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Police Arrest and Persecute 60 Year Old Woman
2004-09-24
"The local head of the "610" office dispatched over 20 policemen to surround and break into my house. When they tried to take me away my four-year-old grandson became afraid and started to cry. My husband pulled my grandson out of the way, while 5 or 6 policemen were dragging me, an elderly woman, like a lifeless body into their car. They took me to the local station and kept my persecution a secret." -
Torture Methods Frequently Used on Falun Gong Practitioners in Brainwashing Centres in Guangzhou (Illustrations)
2004-09-24Torture method: Police officers bind Falun Gong practitioners' arms behind their backs, pull their arms upwards by the hands, and tie each end of the rope around the opposite shoulder. Next, they make them sit with their legs crossed on top of each other, then tie their legs to keep them in that position. The torturers even pull their knees together until they are only less than seven inches apart. Then they press the practitioners' upper bodies against their chests, and tie them up to keep them in that painful position. -
Demonstration of Torture Methods Used on Falun Gong Practitioners in Shenyang City's Longshan Forced Labour Camp (Photos)
2004-09-24In March 2001, guards at the Longshan Forced Labour Camp in Shenyang City started the systematic persecution of Falun Gong practitioners so as to "forcibly reform" them, a euphemism for brainwashing. The head administrator once ferociously told Falun Gong practitioners who were steadfast in cultivation, "This is an institution of coercion! You must be reformed, whether you agree or not!" Female prison guard Wang Jinghui said, "You don't want to be reformed? Then your stay here won't be comfortable!" Team leader Tang Yubao usually kicked and punched practitioners or shocked them with electric batons. He also verbally abused them. -
Twenty-Three Falun Gong Practitioners Verified Being Tortured to Death in August 2004 (Photos)
2004-09-23A total of twenty-three deaths by torture cases were reported in August 2004 from ten provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities. Five deaths in Liaoning Province, four deaths in Sichuan Province, four deaths in Tianjin City, three deaths in Heilongjiang Province, two deaths in Hebei Province, and one death each in Jilin, Shandong, Anhui, and Guizhou Provinces, and Xingjiang Autonomous Region. Seven practitioners were older than 50 and represent 30 percent of the total death numbers. Ten were women, representing 43 percent of the total death by torture numbers. -
Types of Torture Practitioners Are Subjected to in the Second Detention Centre and Forced Labour Camp in Changchun
2004-09-23This is a type of torture that the Chinese police and prison guards frequently resort to when interrogating practitioners (about where they obtained the materials containing the facts about Falun Gong, and who helped produce them). The torturers would seal a practitioner's head with a plastic bag to suffocate him while punching and kicking him, or shocking him with high-voltage stun batons. The feeling of being suffocated is horrific. -
Harbin Women's Prison: Practitioners Cannot be Processed for Release for Medical Treatment
2004-09-23In Spring 2003, the Harbin Women's Prison diagnosed Du Chunxiang as initially having pulmonary tuberculosis. It was then confirmed twice at the prison assigned hospital, the Second Hospital of Harbin Medical University, that she was infected with the following: the advanced stage of tuberculosis, chronic gastritis, and anemia. In the past year, the family members of Du Chunxiang have been requesting again and again for the prison to process a release for medical treatment. The prison administrative section chief told them rudely, "Du Chunxiang practises Falun Gong, so the release for medical treatment cannot be handled for her." -
More Information on How Practitioner Ms Deng Jianping from Sichuan Province Was Tortured to Death
2004-09-2242-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Ms Deng Jianping was from Sichuan Province. On March 17, 2004 she was abducted from a house and jailed in a County Detention Centre. While detained there, she refused to give up her belief in Falun Gong and its principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance," and as a consequence had to endure brutal tortures. She was taken to hospital in a skeletal state. When her family saw her they were shocked and it broke their hearts. She was tortured to death on August 11, 2004. -
Practitioners in China Reenact Torture Methods (Photos)
2004-09-22Hidden water dungeon: A Falun Gong practitioner from Daqing was once tortured by means of the "water dungeon" in the Beijing Huairou Detention Centre. His shoes and socks were first removed and he was forced to wear cotton clothes and trousers. His hands were handcuffed and his feet were attached to shackles weighing 40 pounds, which are supposed to be used only on condemned prisoners. The police guards first poured water in the low-lying place near the toilet and placed the victim in the water. They then ordered criminal inmates to take turns pouring water on him. -
