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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Father and Husband Disclose More Details of the Death of Ms. Li Shuhua in 2003
2004-11-06Ms. Li Shuhua's father Li Fuchen, sixty years of age, works for the Environmental Department in Yushu City. In October 2003, his daughter Li Shuhua died as a result of the persecution, his son-in-law Yang Zhanjiu was unjustly detained, and Li Fuchen's wife Cui Zhanyun was sent to a forced labour camp. During that time Li Fuchen lived a miserable life with his two young grandsons. -
Illustrations of the Tortures Inflicted Upon Practitioners from Shandong Province in 2000
2004-11-06Yuhezhen Township Transformation Centre is notorious for their "Great variety of styles and vicious techniques" which they use against practitioners and to persecute Falun Gong. Their tortures often included shocking practitioners with electric batons; whipping them with wooden sticks, rubber hoses, or bamboo shoots; sticking needles under their fingernails; scalding them with boiling water, etc. -
Sun Liqiang and Liu Lihua of Liaoyuan City Sentenced to Long Jail Terms, Young Child Left with No Parents
2004-11-06Sun Weizhe is an 11-year old boy who used to live on Xiangyang Street, in Liaoyuan City, Jilin Province. After his father Sun Liqiang and mother Liu Lihua were unconstitutionally sentenced, Sun Weizhe stayed with his maternal grandparents. Now his grandfather Mr. Liu, grandmother Li Chunrong and uncle Sun Lijun, who are all practitioners, have been forced to leave their home to avoid persecution, and Sun Weizhe is staying at a close family friend's house. -
"I Want My Mummy!" Cries Baby Wang Tianxing, Orphan of Practitioner Ms. Feng Xiaomin
2004-11-06Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Feng Xiaomin, 34 years old, was from Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. She passed away on June 1, 2004 as a result of persecution. Her 1-year-old son, Wang Tianxing, was left behind. Currently he is being looked after by her aunt. Wang Xiaofeng, husband of Feng Xiaomin, was forced to leave home in June 2001. He has constantly been sought by the "610 Office." -
Some Facts about Huang Xinyu, the Orphan of Falun Dafa Practitioners Mr. Huang Ke and His Wife Zhong Yunxiu
2004-11-06If there were no persecution against Falun Gong, Xinyu would be like many other kids, enjoying her childhood in her parents' arms. Now when she misses her parents, all she can do is look at photographs of them. Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Huang Ke and his wife Zhong Yunxiu both died as a result of the persecution, and their daughter became an orphan when she was less than 6 years old. -
Wife and Three Children Struggle to Survive After Mr. Tan Chengqiang Is Killed by Violent Force-Feeding
2004-11-06Falun Dafa practitioner, Mr. Tan Chengqiang from Hongcheng Village, Handian Town, Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province died from being persecuted and tortured. His oldest son, Tan Enlong, his second son, Tan Enfei, daughter, Tan Yuxiu, and wife, Guo Jinglan, must now depend on each other. They support themselves by farming a small 1.65 acre plot of land. -
Urgent Rescue Needed for Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured in Jilin Prison
2004-11-05Torture method in Jilin Prison: “Stretching Bed” is the most brutal torture instrument in Jilin Prison. The jailors tie up four limbs of practitioners who have refused to give up their belief to a special bed. The bed has four rings. They fix a practitioner's hands and feet inside the rings, and put force on the rings. Now the practitioner's body is raised above the bed boards by stretching the four limbs. Additional force is then applied to the rings. The person loses consciousness in a few minutes. After 10 minutes, the joints, muscles, flesh, and skin are all separated. -
Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Practitioner Ms. Zuo Shuchun in Baimalong Labour Camp
2004-11-05“At the end of February 2001, Ms Zuo Shuchun, myself and another fifteen steadfast practitioners were detained in a separate building. In the first half of March we started our hunger strike to protest the torture. On the seventh day of the hunger strike, guards started to force-feed us. Zuo Shuchun was the first person who was called out by the police, but she never came back. We asked the guards about her, but they tried to avoid talking about it and then we knew something bad had happened to her.” -
A Family of Practitioners is Severely Persecuted in Weifang City, One Beaten to Death
2004-11-05On the morning of October 14, 2004, Weifang City Police Department and the "610 Office" broke into elderly practitioners Li Hengnan's and Zhang Yufang's house. They abducted the couple and another visiting practitioner, Ms. Zhang Huiping, who is about 40 years old.They ransacked the house. According to witnesses, the three were pushed into a car with their arms twisted behind them, and Li Hengnan's buttons were torn off. Currently they are being detained in a brainwashing class. -
"Behind the Stick" Torture Method Used in Qiqihar City Detention Centre
2004-11-05Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Cuiling was forced to wear an instrument of torture called "behind the stick." Fetters weighing 19kg (about 42lb) shackled her feet and her hands were cuffed behind her back. Guards chained the handcuffs and fetters together, making her unable to stand, sit, or lie down. -
The Suffering of the 8-year-old Son of Late Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Zhang Zhuo from Leshan City
2004-11-05After Haonan's father died from the persecution, the boy was entitled to a monthly allowance of 200 yuan from the Leshan City Agriculture Department. In addition to his mother's meager salary, this is all the income that his mother, maternal grandmother, and himself have to survive on. It is very difficult for them to make ends meet. -
Mr. Ma Jijun, a Practitioner from Xinjiang Province, Is Tortured to Death
2004-11-04Mr. Ma Jijun was about forty years old. On March 4, 2004, the local "610 Office" abducted him and took him to a local brainwashing centre. Later they sent him to a mental hospital, where they continued to persecute him. In the middle of September, the hospital unexpectedly called his family and asked them to pick him up. When his family saw him, they found that Ma Jijun had serious oedema all over his body and that he was extremely weak. On September 27, 2004 Ma Jijun died. -
Practitioner Wan Liji Dies as a Result of Persecution in Nanchang City; His Daughter Is Left without a Father
2004-11-04Falun Gong practitioner Mr Wan Liji, 34, died as a result of persecution, leaving behind his four-year-old daughter, who is now being cared for by her maternal grandmother. Liji used to be a member of the special police at the Nanchang Public Security Bureau and part of the Donghu Police Squad. He was mentally and physically persecuted for five years for practising Falun Dafa. He passed away on February 9, 2004. -
Ms. Hu Qinglan, a Practitioner in her Fifties from Gansu Province, Died from the Persecution in 2001
2004-11-04Ms. Hu Qinglan, in her fifties, was a practitioner from Gansu Province. She went to Beijing to appeal to higher authorities on behalf of Falun Gong. She was arrested and brutally tortured. During that time, the guards didn't allow her to drink water, even though she was forced to do hard labour under the scorching summer sun. When she was finally released in the middle of August 2000, she was extremely weak. She was hospitalized in March 2001 and died at the end of April 2001. -
Dafa Practitioner Ms. Liu Yanxiang Remains Unwavering Amid Horrific Torture and Atrocities
2004-11-0456 year old Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Yanxiang, was abducted by officers from the local police station in November 2002. The police took her to the Tangshan No. 1 Detention Centre, where she was detained for more than 100 days before she was illegally sentenced to a forced labour camp. In the forced labour camp the guards stripped Liu Yanxiang naked and nine deputies pushed her onto the floor. They used electric batons to shock her hands, feet and back simultaneously. Ms. Liu lost consciousness in a short amount of time due to the intensity of the torture.