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

  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhu Shuangxi from Zanhuang City Dies after Being Persecuted

    Mr Zhu Shuangxi, 58, was a farmer from Wujiamiao Village, Yuantou Town, Zanhuang City, Hebei Province. Before practising Falun Gong, he suffered from a stroke and many other illnesses. After beginning Falun Dafa practise, his maladies disappeared. In June 2003, members of the Zanhuang City Police Department and the local "610 Office" abducted him. They detained and severely tortured him in Zanhuang City Detention Centre for two months. Zhu Shuangxi left this world on October 2nd, 2004.
  • Practitioner Yang Boliang Sent to Forced Labour Camp after Savage Torture by Fuxun City Police

    Yang asked them who they were. They told him they were police. "Why arrest me? I didn't do anything against the law," Yang said. The police responded, "Arrest you? We will also beat you up. What can you do?" They began to punch him in the head. Yang told them, "Assaulting people is against law." They laughed, "We'll beat you up and then you can seek justice from Jiang Zemin. Beating you up is just taking it easy! Wait until you are with the 1st Division of the Fuxun Police Department. They will kill you!"
  • Forty-Two Additional Persecution-Related Deaths Confirmed in October 2004

    Non-governmental channels have confirmed that another 42 Falun Gong practitioners have died as a result of the persecution in China. As of October 31st, 2004, the confirmed death toll of practitioners has reached 1,101 since July 20th, 1999, when Jiang Zemin's political group began its blatant persecution of Falun Gong.
  • Practitioners and their Family Members Expose the Crimes of Police in Yueyang City

    We are family members of the Falun Gong practitioners residing at Qianlianghu Town, Junshan District, Yueyang City, Hunan Province. After verifying and investigating the facts regarding certain persecutors, including Yu Zhihe, who was the former Team Leader of the National Security Team of Junshan District Public Security Bureau, Zhao Wenhua, Li Qiliang, and Deng Hongqiu, the Director of the "610 Office," we summarise a portion of their crimes in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners here.
  • The Cruel Torture of Falun Gong Practitioners in Botou City Detention Centre

    Meng Qingzhong, the director of the Botou Detention Centre, Hebei Province, cruelly persecuted Falun Gong practitioners. In the freezing winter they hung practitioners by their arms outside, beat them and shocked them with electric batons; they bound a 16-year-old girl onto an iron bed to torture her, and guards stuffed foeces into the mouths of practitioners who were on hunger strikes.
  • Former Buddhist Abbot Sent to Forced Labour Camp for Practising Falun Gong

    Officials of the "610 Office" of Weishan County, the local police department, the Bureau of Religion and the Buddhist Association [which is controlled by the Party] have been persecuting Zuo Shiguang, the former abbot of the Babaoshan Temple in Weishan County, Dali Bai Nationality Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province.Zuo Shiguang declared to the perpetrators that Falun Dafa is a righteous, high-level cultivation practise within the Buddha school, and that he would keep practising without wavering.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Zhou Dewei from Shenyang City Dies after Torture

    Nearly 60 practitioners are currently being held at the Huazi Prison in Liaoyang. In February 2004, the prison authorities demanded that Division Three, which specialises in the detention of Falun Gong practitioners, turn a 60,000 Yuan profit at the end of the year. As a result, the practitioners were forced into slave labour. 42-year-old practitioner Liu Shiwei refused to work and was detained in solitary confinement. His hands and feet were cuffed together and he was forced to stay in a foetal position for a week.
  • Statement by Father of Wang Xiufen, a Foreign Language Instructor from Jilin City, Tortured to Death for Practising Falun Gong

    "My daughter, from childhood to adulthood, never did anything wrong. In front of her parents she was always loyal and respectful. A person this good, just because she wanted to tell the truth, was brutally beaten to death. If you can't even be a good person, is there any fairness left in this world? This is all the work of Jiang Zemin. More than ten days after Xiufen passed away, my son finally gathered himself and notified my wife and me of her death. The only thing we could do was cry."
  • Torture Method Used on Falun Dafa Practitioners in Wanjia Forced Labour Camp: Hung up with Both Hands Cuffed behind the Back

    The police officers handcuff the Falun Dafa practitioner's hands behind the back and attach a piece of rope to the metal chain connecting the handcuffs. Two police officers then hold the practitioner and use the rope to hang him up onto an iron pipe that is 3 meters off the ground. Thus the practitioner is hung up in the air so that his feet are lifted off the ground, and all his weight is on his shoulders, arms and wrists.
  • Torture Methods Used by Police in Tiananmen Police Station and Heizuizi Labour Camp

    " One of them pulled me up to stand straight and another brutally beat my head with a wooden baton eight times. He walked behind me and kicked my knees from behind. I fell down on the ceramic floor, with my forehead hitting the floor first. My head was in great pain. The policeman cursed at me and yelled at me to stand up immediately."
  • An Appeal to Conscience on Universal Children's Day

    In China, a great number of children have encountered discrimination and threats because their parents practise Falun Gong. Many have lost their parents and other relatives, as well as the opportunity to continue their studies. Some of them have been illegally imprisoned and beaten, some have been forced to become homeless, and some have even been tortured to death.
  • Does Hu Jintao have the Courage to Stop the Malicious Persecution?

    The Shenyang City Department of Justice issued a "Most Wanted" poster, describing Ms. Gao as "relatively thin, weighing only eighty-eight pounds, with obvious scars on the left side of her face, and cannot walk by herself." This poster proves that Ms. Gao only "weighs eighty-eight pounds," and "cannot walk" due to the torture she was subjected to.
  • Zhang Chuanyan, a Practitioner from Qingyuan County, Liaoning Province, Died in September 2004 As a Result of the Persecution

    After the persecution of Falun Dafa began, Zhang Chuanyan appealed to the government in Beijing. She was arrested and illegally detained in Qingyuan Detention Centre and Fushun Forced Labour Camp for several months. Her body and mind were seriously affected by the inhumane torture she was subjected to. She was eventually released after her family members strongly requested her release to treat her illness. At home, Ms. Zhang continued to be harassed by government officials and community staff day and night.
  • Distraught Teen-Aged Daughter Attempts Suicide After the Murder of her Innocent Mother

    Ms. Li Qingqing, 13 years old, is a student in the Jiangjin Heping Middle School. She lives in the Ninth Section of Zhouwu Village, Luohuang Town, Jiangjin City in Chongqing. Qingqing became an orphan when she was only nine years old. Her father died of illness in 2000, and her mother died as the result of persecution in 2001 for practising Falun Gong. Li Qingqing lost not only the love of her mother but the warmth of her family. She has had to live in her uncle's home and often cries for her mother.
  • Tian Ling of Wuhan City Is Imprisoned in Xiaogan No. 1 Detention Centre, Her Three-year-old Daughter Has Not Seen Her in Two Years

    Several months after sentencing, Tian Ling was allowed to go home, but only under surveillance, as she had just had the baby. When their daughter Tiantian was only one year old, the Public Security Bureau threatened to take Tian Ling into custody. Tian Ling was forced to leave home to avoid persecution. The baby is being looked after by Tian Ling's mother.