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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Torture Instruments Used to Inflict Pain on Falun Gong Practitioners in Prisons and Labour Camps in China
2004-09-28Shown here are a few of the torture instruments used in China's prisons and forced labour camps to inflict excruciating pain on Falun Gong practitioners: high voltage electric batons and spiked clubs. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Ji Wen from Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province Experiences Relapse of Old Illnesses Due to Persecution and Dies as a Result
2004-09-28Falun Dafa practitioner Ji Wen became free of all illness after practising Falun Dafa. However, when the persecution of Falun Dafa began, due to her telling people the facts about Falun Dafa, Ms. Ji was constantly harassed by the police. The intense pressure eventually lead to the recurrence of her old illnesses and Ms. Ji died on October the 15th 1999. -
The Autobiographical Story of a Teacher Who Lost Her Life as a Result of the Persecution
2004-09-27Li Guangzhen, a model teacher at Zhongxing Elementary School in Machang Village, Jianping County, Liaoning Province died as a result of mistreatment suffered in the persecution on June the 18th 2004. This is a letter she wrote to her fellow practitioners before her death. -
Senior Citizen Dies from Stress Caused by the Relentless Persecution of His Family
2004-09-27After Jiang Zemin began his persecution of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Mr. Wang's daughter, daughter-in-law, grandson, and granddaughter-in-law were all sentenced to three years of forced labour because of their belief in Falun Gong. His daughter and daughter-in-law were allowed parole to get medical help after they had been severely tortured. On March 13, 2003, a group of officials went to Mr. Wang's house to arrest his daughter again. Since she was not there, the officials began to harass Mr. Wang. As a result, he died on March 14, after he was taken to Jiangnan 465 Air Force Hospital for emergency rescue. -
The Torture Experienced by Yao Yanhui of Shijiazhuang City in the Detention Center and Forced Labour Camp
2004-09-27Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yao Yanhui is 31 years old this year. He lives in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. In Huludao City Forced Labour Camp and Wujiapuzi Forced Labour Camp of Fushun City, he suffered all kinds of torture and became paralysed in bed for about six months as a result. He went on a hunger strike for over two months and was on the verge of death before he was released. At the beginning of 2004, he was abducted and tortured again by the Xinhua Police Precinct of Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. -
Nanjing University Graduate Jailed and Tortured to a Vegetative State
2004-09-27Mr. Chen Guanghui, 38 years old, a graduate from Nanjing University and an employee of the China Construction Bank, Lianyungang Branch, was sentenced in September 2002 to eight years in prison for practising Falun Gong and was incarcerated in the Suzhou Prison. On July 29, 2004, Mr. Chen sustained a serious head injury in prison. Since then he has been comatose and his life is hanging by a thread. -
Additional Information of How 31-Year-Old Female Falun Gong Practitioner Zhang Hong Was Persecuted to Death
2004-09-26Under the high frequency and extremely long, cruel persecution, numerous Falun Gong practitioners have been persecuted to death in Wanjia Forced Labour Camp. The Wanjia Forced Labour Camp tries to force every Falun Gong practitioner to write the "Three Statements." They will torture, force to squat, hang up by their arms and electrically shock practitioners. Some practitioners were badly burned by electric batons--it was unbearable to watch. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Wei Hongying From Qinhuangdao City Dies as Result of the Persecution
2004-09-26Seventeen days into the hunger strike, the guards force-fed her. They pried her mouth open with bamboo sticks and force-fed her concentrated salt water. They scratched and bruised her mouth in the process. They also forced her to drink dirty wash water, which caused intestinal problems that nearly killed her. The perpetrators then sentenced her to two years of forced labour, but the labour camp refused to take her. The perpetrators were afraid she would die in the detention centre and sent her home. -
Force-feeding Tube Used to Torture Zhang Jianbo in Shiliping Labour Camp
2004-09-2630-year-old Zhejiang Provincial Industrial University graduate student, has been on a hunger strike since March 29th, 2004, at the Shiliping Forced Labour Camp. When Zhang Jianbo's family went to visit him, they saw that this feeding tube to his stomach was still in place and requested that it be removed. The tube is 110 cm long. A piece of tape near the 45-55 cm mark shows that the length of tubing inserted inside a person's body is 50 cm. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Rao Chaoyuan Tortured to Disability While His Brother is Tortured to Death
2004-09-26Rao Chaoyuan, 40, lives in Guangdong Province. He is the brother of Falun Dafa practitioner Rao Zhuoyuan, who died from being tortured. After being illegally held for over one year, Rao Chaoyuan was sentenced to eight years in prison in January 2003. Right now he is being held at Sihui Prison in Guangdong Province. One of his legs was crippled after been beaten and subjected to other torture leaving him disabled. -
Four Innocent Female Falun Dafa Practitioners from Guangdong Province Died from Physical and Mental Abuse
2004-09-25Three ladies, Li Qixi, Tang Ying, and Li Baoxia of Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, were brutally persecuted for practising Falun Dafa. They were forced to give up their belief, were tortured both mentally and physically, and finally passed away. In addition, Li Zhongjuan, an older woman, suffered harassment from the vicious people. Her son and daughter-in-law were also persecuted. She finally died because of the persecution. -
Three More Falun Dafa Practitioners Died after Torture in Shenyang Prison
2004-09-25During the period from the middle of June to the Middle of September, three more Falun Dafa practitioners died after being tortured in Liaoning Provincial Prisons' General Hospital. They were all admitted after they went on hunger strikes: 34-year-old Mr. Gao Lianyi, Mr. Zhou Zhi and Mr. Guan Wenjiang. After Mr Gao died, many of the patients who were in the same room as him said, "This is not simply persecution, this is murder!" -
Additional Information about the Murder of Elderly Falun Gong Practitioner Peng Guangjun at the Beijing Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp
2004-09-25Mr. Peng Guangjun was an elderly Falun Gong practitioner who lived in Huairou District, Beijing. He was sent to the Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp and after a day of incarceration was sent to hospital, pronounced dead that same day. The authorities were adamant in trying to hide the fact that Peng Guangjun had been beaten to death. An official threatened his family "to give up investigating the cause of Peng Guangjun's death" after they requested an autopsy, "If you don't want to obey the government's arrangement, we'll make all your family members jobless so that you all will be unable to make a living." -
Guangzhou City Police Blind Ms. Wang Haiyan's Right Eye While Beating Her (Photos)
2004-09-25In November 2002, Wang Haiyan was sent to Guangzhou City's Chatou Forced Labour Camp. I met her there for the second time. I saw her for the first time when she went to Beijing on July 20, 1999, to appeal for Falun Gong. At that time, her eyes were beautiful and shining. When I saw her in the forced labour camp however, she looked totally different. She was being held up by two people, and she could not see out of either eye. Her right eyeball was sunken and had shrunk, even the black pupil of her right eye had completely turned white. She had great difficulty walking and was unable to look after herself. -
Jiang Zemin Visits Huludao City; Authorities from Huludao Forced Labour Camp Intensify the Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners on Hunger Strike
2004-09-24Since late July, as the number of practitioners who went on hunger strike in Huludao City Forced Labour Camp increased, the authorities took up the policy of "Three Changes and Four Stops." (Change Strategy, Change Attitude, Change Circumstance, Stop Visits, Stop Sleeping, Stop Outdoor Activities, Stop Outside Communication) Liu Guohua said that there were orders from the upper level officials, "Those who meet with an accident or die due to their hunger strike and self injury should be responsible for all the consequences and should be considered for criminal sentence." He also said, "What's the big deal with somebody dying? The Procuratorate wouldn't care."