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

  • 50 Year Old Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Wang Hainiu from Hebei Province Was Persecuted to Death in 2003

    50 year old practitioner Mr. Wang Hainiu had suffered under the persecution many times. The police broke at times into his home in the middle of the night and arrested him. If Mr. Wang was not there, they would arrest his wife. Mr. Wang Hainiu was forced to become homeless. After being homeless for three years, Mr. Wang was extremely exhausted and suffered both physically and mentally. He came home at the end of April 2003, and died at the end of the same month.
  • Elderly Falun Gong Practitioner Mr Li Fengwen of Heilongjiang Province Died as a Result of the Persecution

    Mr. Li Fengwen was over 60 years old. After practising Falun Gong, he became healthy in mind and body. During the six years of persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), he was imprisoned at Shuangyashan City Detention Centre, was tortured until close to death, and only released after money had been extorted. Following an injury at work he died on June 6 2005.
  • Family Members Appeal for Practitioner Ms. Li Baojie, Who was Persecuted to Death

    Thirty-two-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Baojie was imprisoned at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp for practising Falun Gong. Her family members had tried legal appeals on her behalf, but on April 8, 2005, Ms. Li died as a result of persecution. On April 12, 2005, four days after Li Baojie passed away, her family members went to the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp to meet with a male director whose last name is Xie. They requested financial compensation for Li Baojie's death. At first Xie offered them 8,000 to 10,000 yuan as compensation. However the family only received 4,000 yuan. The family have now decided to appeal.
  • Death of Seven Falun Gong Practitioners in Inner Mongolia, Hunan Province, Jiangxi Province, and Elsewhere

    Ms. Pang Fengzhi, 56, went to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa in Beijing. During the second appeal, she was arrested in Beijing and sent back for over a month's detention in the local jail. Later Ms. Pang was jailed for 3 months and developed oesophageal cancer in prison. National Security agents persecuted her for a long time and harmed her health. She died on August 18, 2002, after being released.
  • 26 Practitioners in Shandong Province, Chongqing City, Jiangxi Province and Heilongjiang Province Who Died from Persecution

    Mr. Wang Yunren was a 70-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner of Yujiakuang Town, Penglai City, Shandong Province. Because he refused to give up practising Falun Gong, he was forced into a brainwashing centre and was persecuted, harassed and threatened many times. He died on January 20 (December 29 of the lunar calendar), 2004.
  • Seventeen Falun Gong Practitioners from Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, and Shandong Provinces Pass Away Due to Persecution

    Mrs. Zhang Sanni, eighty-six years old, lived in Hebei Province. After she started practising Falun Dafa in 1997, all her previous diseases quickly disappeared, and she always said that Falun Dafa had saved her life. After the CCP started persecuting Falun Dafa, Mrs. Zhang was repeatedly harassed and threatened by the Tiangongying Village Police Substation. The ongoing persecution caused Mrs. Zhang tremendous pain both physically and mentally. She passed away on February 7, 2004
  • Gansu Province: Deputy Director Mr. Wang Xiaodong of Yumen Petroleum Administration Bureau's Archive Office is Severely Persecuted

    At the end of November 2002, Wang Xiaodong's father, who was over 80, passed away from the stress of long-term mental torture and anguish. The police denied him the right to attend his father's funeral because he had not "transformed." Wang's wife also was sent to a forced labour camp because she would not give up Falun Gong. A happy family has been torn apart by the Chinese Communist Party.
  • The Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Luzhou, Sichuan Province

    To date, there have been at least 60 Falun Gong practitioners imprisoned in this centre. Many practitioners have suffered savage beatings and other forms of physical and mental torture. Some practitioners were tied to a bed (called the Death Bed), for seven days and nights, and deprived of sleep during that time. Some practitioners suffered mental breakdowns as a result of the severe torture, and were unable to take care of themselves.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Xu Jishan Tortured to Death at the Daqing Prison

    In 2004, Dafa practitioner Mr. Xu Jishan was sentenced to three years in prison for distributing leaflets about Falun Gong and was incarcerated at the Daqing Prison. According to a reliable source, in the afternoon of June 7, 2005, Mr. Xu was choked to death with water by five inmates under the order of prison guards.
  • The Brutal Torture of Falun Gong Practitioners in Qinduankou Prison

