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

  • Zhang Xingye, Practitioner in Daqing City, Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison after Intense Torture

    On July 13th, 2001, Zhang was arrested for making Falun Dafa information materials, and the Saertu police sentenced him to three years of forced labour. He was abused and tormented until he almost died and then was released on bail for medical treatment. Later Zhang Xingye went into exile to avoid further persecution. On April 19th, 2002, Daqing City Police Department enforcers again detained him "for administrative purposes." He was tortured and beaten until he spat blood and had difficultly walking.
  • Account of the Crimes Committed by Personnel at the Guxian Police Station in Pingdu City, Shandong Province

    The police, disregarding the fact that Wang Xiyu's husband was paralysed and bedridden and had nobody but his wife to attend to his needs, cruelly sentenced Ms. Wang to five years of imprisonment. This seriously aggravated her husband's condition and he eventually died, with bitterness in his heart. Her daughter had nobody to care for her and others humiliated and mistreated her, so she left her hometown. A contented and happy family was thus destroyed.
  • Propagandists in China under Investigation; Chinese Social Science Academy at the Top of the List

    According to human rights organisations, it is confirmed through investigation that the Chinese Social Science Academy and its branches have established organisations and institutions specialised in studying the ideology to be used in the anti-Falun Gong movement. Those organisations have used their power under the guise of academic research to slander Falun Gong, instigate hatred towards it, and implement tactics to persecute it. They are also suspected of having influenced other authorities to use mental hospitals to torture Falun Gong practitioners with nerve-damaging drugs.
  • Practitioner Cheng Fengxiang Near Death After Being Secretly Sentenced to 11 Years for Broadcasting the Truth About Falun Dafa on Chinese TV

    The Qiaoxi Courthouse in Xingtai City, Hebei Province secretly sentenced Falun Dafa Practitioner Cheng Fengxiang from Hebei Province to eleven years in prison for his role in helping broadcast the truth about Falun Dafa on Chinese television. In protest, Cheng Fengxiang started a hunger strike, which has continued for over 150 days. With serious dehydration and an inability to absorb the force-fed food, he is now on the verge of death.
  • Practitioner Liu Yan from Inner Mongolia Dies as a Result of Severe Physical and Mental Persecution

    Falun Dafa practitioner Liu Yan from Inner Mongolia was 55 years old. She was formerly employed at a branch of the Industry and Commerce Bank in Dayangshu Town, Elunchun Qi, Inner Mongolia, but was forced to retire and buy out her retirement entitlement. She was subjected to illegal arrests and harassment and suffered severe physical and mental torment during her detention. She was released after being fined 5,000 yuan.and died on October 25th, 2004, as a result of such persecution.
  • The Shock of Police Breaking Into and Ransacking Her Home Leads to the Death of an Elderly Practitioner in 2002

    Falun Gong practitioner Gao Fengying from Kangping County, Liaoning Province, was 67 years old. One morning during the fall of 2001, it was still dark when the chief of the Dongguantun Police Station, Zhang Zhenjie, led three people to climb over a wall to enter Ms Gao's home. These people searched the house without a warrant and illegally took away many Falun Dafa books. They didn't leave until they had ransacked the house for more than 30 minutes. Shocked by this incident, Ms Gao fell ill. After half a year, she died on March 2nd, 2002.
  • Female High Court Judge from Fujian Province Arrested Three Times and Persecuted for Her Beliefs

    Guan Yujing, a high court judge from Fujian Province was abducted and detained by the "610 Office" in Fuzhou City three times because she explained the truth about Falun Gong and exposed the facts of the persecution to those around her. She was detained in a psychiatric hospital to be "cured." She was injected with drugs that damage the central nervous system when she continued telling people the facts about Falun Gong in the hospital.
  • Li Wutang, a Teacher in Jinan City No. 3 Middle School, Died From Injuries Sustained During Force-Feeding Torture in 2002

    Li Wutang was a teacher in Jinan City No. 3 Middle School. He benefited in both mind and body after cultivating Falun Dafa. He was illegally sentenced to a three-year prison term for persisting in validating the practise that had improved his life so much. He was imprisoned in Liuchangshan Labor Camp in Jinan City. During his illegal imprisonment, he was firm in his belief in Falun Dafa. The guards forced him to stay in solitary confinement, deprived him of sleep for long periods of time and beat him.
  • Tortures Suffered by Practitioners from Chicheng County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province

    After the force-feeding, the tube was not removed and the upper end was tied to the practitioner's hair. Then the police forced the practitioners to walk in the yard, and they used thick plastic pipes to beat the practitioners who refused to walk. They also poured cold water on practitioners who could not walk.
  • Practitioner Ge Peilin from Nanchang City Becomes Mentally Unstable After Mistreatment

    Her face turned dark, and her whole body started to convulse. At the hospital, Ge Peilin suffered tremendously, yet the jailers still cuffed her hands and chained her feet. Finally, she lost consciousness. A doctor said, "This person is in such bad shape, and you people have no conscience. She practises Falun Gong, that's her personal belief, you should honour her belief. Now she is dying, who will take the responsibility?"
  • What Really Goes on in the Beijing Juvenile Detention Centre

    It was a customary practise to torture Falun Dafa practitioners with techniques such as sleep deprivation, long-term torture devices, military drilling, corporal punishment, compiling fake scriptures, spreading rumours and slandering words, personal attacks, and lies and deceptions. In addition, they adopted a very strict military-style management, forced overtime, and excessive slave labour work, forced brainwashing, mandatory viewing of anti-Falun Gong propaganda films, and demanded tons of writing.
  • The Torture and Death of Practitioner Mr Liu Zhibin at Jinzhong Prison

    Following orders from the "610 Office," the guards at Jinzhong Prison (also known as the First Prison of Shanxi Province) in Qi County began a three-month torture campaign against Falun Gong practitioners. Driven by money and the enticement of job promotions, the prison guards grossly abused and tormented practitioners, threatening the use of force if practitioners didn't give in to their demands and renounce Falun Gong.
  • Firsthand Experience of the Persecution at Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp

    Even after writing and signing the so-called "Transformation Statement," she was still persecuted. Zhang knew that she had done wrong in compromising with the evil and was grief-stricken. The camp guards kept forcing her to criticise herself in writing every day. The relentless persecution caused Zhang to suffer a severe mental collapse. She could not eat or sleep well, yet the guards still forced her to stand up for long periods of time.
  • Practitioner Pan Juying Is Abducted for the Fifteenth Time and Her Life Is in Great Danger

    "They formed three groups and took turns torturing me. The torture lasted for five days and four nights. They slandered Dafa, cursing Dafa and Teacher; they burned Teacher's picture in front of me; they didn't allow me to sleep; they handcuffed my hands behind my back, kicked me down on the floor, and stabbed my face with sharp newspaper rolls...Chen Xinyun brought two snakes and put them on me. He put my left hand into the bag with the snakes inside and then put my feet into the bag.
  • Practitioners Force-Fed with Human Waste in Daqing Forced Labour Camp

    To persecute practitioner Ren Liang, the guards stripped him naked, held him down on a metal chair and poured cold water all over him. Even after drenching him continuously for many hours, the police couldn't make Ren Liang renounce Falun Dafa, so they poured feces and urine into his mouth twice.