conflict with my family." He jumped up saying, "No! You can choose only one!" I was totally confused. Who gave him the right to force me to make such a choice? Police officers forced citizens to get divorced and involved their family members as a means to threaten us. Such mental abuses are illegal."
  • Dafa Practitioner Ms Wang Kaiping from Chongqing was Persecuted to Death

    58-year-old Wang Kaiping was taken to the Li Ziba Detention Centre by local officials. She was sentenced to a forced labour camp because she had hung scrolls and distributed leaflets exposing the persecution. Wang Kaiping was tortured so severely that she became emaciated and vomited blood. In June 2005 she was released on medical grounds through her family. After she returned home she could not stop vomiting blood. After examination at hospital she was diagnosed with leukaemia. She passed away in the hospital during the night of August 21st 2005.
  • Mother Persecuted to Death, Father Jailed, Son Ran Away in Desperation

    Ms Geng Cuifang, a Dafa practitioner from Lanzhou City, was persecuted to death on June 13th 2002. After two months, her husband, practitioner Su Anzhou, was wrongfully sentenced to prison for 20 years. Geng Cuifang's son was less than 18 years old at that time. His mother had just died as a result of the police's actions, and his father was jailed. Losing his parents and source of livelihood, the boy ran away in desperation. Relatives and friends have sought his whereabouts since that time but do not know where he is currently.