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
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What Were Tsinghua University Authorities "Checking Out" at the Shandong Women's Prison?
2005-08-09
Ms. Liu Zhimei is 25 years old. She had been mentally and physically tortured for refusing to give up her belief, finally agreed to be "transformed". She greatly desired to be readmitted to Tsinghua University and resume her studies. University staff came to the prison to assure that she had been truly transformed. They did not believe that she was, so they decided against readmitting her. From this incident, one can tell that Tsinghua University is like the prison when it comes to brainwashing. -
Gong Piqi and Wife Sun Dongxia Arrested and Home Ransacked in Shandong Province
2005-08-09Practitioners Mr. Gong Piqi and his wife Sun Dongxia were arrested two months ago. Ms. Sun Dongxia, who may have been sentenced to a ten-year prison term, is currently in the detention centre and suffering from maltreatment. She started a hunger strike to protest the persecution during her detention and endured torture from other inmates. She was so weak and thin that the police did not allow her family members to visit her. Mr. Gong Piqi is currently detained in the brainwashing class and has become so weak that he is unable to walk without help from others. -
Five Dafa Practitioners from Hubei Province Unjustly Receive Severe Sentences
2005-08-09Mr Zhou Qing was an outstanding physics teacher from Hubei Province. He was detained many times. He was arrested by police in July 2004 and was severely persecuted at a detention centre, which had caused paralysis in his legs, muscular atrophy and a speech impediment. In this condition, he was taken to the provincial brainwashing class and persecuted until he was near death. He was injected with unknown drugs during that period. He was bailed out by his family and waited for the trial. Police arrested him again on June 22nd 2005 before he had completely recovered. -
Murder of Practitioner Mr Yang Lichuang from Gansu Province
2005-08-08Around July 1st 2005, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Yang Lichuang from Gansu Province was deceived into returning to his workplace by the leaders of the workplace. The County Party School was promoting the movement, "Maintain the advanced nature of party members" at that time. That night, Mr. Yang was inhumanly persecuted and tortured to death. His body was thrown into a cellar. The leaders of his workplace lied to his family members, alleging that Mr. Yang picked up three months worth of salary checks and skipped town. They said that they wanted his family to persuade him to return to work. About a week later, local residents found the body in a cellar. Details of Yang Lichuang's death are currently being investigated. -
Practitioner Mr Hu Shaowei in Poor Health, Has Scabies and Is Almost Blind, But the Huludao Forced Labour Camp Still Detains Him
2005-08-08After being persecuted in the Huludao Forced Labour Camp for more than a year, Mr. Hu Shaowei, a 35-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Huludao City, Liaoning Province, has scabies all over his body and is almost blind. His family members asked the forced labour camp to release him on medical grounds; but the camp authorities responded that Mr. Hu cannot be released until he renounces his belief. -
Practitioners Persecuted for Holding a Minghui School; the Situation Is Critical
2005-08-08Since May of 2005, some districts in Shandong Province have tried to hold Minghui schools for young practitioners. They held a Minghui trial school where 50 young practitioners attended. On the afternoon of July 20th someone reported them to the police. The police sent the young practitioners home but kept all their belongings, especially their homework and identification cards. The Laiwu police arrested Liu Faling and Feng Aimin. The authorities are persecuting them at the Laiwu City Detention Centre. Some practitioners have been forced to leave home because of this incident. -
Five Practitioners in Jilin, Guangdong, and Hebei Provinces and Chongqing City Died Under Persecution
2005-08-08Ms. Zhou Cuihua was 60 years old and a practitioner in Hebei Province. After she began to practise Falun Dafa in 1998, all her sicknesses disappeared. She went to Beijing twice to appeal for Falun Dafa in 2000 and was twice arrested and taken back for detention in the township government office. Ms. Zhou was beaten in the government office and had 5,000 five thousand yuan extorted from her. She was then harassed repeatedly after her release. Ms. Zhou Cuihua died on January 8th 2004. -
United Nations: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right of Everyone to the Enjoyment of the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health [Excerpt]
2005-08-07On 15 July 2004, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, the Special Rapporteur on torture and the Special Rapporteur on violence against women regarding Geng Juying and Su Yanhua. On 25th May 2002, Ms. Geng, a Falun Gong practitioner, was allegedly taken to the Mengzhou police station. She was pregnant at the time. It was alleged that the police officers forcibly gave her an injection to induce an abortion so she could be sent to the Shibalihe Labour Camp. -