    Since July 20, 1999 when the Chinese government started persecuting Falun Gong, many Falun Gong practitioners have been detained at the Qinduankou Prison in Hubei Province. In March 2004, when practitioner Mr. Wan Jixiang was detained at the Qinduankou Prison he was tortured until he was in critical condition. Upon medical examination, Mr. Wan was found to have cancer of the nose as well injuries directly related to being beaten. But the police at the prison administrative office still dragged their feet, delaying the paperwork required to release him on bail for medical treatment. Under the extreme torment and having to labour intensively, Mr. Wan's hair turned grey and a pain in his left ear became unbearable. Wan Jixiang passed away on May 24, 2005 after he was released on medical bail.
  • Ms. Zhao Zhaoquan from Sichuan Province Tells of Her Own Persecution Experience

    Ms. Zhao Zhaoquan, 65, is a retired teacher living in Luzhou City, Sichuan Province. She started practising Falun Gong in May 1996. After July 20, 1999, when the persecution began, Zhao was detained four times, imprisoned three times, sent to a drug rehabilitation centre twice, sent to brainwashing sessions once, placed under house arrest once, and sent to a forced labour camp for two years. Zhao was fined 15,800 yuan and had 295 yuan stolen from her. Since November 2000, Zhao has only received 200 yuan a month from her retirement pension, allowing her only minimum daily expenses. The rest of her retirement pension was taken to pay off her "fines."
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Jiang Xianjun Died As a Result of Persecution in 2004

    47 year old Ms. Jiang Xianjun previously had breast cancer, which was cured by practising Falun Dafa. In April 2003, Ms. Jiang was arrested and sent to the Second Detention Centre. Ms. Jiang was bailed out on medical parole after her family paid a large sum of extortion money. Under huge pressure, her family would not allow her to contact people or practise Falun Dafa anymore. The Procuratorate, police, state security agents and neighbourhood administration all harassed her by phone, monitored her home, threatened her and interrogated her. She developed a cough, which progressively worsened and was diagnosed with late stage lung cancer in November 2003. Ms Jiang died on January 23, 2004.
  • Practitioner Mr. Wen Cunfu and His Family Members Arrested in Liaoning Province

    Police broke into the home of Mr. Wen Cunfu and arrested Mr. Wen's practitioner son, Mr. Wen Jingsong, and took him to the Hongqi Town Police Station. The next morning, Mr. Wen took his three-year-old granddaughter, his wife, second daughter and daughter-in-law to the police station to ask for the release of his son. The head policeman responded by ordering other police to violently handcuff Mr. Wen. However he had his granddaughter in his arms and she was crying and screaming. The police grabbed the little girl's feet and forcefully pulled her away from Mr. Wen. The little girl's ankles and chest was injured, and she was in pain for many days. Mr. Wen, his son (Wen Jingsong), his daughter-in-law, and his second daughter were all sent to prison.
  • Seventeen Falun Dafa Practitioners from Xinjiang, Henan, Sichuan, and Jilin Provinces Die as a Result of Persecution

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Shen Baoping, 28, was from Xinjiang Province. The persecutors savagely tortured him in the Changji Detention Centre simply because he remained firm in his belief in Falun Gong. The police stripped him of all his clothes and tied him onto a narrow plank. He was not allowed to get up even while eating or relieving himself. He suffered severe bodily and mental harm from this torture. Because Mr. Shen was steadfast in Falun Dafa, the lawless officials sentenced him to a prison term. While in prison, he remained firm in his belief and therefore suffered long-term torture. Shen Baoping was formerly a strong and healthy person, but was tortured so severely that he looked like a skeleton and was covered with wounds all over his body prior to his tragic and untimely death.
  • How Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Chen Weijun Was Tortured Twenty-Nine Times

    Ms. Chen Weijun has been held in the Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison in Harbin City for about three years. The tortures she has suffered there have included the following: Forced-feedings with a tube inserted into her throat or stomach for so long that green mould grew on it; being hung up by her arms, with her toes unable to touch the floor; being forced to sit for extended periods of time, being handcuffed with one arm forced over and behind the shoulder and the other arm twisted up from behind the back; being held in a small cell, and other types of brutal abuse.