Chuanxi Women's Prison Has Subjected Nearly One Hundred Practitioners to Brutal Torture
2004-09-22After ex-leader of China, Jiang Zemin and his associates' persecution of Falun Gong started in 1999, the Chuanxi Women's Prison in Sichuan Province has been detaining Falun Dafa practitioners on and off, amounting to nearly one hundred practitioners in total. During the continuous persecution, the division director Wang Xinya has made repeated remarks at many meetings, "We take the death of a Falun Gong practitioner like the death of a dog. Just take the body out and cremate it." -
An Open Letter to the Procuratorate from a Young Girl on Behalf of Her Parents Tortured by Policemen
2004-09-21I am a 17-year-old high school student preparing to take the entrance exam for college. My dad, Zhang Peiqi, and my mom, Liu Meijun, were abducted and detained at Antu Detention Centre because they refused to give up their belief in Falun Dafa. My mum was abducted on March 13, 2004. The police forcefully sent her to the Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp without notifying her family members. When I asked about the whereabouts of my dad, I heard that he was taken away on March 20, 2004. -
My Horrifying Experience at the Hands of the Police (Photos)
2004-09-21"It was noon on July 19, 2000 and I was taking a break at home, wearing shorts and a short-sleeved shirt because of the hot weather. All of a sudden, four or five policemen broke into my home and questioned me as to whether I was still practising Falun Gong. They handcuffed me and ordered me go to the police station with them. My family members tried to reason with them, but the police threatened my family with handcuffs and electric batons. However, they didn't go to the police station; instead, they drove me to a remote forest farm. They hung me from a tree by my handcuffs and kept beating me." -
Huge Profits Made by Chaoyang District Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City
2004-09-21The Chaoyang District Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City recently moved to an adjacent location. After the move, the old site was leased to a few underground factories that have no business license and pay no taxes. The labour camp forced detainees to work in these factories, folding paper in the print shop or working on miscellaneous jobs in the leather processing shop. The labour camp police have made huge profits from this arrangement. -
More Details Regarding the Torture Death of Dafa Practitioner Ms. He Xiuling
2004-09-20Dafa practitioner Ms. He Xiuling lived in Shandong Province. She was tortured while being held at a Detention Centre in Yantai City and passed away on March 11, 2004. Her husband requested an autopsy, and personnel from the Judicial and Public Security Bureau in Yantai City performed it, but they refused to give him the report. Later, he consulted other medical experts who went to the hospital to look at He Xiuling's medical records. They brought up the following: "1. There is no record of emergency treatment; 2. How did the cerebral embolism form? 3. There was no death certification report; 4. There are no results of the spinal tap; 5. There is no group diagnosis record. -
Additional Information about the Torture and Death of Dafa Practitioner Mr. Wei Xinhua from Gansu Province
2004-09-20In December 2003, Wei Xinhua was sent to the Dashaping Prison in Lanzhou City. The guards tortured him with various measures including hanging him up, beatings, injections with unknown drugs, and sleep deprivation. He became extremely thin from the torture. On April 12 2004, he was sent to a hospital for an examination and the doctor said that his internal organs were severely damaged. On April 16, the officials from the prison were reluctant to spend too much money on his health care and so Mr. Wei was sent back to Prison. On April 17, 2004, the prison let his family take him home to die. Wei Xinhua passed away 24 hours later on April 18. -
Torture Methods Used on Practitioners in Xinhua Labour Camp, Sichuan Province (Illustrations)
2004-09-20These methods of torture were used in the year 2000 on practitioners detained in Xinhua Labour Camp, Sichuan province. The police instigated drug addicts to tie up practitioners' hands, and hung them up by the feet to a basketball support. Then these thugs cursed and beat the practitioners with their hands and feet. Sometimes over a dozen would together beat one practitioner. The man who beat the practitioners the most fiercely would be given a reward by the guards - he might be named a detainee leader and given authority to order other detainees
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