An Eyewitness Account of the Torture that Led to the Death of Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Bai Xiuhua in 2002
2005-08-07"The police officer handcuffed her left arm to the bed, pressed down her right arm and instructed a medical doctor to administer an intravenous drip and then force-fed her at the same time. While the force-feeding was in progress, I saw the food administered through her nose spew out of her mouth. The police officer incessantly slapped her cheeks, yelled at her, and tormented her. After this torture she was barely breathing so they called a medical doctor for a physical examination. The doctor said, "Ms. Bai's lung has been filled with water for some time." The hospital personnel knew that she was dying and that the police officer had brought her there to persecute her further. We were in the prison cell together for seven days. I was released after seven days, and she died three days later from the persecution." -
Stop the Brutal Persecution and Murder of Practitioners in Daqing Prison
2005-08-07No. 7 Jail Block of Daqing Prison political instructor guard Zhang Dezhi commanded the prisoners to torture practitioner Xu Jishan to death. The prison guards are now occupied in covering up the murder and trying to pass his death off as natural causes. At a prison meeting on June 10th, they also threatened all the prisoners in all the jail blocks not to discuss the matter with anyone from the outside. Anyone who did so would lose the chance of a reduced prison term and would also be detained in solitary confinement. Consequently, no prisoners dared to speak the truth to anyone on the outside. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Zhang Xihong of Jinzhou City Paraplegic Due to Persecution in 2002
2005-08-07For her firm belief in Falun Gong, Ms. Zhang Xihong of Jinzhou City was persecuted by the police in 2002. Whilst escaping from the police when they were trying to unjustly arrest her, she had a bad fall and now suffers severe paraplegia. Her personal life, mental state, and physical condition, as well as her family life, have been drastically impacted and damaged. Unable to bear the mental and economic pressure, her husband left her. Now Ms. Zhang is without any income and barely survives. She depends on help from her parents, relatives and close friends. -
Another Female Falun Dafa Practitioner Tortured to Death in the Wanjia Forced Labour Camp in Harbin City
2005-08-06Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Ji Fengqin was brutally tortured at the Wanjia Forced Labour Camp. On the afternoon of July 27th 2005, when Ms. Ji Fengqin was picked up by her family at the Harbin City Armed Police Hospital, she was so thin that she looked like a skeleton. She was unconscious and dying. The rescue effort failed, and Ms. Ji Fengqin died on July 30th 2005 only three days after being released to her family. We have confirmed at least 24 torture-related deaths at the Wanjia Labour Camp. -
Memorial Service Held for Murdered Ms Zhao Chunying in Jixi City, with Police Stationed Everywhere
2005-08-06Because Zhao told people about the goodness of Falun Dafa, she was arrested and sent to Jixi City Second Detention Centre on April 27th 2003. On May 10th 2003, her family was informed about her death. When they went to see the body, they saw that it was covered with bruises and wounds. At the memorial service, the public security bureau stationed a large number of plainclothes policemen inside and around the funeral home. Several minutes after the service began, even before some of the relatives and friends had entered the hall, the plainclothes policemen hastily took Zhao Chunying's body away to be cremated causing great distress to Zhao's family. -
Fifteen Falun Dafa Practitioners Have Been Persecuted to Death in Hainan, Hunan, Hubei and Other Provinces
2005-08-06Ms. Fang Qiaoying, 34 years old, was a Falun Dafa practitioner from Hainan Province. In May 2001, while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution, Ms Qiaoying was arrested by the authorities. While at Qiongshan Detention Centre, Ms. Fang was tortured until she was emaciated, lost all her hair, and had two holes appear on her lung. Only then was she was released, almost on her last gasp of breath when she got home. After a little while, when her body just began to recover, the authorities came to harass and threaten Ms. Fang again. Ms. Fang Qiaoying passed away in 2004 as a result of the persecution. -
Additional List of the Main Persons Responsible for the Death of Gao Rongrong
2005-08-06The director of Judicial Department of Liaoning Province Yu Fengsheng was ordered directly by Luo Gan, the Director of the 610 Office to form a "Special Case Group" at the Xiaobailou Brainwashing Class of Zhangshi Reform Camp of Shenyang City after Gao Rongrong escaped for the first time. The group focused on re-arresting Gao Rongrong and the other Falun Gong practitioners who rescued Gao Rongrong.
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